Liberals Agree: Saddam misunderstood, killed for no good reason

Sat Dec 30, 2006 1:47 AM EST

Did I get your attention? Good. Now, before you flame me back to the stone age, just here me out. I want to make sure that the liberal opinion is heard from a liberal first.

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politics, negligent-hyperbole, liberal, satire, conservative, saddam, hussein

McCain has problems with reality in crticism of Clinton over N. Korean nukes

Seeded on Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:40 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

There's certainly an argument to be made that you don't make agreements with parties you don't trust, like the North Koreans.

politics, nuclear, bush, clinton, north, mccain, north-koreans, uranium, plutonium

Senate intel report on Iraq subdivided to save Bush

Seeded on Fri Sep 8, 2006 4:59 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

What was a two-part report on intelligence failures leading up to the war in Iraq has now been divided into more parts so the most damning information can continue to be witheld from Americans.

bush, iraq, senate, report, politics, war, intelligence, wmd, intelligence-committee

Sen. Stevens is blocking Coburn/Obama Govt. Transparency Bill

Seeded on Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:23 AM EDT (swtimes.com)

From the article:

senate, contracts, politics, ted-stevens, obama, republican, block, database, transparency, coburn

In wake of the London plot, Iraq looks like an even bigger mistake

Seeded on Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:08 AM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Here's a simple question: Is there anyone in the country who can say honestly, in their heart of hearts, that when that moment of fear hit them after the recent reports out of London, they said to themselves, "God, I'm glad we're in Iraq"?

bush, iraq, terror, terrorism, politics, war, london, war-on-terror, islamic-fundamentalism

Death Penalty: The Failed Experiment

Seeded on Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:26 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Something about this sentence just took my breath away. "Last year only four countries accounted for nearly all executions worldwide: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States."

death, penalty, us-news, capital-punishment

Net neutrality has ruined the web

Seeded on Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:42 AM EDT (The Register (UK))

"I had thought the reason we don't get HD movies on the internet had something to do with greedy control freaks within the entertainment cartels who have yet to figure out how to charge us for online content according to a pay-per-use scheme.

technology, internet, broadband, net, neutrality, isp, net-neutrality

Net Neutrality - Republicans not interested

Seeded on Fri Jun 9, 2006 5:53 AM EDT (United States House of Representatives)

This afternoon, Republicans decided Americans can take a back seat to big business when it comes to maintaining an open and fair internet.

congress, democrats, politics, internet, house, republicans, net, neutrality, net-neutrality, amendment

Snowe and Senate Dems to the Rescue on Net Neutrality | TPMCafe

Seeded on Sat May 20, 2006 5:21 AM EDT (tpmcafe.com)

Update on Net Neutrality in Congress.

technology, congress, internet, network, net, neutrality

Signing Bonus - Bush "writes in" he is not bound by over 700 laws

Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 4:16 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

New evidence of the Dictator in Chief

bush, congress, politics, legislation, unconstitutional

AP Recycled News: Macs Are Virus Targets

Seeded on Mon May 1, 2006 12:16 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Months after the oompa-loompa virus was discovered, the AP decides to make a new story out of it and Yahoo! puts it on the front page with a sensational headline. Poor journalism.

technology, security, apple, mac, vulnerability, flaw, viruses

Save the Internet : Act Now

Seeded on Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:41 AM EDT (savetheinternet.com)

Internet service providers want to carve out a fast lane on the internet and make you pay to use it. The concept of Net Neutrality states that information traveling over the internet should not be regulated for profit.

internet, rights, government, us-news, net-neutrality, corporation

10,000 Clerics sign on in support of evolution

Seeded on Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:28 AM EST (seedmagazine.com)

Scientific Community: I'll see your 500 evolution doubting, non-biologists, and I'll raise you 10,000 clerics who support evolution. Fun stuff that I'm sure will garner some good debate here on the vine.

evolution, religion, science, discovery-institute, aaas

Houston Chronicle: Katrina Donation by Barbara Bush 'earmarked' to pay for Neil Bush's software program

Seeded on Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:20 PM EST (The Houston Chronicle)

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

katrina, donation, us-news, dynasty, barbara-bush, earmark, barbara, neil-bush, ignite

VIDEO: Is 'FOX Security' calling people who mention Olbermann on O'Reilly's radio show?

Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:57 PM EST (Media Matters for America)

Certainly this could be a cruel joke, but it should be investigated by FOX or local authorities. Threatening someone because they mention your competitor's name on the air seems a tad unstable.

security, politics, threat, radio, fox, oreilly, olbermann

Senate Panel Blocks Eavesdropping Probe

Seeded on Wed Mar 8, 2006 5:22 PM EST (The Washington Post)

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines yesterday (3/07/2006) to reject a Democratic proposal to investigate the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program and instead approved establishing, with White House approval, a seven-member panel to o

homeland-security, spying, surveillance, us-news, domestic, wiretapping, senate-investigation

Republican Senator: Bush's skull is 'solid granite'

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 2:02 PM EST (helenair.com)

President Bush is stubborn and has a skull of "solid granite," Republican Sen. Conrad Burns said in criticizing Bush's continued support for placing some U.S. port operations under a company based in the United Arab Emirates.

bush, politics, criticism, senator, burns, republican, ports-deal, conrad

Democrats uglier than Republicans!?

Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:32 PM EST

After hearing Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman say on ABC's This Week that "Hillary Clinton seems to have a lot of anger," I decided to look into the matter on a more broad scale.

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politics, santorum, kennedy, republican, joke, satire, democrat, politicians, parody

UAE port takeover is 21 ports, not 6

Seeded on Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:35 PM EST (United Press International)

A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than the six widely reported.

politics, homeland-security, takeover, ports, dubai-ports-world, uae, foreign-investment

Lindsey Jacobellis' fall to be the Dean Scream of Turin Olympics?

Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:49 PM EST

I watched snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis fall and lose the gold medal last night.

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sports, olympics, method, scream, dean, snowboard, cross, fall, lindsey-jacobellis, jacobellis

Coulter Gone Wild - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:31 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Ann Coulter refers to Muslims as "ragheads" during her speech at CPAC in Washington DC.

muslim, politics, speech, coulter, ann-coulter, remarks, cpac

Bush's Social Security Sleight of Hand

Seeded on Wed Feb 8, 2006 2:48 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan to Congress and never put privatization costs in the budget.

bush, budget, politics, privatization, social-security, retirement, personal-accounts