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Sound bite of the day

1 Nov

Well, yesterday, actually. Continue reading

Kerry steps on his d***

31 Oct

So Kerry either really blew the line, or his speech writers need to spend some time in the rack. Nobody could read that line before actually delivering it without realizing how it WOULD be misunderstood. Even if he did miss reading the punch line (“Just ask President Bush.”) Did he really think that no one would take it out of context?

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Stay the course?

31 Oct

A new course on ‘staying the course’
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.

‘The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. `Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ” — from 1984 by George Orwell

“I’m here to tell you we’re going to stay the course.” — George W. Bush, Nov. 28, 2003

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Protected: Have a blessed holiday!

31 Oct

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Protected: Political cartoons for Halloween

31 Oct

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Diebold source code for 2004 Maryland election compromised?

30 Oct

Baltimore Sun: Former delegate gets purported Diebold code
FBI is contacted over anonymous package

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And so it begins….

30 Oct

Glitches cited in early voting

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Did Bush inadvertently veto the MCA?

29 Oct

It seems the blogosphere has exploded with the possibility that Bush’s slow signing of the Military Commissions Act may have resulted in a technical “pocket veto“. As much as I would like to believe this, several points need to be made. Continue reading

Protected: Voyeur quiz

28 Oct

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Protected: Politics Quiz

28 Oct

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