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the media buzz, campaign volunteer help, fresh strategy, and new infrastructure the netroots provide. While some people were still debating whether or not the netroots deserved a seat at the table, those people didn't notice that several of us had grabbed
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Newsweek's Fineman: "This is a missile aimed straight at the heart of the Republican base, which is why Republicans in the White House and on the Hill are scrambling so quickly to try to get ahead of this fast moving story" David Gergen: "This story is go
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Republican operatives closely following the battle for the House and Senate said that they are virtually ready to concede nearly a third of the 15 seats the Democrats need to recapture control of the House, and that they will spend the next five weeks try
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once a political party achieves sweeping power, it will only be a matter of time before power becomes the entire point. Policy, ideology, ethics all gradually fall away, replaced by a political machine that exists to win elections and dispense the goodies
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Following the revelations about Florida Rep. Mark Foley's sexually suggestive e-mails to a 16-year-old congressional page, I have concluded Republicans are unworthy of retaining control of the federal government. I would much prefer that there were a real
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If the Diebold machines read just as they've been programmed to? I think that will be extraordinarily bad, friends. I think it will be a blatant show of force by the fucking Man, capital M, forever and ever, amen. Diebold is the way. Diebold is the flacci
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Remember all the fuss over Fallujah and Tikrit? Well, they're part of the very Sunni Anbar province (go back to the map if it helps). And this month the senior Marine intelligence officer for Iraq issued a report saying Anbar will be lost without more tro
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VERY fucked up Cult stuff: a lot of dominionist groups--especially dominionist churches like Ted Haggard's New Life Church that are heavy into deliverance ministry--have tactics similar to, if not identical, groups better known as coercive religious group
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and supporters into the Afghan government. Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings Taliban
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Bill Frist has just put the final stake in the heart of they myth of Republican toughness on national security. U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government. Huh? No, really. Huh?
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If, as appears highly likely, the "former chief of staff" who tried to cut this deal for Mark Foley is Kirk Fordham, then it means that Tom Reynolds' current Chief of Staff tried to suppress the release of the IMs by ABC and thereby deprive the American p
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"Three terrible mistakes," Garner said. He cited the extent of the de-Baathification, getting rid of the army, and summarily dumping the Iraqi leadership group. Disbanding the military had been the biggest mistake. Now there were hundreds of thousands of
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61-year-old Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar is a courteous host, insisting his guests take at least a taste from the platter of lamb with yoghurt, the stuffed grape leaves or the eggplant. Underneath the circular table, his ageing white poodle Yogui b
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The government of Iraq is secretly holding a Baathist cabal of military officers it claims attempted a coup against Prime Minister al-Maliki. The plotters were rounded up July 5 with the help of American military authorities after the Iraqi government's s
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The British army began its retreat from Kabul in January 1842 following the killing of the British representative there. The nearest British garrison was in Jalalabad, 90 miles away, and the army would need to pass through mountain passes with the January
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BRITISH troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people. Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remote mud-w
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Torture bill authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of
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Marine Corps launched its MySpace profile. A thoroughly predictable page, it boasts a streaming video that might best be termed boot-camp-on-speed - complete with clips of a stereotypical drill instructor barking out commands and a bullet-cam speeding tow
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operative (7:04:38 AM): is this Rep. Foley? i'm not a journalist, dont work for anyone who would get you in trouble, im just curious to what happened
"maf54" signed off at 7:05:49 AM.
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What did the 9/11 Commission know, and when did they know it? And why didn't they tell the rest of us? The esteemed panel has come under fire before, for both its general conclusions and specific findings. But now it appears they're in for a whole new rou
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Focus on the Family Dobson: "This is yet another sad example of our society's oversexualization, especially as it affects the Internet, and the damage it does to all who get caught in its grasp."
