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McCain continues to offer up his own version of the reality in the Middle East, despite experts in the field in addition to the CIA and the Council on Foreign Relations contradicting McCain’s statements about Amidinajad’s actual role in running Iran. He seems to do this quite frequently. Even the media are starting to [...]

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Bush’s jaunt to the Middle East demonstrates his lame-duck status and overall low standing with much of the world. His trip to visit his friends in the House of Saud was simply embarrassing. Note to George- going over to the worlds largest oil producing nation and hoping to trade in on your unusually [...]

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Never underestimate the ability of the mainstream media to be dumb as rocks.
The online political site, Politico,has been chasing down some of McCain’s possible conflicts of interest and political relationships with the K Street crowd. Politico joins other less mainstream sources also following this story). Maybe Chris Mathews and Nora O’Donnel could [...]

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You’ve gotta love the pure-as-the-new-fallen-snow righties out there who are constantly whining about how conservatives in America are discriminated against and currently under attack. Whatever.
These champions of hypocrisy don’t mind people speaking their mind, except when they disagree with the message. Here’s a question to ponder- why do you think our Founders made [...]

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fear of the black vote. For years they have counted on African Americans NOT running to the polls in record numbers, but now that may change, if it hasn’t already. Perhaps if the southern GOP had a tad more diversity in their ranks they would be able to attract a more diverse electorate. [...]

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What a novel idea- running for President and saying you are going to solve all of our problems without a hitch- because no one has ever promised everything but the kitchen sink in a political stump speech. Capturing Osama Bin Laden in his first term, saving the economy, decreasing dependence on foreign oil and [...]

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Bombing Iran has a certain ‘appeal’ to it.
I think if I were Hillary and Joe Lieberman came out publicly agreed with anything I had said, I would reverse my position- Lieberman has this annoying inability to acknowledge facts as they resist in reality.
I have one question I would pose to Hillary, Joe or anyone else [...]

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If there was ever any lasting doubt about just how un-liberal the corporate media has become, take a look at Glenn Greenwalds excellent run-down of the Pentagon military analyst scandal- of course, becuase it actually involves the media itself, you’ll hear hardly anything about it because lets be honest- they are not too good at [...]

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Dan Abrahms, the lawyer turned talk show host has been covering the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Siegelman and has been quite objective in his coverage, although he has raised some questions which up to this point, certain people (Karl Rove) have refused to answer- although they (Karl Rove) criticizes Abrahms for even raising these [...]

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Via Huffington Post, here is a roundup of some of the news you likely didn’t read about in the mainstream media- of if you did, they were likely buried on page A49. These days, if you want to be informed about what really is going on, your best bet is to look in multiple [...]

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