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With presidential elections a few days away, campaigns are pulling out all the stops this weekend in crucial battleground states. Citizens have been barraged by a confusing array of ads, polls and speeches. Here are some facts directly related to Florida.
Read moreYesterday on the campaign trail, President Bush and Vice President Cheney “unmoved by the evidence” continued to push the theory that 380 tons of munitions had been moved from the Al Qaqaa facility prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Read moreYesterday on the campaign trail, President Bush and Vice President Cheney “unmoved by the evidence” continued to push the theory that 380 tons of munitions had been moved from the Al Qaqaa facility prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Read moreYesterday, it was reported that the FBI has launched an investigation into whether the Pentagon improperly awarded a multi-billion dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton.
Read moreI think its probably time for another of those Citizen Initiated Constitutional ammendments here in Florida. I think we need one that makes the Secretary of State an elected official.
Read moreYahoo! News – Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida Here we go again…and its not even election day.
Read moreAmendment 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.
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