“Rice Outlines Strategy for Middle East Trip
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, July 21 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, soon to leave for the turbulent Middle East, said today that the violence in Lebanon must end in a stable and lasting peace, not just a cease-fire.
A simple cease-fire “would be a false promise” and would “guarantee future […]

  Instead of tearing up the countless credit card offers, I have followed the advice of whomever said to mail everything back in the envelope the companies send for the purpose. I only have to cut my name and address from the mailing. 

Why should we have to pay the price of recycling someone else’s […]

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Agence France-Presse, The Associated Press
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2006

JAKARTA An Indonesian newspaper editor will stand trial on charges of offending Islam for publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad last year, his lawyer said Friday.”

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Posted on Fri, Jul. 21, 2006

“Santorum blasts Iran, ‘Islamic facism,’ media

By Steve Goldstein
Inquirer Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) yesterday called for regime change in Iran and described “Islamic fascism” as the “great test” of this generation, as threatening to the United States as last century’s German Nazism […]

Pick from below.
1. The invention of the ‘talk show’ in 1949.
2. The first Grange meeting takes place in Mankato, Minnesota in 1889.
3. The St. Lawrence Seaway opens when Queen Elizabeth sets a flame to a British Waterloo cannon in 1958.
4. Harry Heilman of the Detroit Tigers sets the record for holding […]

From: “Devil May Care” by Tucker Carlson, Talk Magazine, September 1999, p. 106
‘”Bush’s brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.
While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who […]

“July 18, 2006
Ex-Editor in Chief of Time Inc. Joining Carlyle Equity Group
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
The former editor in chief of Time Inc., Norman Pearlstine, will join the Carlyle Group, the private equity group, as a senior adviser on media and telecommunications acquisitions, the firm said yesterday.”
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“Apr 1, 2002

MIDEAST […]

“White House Shifts Tack on Tribunals
Bush to Propose Only Minor Changes
By Jonathan Weisman and Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 20, 2006; A03
Top White House officials took a harder line yesterday on a new system to try terrorism suspects, telling Republican senators that President Bush will soon formally propose a tribunal structure with only minor […]

“Barney Frank’s Reminder
Congress Is Meant For Oversight, Not Afterthought
By David S. Broder
Thursday, July 20, 2006; A23
Forgive me, please, for not writing about the war in the Middle East. It is the most important topic of the day, but I have nothing to add to the lamentations and exhortations that have filled newspaper columns since it […]

“DeWine blunder adds fuel to controversial September 11 ad
By Bret Schulte
Posted 7/19/06
A controversial TV campaign ad for Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine featuring video of the burning World Trade Center towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks was doctored, U.S. News has learned. The television spot, which has been lambasted by critics as political exploitation, attacks DeWine’s […]

“The illusion of freedom
July 19, 2006 08:56 AM / The Rant
By DOUG THOMPSON
A longtime friend, a career soldier, returned home from Iraq recently and said that, sadly, he is thinking of resigning his commission.
After a record of service that extends from Vietnam to Panama to Desert Storm and, finally, to the invasion of Iraq, he […]

“Tony Snow and Helen Thomas: “Thank You for the Hezbollah View”

By: John Amato on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 12:06 PM - PDT

Snow told the gaggle that the reason Americans trying to get out of Lebanon were being forced to pay was because of a law on the books. Then Helen Thomas asked […]

Defending Bush’s Veto, Rove Grossly Distorts Stem Cell Science
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Today, Bush is expected to veto a bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It will be the first veto of his presidency. Last week, Karl Rove –- explaining why Bush planned on vetoing the bill — told the Denver Post that “recent […]

July 19, 2006
New York Times
Report Faults Safeguards in Religion Program
By NEELA BANERJEE
WASHINGTON, July 18 — The Bush administration’s program of financing social service initiatives run by religiously affiliated groups lacks adequate safeguards against religious discrimination and has yet to measure the performance of the groups, a new Congressional report says.”
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“Gonzales: Bush Blocked Wiretap Probe
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2006
(CBS) This story was written by CBS News producers Rob Hendin and Stephanie Lambidakis.
President Bush personally blocked a Justice Department office from investigating the role of department lawyers in creating and overseeing the NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping program, according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.”
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“Iraq civilian toll spikes to nearly 6,000

By NICK WADHAMS, Associated Press Writer 35 minutes ago
Nearly 6,000 civilians were slain across Iraq in May and June, a spike in deaths that coincided with rising sectarian attacks across the country, the United Nations said Tuesday.”
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“Tiny Chips Could Change Our Lives
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 18, 2006
(CBS) Back in the 1990s, a researcher at one of Hewlett Packard’s labs in the United Kingdom got the idea of producing a talking photograph. Why not embed a chip onto a picture that would enable the person viewing the photo […]

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Thanks to Alternet.org, docstrangelove.com and the Stephanie Miller Show and Crooks and Liars.com has the video.

There is usually a non-stop talking vegetarian who prefers travel by birch bark canoe, but must take bus despite the fact that tires are made of meat products.
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What bus trip doesn’t have the Bob Dylan imitator who can’t play, sing or rhyme.
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The tattooed and recently released, skinny ex-con who is working […]

“New York Times
July 16, 2006
Editorial
The Real Agenda

It is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration’s response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can see now, had far less to do with fighting Osama bin […]

“THE INDEPENDENT
16 July 2006 20:56

Fury as Karzai plans return of Taliban’s religious police
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Published: 17 July 2006

The Afghan government has alarmed human rights groups by approving a plan to reintroduce a Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the body which the […]

“Washington Whispers

By Paul Bedard

Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006

That Times Leak Was No Surprise

Before you jump in with those heaping scorn on the New York Times for using a leak to reveal the secret Treasury program to search financial transactions for terrorist activities, know this: The Treasury Department expected […]

“This is a portion of the MEET THE PRESS transcript of Sunday, July 16, 2006.
MR. RUSSERT: We were subpoenaed at NBC. We fought the subpoenas. Time magazine subpoenaed, fought the subpoenas. New York Times fought the subpoenas. Why didn’t you fight the subpoena?
MR. NOVAK: Because my lawyer said […]

“July 15, 2006
Gingrich says it’s World War III

Posted by David Postman at 12:54 PM

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so. In an interview in Bellevue this morning Gingrich said Bush should call a joint session of […]

‘WSJ: After 9/11 as stocks sank, scores of US firms rushed to give millions in options to top execs
RAW STORY
Published: Saturday July 15, 2006

After 9/11 as stocks sank, scores of US firms gave millions in options to top executives, reports the Wall Street Journal on the front page […]

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“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.”
-William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General

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War: “A crime. Ask the infantry and […]

‘Saturday, Jul. 15, 2006
A Steamy Spy Scandal at the State Department

A tale of the diplomat, his spy paramour, and his wife - also a spy - keeps getting weirder

By TIMOTHY J. BURGER AND ADAM ZAGORIN

Few occasions are more sensitive than a visit to the U.S. of a foreign […]

“July 15, 2006
New House Majority Leader Keeps Old Ties to Lobbyists
By MIKE McINTIRE
Representative John A. Boehner won the job of House majority leader amid a post-Abramoff clamor for an overhaul of lobbying and ethics rules. But nearly six months later, the changes are still tied up in Congress.”
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“Inflatable spacecraft beams back images

By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science WriterThu Jul 13, 11:00 PM ET
An unmanned, inflatable spacecraft launched by a Las Vegas real estate mogul has beamed back the first images since it slipped into orbit and expanded itself.
Genesis I sent back several photos Thursday taken by its dozen cameras showing sections of the […]

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Putin had tried to land Trotsky for three years after his doubleplay
combination of Bulganin and Gromyko joined the Steel League. While the photo seems to suggest that the new player is wearing a Rail Guns’ road uniform, it is a home jersey which had been laundered in Arm & Hammer & Sickle detergent.
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“Who hired these clowns?
By DOUG THOMPSON
Jul 13, 2006, 06:31
Yeah, I’m feeling real safe, secure in the knowledge that George W. Bush’s American Gestapo, also known as the Department of Homeland Security, is keeping Islamic-spouting madmen from bombing the **** (EXPLETIVE DELETED)out of petting zoos, Amish popcorn factories and fast food outlets.”
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“Baghdad Starts to Collapse as Its People Flee a Life of Death
James Hider, The Times of London

Thursday 13 July 2006
As I hung up the phone, I wondered if I would ever see my friend Ali alive again. Ali, The Times translator for the past three years, lives in west Baghdad, an area that is now […]

‘Harris pads role, impact on housing, reports say
By Larry Lipman
Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau
Thursday, July 13, 2006
WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail and in her literature, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris boasts that, as a freshman member of Congress, she passed the American Dream Downpayment Act, “enabling 4.5 million low-income workers to own their first home […]

‘Posted on Fri, Jul. 14, 2006

U.S. SENATE RACE

Story of ‘Joe’s dead intern’ began Harris’ slide, insiders say

When Katherine Harris attacked a TV pundit, insiders say the incident revealed the depth of problems with her campaign — which was hit again by six staff departures.

BY MARC CAPUTO
Miami Herald
TALLAHASSEE - Katherine Harris’ floundering U.S. Senate campaign lost […]

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‘July 13, 2006
Administration Prods Congress to Curb the Rights of Detainees
By KATE ZERNIKE
WASHINGTON, July 12 — A day after saying that terror suspects had a right to protections under the Geneva Conventions, the Bush administration said Wednesday that it wanted Congress to pass legislation that would limit the rights granted to detainees.’
Please find the […]

‘GOP Senator Criticizes Appeals Court Nominee
By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 12, 2006; A05
A key Senate Republican clashed yesterday with President Bush’s pick for a federal appeals court, taking aim at the nominee’s past support for harsh interrogation methods at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.’
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‘Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: ‘The President Is Always Right’
The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department’s office of legal counsel. When questioned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President’s interpretation of the Hamdan case was right or wrong, Bradbury replied, “The President is always right.” […]

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‘The Mule Day Parade in Columbia, Tenn., is one of many targets listed in a federal database whose “criticality” is not apparent, a report says.

U.S. Terror Targets: Petting Zoo and Flea Market?
By ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON, July 11 — It reads like a tally of terrorist targets that a child might have written: Old […]