June 30, 2006
Maybe because we see a chink in the armor?
The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that it exceeded its authority by creating tribunals for terror suspects that fell short of the legal protections that Congress has traditionally required in military courts.
As a result, the court said in a 5-to-3 […]
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June 13, 2006
FBI statistics Monday confirmed what big cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Cleveland and Las Vegas have seen on the streets: Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991.
In Philadelphia, homicides jumped from 330 in 2004 to 377 in 2005, a 14 percent increase, according to the FBI. Murders […]
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June 11, 2006
What about the money? There is the more than $9 billion that has gone missing without a trace in Iraq–as well as $12 billion in cash that the Pentagon flew into Iraq straight from Federal Reserve vaults via military transports, and for which there has been little or no accounting.
When word of the missing money […]
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June 7, 2006
Once again Mr. Bush uses hate, religion and politics to try to stem the tide against the Republicans losing power.
Mr. Bush and the Religious Right are claiming : “Marriage is being redefined by ‘activist judges’”. As a new Cato Institute report by Professor Dale Carpenter notes, “The ‘threat’ from courts is more imagined than […]
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June 5, 2006
We must fight this war! Why? Because he is a dictator, there are rape rooms, there is torture. there are mass graves, there is mass killing of innocent civilians, and no one is held accountable. There are not free and fair elections. They have weapons of mass destruction and they will use them. He either […]
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June 4, 2006
This is why I do not belong to Salon.com. They always tell you that you are an idiot to believe that there was something wrong with the Presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. Shouldn’t we all want to know the truth? How are we to find out the truth, if we don’t question? If we […]
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June 2, 2006
Harvard University released the results of a comprehensive study on abstinence pledges. The National Institute of Child Health and Development conducted the government-sponsored study. Over 14,000 teenagers were interviewed between 1995 and 2001. The study found that 52 percent who took the pledge had sex within one year of doing so.
When will these Religious nuts […]
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June 1, 2006
President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers. The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the amendment on May 18 along party lines after a shouting […]
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