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David Addington

“Cheney’s Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Report
Wednesday 31 January 2007
Copies of handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney, introduced at trial by defense attorneys for former White House staffer I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, would appear to implicate George W. […]

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Senator Judd Gregg ( R-N.H.) displaying the short hand.
“Senate Multimillionares Vote To Block Minimum Wage Hike
After repeated delays by conservatives, the Senate voted 87-10 today to end debate on legislation that will raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade, from $5.15 to $7.25. The bill will move to a full vote […]

‘Wash Post’ Drops Legal Battle For Cheney Records
By Joe Strupp
Published: January 31, 2007 10:15 AM
NEW YORK The Washington Post has backed off a legal fight against Vice President Dick Cheney, in which the paper had been demanding Secret Service logs of visitors to his office and residence, the New York Sun reported today.
A Freedom of […]

These men made sense.

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James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, co-chairmen, were none too happy that their Iraq Study Group concepts fell upon dead ears in the White House. “I like the old man and I helped his pr*ck son get elected, but 43 is one spoiled, arrogant a$$hole,” Mr. Baker snarled at the Senate […]

Ah, yes, a return to my youth when newspapers, Douglas Edwards and John Cameron Swayze reported stories of the Soviet Union’s political commissars.  

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This 1957 front page explains much of the current problem.
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Bush order on government regulation stirs debate
Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:30 PM ET
By Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An order signed by President […]

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Swift Boat Leader Hired To Run Right-Wing ‘Online Community’
Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reported that TheVanguard.org, a new right-wing advocacy group, has hired Jerome Corsi as a senior political strategist.
Vanguard describes itself as an “online community of Americans who believe in conservative values,” and Novak claims it is a “right-wing version of the leftist […]

Is it any surprise that Saddam Hussein had ordered all of his nuclear research to be hidden in bookmobiles? 
Posted on Tue, Jan. 30, 2007
Terrorist attacks out of nuclear plants’ hands, NRC rules
Tribune staff and wire reports
The Tribune
Tribune staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON — Making nuclear power plants such as Diablo Canyon crash-proof to an airliner attack […]

From the misty 1960s’ Nation’s Capital of SCAN furniture, the Janus theatre’s zillion-week holdover of I AM CURIOUS YELLOW (U.S. title–I Am Bored $#!+less!), the Circle Theatre’s odd two-fer of THE PAWNBROKER  + THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, the Omega and Astor restaurants, 27 cent D.C. Transit fares and massive anti-Vietnam War marches comes a reader’s […]

‘January 28, 2007
Experts See Peril in Bush Health Proposal
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — With his proposal to uproot a tax break that has been in place for more than 60 years, President Bush has touched off an impassioned debate over the future of the employer-based system that provides health insurance to more than half […]

At first I thought the snake was a bit over the top, but his “Stay tuned” remark merits the photograph. His supporting a candidate is the equivalent of dropping an ingot of plutonium into a friend’s pocket.
Lieberman might back Republican in 2008
Sun Jan 28, 12:15 PM ET
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential […]

Posted on Fri, Jan. 26, 2007
Gonzales appoints political loyalists into vacant U.S. attorneys slots
By Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is transforming the ranks of the nation’s top federal prosecutors by firing some and appointing conservative loyalists from the Bush administration’s inner circle who critics say are unlikely to buck […]

If it were not for those 1950s’ atomic creature movies, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics would have probably been staged at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. 

‘Government’s proposed Olympic site is ‘radioactive’
By MARK NICOL - The London Daily Mail -
Last updated at 21:51pm on 27th January 2007
Potential disaster: Artist impression of the London 2012 Olympics
The Government’s proposed […]

A Sorry State
Following his State of the Union address, President Bush’s approval rating hits a new low in the NEWSWEEK poll, as Sen. Hillary Clinton enjoys an early lead among the field of likely candidates in the ’08 race.
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Khue Bui for Newsweek
Live Vote
Should Congress try to stop President Bush from deploying more U.S. troops in […]

A Chicago friend believed this Chuck ‘n Cam photograph was the newest exhibit at Madame Toussaud’s Museum. I thought it was more evocative of Vincent Price. 

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Britain’s Prince Charles, right, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, pose for a photograph before attending a banquet inside Buckingham Palace in London, Oct. 25, 2005. Prince Charles and his wife […]

 You’ve got to like a presidential candidate who has the courage to confront this Dick ‘n W regime, but still has time to mention Polka, Bowling & Kielbasa on his web site.
Kucinich: The White House Is Up To Its Old Tricks; Is Preparing the United States for an Attack on Iran
President’s Actions Could Lead to […]

Katherine Harris keeps her foot in the door
before the State of the Union Address.
January 24, 2007
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Photos by Charlie Archambault
Thanks to Huffington Post for link to this U.S. News & World Report Washinington Whispers item by Paul Bedard..

Today, he Huffington Post linked to a Women’s Wear Daily site which said that Martha Stewart is now involved in the O’Donnell-Trump match.
My honest opinion is that each person should walk in the others’ hair for a day in order to cultivate empathy. I used no discrimination–hence John Gibson is involved.
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This is not […]

I really can’t blame him for his angry. Couldn’t Hezbollah have donated one of their out-of-date uniforms to this auxiliary?
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Clashes in Beirut Lebanese army soldiers arrest a Hezbollah
supporter brandishing a knife in Beirut. (Getty Images)

Please find this in the Photo Gallery of The Washington Post.

John Gibson follows the lead of Dick the Veep.
If caught in a lie, keep lying! 
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I am trying to recall how Gibson had made a name for himself.
That’s it, he had started a Madras School in 1964.
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“Fox’s Gibson: CNN Reporter Who Debunked Obama Smear Probably Went To The Same Madrassa
Last week, Fox News highlighted a […]

Another mission unaccomplished
January 24, 2007 8:36 AM
By DOUG THOMPSON
His bravado beaten down by his many failures, a tired President George W. Bush went before a weary nation Tuesday night in a last-ditch effort to convince a doubting America and a hostile Congress that his attempt at leadership has not been a dismal, complete and utter […]

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‘White Atlanta Suburbs Push for Secession
Push to Split Atlanta’s Fulton County Draws Cries of Racism
By DOUG GROSS
The Associated Press
ATLANTA - A potentially explosive dispute in the City Too Busy to Hate is taking shape over a proposal to break Fulton County in two and split off Atlanta’s predominantly white, affluent suburbs to the north from […]

Didn’t something like this happen between
Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Roehm?  
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Many Beltway insiders feel that Mr. Libby will accomplish little
by pleading insanity, but he is sure the McNaughton Rule will
serve him well despite legal skepticism.

I. Lewis Scooter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and his wife Harriet Grant, get […]

Many did not serve in Vietnam, but few of those could have possibly been more gung-ho about this Neo-Romanov erotic dream of spilling blood and taking charge than Dick. If this were more a literary than a cautionary tale, I would compare it to some of the plots of the late Ross MacDonald whose L.A. […]

We have to get the second generation of Sesame Street and MTV watchers interested in government. 
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The White House
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The Psycho House
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The Boring Department of Treasury Next to the White House.
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The Incredible Underwater Search for Pirates Treasure
Next to the Psycho House.
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The Department of Commerce. Are We There Yet?
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That Says More […]

I do believe the unfortunate death of this airline pilot will delay any possible plans the airline industry may have had to cut costs by using no co-pilot. For who think this action would have been impossible, locomotive firemen did more than shovel coal.  
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A Continental Airlines plane. The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight […]