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A defense contractor with ties to Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham took a $700,000 loss on the purchase of the congressman’s Del Mar house while the congressman, a member of the influential defense appropriations subcommittee, was supporting the contractor’s efforts to get tens of millions of dollars in contracts from the Pentagon.
Read moreAccording to an AP report, Dick Cheney said in a Hannity & Colmes interview to be broadcast Monday that Howard Dean is “over the top.” Dick (fuck you) Cheney call the Democrat’s chairman, “not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party.”
Read moreFormer Sen. Jesse Helms acknowledges he was wrong about the AIDS epidemic, but believes integration was forced before its time by “outside agitators who had their own agendas,” according to advance proofs of his memoir.
Read moreApparently in 2001, Abramoff got two tribes to pay $25k each to sponsor an event for a group Norquist heads, and the price included a private meeting with W. You can read the whole story here.
Read moreThe Justice Department is no longer asking the tobacco industry for $130 Billion to combat the 50 year industry-wide conspiracy against smokers and without reason or explanation, they have lowered the penalty down to $10 Billion.
Read moreMy how we Democrats love to eat our young.
Read moreOn May 17, Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita told the public “we’ve not seen specific, credible allegations” of Quran mistreatment by U.S. guards or interrogators. Seventeen days later, the Pentagon acknowledged “that soldiers and interrogators kicked the Muslim holy book, got copies wet, stood on a Koran during an interrogation and inadvertently sprayed urine on another copy.”
Read moreMagically, it now appears that the homosexual lobby weilds tremendous power over the U.S. Congress. WOW!
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Read moreI’m sure you’ve heard by now there was a deal worked out by Senate moderates to avoid a debilitating fight over filibusters. Mr. Sun has obtained details of the behind-the-scenes negotiations that resulted in the agreement. As in all successful negotiations, each side got a little bit of what they wanted. According to my sources, the following compromises were part of the bargain:
Read moreDetainees held at the U.S. military base in Cuba told their U.S. lawyers about the use of tactics intended to degrade their religious beliefs in a series of interviews beginning in October 2004; the depositions were recently declassified by the Pentagon, and were published today on the watchdog group’s Web site.
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