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On the day of his booking on conspiracy and money laundering charges five years ago, disgraced House Majority Leader Tom Delay ...
by Jon Perr
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on Thu Nov 25, 2010 at 11:13 AM PST
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For over a generation, Republicans and their conservative amen corner have routinely brushed off charges of their own corruption and lawlessness by accusing their opponents of "
by Jon Perr
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on Sat Jul 24, 2010 at 10:29 AM PDT
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While Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has deemed the Sestak no-pay-for-no-play non-scandal an "illegal quid pro quo" and "
by Jon Perr
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on Sat May 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM PDT
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So, Dick Cheney is back in the corporate media, telling everyone that President Obama is ignoring national security and endangering America. And the corporate media let him get away with it, as if he'
by Laurence Lewis
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on Thu Dec 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM PST
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Remember those 22 million White House emails that the last Bush Administration "lost" while Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into Plamegate was underway? Well, they've been found,
by joe pittsburgh
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on Mon Dec 14, 2009 at 12:48 PM PST
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A test screening for Fair Game , based on Valerie Plame's book by the same name and which stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, was held a few days ago. Someone at the website Coming Attraction ...
by Charley James
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on Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 01:24 PM PDT
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In a startling article at huffingtonpost.com by Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantanamo ...
by MinistryOfTruth
205 comments
on Fri Oct 02, 2009 at 06:04 AM PDT
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This diary responds to a commenter's query posed in Keith Olberman's diary, about who was paying the so- called "grassroots" protesters that are showing up to disrupt and yell against Health Care ...
by AmericanRiverCanyon
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on Tue Aug 04, 2009 at 02:36 PM PDT
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Dating back to at least the presidency of George H.W. Bush, conservative defenders of the Republican faith have turned to the " ...
by Jon Perr
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on Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 10:01 AM PDT
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During his confirmation hearings in January, Attorney General Eric Holder declared "waterboarding is ...
by Jon Perr
77 comments
on Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 09:08 AM PDT
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Jon Stewart's demolition Thursday of CNBC's Jim Cramer may pale in importance to Edward R. Murrow's historic 1954 take-down of Joe ...
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM PDT
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With each passing day, Sarah Palin's handling of TrooperGate grows more and more reminiscent ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 09:55 AM PDT
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Today's the day Scott McClellan (hopefully) squeals. Or C-Span puts it :
House ...
by Omen
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on Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 06:25 AM PDT
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When I think of the life of Tim Russert I will think of a man who could have done so much good with the power that was given to him and instead used it to help those who had some of the worst ...
by StevenLeser
132 comments
on Sat Jun 14, 2008 at 11:26 AM PDT
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Henry Waxman noted the same thing ...
by emptywheel
403 comments
on Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 08:24 AM PDT
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Facing growing pressure to renounce the anti-Catholic bigotry of End Times Pastor John Hagee ,
by Jon Perr
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on Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 10:41 AM PDT
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The UK's Sunday Times has another article today, Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe , in their series ...
by lukery
191 comments
on Sat Jan 26, 2008 at 03:42 PM PST
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Many progressives, for many years, have dreamt of seeing Bush impeached. We were heartbroken when our so-called leaders took it off the table. We constantly call out for investigations, but get ...
by flatoutspent
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on Tue Jan 22, 2008 at 02:35 PM PST
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Two breaking stories on Wednesday once again highlighted the Bush administration's unprecedented cloak of secrecy and its perpetual quest for plausible deniability. First, the White House ...
by Jon Perr
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on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 12:42 PM PST
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Another day, another revelation of blatant obstruction of justice by the Bush administration. The White House admitted yesterday that they had destroyed email tapes that including the period of ...
by DWG
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on Thu Jan 17, 2008 at 03:33 AM PST
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