Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream.

The grandson of Prescott, that dreamer of the 1930s, established with very little resistance that the U.S. government can kidnap, detain indefinitely on no charge, torture, and murder. The United States under Prescott Bush's grandson adopted policies that heretofore had been considered only Nazi policies....

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Bill Moyers & Michael Winship: It Was Oil, All Along

"Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire, and ashes. And now the bottom turns out to be....the

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Big Bad John Runs Into The Buzzsaw

Republican Sen. John Cornyn--he's bad, alright. He is part of the worst government we've had. In lockstep with the Bushes, uninterested in hearing from anyone who has a different opinion--John Cornyn is Just. Like. Bush.

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State Poll Roundup: KY, MS, NJ, OH, TX

A day late and a dollar short used to be my motto so sorry this was not posted last night, but yesterday we had 5 State polls released. 3 of them in existing Battleground States, a new Battleground State is added, and big changes to our Presidential Projector. I'd love to see Texas go blue. While the gap seems large, it is small enough to close in the time we have left!

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Geo. Carlin quote

Subject: Geo. Carlin quote

From a George Carlin obit on Alternet:

But I'll tell you what they don't want," Carlin continued. "They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers -- people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."

Non-Controversial Church Opens For Presidential Candidates

The solution to separation of church and state sort of.

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Graham (R-SC) Constituion is "irresponsible and outrageous"

The rights' reactions to the latest Supreme Court ruling reveal that they immerse themselves in fear: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."In response to today's landmark Supreme Court decision granting habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees, Lindsey Graham has decided he wants to amend the United State Constitution to strip it of any pesky kinds of civil rights protections that have existed since the Magna Carta.

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Buried in Senate Report: New Findings on Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

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Buried in Senate Report: New Findings on Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

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Buried in Senate Report: New Findings on Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

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Buried in Senate Report: New Findings on Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

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Buried in Senate Report: New Findings on Pre-War Deception

A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

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Newsman Tim Russert dies at 58

Tim Russert, who became one of America's leading political journalists as the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," died Friday, according to the network. He was 58.

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Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes

"The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees ... suggesting the U.S. deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial." It's not the crime, it's the coverup that gets 'ya.

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Gitmo interrogators told to trash notes

"The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees ... suggesting the U.S. deliberately thwarted evidence that could help terror suspects defend themselves at trial." It's not the crime, it's the coverup that gets 'ya.

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Clarke On Iraq War Architects: They Shouldn't be in Society

Noting that “prominent Democrats” had ruled out impeachment, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann asked former counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke on his show last night, what “remedy” there could be for the lies and misinformation highlighted in the new Senate Intelligence Committee reports on the Bush administration’s misuse of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

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Senate Report: Bush Used Iraq Intel He Knew Was False

More than five years after the initial invasion of Iraq, the Senate Intelligence Committee has finally gone on the record: the Bush administration misused, and in some cases disregarded, intelligence which led the nation into war.

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How Halliburton earns its money--OUR tax dollars

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US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

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Former House aide charged in lobbying scandal

A one-time chief of staff to former Rep. Ernest Istook is being charged with conspiracy to defraud the House of Representatives in a lobbying scandal...

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US accused of holding terror suspects on prison ships

The United States is operating "floating prisons" to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees.

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McClellan Hearings May Be Required, Say Congressmen

Andy Card's order that McClellan vouch for Scooter could be obstruction of justice.

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