A question for Senator Kerry.

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Thursday January 26, 2006 · 5:49 AM PST

2006/01/26 · 05:49

An editorial in today's NY Times had the following to sat about Judge Alito:

Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress, will almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon. His elevation will come courtesy of a president whose grandiose vision of his own powers threatens to undermine the nation's basic philosophy of government -- and a Senate that seems eager to cooperate by rolling over and playing dead.

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Armando's success.

Lords

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Thursday September 22, 2005 · 6:49 AM PDT

2005/09/22 · 06:49

Just read "Failure" by Armando.

Great Post. Armando seems to have seen the light. And how brilliantly it shines. Waking up is sometimes awkard, but soon there'll be a spring in his step again.

So I don't think this is failure. Indeed it's a great success.

Funny, I think that I have probably been the most consistently negative person on Kos about everything Democratic. My frustration with these people knows no bounds.

I first joined KOS because I implicitly believed that this fantastic blog, finally offered an opportunity to change things for the better. Read More

German plane with Katrina aid turned back.

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Saturday September 10, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/09/10 · 09:37

Unbelievable. THIS confirms the moronic government we have. If we were ever really attacked, it will be worse than any film ever made. Read More

The Republican wall of shame.

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Friday September 09, 2005 · 5:13 AM PDT

2005/09/09 · 05:13

Here they are, the Republican wall of shame:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, asked about rebuilding New Orleans, said: "It doesn't make sense to me." He elaborated: "I think federal insurance and everything that goes along with it ... we ought to take a second look at that." But just a month earlier, he had put out a press release crowing about his ability to win federal disaster relief for drought-stricken farmers in his Illinois district. While he was too preoccupied attending a campaign fundraiser for a Republican colleague to travel to Washington to vote for the $10.5 billion emergency appropriation to deal with Katrina's aftereffects, he did finally return to the capital to push for even more drought aid from the Department of Agriculture.
What a guy.

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Lakoff: A matter of values & principles.

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 7:13 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 07:13

Katrina's tragic consequences were not just due to incompetence, natural disaster, or Bush policies (though he is accountable). This is a failure of moral and political philosophy.

Although I do agree with much of what he says in this very interesting article I cannot accept the proposition that race was not a prominent factor in this tragedy. if our TV screens were filled with white victims instead of black, the powers that be would never have waited as long as they did to react. They have no empathy for minorities. Read More

Has the term "anti-Semitism: lost it's meaning?

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Saturday September 03, 2005 · 8:00 AM PDT

2005/09/03 · 08:00

What is anti-Semitism today? Can a Jewish person be anti-Semitic? Or, is the term now a way to intimidate; a way of saying: "If one does not play by the rules of the Israeli Government and it's friends, one is anti-Semitic"?

The Israeli education minister recently labeled the talented Israeli pianist and conductor, and musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, an anti-Semite. But Barenboim is Jewish, so why on earth would he be called an anti-Semite, i.e., someone who is hostile or prejudiced towards Jews as a religious, ethnic or racial group?

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FEMA directing funds to Pat Robertson.

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 7:32 PM PDT

2005/09/01 · 19:32

So just when you think you've heard it all, you remember the type of people you're dealing with and you realize it could get worse and it does.

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Arab-killer not terrorist, as he was Jewish.

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 5:28 AM PDT

2005/09/01 · 05:28

Who is a terrorist?

Amazing. Even though Ariel Sharon, the PM of Israel, declared the killing of four Arabs "a despicable act by a blood thirsty terrorist" the Israeli Defense Ministry ruled that in Israel terror cannot be committed by Jews. Arab Israeli leaders of course condemned the decision as racist because it distinguishes between Jewish terrorist and Arab terrorist. Read More

Hillary & Patti get snowed.

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 10:34 PM PDT

2005/08/31 · 22:34

When will Dems see Republicans for what they are.

In the NYT story about the FDA official who quit over the morning after pill delay, I found the following paragraph quite interesting: Read More

How the US got its neoliberal way in Iraq

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 10:02 PM PDT

2005/08/31 · 22:02

This is an amazing article. The poor Iraqis, they can't win for losing. They were attacked without cause, slaughtered by the tens of thousands and sold out time and again by their so-called leaders. In the meantime, Bush and his neocons have them exactly where they want them. They, at least have their eye on their ball and are getting what they want. This new constitution enshrines the rape of Iraq into law. The article is long, as it details a rape, but definitely worth the read. Prepare to be outraged.

Oh, and naturally, our corporate media completely missed or neglected this story. Read More

Bush compares Iraq to WWII

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Tuesday August 30, 2005 · 5:58 PM PDT

2005/08/30 · 17:58

The absolute nerve of this man.
It's amazing the things he will can when he knows no one will call him on it. He now compares his illegal war in Iraq to World War II. Read More

This is getting ridiculous.

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Wednesday August 24, 2005 · 6:03 AM PDT

2005/08/24 · 06:03

They say it's irresponsible, and it is, I say he's a damned liar and he continues to lie to the American people.

President Bush's Loss of Faith
It took President Bush a long time to break his summer vacation and acknowledge the pain that the families of fallen soldiers are feeling as the death toll in Iraq continues to climb. When he did, in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Utah this week, he said exactly the wrong thing. In an address that repeatedly invoked Sept. 11 - the day that terrorists who had no discernable connection whatsoever to Iraq attacked targets on American soil - Mr. Bush offered a new reason for staying the course: to keep faith with the men and women who have already died in the war.

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