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This rant stems from a comment made to an article here on Daily Kos: “Fact check shows that Kavanaugh is a skilled liar ... but still a liar”.
aeryns September 29 · 07:38:00 AM
His lies counted on the fact that there would be no checking. I wish...
by Diddybop
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on Sat Sep 29, 2018 at 12:54 PM PDT
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For several decades, our country has managed to get itself dragged into war after war of questionable justification, either practically or morally.
In my lifetime alone, I’ve seen us lose 50,000 American lives and who knows how many native lives in...
by criggs
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on Fri May 25, 2018 at 02:44 PM PDT
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When DNC reports evidence to the FBI, of Bugging in their DC office, is our 2016 presidential election being rigged by Trump, invaded by Russians, Watergated by a politicized FBI – or is it simply the natural fallout voted for by Chief Justice John G....
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Nov 07, 2016 at 12:03 PM PST
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We can’t afford Bernie or Bust to become the TSA agents of politics, for nothing is saved by lying to ourselves, as Baby Boomers discovered after voting for Ralph Nader.
Despite disappeared Dinosaurs, engineers and scientific technology, nature...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sun May 22, 2016 at 08:42 AM PDT
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I was no fan of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but this Justice was no obstructionist Mitch McConnell, no hypocritical member of Congress and no opportunistic ego maniacal Republican candidate
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sun Feb 14, 2016 at 12:39 PM PST
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In one of my favourite episodes of The West Wing, Admiral Percy Fitzwallace and Leo McGarry, the White House Chief of Staff, are in the Situation Room discussing an illegal killing carried out by the
by darraroche
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on Mon Nov 16, 2015 at 08:59 AM PST
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THE WORDLY WISDOM(?) OF WILLIAM KRISTOL
May 20, 2015
"We were right to invade Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein, and to complete the job we should have finished in 1991.
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March 1, ...
by ATexican
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on Sat May 23, 2015 at 06:39 PM PDT
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My first diary is an ode, sung to the tune of Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets." It may be a little crass, but so was the racist seditious antics of "BiBi and the Drunk" to attempt to undermine a ...
by Bort336
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on Mon Mar 02, 2015 at 06:42 PM PST
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Neo-Cons Torched the House, Now Blame the Fire Department
Joseph Wyatt
Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain and ...
by Joseph wyatt
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on Mon Jun 30, 2014 at 07:59 AM PDT
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Check out this piece from Laura Ingram's producer, Lee Habeeb in the National Review:
The Islamist War on Women
Typical neo-con -- faking concern for women's rights to stir up anti-Muslim bigotry ...
by miasmo
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on Mon May 20, 2013 at 11:44 AM PDT
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Remember, John McCain singing Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran in 2008? Recall that Mitt Romney's foreign policy team are all former Bush Neo-Cons who support military action against Iran and ...
by Steven D
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on Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 09:09 AM PST
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Well, the pundits and power-brokers seem to think that the Buckeye state is the lynchpin of this presidential election. When I was in college, the events described below by thebacmaster caused ...
by pholkiephred
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on Sat Oct 27, 2012 at 09:00 AM PDT
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I'm an old fart. I can actually remember the shot heard around the world which declared war against the United States and unleashed our god-given right to murder anyone we want in the name of Terror.
by Michael Alton Gottlieb
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on Tue Sep 11, 2012 at 05:52 AM PDT
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Cross-posted from "News from the Front".
Warning: Language gets rough after the jump .
For the last few days I’ve been busting my balls trying to write a long and complicated blog post trying to ...
by TheRagingCelt
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on Wed Aug 29, 2012 at 07:29 PM PDT
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Only in America.
Only in America, could a person rise to prominence despite all outward forces holding them back.
Only in America, could a nation proclaim such noble humanitarian values, and ...
by jamess
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on Sun Jan 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM PST
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Doubt if many have it marked on their calendars, probably don't want to be reminded that some 70plus% supported it and the drum beating from Washington and the Media outlets, all of them!
But Greg ...
by jimstaro
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on Thu Apr 28, 2011 at 11:11 AM PDT
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Another week and more problems with incarceration in the U.S. Of the many articles to make the news this week, this one touches most of the bases and issues I report on.
We have all read about ...
by Bob Sloan
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on Sat Mar 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM PDT
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The Politics of Fear: The BBC special describes how Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago and Egyptian Syyid Qotb each simultaneous began the Neo-Conservative Movement, and Radical Wahhabist Islam as methods to manipulate and control the masses, but...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Sep 30, 2010 at 01:52 PM PDT
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An overview of the call to war with Iran, the consequences of Iraq, and the state of American journalism.
by Cactus Land
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on Sun Aug 29, 2010 at 09:19 PM PDT
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I was reading Ha'aretz today when I came across something quite interesting. Apparently, thinking that while they like AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee) Republicans, and other neo-...
by volleyboy1
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on Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 03:29 PM PDT
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