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Senate report questions tax status of groups linked to Abramoff

Five non-profit groups, including one of President Bush’s biggest supporters, may have broken tax laws and put their tax-exempt status at risk by helping convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a Senate Finance Committee report concludes.

The 600-page report issued Thursday was prepared by the committee’s Democratic staff. Majority Republicans, however, had agreed to its release and joined with Democrats in issuing subpoenas for documents and e-mails cited in the report.

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Olbermann Exclusive: Dissecting new Book: Tempting Faith

Tonight on Countdown–David Kuo, who was the number two guy at the Office of Faith Based initiatives in the White House writes a scathing account of how the administration used Christians to grab and maintain power. This story validates Tucker Carlson’s admission that: “The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power.”

If you care at all about how this White House sees it’s religious faithful, you should see this.

If you aren’t Christian, you should note this excerpt.

Aircraft hits Manhattan building; 2 dead

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Army: Troops to stay in Iraq until 2010

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Olbermann: ‘The president has now succeeded where no one has before’

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The Restored Church of God position on blogs is of course hitting the blogosphere like lightning. I had never heard of this particular splinter, so did a small amount of research. Continue reading →