Billy Elliot
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
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A Challenge to Bill Nelson on Bankruptcy Vote
I was gravely disappointed in your recent vote to join the Republican?s in passing the Bankruptcy Bill. I suspect the answer to my questions is found in the fact that you have received over $30,000 in campaign contributions from the credit card industry over the past six years, but just for good measure, I?ll ask them anyway.
Read moreGhost In The Machine
Senators yesterday expressed dismay and outrage over the fact that no senior Pentagon officials have been held accountable in the rampant cases of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Read morePentagon Expands Rendition
A Feb. 5 memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeldcounsels support for a plan to transfer hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Read moreBush Says Deficit Fixed
Speaking in Alabama yesterday, President Bush repeated a familiar claim: “We’re fixing the deficit.” It doesn’t matter how many times he says it ? it’s still not true. In fact, the president’s most recent proposed budget would make the federal deficit much worse.
Read moreA lawyerly defense for outsourcing torture
Speaking to reporters at the Justice Department Monday, Gonzales defended the administration’s use of “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of sending detainees to foreign countries where they may fear — and then face — even harsher interrogation tactics than the United States might use.
Read moreCancer In America
Spreading like wildfire, a cancer is infecting this country, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power. That cancer is Bus$hCo.
Read moreNo less than Thomas Jefferson himself writes to Dr. Thomas Cooper in 1814, “Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of common law.”Matthew 25:40
“In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these MY BRETHEREN, ye have done it unto me.”
Read moreAre These Really Conservative Values?
“Oxymoron” is a fun concept many of us learned in high school that means a pair of words that contradict each other ? you know, like “jumbo shrimp.” I’m sorry to say it, but under the current administration, “Republican leadership” has become the new oxymoron.
Read moreWe’re protected
Isn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
Read moreWe're protected
Isn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
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