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Yglesias is worried; Broder et al should be too
http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/ ?p=1701Quote: “Iwasn’t alive in 1973-74 (when Nixon’s Watergate scandal came to a head). I haveQuote logo a vague sense that at that time America’s elites operated with some sense of conscience and dignity, and it was taken for granted even among Republican leaders that one couldn’t just break the law. . .
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Judge rules Bush must obey FISA law
http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/ ?p=1700Slam and dunk for the rule of law — one of the best reasons you and I have gotten in some time to celebrate American freedom and democracy this July 4th.
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Republicans working to divide the Democrats
http://politicsplusstuff.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 07/ republicans-working-to-divide-d…Republicans work hard to divide the Democrats and damage the unity that should defeat the Republican candidates almost every time. It was Nixon's stock in trade, and it is being used today to exacerbate the differences between Hillary and Obama supporters. Think not? Go read Rick Perlstein.
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Where Have All the Values Voters Gone?
http://themoderatevoice.com/ politics/ political-philosophy/ 20693/ where-have-a…It is funny how the mind can wander, especially on a slow, hot, lazy Saturday afternoon. Joe Windish’s column, “Gay plot for hijacking America uncovered!” certainly got my mind “awandering.” My mind started thinking of the infamous Senator Larry Craig, then of Conservatives, then of hypocrisy, and then of “family values and moral values”–perhaps not in that exact order.
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Earmarxist Don Young Named American Taxpayer Hero
http://www.redstate.com/ stories/ congress/ earmarxist_don_young_named_american_…Rep. Don Young, the Alaska Republican who says he's proud to have sponsored the "Bridge to Nowhere" earmark, was named a "Hero of the American Taxpayer" yesterday by a coalition of anti-tax groups. The award is based on a number of key votes, "which have always been primarily about taxes much more than spending," according to Americans for Tax Reform.
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Craig, Vitter: AC/DC Marriage Protection Amendment
http://drinkliberal.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ craig-vitter-acdc-marriage-protectio…Given the hypocrisy of what these two wayward Republicans are up to: Larry Craig and David Vitter — “two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity” — have named themselves as co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment.
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Exxon-Valdez -- What Really Happened
http://mainstusa.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 06/ exxon-valdez-what-really-happened.htmlUnder the Supreme Court's other big decision yesterday, he has every right to buy that gun and carry it around in DC. The actual shooting is still barred by law, I think -- you never know how far the 2nd Amendment goes anymore, do you? Is the Exxon-Valdez oil spill the equivalent of a home invasion? This article about what really happened in the Exxon-Valdez case is important.
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SwiftBoater Welshes on Bet
http://allspinzone.com/ wp/ 2008/ 06/ 26/ swiftboater-welshes-on-bet/T. Boone Pickens famously bet that nobody could prove that the charges of the SwiftBoaters against John Kerry, charges that arguably decided an election and let us in for four more years of Bush failure. Pickens said at the time that he’d pay $1,000,000 to the person or person who disproved the SwifBoat Vets charges.
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Bob Barr: admirer of Tom Delay
http://disinter.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 25/ bob-barr-admirer-of-tom-delay/Becky C. reports: Congressman Bob Barr authored the Defense of Marriage Act, voted in favor of the Iraq War and Patriot Act. Thousands of people still sit in prison because of the energetic personal efforts of Bob Barr, the Drug Warrior Extraordinaire (in 2002 the Libertarian Party labeled him “the worst drug warrior in Congress”).
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Bust shysters for DOJ hiring bias
http://wpblog.ohpinion.com/ ?p=1694Try to imagine it’s a few years into the Obama administration’s term and the State Department’s inspector general reports dozens of job applicants have been rejected for being Republican or having conservative leanings. Imagine the furor, with Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and the whole Faux News BS brigade screaming for heads to roll and indictments to be handed out.
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