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Taking the FISA fight to the next level

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:50 PM
I've often thought that President Bush probably read " The Trial " and " 1984 " at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on
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The growing ranks of the underinsured

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:27 PM
In addition to the 47 million Americans with no health insurance, the ranks of those considered underinsured are growing at an alarming rate. A new study by the Commonwealth Fund has found that the number of Americans with inadequate health insurance
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Why a McCain vote is a bad idea, reason #3,744

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:01 PM
As if we needed another reason why McCain would be a horrid president : If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president's wartime
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McCain fundraiser tanks

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:36 PM
This is hilarious : A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center. Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling
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Veto bait

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:27 PM
The pending House appropriations bill that would provide "emergency" funding for the continued occupation of Iraq is certain to draw a veto from the White House (and how much longer is this five-year-old occupation going to be falsely labeled an "emergency"
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McCain's Pander Bus stops in New Orleans, lies to the Lower 9th

Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:14 PM
John McCain's "Pander To Anyone I Can Think Of" tour has made a particularly shameless stop in New Orleans. In the still-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest and most heavily damaged area of the city, McCain had the gall to say this : "Never again
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Petraeus shills for Bush again

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:19 PM
General David Petraeus gave one of his patented dog-and-pony shows before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, in which he suggested that the administration's failed strategy in Iraq should be given even more time to continue failing : Telling Congress
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More on McCain and the lobbyist he didn't shag

Monday, February 25, 2008 9:02 PM
I'm shocked, shocked I say, to learn that John McCain seems to have fibbed a little bit about his dealings with Vicki Iseman, the lobbyist he allegedly didn't sleep with, and her client, Lowell Paxson. After the New York Times story appeared last week
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McCain/Iseman furor obscures the real story

Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:21 PM
The New York Times story and this Washington Post story on the cozy relationship between John McCain and the lobbyist Vicki Iseman have resulted in a predictable deluge of manufactured outrage from the right wing noise machine. "Manufactured" is exactly
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McCain's hypocrisy on torture

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:15 PM
On the subject of waterboarding, here's John McCain, who was tortured by the North Vietnamese, last October : Waterboarding is a form of torture no matter how it is done and should be a prohibited among U.S. military interrogation practices, Republican
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