Swift Boaters Attack Again

President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security by transferring risk onto the nation’s elderly is proving a hard sell. Without public support, conservatives have turned to dirty tricks to try to sway public opinion. But no amount of deceptive advertising can mask the fact that Americans don’t want this risky plan.

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Blind Justice or Secret Justice?

The Justice Department yet to reveal its evidence ? let alone the charges ? against Ali, but now the administration’s attorneys are trying to dismiss the lawsuit based on secret legal arguments: “The government contends that the legal theory by which it would defend its behavior should be immune from debate in court.”

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Whoops-Haliburton Loses Nukes

Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan receives this weeks award for the most obvious observation, when he explained that Halliburton’s four-month delay in reporting the loss of nuclear material “did not comply with notification requirements.”

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Florida Repubs-Two Faced On So Much

For several years now, there has been a case on-going in Florida Courts and the state legislature that is, on its face, a case about the right to die and end-of-life decisions. However, it has occurred to me, this is a prime example of the Republican?s hypocrisy over marriage and a number of the moral issues of today.

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