Clearly the current economic crisis needs a legislative solution. An executive branch giveaway is not the answer, particularly a giveaway that neither shows little planning nor one that is being shoved down the throats of our legislators and, ultimately, the taxpayers.
In the last few days, we have heard a lot of fine creative ideas from […]
House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush ‘a total failure’
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jul 18, 2:55 AM ET
WASHINGTON - President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond […]
Mukasey refuses probe of Bush aides
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House’s contempt citations against two of President Bush’s top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers committed no crime.
As […]
occurred after Jake LaMotta defeated Marcel Cerdan
at Detroit’s Briggs Stadium in 1949.
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Images: (Jake) uashome.alaska.edu; (Nancy) blogs.britannic.com
Oregon cowboy rides horse across U.S.
Cowboy tours country to find good news
By CARL MANNING, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 15, 6:48 AM ET
FREDONIA, Kan. - When rancher Bill Inman decided to show there’s more to America than the gloom-and-doom on the nightly news, he hopped on his horse and started riding.
And riding, and riding.
Some 1,700 […]
Now that most Democrats have proven their contempt for the Constitution, the American people who put them in office and especially–for courage, it is time to praise Harry Reid and Jay Rockefeller for their concerns about the Rule of Law. Next to Reid, Nancy Pelosi is Jeanne D’Arc.
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Today’s Must Read
By Spencer Ackerman - October […]
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August 19, 2007
Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches of American citizens […]
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
Forty-one defections?!
Long ago, I had realized that Senator Reid did not seem up to the task, but your ability to fight had given me confidence that events like these would not occur.
Do the party and–especially–the Constitution a favor by demonstrating more of your courage. Sadly, post-vote words don’t count.
I had such high hopes […]
but the Democrats have just given their lunch money to the school bully who will still demand it and their Ho-Hos tomorrow.
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Dems, GOP Win, Lose on Iraq Funding BillBy ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
(05-23) 17:37 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) –
Democrats may have lost their fight with President Bush over a timetable for ending […]