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Washington Post Mistakes RNC Chair Ken Mehlman for John Mark Karr

What, you think the Post is being unfair to Ken? Attaching his name to known pedophiliac creep (but non-child pageant queen-murderer!) John Mark Karr?

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Abramoff: The House That Jack Built

Jack Abramoff *SunCruzSen. Conrad Burns +Rep. Tom DeLay +Rep. Bob Ney *Adam Kidan *Neil Volz
Tigua CasinoSen. John CornynRep. Bob Ney * +Rep. Don YoungRalph ReedMichael Scanlon *Neil VolzMariana IslandsSen. Conrad Burns +Rep. Tom DeLay +Rep. John DoolittleRep. Don YoungPresident Bush +Saginaw FundingSen. Conrad Burns +Sen. Byron Dorgan +Rep. J.D. Hayworth +ChoctawsGrover NorquistRalph ReedCapital Athletic FoundationJulie [...]

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UK drama paints fictional assassination of Bush

LONDON (Reuters) – British public broadcaster Channel 4 is courting controversy with what it calls a “shockingly real” drama about the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.
“Death of a President,” shot in the form of a documentary examining the assassination, will use a blend of archival footage and computer-generated special effects to portray Bush [...]

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Salt Lake sounds off in protest and support

A crowd of thousands cheered Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for calling President Bush a “dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights violating president” whose time in office would “rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure.” The group – including children and elderly and some hailing from throughout Utah – then marched to [...]

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Burns says terrorists drive taxis by day

BELGRADE, Mont. – Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose recent comments have stirred controversy, says the United States is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.” During a fundraiser Wednesday with first lady Laura Bush, the three-term Montana senator talked about terrorism, tax cuts and [...]

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Taxpayers pay for Bush’s campaign travel

WASHINGTON – Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections. In 15 months, including back-to-back fundraisers Wednesday in Little Rock, Ark., and Nashville, Tenn., Bush has collected $166 million for the campaign [...]

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Ohio officials prepare to destroy paper ballots from 2004 presidential election

Ohio officials will soon begin destroying the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election despite objections from voter rights groups.“Soon after the 2004 presidential election, questions emerged about how votes were tallied in Ohio, a battleground state that delivered the presidency to George W. Bush,” Ian Urbina writes in a story slated for the New [...]

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Oil Company CEO Pay Averaged $32.7 Million in 2005, Study Says

Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) — Rising prices and profits translated into pay packages for oil company chief executive officers that are nearly three times the size of similarly sized businesses, a new study from two watchdog groups said.In 2005, the CEOs of the largest 15 oil companies averaged $32.7 million in compensation, compared with $11.6 million [...]

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Armitage said to admit leak on CIA to Novak

“Richard L. Armitage, ex-deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the CIA leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday,” reports Neil A. Lewis for Wednesday’s edition of The [...]

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President Bush has been trying to maintain a united Republican Party amid flagging conservative support and a split with the GOP’s liberal wing.The two wings are so far apart that party strategists no longer envision a united front for the November congressional elections. The strategists said many of the liberals, already alienated from the White [...]

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NSA SUBPOENA

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Senate moves to give Bush more power to wiretap

A bill that expands President Bush’s ability to wiretap American phones and conduct other forms of domestic surveillance will likely appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Thursday.The bill, which was written by judiciary chairman Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), and which has been widely and publicly excoriated by Democratic members of the committee, contains provisions—such [...]

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Bush White House to be subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers

Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today.Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announnce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas.The announcement [...]

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The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Democrats Now Favored to Take Over DeLay’s Old Seat

The Texas Republican Party establishment has rallied around a single candidate, Houston City Councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, in their unusual write-in campaign to salvage the 22nd Congressional District seat vacated in June by Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader.
But the extreme rarity of successful write-in campaigns for Congress and the presence of a solid [...]

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