Month: May 2007
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MoveOn Wusses Out on The War
Boils down to ‘if the Democrats keep the war going and let the GOP screw themselves they have better chance of winning in 2008′” If MoveOn were serious about ending the war, now would be an opportune moment to mobilize its millions of members and make it finally happen. Instead, its current strategy is dead […]
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Fitzgerald Was Zooming Toward Cheney's Treason
“Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.”
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DARPA Plans Aircraft That Flies 5 Years Non-Stop
That’s where we’ll put the prisons! They announced the VULTURE program last week which is an initiative to develop an airborne platform that is heavier-than-air and can remain aloft for 5 continuous years, this announcement is to potential offerors (or companies interested in contracting for some of the R&D). This would be an exploratory development […]
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Richard Dawkins Aims at the Left
After giving fundies a good thrashing: He told a packed Hay Festival audience that although the threat from creationists and the religious right is well-documented, science is also under threat from the other end of the political spectrum: “I think we face an equal but much more sinister challenge from the left, in the shape […]
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Before and After: Melting Glaciers Over 70 Years
Chilling: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/popup?id=2806029&contentIndex=1&page=1
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Andrew Bacevich on a Father's Grief
Andrew Bacevich (author of American Empire and The New American Militarism) on the recent loss of his son in Iraq: I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose. We Were Both Doing Our Duty. After my son’s death, my state’s senators, Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry, telephoned to express their condolences. Stephen […]
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Cindy Sheehan Gives Up
Epic: when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used. I guess no one paid attention to me when I said that the issue of […]
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I Want Ron Paul vs Mike Gravel
Here’s Gravel on CNN doing his best not to reach through the camera and cockpunch Rick Sanchez: and Ron Paul has the nuts to flush ‘they hate our freedom’ down the toilet – again trying not to cockkick Rick Sanchez: