Spineless Democrats About To Cave To Unpopular Republicanism….Again!

GEF @ 8:48 PM ET

Pelosi receptive to considering more drilling
By DINA CAPPIELLO
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats’ stance against offshore drilling has shifted more, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaling on Saturday her willingness to consider opening up more coastal areas to oil and gas exploration.
In her party’s weekly radio address, Pelosi said opening portions of the [...]

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Obama And McCain To Be Questioned By Rick Warren Tonight (8-16-08)

By- Suzie-Q @ 4:30 PM MST
Rick Warren’s Forum To Include Questions About Candidates’ Personal Lives
CHARLES BABINGTON | August 16, 2008 02:35 PM EST |

LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain agreed to appear on the same stage Saturday night, if only to share a handshake, as a televised discussion of [...]

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Breaking: Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to Investigate Suskind Allegations

anthony @ 19:10 BST

Ralph Lopez | OpEdNews | August 16, 2008 at 11:17:44
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers has taken the highly unusual step of calling his committee back from summer recess in order to investigate allegations by Ron Suskind that the Bush administration forged a letter to buttress the links made between Saddam and 9/11, [...]

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“Know-Nothingism” In America

By- Suzie-Q @ 10:30 AM MST

How Anti-Intellectualism Is Destroying America

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. Posted August 15, 2008
Sad but true: Intelligence is a political liability in the US. Author of The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby explains why.
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.” Barack Obama finally said it.
Though a [...]

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McCain’s Top Adviser, Scheunemann, Was Arrested For Carrying Shotgun To Work At The Capital

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST

McCain Adviser Was Arrested For Carrying A Shotgun To Work At The Capitol
TPM Muckraker- By Andrew Tilghman – August 15, 2008, 11:23AM
As if helping to plan the Iraq war wasn’t troubling enough, now we learn that Randy Scheunemann, John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, has been personally arrested at [...]

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many folks believe in foreign terrorism

by betmo @ 9:04 AM EDT
and that 9/11 was the largest act of such terrorism in american history. i agree- but with a caveat- i believe that it was domestic terrorism. i believe that the neocons planned and executed 9/11 in order to do just what they have done over the last 8 years- [...]

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Judiciary Committee To Investigate Plot To Paint Plane In UN Colors And Provoke Shootdown Over Iraq

By- Anthony @ 12:18 BST
Conyers conducting examination into intelligence fixing and forgery

Steve Watson | Infowars.net | Friday, August 15, 2008
As part of a major examination into the evidence that the Bush administration forged intelligence documents to justify the invasion of Iraq, the House Judiciary Committee will also look into various [...]

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Geopolitical Chess: Background to a Mini-war in the Caucasus

Sudhan @12:25 CET
Immanuel Wallerstein, Commentary No. 239, Aug. 15, 2009
The world has been witness this month to a mini-war in the Caucasus, and the rhetoric has been passionate, if largely irrelevant. Geopolitics is a gigantic series of two-player chess games, in which the players seek positional advantage. In these games, it is crucial to know [...]

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