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Eminent Domain was set up to ensure that the expansion of America, states, counties and cities would not be interferred with by private landowners and businesses intent on being greedy or just hardheaded by giving the government the power to take over certain land for the good of the many as...
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ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips heve pulled their financial backing and resources for the heavy crude refinement programs in Venezuela in the face of the nationalization of the oil industry in that country and ceding majority ownership and control to the government. Hugo said he was...
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Overtaken by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim whose fortune is now at an estimated $67.8bn ( £33.6bn) - equivalent to 8% of Mexico's gross domestic product - compared with $59.2bn for the Microsoft mogul, putting him in the lead by a decisive $8.6bn.
More recently, Mr Slim has developed a...
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How many more times will the Californian publish the same photo of Mr. Crisp, looking pensive and worried, right above a few paragraphs detailing the unraveling fortunes of this young flamboyant entrepreneur? Well, as long as those stories rank number one in popularity, get...
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While we're targeting weeds and bare patches; I for one with the cost of water foresee a lawn dead; A good look should be taken at all the large vacant buildings throughout town, most likely big tax write offs for the owners. The Von's, Ralphs, the one beside Albertsons,...
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We, the political bloggers, the opinionated Monday morning presidents and political wannabes who spend a good deal of our spare time wearing out our keyboards with our endless meanderings and rants and ridiculous vocabulary that would leave our peers in the real world pointing and laughing at...
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From TruthOut:
Editor's Comment: Yesterday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asserted the FBI documents released to Judicial Watch were generating conspiracy theories; an FBI spokesman appearing on the show agreed. Our editors have reviewed the documents carefully and feel that they are newsworthy. It's...
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From Breitbart.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned.
President Bush's national security and legal advisers are...
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From Politico.com:
Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D-Wyo.) appointed Republican state senator John Barrasso this morning to fill the vacated Senate seat held by the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.). The appointment is effective today, and has been forwarded to the Secretary of the U.S. Senate.
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Yes, THAT Judith Miller, of Scooter and NYT fame has done a Bloggingheads interview about a piece she wrote recently about Palestinian females that become suicide bombers. The interview is conducted by Jacqueline Shire.
Its almost an hour long. It's a sad, horrible story of female...
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From the NYT:
For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the National Archives unit that monitors classification in the executive branch objected, the vice president’s office suggested...
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Dear Dusty,
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has an op-ed in today's Washington Post expressing his and Senator Jack Reed's (D-RI) support for a timetable to end the war in Iraq with a firm end date. This is an important step by both of my colleagues. Both Senators previously had...
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Wingnut alert here. From The Hill:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not be permitted to use State Department funds to travel to nations that are known to have sponsored terrorism if a Republican amendment to appropriations legislation passes the House on Thursday.
The amendment to...
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Politico is a rightwing-funded media group, so I have no idea how fair and equitable this poll was, however GQRR is a very reputable research/polling outfit..so here it is:
Senator Barack Obama scored a victory among progressive activists Wednesday, winning the Politico.com Straw Poll of...
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From the LA Examiner:
White House budget director Rob Portman is resigning and will be replaced by former Iowa Rep. Jim Nussle, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
Nussle ran for governor of Iowa last year and was defeated. He has been serving in Iowa as an adviser in former New...
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Well, I am going to have to ask your forgiveness for my dated post, but it's been hard to make time to do much lately..AGAIN! I actually wrote this blog in my book the day it was making such a splash,a nd whilr the news itself may be out of time, the point I am going to make has legs.
Once...
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I have been very busy with life the last few weeks and have not had a chance to share much of anything with anyone, so forgive me if my rant seems dated. Two weeks ago I read about another of Hugo Chavez' policy decisions. It was in the second section on the third page and was only a short...
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The leader of the chickenhawks is.....Hillary Clinton!
Hillary Clinton no less..I swear..I almost broke my jaw when it hit the table as I read this article this morning on Alternet. I actually had to read this line twice:
Clinton shifts her position on troop withdrawal from Iraq, now saying...
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Vic Pollard, writes that the Lt. Governor position: “It’s the office that is traditionally viewed as the most meaningless job in state government, but it may never be the same if he (Dean Flores) wins”.
I don't know if "most" people agree with that or...
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little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is Politics?"
Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way:
I am the head of the family, so call me The President.
Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
We are here to take...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dan Bartlett, a member of President George W. Bush's Texas inner circle and an aide for more than 13 years, announced on Friday he is resigning as White House counselor effective July 4.
The most important White House insider to leave Bush's side since the resignation...
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From Politico:
The American Petroleum Institute has hit the airwaves to beat back calls on Capitol Hill to create a windfall profits tax or make price-gouging a federal crime, airing radio ads in “most major media markets” during this week’s congressional recess to remind...
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by Greg Palast
June 1, 2007
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement...
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John Fleischman atFlashReport Weblog on California Politics reported the siting and writes...
Kevin McCarthy: The "Energizer Bunny"
I'm in Sacramento today... And so is Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Kevin is far from the U.S. Capitol, and hundreds of miles from his hometown of...
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Via RawStory:
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, prominent neoconservative Norman Podhoretz writes that he 'hopes' and 'prays' that President Bush will bomb Iran.
"Although many persist in denying it, I continue to believe that what Sept 11, 2001, did was to plunge us headlong into...
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Evidently the Iraq PM can't make up his mind about how good his Army is. My earlier post was today's remarks at a press conference. This article from CBS, via RawStory, has Maliki fearful of a coup:
Iraqi PM al-Maliki told Lara Logan of CBS Evening News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday...
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Of course not, don't be silly! But this article does have a rich quote from Maliki:
"I cannot answer on behalf of the U.S. administration but I can tell you that from our side our forces will be ready by June 2007," Maliki told ABC television after meeting President Bush on Thursday...
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McClatchy,:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in...
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From Pew Research Center
May 29, 2007
The U.S. public remains enthusiastic about the bipartisan proposals
Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public.
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From ConsortiumNews:
By Robert Parry
May 30, 2007
It’s an old military adage that bad intel can get soldiers killed, but it now turns out that false talking points may be even more lethal, a lesson that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney continue to teach the world as the death toll mounts...
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Petition: http://impeachgonzales.org/ It's time for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to go. Bush won't fire him -- but YOU can.
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From Jim Hightower's Blog:
"Big corporations seems to be doing awfully well these days, scooping up record profits, getting massive tax breaks from the federal government, and cutting back on their employees. They're wallowing in wealth!
So, I ask you: Why do our cities and states...
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From Slate:
Waving a $5 billion bouquet and blowing kisses from puckered lips, Rupert Murdoch has now been wooing the Bancroft family for the hand of Dow Jones & Co. for more than a month. In his May 11 entreaty to the family, the old goat vowed that on becoming owner, he would never...
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By Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers
"WASHINGTON - The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington.
More than 70 cities and 14 state Democratic parties have urged impeachment or investigations...
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I just knew it. I should have kept my big mouth shut. I have written a half dozen blogs about my life in general the last month or so and have gotten a few replies. I wrote one that spoke of my opinion on world and national affairs, that involved politics and I have more comments than I have had...
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So Cindy Sheehan has given up her fight against the war due to her perfectly understandable emotional, physical and financial exhaustion. She also cited the lack of the Democrats ability to do anything about bringing the war to an end. Well, they haven't accomplished much of anything else...
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From The Seattle Times:
SEATTLE, Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said in Seattle on Thursday that fellow party leaders in Congress are wrong to abandon a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and wrong about an immigration bill that he said would split up families....
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From David Sirota:
By David Sirota
Today was a dark day in our nation's history. That sounds melodramatic - but it is true. Today America watched a Democratic Party kick them square in the teeth - all in order to continue the most unpopular war in a generation at the request of the most...
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From the Baltimore Sun:
Leadership criticized for agreeing to drop withdrawal deadline
WASHINGTON // For anti-war activists, turning against House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer was only the beginning.
The liberal group MoveOn.org ran radio ads this week chastising the Southern...
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From Alternet via TomPaine.com:
Thanks to Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine's March 9 audit report detailing the FBI's handling of expanded surveillance powers granted under the USA PATRIOT Act, subsequent media reports and congressional hearings called to probe the findings,...
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From TP:
“An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say.”
The report addresses a Jan. 26...
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From TNR:
TRB from Washington
Pay Check- Letting stockholders set CEO pay and other communist plots.
by Jonathan Chait
Post date: 05.22.07
Issue date: 05.21.07
A few months ago, when Democrats proposed letting workers form unions...
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From SFGate:
Stewart M. Powell, Hearst Newspapers
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
(05-22) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday.
The...
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From AP wire:
Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout, the defense minister said Monday, as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall.
The U.S....
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From IraqSlogger:
Baghdad, May 20, (VOI) -The new draft oil law has sparked heated controversy in Iraqi political circles, with some parliamentarians ruling out the possibility of passing it in its current wording which stipulates that oil revenues should be distributed according to the...
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From the NYT:a short excerpt of their article:
Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according...
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From WaPo:
PARIS, May 18 -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy named women to nearly half of his cabinet positions Friday and designated the founder of Doctors Without Borders, a Socialist, as his foreign minister.
The appointments reflect Sarkozy's pledge to diversify the top echelons of the...
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Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) is taking a page from Tom DeLay and blaming all his problems on partisanship.
The thing is..this investigation was started when the Repub's controlled everything.
So to Mr. Doolittle I say..oh well, it sucks to be you at this point in time doesn't it? Not to...
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From The Hill.com:
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) has accused Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) of threatening him on the House floor and plans to force the full House to vote next week on whether to reprimand him.
A week ago Rogers offered a procedural motion to the fiscal 2008 intelligence bill that...
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And by no cajones, I mean the 20 Democrats that voted against the Feingold-Reid resolution that would effectively end most U.S. combat operations in Iraq by next April. Their amendment won the votes of 28 Democrats and one independent. But support for the Feingold-Reid measure, which followed a...
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