Deluded: The White House at War--the U.S. Joint Forces Command study is partly declassified

The New Yorker takes a brief look at the available materials, and it is not pretty.

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Another GOP Congressmen snared in the Abramoff-DeLay web of corruption?

Looks like another GOP Congressman--this one hiterto untainted--was involved in a fishy real estate deal with some of the leading shady characters from the DeLay-Abramoff-Buckham axis of corruption. Rep. Jim Ryun, a Kansas Republican, has some 'splainin' to do.

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Self Dealing by Delay, his Family, and his Aides--Is this the smoking gun for DeLay?

The funnel for this money was a front that seems to have little if any function other than funneling money to Tom DeLay his family and associates. This was the conduit by which Russian money of mysterious origins ended up in the hands US Congressmen.

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Catholic Cardinal Challenges un-Christian GOP immigration bill

It would be really great if more people took a principled stand against this extremely punitive, poorly thought immigration legislation. We desperately need immigration reform, but the current bill is moving in the wrong direction completely.

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Right-wing PC in the Academy

New rules for Arizona state university and community college students: you don't have to read anything you don't want to. You can just say it offends you, and you are off the hook.

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Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys

Dan Savage asks some good questions!

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Ken Starr and others accused of forging statements in death penalty case

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Bush wants to sell our patrimony to pay routine bills.

Expect to see more of the Argentinization of the United States as Bush plan for our fiscal ruin progresses. Having stopped collecting sufficient revenue to cover his free spending ways, he is now dipping into capital. He truly is a spendthrift.

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John Boehner is a big part of the lobbyist/corruption problem, not the solution

In addition to handing out checks from lobbyists to his fellow Republicans on the House floor, John Boehner is up to his neck in the kind of unsavory affiliations that will prevent real reform.

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Primary care about to collapse, physicians warn - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Primary care -- the basic medical care that people get when they visit their doctors for routine physicals and minor problems -- could fall apart in the United States without immediate reforms, the American College of Physicians said on Monday.

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Palace Revolt - Some conservatives have fought the Bush Administration's power grabs, and paid a price

They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror.

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Curt Weldon- Another GOP Congressman with questionable lobbying connections

Pennsylvania representative's daughter has made over a million in lobbying contracts, and a family friend with no Washington experience seems to be getting lobbying contracts for no good reason other than her personal connection.

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Ann Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Justice Stevens

Her fifteen minutes are up.

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Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe White House Should Release Abramoff Records

76% percent of Americans--including 2/3s of Republicans want full disclosure of contacts between the White House and convicted corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

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Another Payola Scandal... This Time Fox News Columnist On Big Tobacco Payroll...

Yet another Right-wing pundit on the take, with the same corporate/think-tank/right-wing media connections as the others. Will Fox News fire this guy for failure to disclose his finanicial interest in his own "reporting?" He was on the Cato Institute staff, too.

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K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork

Another shining example of how the failure to engage in real campaign finance reform is rotting our institutions to pieces. Perhaps the worst thing about this is that it might be completely legal

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CNN.com - Kerry will try Alito filibuster - Jan 26, 2006

This should get interesting.

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Bush the Incompetent

Good Editorial by Harold Meyerson on the defining feature of Bush's presidency.

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Glenn Greenwald Rips Bush's Position on FISA violations to tiny pieces

Using the administration's own words and actions, Greenwald shows exactly why the Bush's Administration's defense of its surveillance is untenable.

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