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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday “derailed a bipartisan effort to set rules for the treatment of enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other military detention camps by abruptly stopping debate on a $491 billion defense bill,” Knight-Ridder reports.
Read moreMajority Leader Tom DeLay may have faded from the front pages, but he’s still up to his dirty tricks. Yesterday, Rep. Henry Waxman revealed that DeLay slipped ?a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas? into the energy bill. But it gets worse. The provision was “mysteriously inserted” into the text of the energy bill “after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.”
Read moreBush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
Read moreSenator Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, announced that his commitee will be “reviewing” the criminal probe by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald of the White House leak of the identities of covert CIA agents. My guess is that Sen. Roberts is looking to throw the White House a lifeline on this one.
Read moreEric Minamyer, an advisor to Jean Schmidt (R), running for Congress in Southern Ohio, sees fit to question Paul Hackett’s service to this country in Iraq. How dare he. Hackett is a Democrat running against Ms. Schmidt, and, if elected, would be the only Iraq War veteran in Congress.
Read moreLast week Robert Traynham, the chief of staff and communications director to ultra-conservative Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), was outed by the gay press. Many conservatives were angry about what they considered to be a betrayal of the man?s privacy.
Read moreJoe Wilson came forward with his op-ed and appearances on Sunday talk shows to say the President lied to the American people in his State of the Union address. Bush made flat claims that he KNEW he didn’t have the evidence to back up.
Read moreProps to this guy for trying to give Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter a taste of his own medicine. I doubt Logan Darrow Clements will win his case, but every single one of the Supreme Court Justices that voted yes for eminent domain should be dragged out of their homes and left homeless on the curb.
Read moreApparently, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is a total idiot, liar, or simply doesn’t care about national security. Driving back and forth to Langley doesn’t make you covert? Uh, so Roberts is suggesting that undercover CIA agents don’t even visit Langley at all, because that would blow their cover?
Read moreHere’s a great Flash presentation at SFGate.com
Read moreIn the latest draft of the Iraqi constitution apparently puts more emphasis on Islamic law, treats ethnic groups differently and sets BACK women’s rights.
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