What Goes Around …
Apparently 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.
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Tobacco Settlement from $120B to $10B
The 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 moreRepublican Strategy At Work on Dean Already
My how we Democrats love to eat our young.
Read moreQuran Desecration Approved By Rumsfeld-Media Blamed
On 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 moreHomosexuals Rule Congress
Magically, it now appears that the homosexual lobby weilds tremendous power over the U.S. Congress. WOW!
Read moreMy Living Will
As a public service, we are saving you the expense of an attorney. Here is a sample living will for you use.
Read moreBehind The Scenes of The Filibuster
I’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 moreReligious Abuses at Gitmo
Detainees 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.
Read moreSomething To Help You Sleep At Night
On Tuesday, the top budget experts from the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the left-leaning Brookings Institution sat down with Comptroller General David M. Walker to raise a red alert about impending “deficits of the scale we’ve never seen in this country or any major in industrialized country [sic].”
Read moreSorry Seems to Be The Hardest Word
Another great piece from Perrspectives.
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