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Nicholas Kristof, "Can This Be Pro-Life? (op-ed)," New York Times (Oct. 8, 2008) - on the Bush administration's defunding of African family-planning clinics
Kristof is outraged that the Bush administration has undercut the efforts of the Marie Stopes International aid group to provide contraception to poor women in rural Africa, pointing out ...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09kristof.html?ex=1381291200&en=6049b149886b2034&e...
Breaking: David Addington appears before Congress, acts like a jerk
A very strange little piece. Addington was subpoenaed before Congress and, along with John Yoo, pushed to new limits the practice of obfuscating the Congress in their attempts to exercise...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603456.html
Top ten civil-rights abuses of 2006! [P]
Ten most egregious Bush administration violations of the American spirit of freedom and openness during 2006. It's a sorry-looking list. Original source: http://www.slate.com/id/2156397/ ...
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http://clipmarks.com/content/374DD457-F90C-4573-AFBC-1F97F2D90FE6
Colonel Finally Saw Whites of Their Eyes
Col. Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, finally blows his cool while giving a a talk at the New America Foundation. He lets the Bush people have it (a "Cheny-Rumsfeld ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101902246.html
The National Parks Under Siege - New York Times
NYT editorial criticizing the current attempts to (basically) destroy the historical and environmental heritage of the National Parks system by privatizing and commercializing their opera...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/opinion/21fri1.html?ex=1287547200&en=8f6751a120da9f5a&ei=5...
George W. Bush and the G-Word
Bush has at various times suggested a surprisingly close relationship between himself and Yahweh. Al Kamen in the WaPo chronicles some of these utterances.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301688.html
Unknown News (Bush channels God)
Bush tells Amish: "God speaks through me". Originally from the Lancaster New Era.
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http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity071604.html
FCNL -- Action Alerts and Updates
For the first time ever, the U.S. government is considering writing into law the acceptability of torture by U.S. agents and military. This is a moral and legal disaster, but even if you ...
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http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=8170141&type=CO
The Blog | Paul Begala: The False Moral Superiority of the Bush White House | The Huffington Post
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/the-false-moral-superiori_b_9674.html
What the 'Shield' Covered Up
E.J. Dionne notices that if Fitzgerald's probe had been permitted to move forward unimpeded by the time-wasting and delaying tactics of Libby and co., Bush might never have been reelected.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101386.html
Miers, the Rebellion's Latest Casualty
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/29/AR2005102901156.html
FindLaw's Writ - Dean: A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment
John Dean (yeah, the Watergate John Dean) on the Libby indictment and likely next steps.
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051104.html
Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy
Cheney's position, put simply, seems to be: we don't approve of torture, and we don't use torture, but we will not allow anyone to take away our absolute, God-given right to torture peopl...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601281.html
Smoking Gun on Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence? 'NY Times' Cites New Document
The 'smoking gun'?
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001434737
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts - New York Times
Is this the 'smoking gun' on prewar Iraq intelligence?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/politics/06intel.ready.html/partner/rssnyt
Salon.com News | Abramoff-Scanlon School of Sleaze
Scanlon, an associate of Abramoff, and his tactics. Notable for the remarks about evanglical Christians (whom he calls "wackos").
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff
Tennessee Guerilla Women: Krugman: Defending Imperial Nudity
A blog post that reproduces the most recent Krugman column... an extended reflection on the meaning of the nonexistant WMDs in Iraq.
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http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2005/11/krugman-defending-imperial-nudity.html
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall November 12, 2005 02:27 PM
Josh Marshall's rather scathing remarks on Bush's counterattacks on his critics. He's accusing them of "rewriting history"?
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/006989.php
t r u t h o u t - Frank Rich | The Wiretappers That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Incompetence at the highest levels, etc.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010806C.shtml
War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat Of Prosecution
The Bush administration is seeking to weaken U.S. laws regarding compliance with the Geneva conventions, esp. as regards "humilitating and degrading treatment" (article 3).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276.html
Judge Asked to Suspend Ruling Against Wiretaps
The Bush administration has asked that the recent Federal court decision, that warrantless NSA wiretaps are unconstitutional, be suspended. But now that everyone knows they are doing it, ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101410.html
Why Iraq is such a disaster (inter alia): political favoritism in the early days [8]
A truly depressing piece from the Washington Post on one of the many reasons Iraq is such a disaster today: the Coalition Provisional Authority was staffed by people chosen for their poli...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193_pf.html
Why Iraq is such a disaster (inter alia): political favoritism in the early days
A truly depressing piece from the Washington Post on one of the many reasons Iraq is such a disaster today: the Coalition Provisional Authority was staffed by people chosen for their poli...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193.html
Bush Tells Group He Sees a 'Third Awakening' - washingtonpost.com
(9/13/06) Bush tells a closed gathering of conservative journalists that the war on terror represents a "Third Awakening," as people return to religion and see the world in terms of good ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091201594.html
Climate-controlled White House | Salon News
Pretty clear evidence that yes, the Bush people are preventing climate scientists from speaking to the press if they're not reliably staying "on message."
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/19/noaa
George Bush's private grief over Iraq war dead
WaPo story on Bush's private grief over the Iraq war dead. I'm no fan of Bush and I opposed the war, and this article hasn't changed my mind, but it's kind of poignant -- it really humani...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400747.html
Eustis chief: Iraq post-war plan muzzled
2nd week of Sept. '06: Logistics officer Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid reveals in an interview that Rumsfeld threatened to "fire anyone" who talked about the need for postwar planning.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14890.htm
Excerpt from Woodward's State of Denial from the WaPo
A perfect example of what former faith-based-initiative czar John DiIulio talked about when he described the Bush White House as "Mayberry Machiavellis"
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100101148.html
An inside look at the Bush White House - John DiIulio to Ron Suskind [2]
John DiIulio, former faith-based initiatives czar, wrote reporter Ron Suskind in 2003 documenting his experience in the Bush White House. He was particularly struck by the lack of policy ...
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http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/021202_mfe_diiulio_2.html
An inside look at the Bush White House - John DiIulio to Ron Suskind
John DiIulio, former faith-based initiatives czar, wrote reporter Ron Suskind in 2003 documenting his experience in the Bush White House. He was particularly struck by the lack of policy ...
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http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/021202_mfe_diiulio_1.html
Olberman on the military tribunals act
Olberman's take on the suspension of habeas corpus.
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/18/countdown-special-comment-death-of-habeas-corpus-yo...
"Worst Congress Ever" - 5 steps to destroying American government
An article on the various misdeeds of the 109th Congress. I haven't finished this screed yet. Good on the systematic dismantling of all bipartisan institutions by the Republicans.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_...
Bush: to stay the course or to not stay the course
Bush says in an 10/22 interview that "we've never been stay the course" on Iraq. Blogger then lists repeated instances of Bush saying "we will stay the course" in Iraq. Not profound, but ...
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/22/bush-stay-the-course
Army Times blasts Rumsfeld
This is the same editorial that Kore7 clipped the other day. I thought it deserved a clip of its own.
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http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2333360.php
Neo Culpa: Politics
Neocons on the collapse of the neocon project.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612
Ten greatest civil liberties abuses of 2006
Slate's legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwik writes her own "year's ten best" list: top ten civil rights violations in the U.S. in 2006. More at source. See esp. the sorry story of José Pa...
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http://www.slate.com/id/2156397
Does Bush understand who we're fighting?
Comments on the State of the Union address, in which Bush lumped together all sorts of groups and events that have no connection to one another as "the enemy." Reflects this administratio...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400006.html
Ex-CIA Europe chief: "We probably gave Powell the wrong speech"
Der Spiegel interviews Tyler Drumheller, former chief of CIA operations in Europe. He states candidly that intelligence regarding Iraq's WMD program was manipulated and/or ignored as the ...
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,462782,00.html
Galbraith: Why "the surge" can't work (hint: the Dems have it wrong)
Former Ambassador Peter Galbraith explains why Democratic critiques of Bush's "surge" strategy miss the real point, which is not the numbers. We're broadening the mission in a way calcula...
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19950
It's official: Iraq's oil belongs to US corporations
According to commentary from the Asia Times Online, the newly mandated "Federal oil council" of Iraq, which will control the country's energy resources, is going to consist largely of U.S...
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB28Ak01.html
EPA's Endocrine Disruptor program: a chemical-industry boondoggle
As we know, in the interests of "streamlining" bureaucracy and giving business a boost, the Bush administration's EPA has tended to tailor its enforcement programs to specifications desig...
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/healthscience/stories/052707dnentendocrine....
Sullivan on the Bush administration and torture (TImes Online)
Pretty much all the arguments -- even the terminology -- used by the Bush administration defending its torture policies were pioneered by the Gestapo and prosecuted by the US as war crime...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article2602564.ece
White House "eviscerates" CDC head's climate-change testimony
Ho hum. Once again, the White House censors the presentation of scientific data. Hello? America? Anyone paying attention out there? The funny thing is, this time they said they did it bec...
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5inODG24ecfdaA-wDYGJMdlIfeVUA