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Bush arrives in Brazil amid protests
POSTED: 8:51 p.m. EST, March 8, 2007
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — President Bush opened a weeklong tour of Latin America on Thursday as police clashed with protesters in Brazil and across the region.
Bush arrived in South America’s largest city in the evening on a mission intended to promote democracy, increased […]

to force themselves into other people’s lives. Logic finishes second to hypocrisy unchained.
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Max Blumenthal
03.07.2007
CPAC’s Gay Porn Star Honoree, Ann Coulter, and the Politics of Personal Crisis
I don’t know if David Horowitz knew Cpl. Matt Sanchez was once a gay porn star and male prostitute when he introduced him to me at last weekend’s […]

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‘After Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, mangled the pronunciation of his name, saying “Eng-lis” instead of “Ee-glace-e-as”, Iglesias thanked another senator for getting it right, drawing an icy stare from Specter.’
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Iglesias: Allies betrayed me
Testimony puts Domenici, Wilson on the defensive
By James W. Brosnan (Contact)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
WASHINGTON — Once they were friends and allies, […]

March 7th, 2007
The Libby Verdict
The serious consequences of a pointless Washington scandal
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; A16
THE CONVICTION of I. Lewis Libby on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice was grounded in strong evidence and what appeared to be careful deliberation by a jury. The former chief of staff to Vice President […]

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The New York Times
March 6, 2007
Editorial
The Right to Organize
There are many reasons for the long decline in the membership rolls for private sector unions, including powerful changes in the economy and the unions’ past corruption scandals. And there is little doubt that federal rules and regulations for union organizing have also become increasingly hostile to […]

“Why is This Man Laughing?”
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Obviously, Dick knew there would come a president who would make him look like Abe Lincoln!

“Before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment.”
Chuck Hagel’s historic moment, and what it means for a declining presidency.
The rapier is more silver than the moon. The horse, red eyed and […]

Posted on Mon, Mar. 05, 2007
Prosecutor worried ‘gloves would come off’ over criticism of ouster
By Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - A high-ranking Justice Department official told one of the U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration that if any of them continued to criticize the administration for their ousters, previously undisclosed details about the reasons they […]

£1bn merger creates leisure empire built with wax and plastic bricks
· Merlin, owner of Legoland, buys Tussauds group
· Combined business now nearest rival to Disney
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David Teather
Tuesday March 6, 2007
The Guardian
It might seem like a strange remnant from another era, a curio designed to tickle the Victorians. But if the queues snaking down Marylebone High Road […]

Rep. Wilson Says She Contacted Prosecutor
By Paul Kane and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 5, 2007; 8:12 PM
Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) acknowledged today that she contacted a federal prosecutor to complain about the pace of his public corruption investigations, as the Senate Ethics Committee signaled that it had opened a preliminary inquiry into a […]

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Katrina victims evacuate FEMA park
By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer
Dozens of families evacuated from a FEMA trailer park that had been plagued by sewage leaks and power outages were in temporary homes Monday, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it had requested work permits to dismantle the site this week.
Many of the residents were […]

but the North Dakota governor has dibs on any warm, Mississippi names.
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Colorado to use inmates to fill migrant shortage
Tough laws passed last year against illegal immigration have created a need for farmworkers.
By Nicholas Riccardi
Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2007
DENVER — Ever since passing what its Legislature promoted as the nation’s toughest laws against illegal immigration last […]

Tin Horn Torquemada can send his boys into the House office building to grab evidence, but Congress cannot get him to appear before them. Balance of power?
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Robert Novak
Chicago Sun-Times
Probing Gonzales
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has indicated he is too busy to answer letters from Democratic congressional leaders about his firing seven U.S. attorneys involved in […]

ABC News
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In this undated photo released by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, researchers collect the skull of Albertaceratops nesmoi at a dig site in Alberta, Canada. The dinosaur was discovered by Michael Ryan, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (AP Photo/Cleveland Museum of Natural History)
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Museum IDs New Species of […]

Because of the inhumanity of owning humans, one can reasonably assume that FOX is about to announce a made-for-tv remake of Spartacus.
Cherokees vote out slaves’ descendants
By MURRAY EVANS, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago
OKLAHOMA CITY - Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people […]

Hundreds arrested in Danish riots
Activists clashed with police for a second night in Copenhagen
The street protests
Danish police have arrested almost 600 people in Copenhagen, in three days of violent protests over the eviction of squatters from a youth centre.
Some 2,000 people attended a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, but police are braced for more clashes overnight.
The […]

“The letter said Walter Reed also awarded a five-year, $120-million contract to IAP Worldwide Services, which is run by Al Neffgen, a former senior Halliburton official.”
Committee subpoenas former Walter Reed chief
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Mar 3, 2007 9:31:09 EST
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has subpoenaed Maj. Gen. George […]

Airbus losing remaining A380 cargo order
By LAURENCE FROST and HARRY WEBER
BW Exclusives
PARIS
Airbus was left with an empty order book for the cargo version of its much-delayed superjumbo plane after UPS Inc. said it would cancel its order for 10 A380s. The move comes just a week after UPS, the world’s largest shipping carrier, and Airbus […]

White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say
By John Solomon and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 3, 2007; A01
The White House approved the firings of seven U.S. attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President Bush’s policies on immigration, firearms […]

Ann Coulter, her latest P.R. move has caused more than a few ripples. AMERICAblog questions why the New York Times, Washington Post, AP and Reuters have shied from covering of her calling Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards an anti-gay name.

While much may be made about her outrageous choice of pejoratives, I think there may be […]

Questions Over 2004 Minority Voter Suppression?
Tim Griffin — a “37-year-old protege” of Karl Rove and the former research director of the Republican National Committee — has become the poster boy for the Bush administration’s politicization of the office of U.S. attorney.
On Feb. 15, Griffin suddenly announced that he had “made the decision not to let […]

“Sorry, Barak. Your family may have owned slaves. We’re gonna hafta run ya in.”
Sun exclusive
A new twist to an intriguing family history
Census records, genealogical research show forebears of Obama’s mother had slaves
By David Nitkin and Harry Merritt
Sun Reporters
Originally published March 2, 2007
WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from […]

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March 1, 2007, 6:40 pm
New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers
By Marjorie Connelly
In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
Mr. Bush’s approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall among Republicans, […]

could slap the faces of the fighting men, women and their families.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, March 2, 2007
Slaughter Calls for Removal of Army Official as Head of Walter Reed
Recent Report Shows Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley Failed to Prevent Deterioration of Hospital’s Outpatient Facilities
Washington, DC - Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY-28), Chairwoman of the House […]

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Japan’s Abe: No Proof Of WWII Sex Slaves
Japanese Leader Says There’s No Evidence Of Coercion In Japan’s WWII Sex Slavery
TOKYO, Mar. 1, 2007
(AP) Japan’s nationalist prime minister denied Thursday that the country’s military forced women into sexual slavery during World War II, casting doubt on a past government apology and jeopardizing a fragile detente with […]

A Horribly Familiar Cycle
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 1, 2007; 12:10 PM
So let me make sure I’ve got this straight: Top Bush administration officials driven by long-standing resentments used bad intelligence to achieve their foreign policy objectives, which then ended up backfiring spectacularly? And we’re not talking about Iraq?
No, we’re talking about that other […]

The following is a Keith Olbermann transcript from his February 27, 2007 Countdown program on MSNBC.

“It’s been tough to explain even to a serious baseball fan how something like steroids or human growth hormone can make it possible for a player to hit 10 more home runs a season, or 20 or 30, […]