Bush Looting SBA for Social Security Tour

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Monday April 11, 2005 · 4:02 PM PDT

2005/04/11 · 16:02

Unbelievable, USNewswire reports that President Bush is using money from the Small Business Association's budget to fund the Social Security Tour. Senatory Kerry is seeking the details in a letter sent April 8, 2005.

Not only is Bush against the consumer, against labor, he's now against entrepreneurs. More than 95% of all employers and half of US employees work in a small business. But they don't count to the Right Wing.

Bought, paid for and wholly owned by Big Business.

via Josh Marshall

Bolton Is Bad For U.S.

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Wednesday March 30, 2005 · 9:11 AM PST

2005/03/30 · 09:11

Fifty nine former diplomats, most of whom worked for at least one Republican President, have written to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to urge them to block Bolton's appointment as the US's permanent representative to the United Nations.

The NY Times article was diaried late last night, but there was no link to the letter.

This is significant because former Ambassadors rarely speak out on such a political issue. These are serious, often conservative, people who have served our country with honor.

Who Were All Those Judges?

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Monday March 28, 2005 · 4:43 AM PST

2005/03/28 · 04:43

Almost 50 different Judges have heard parts of the Schiavo case. Yet there is remarkable agreement on the correctness of the procedures followed and on the state of the factual record. Who are these people, how did they get on the bench?

These Judges are not "liberal activists" appointed by Democrats. Rather, they are largely elected (or retained by regular referendum after appointment). Of those appointed 19 were appointed by a Republican and 18 were appointed by a Democrat (one judge was appointed by both a Republican and a Democrat).

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Let's Play "Who Appointed Whom."

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Wednesday March 23, 2005 · 8:43 AM PST

2005/03/23 · 08:43

Why is the fact that Judge Whittemore was appointed by President Clinton always mentioned in every story about the case?

Judge Wilson whose dissent in Schiavo v. Schiavo follows the Schindler family's reasoning was also a Clinton appointee. Judge Carnes, who was in the majority on the Appeal, was appointed by President Bush I.

Note: Judge Hull, who also supported dismissing the Appeal, was appointed by President Clinton.

Catholic Church Denies Funeral To Gay Bar Owner

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Saturday March 19, 2005 · 8:23 AM PST

2005/03/19 · 08:23

As posted by John Aravosis (of Americablog) and reported by the San Diego Tribune, Bishop Brom of the San Diego Diocese denied a Catholic Mass of Christian Burial, i.e. a funeral, to the family of John McCusker, the 31 year old gay bar owner who died suddenly of a heart attack on Sunday, March 13, 2005.
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More Jomentum - Mr. Compromise Is At It Again

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Friday March 18, 2005 · 3:28 AM PST

2005/03/18 · 03:28

Apparently Senator Lieberman has his fingers in his ears and is saying "LA LA LA LA" as loud as he can to keep from hearing the Democratic base. He writes in Friday's New York Times:

As a columnist, Mr. Krugman has the right to just say no. As a lawmaker, I have a responsibility to work with other members of Congress in both parties and with the administration to protect this great program.

And as a Democrat, I feel a special responsibility to preserve one of my party's most effective initiatives ever.

Any constructive ideas for getting him to stop being a tool for the Anti-Social Security crowd?

Right Wing Obsession With Death Row Puts U.S. Citizens In Danger

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Thursday March 10, 2005 · 5:44 AM PST

2005/03/10 · 05:44

Pro-death advocates in the Republican Party are now endangering U.S. Citizens arrested abroad. Executing convicts is so important to the death obsessed Republican Party that they would rather let U.S. Citizens arrested in a foreign country be detained and abused without recourse than give an effective remedy to a foreign national arrested in the U.S. who is prevented from meeting with their consular officer.
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