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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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Quote of the day (on political courage)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:28 PM
Jann Wenner interviews Barack Obama in this week's issue of "Rolling Stone." After Obama enumerated the contents of his iPod, he said this (via Blah3 ): When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that
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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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Does Bush think the Secretary of Defense is an appeaser?

Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:57 PM
Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called "appeasers" anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers : "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists
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"Liberal" media? Yeah, right

Monday, April 14, 2008 6:22 PM
Number of Google News hits on Obama's "bitter" remark: 2006 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 3757 Number of Google News hits on Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) calling Obama " boy ": 64 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same
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The distraction du jour: Obama's comments on alienation

Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:25 PM
Barack Obama said this yesterday : "In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. ... The jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through
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A note to Bill Hobbs

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:35 PM
Dear Mr. Hobbs : Your slimy insinuation that a man can be inferred as sympathetic to terrorists because his middle name is "Hussein" is just as idiotic as suggesting a man is a cocaine-addled imbecile merely because his name is "George." Every day that
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