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It’s time to investigate the Vice-President’s office

By News Team

Fri, Nov 4th, 2005
Posted in Commentary

President George Bush did the only sensible thing he could do in the aftermath of the latest debacle to hit his administration, he nominated Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. What better way to steal the front page news away from Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s loose lips sinks ships indictment than to nominate a conservative judge to the highest judicial body in the land. Now the news will be full of Senate infighting over whether Alito is an impartial call-it-as-I-see-it judicial nominee or an acceptable anti-abortion ideologue for the conservative right.

Alito’s nomination came four days after Bush withdrew Harriet Mier’s name as a nominee, and only two days after Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald charged Libby, Chief of Staff to the Vice-President, with making false statements to a grand jury, perjury and obstruction of justice.

The nation now pretty well knows as fact that the move to invade Iraq was a conjuring job done in Vice-President Dick Cheney’s office and that every effort was made to discount opposition to the war, apparently including outing CIA agents when their husbands speak out of turn against the administration’s reasoning for invading Iraq.

If Bush II wants to restore public trust, he can begin by naming a special prosecutor to look into whether the Vice-President’s office knowingly misled the American public on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

Moxie

•Speaking of which: finally the Democrats found some moxie, forcing the Senate on Tuesday into closed session to ask whether the administration corked the intelligence about Saddam and WMDs that led us into Iraq.

Vietnam cover-up

•It is interesting to note that 40 years after the event, a 2001 National Security Agency study has concluded that communications intercepted in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to the Vietnam War were mis-translated and the error purposefully covered up so that it appeared that the North Vietnamese had attacked two destroyers on August 4, 1964. It is also interesting that this information is considered secret, too sensitive for the public’s ears.

Ethics

•It seems ironic now that President Bush was elected a year ago on moral values. A Washington Post - ABC News poll on October 30 showed that 64 percent of Americans rate the .....
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Hearts and Minds

By News Team

Fri, Oct 7th, 2005
Posted in Commentary
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The only people still supporting President Bush today are those stalwart troops hanging around the bunker - flat-earth Christians, Orange County conservatives, and the uber-rich who have come to expect unfettered access to the low-hanging fruit. Thes ..... 
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Compassionate incompetence

By News Team

Fri, Sep 16th, 2005
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Ah, yes, compassion.    I will give the benefit of the doubt (reluctantly) that George Bush and his administration wanted to act, that they felt some sense of duty to respond to their fellow citizens struggling in the gloom o ..... 
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Déja vu all over again

By News Team

Fri, Sep 2nd, 2005
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This has been the summer of the Hollywood remake. “The Longest Yard,” “The Bad News Bears,” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are all movies with old story lines re-made with new actors and faux glitz and sold to an unsuspecting public as new e ..... 
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A case for Intelligent Design

By News Team

Fri, Aug 26th, 2005
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There are some common misperceptions about the Intelligent Design (ID) theory. It is not an attempt to prove the validity of scripture. Moreover, it doesn’t even have a particularly religious basis.  Historically, the questio ..... 
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The gospel according to Pat

By News Team

Fri, Aug 26th, 2005
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You’ve probably heard of the row caused by tele-evangelist Pat Robertson’s recent remarks on the 700 Club that the US should whack - to use the vernacular of Tony Soprano - as in, knock off, pop, erase, kill - Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez.[Read the Rest]

Faith-based science doesn’t belong in our schools

By News Team

Fri, Aug 12th, 2005
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President Bush is now advocating the teaching of “intelligent design” in our schools. Intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of our universe are best explained by an “intelligent” cause rather than by natural selection.

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John Bolton and the Peter Principle

By News Team

Fri, Aug 5th, 2005
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While Congress was dashing for the exits so that they could get back to their districts to tell voters what a wonderful job they were doing in Wash-ing-ton-dee-cee, old quick draw George was presenting John Bolton as the next ambassador to the UN.[Read the Rest]

When government shuts down

By News Team

Fri, Jul 8th, 2005
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There’s enough blame to go around in St. Paul. The inability for the governor and the legislature to get the job done and keep Minnesota running is a shameful lesson in how party politics has seized state government.

Somewhere b ..... 
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