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Permanent Republican Majority? Think Again.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Can Democrats handle power better than Republicans? They didn’t the last time they held the administration and the majority in Congress.
Karl Rove dreamed of creating a “permanent Republican majority.” But as President Bush’s longtime adviser exits the Washington scene, the political landscape he helped chart is already shifting beneath his feet: The era [...]

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Iran hangs 30 over ‘US plots’

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

What can I say? Someone needs to topple the barbaric bast***s.
Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal.
Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while [...]

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Author King ‘mistaken for vandal’

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Sick a monster on them.
Author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal when he started signing books during an unannounced visit to a shop in Australia, according to local media.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said staff at the Alice Springs book store did not initially realise the writer was autographing his own novels.
Bookshop manager [...]

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Rift Over Gay Unions Reflects Battle New to Black Churches.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

This seems to be an issue that just won’t go away. Even churches are finding themselves dealing with it.
Maybe it’s time that we start treating everyone the same and maybe it isn’t. I don’t have the answer.
Never in a “million years” did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept [...]

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A Town in Transition

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Michael Yon has posted a Public Affairs Release which describes the situation in the town of Baqubah and it sounds promising. This is just one small accomplishment in the vast country of Iraq, but taken with our other victories as of late, could be a stepping stone for things to come.
After the fight [...]

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Edwards’ finances and populism clash.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Have you ever looked at someone and thought this guy isn’t on the level? John Edwards is one of these people. At least that’s the way he strikes me. He may be one of the nicest people in the world but I just don’t trust him.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Once again, John Edwards’ money is [...]

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The Christian Right’s New Man.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I could see myself voting for Huckabee.
No one is happier with the results of the Iowa Straw Poll than charismatic evangelical Christians, who recently declared former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “one of our own.”
Just a few weeks before the Iowa straw poll, a prominent evangelical publication identified the Republican presidential candidate whom it thought most [...]

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How Rove Directed Federal Assets for GOP Gains.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

A smart man who may have done stupid things.
Thirteen months before President Bush was reelected, chief strategist Karl Rove summoned political appointees from around the government to the Old Executive Office Building. The subject of the Oct. 1, 2003, meeting was “asset deployment,” and the message was clear:
The staging of official announcements, high-visibility trips and [...]

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Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Love this man and wish him well.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said.
Graham, 88, was fully alert, and his doctors don’t think his condition is life-threatening, [...]

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What does the future hold for the Print Media?

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

It is seldom that I find myself posting on an opinion piece from any publication but this particular one from the Washington Post caught my attention and read in its entirety, offers a view of newspaper journalism which I found quite interesting.
Newspaper journalism is different these days: Suddenly everyone is obsessed with eyeballs, page [...]

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Bush out front of Hurricane Dean

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I read this story and it tickles the heck out of me. Amazing.
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, who was criticized for a slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, took a pre-emptive strike Saturday against Hurricane Dean blowing through the Caribbean and threatening the Texas coast.
Bush, who received two hurricane briefings at his ranch, signed [...]

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Concerns Raised on Wider Spying Under New Law

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

This just isn’t right. Thank you my fellow dems. for screwing me again.
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of [...]

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Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

If this is true and I don’t know if it is, someone should at least go to jail for breaking the law,Hatch act.
WASHINGTON - Top Commerce and Treasury department officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing [...]

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Thank You For Your Prayers For The Anchoress

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I am still not at liberty to give you the details for the Anchoress having to go to the ER except to tell you she had more kidney stones and an infection from it.
She’s slowly on the mend now and I wish to thank everyone who took the time to pray for her, as she [...]

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The Fight at Donkey Island

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

On the night of June 30 some of our soldiers were on patrol in Ramadi. Some of them had never experienced combat and didn’t expect to that night, but they ran upon some Al Qaeda in the midst of planning a major offensive.
This Washington Post story explains what happened.
Yes, there were American dead that [...]

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