Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Friday, June 29th, 2007
Tony Snow responded yesterday to a reporter's question about the Senate's subpoena for information related to the President's warrantless wiretapping program:
At this juncture, we don't have a formal reply, but on the other hand, it is pretty clear that, again, members of Congress here are engaged in an attempt -- ...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
After this many years of this nonsense, I just get fed up. President Bush today tried to explain the immigration bill he supports, the bill he is trying to convince Congress to pass. Here is what happened:
"You know, I've heard all the rhetoric - you've heard it, too - about ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
I watched some of the analysis of Tuesday night's Republican presidential primary debate on CNN. At one point, Anderson Cooper was interviewing Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist, and Amy Holmes, a Republican strategist and former speech writer for Senator Bill Frist. Begala spoke up about the 2008 Republican presidential candidates:
When ...
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Here is a portion of what Vice President Cheney said as part of his commencement address to the United States Military Academy at West Point:
As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Dahlia Lithwick has written an article hosted at Salon that discusses Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. Ms. Lithwick describes a particular chart that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse showed near the end of the testimony:
...The chart compares the Clinton protocol for appropriate contacts between ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Another one to file in the "truth is stranger than fiction" category:
The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
At least three retired four-star generals approached ...
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