Bullet Train Repeal-Amendment 6
Amendment 6, if passed, would repeal the high-speed rail amendment voters approved previously. Now how absurd is that. High-speed rail
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Amendment 6, if passed, would repeal the high-speed rail amendment voters approved previously. Now how absurd is that. High-speed rail
Read moreAmendment 2 changes the way citizen initiatives work and requires citizen initiative petitions to be submitted earlier–indeed, before the Legislature
Read moreYou gotta love the fact that Bush’s handpicked Prime Minister for Iraq is now criticizing U.S. Forces and blaming us for their terrorists problems. Its pretty much true, but I’m pretty sure the Bush Administration didn’t have this in their plan.
Read moreWhite House officials have suggested the 380 tons of powerful explosives missing from the Al Qaqaa complex in Iraq may have disappeared while Saddam Hussein still controlled the country, saying a brigade of American soldiers did not find the explosives when they visited the complex the day after Baghdad fell. But the New York Times reports the unit’s commander said “his troops had not searched the site and had merely stopped there overnight.”
Read moreIn one of the most appalling examples of hypocracy I’ve ever seen, Republican officials are saying in a Washington Times article that Democrats are prepared to use lawyers and the court system change the election outcome in 2004. Now why would we let them get away with making that claim…the Repulicans of all people.
Read moreVoter Outreach of America ? a front group run by Republican operative Nathan Sproul and financed with more than $600,000 from the RNC ? hired Tyrone Mrasek to register voters. The LA Times reports, Mrasek “was given a written script to ask people whether they favored Bush or Sen. John F. Kerry. To those favoring the Massachusetts senator, Mrasek replied that he was just taking a poll and thanked them for stopping.”
Read moreWatch this Windows Media file demo of the Florida voting system, and you’ll understand why I’ve already voted using an absentee ballot.
Read moreI stumbled across a great website that is everything you wanted to know about the Electoral College. (electoral-vote.com) Most interesting
Read moreJimmy Carter attacks the president for helping to fuel anti-American feeling in the Islamic world, among many other failings.
Read moreThe Bush administration has said it is following the Geneva Conventions in Iraq, but a memo prepared by the Justice Department in March authorizes the CIA “to transfer prisoners out of Iraq for interrogation ? a practice that international legal specialists say violates the Geneva Conventions.”
Read moreFor months the Bush administration has insisted it has given Halliburton, Vice President Cheney’s former company, “no special treatment.” Now, the top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, says “the Army granted the Halliburton Company large contracts for work in Iraq and the Balkans without following rules designed to ensure competition and fair prices to the government.”
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