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Exxon Mobile has posted the biggest profits ever for the last quarter.
Oh, and Shell has posted record profits too.
It’s nice during this period of economic decline and high gas prices, that someone is doing well.

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I am so glad that despite having to turn himself in to authorities today, Republican Senator Ted Stevens has decided to continue to campaign for his senate seat. What arrogance.
Of course, everyone, even Ted, is innocent until proven guilty but the feds must have enough evidence to go forward and I would think the [...]

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And this one features Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton.
At this point, McCain is running a bottom-feeder campaign with nothing but personal attacks.

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Over at Salon, Glen Greenwald does a great job of pointing out the Washington Post’s editorial page shameless hypocrisy when it comes to complaining about the rule of law, particularly since those pages constantly helped make the case for the Iraq War, telecom immunity, etc. Yeah, very liberal, huh?
But now suddenly they want a return [...]

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For people who think the Iraq War was not about obtaining a foot-hold on one of the largest oil producers in the Mid-East, then you need to check out Alan Greenspan’s new book, because even he admits that was the case.
And now that the architects of the war have left public service, some [...]

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We’ve heard the media trumpeting the figures for the largest deficit in history but the fact is, it is really much worse than reported when you factor in the huge expenditures that the White House left out.
I don’t envy anyone who has the job as next President of the United States- Republican or Democrat, they [...]

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It is well understood that any given administration likes to appoint individuals to agencies who generally reflect their ideology. At the same time, it can become a problem when qualified candidates are overlooked purely due to their political views. A copy of the newly-issued report (pdf file) is available at Think Progress.
There is [...]

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Fox News is helping McCain to appear more youthful by using old campaign footage from 2000 when providing current news coverage of the candidate. This is not at all surprising for anyone who watched the documentary, Out Foxed, which described how Fox News higher-ups demanded that when John Kerry was being discussed [in [...]

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Continuing the discussion in the post below about political attack ads, it appears McCain is on a role and one has to wonder if the slew of swift-boat-style personal attack ads represent a bit of desperation on the part of the Senior Senator from Arizona.
This new ad claims that Obama doesn’t care about the troops [...]

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I have to say, when a political candidate creates an ad by putting their rival in an ad next to a picture of a person like Osama Bin Laden or in this case, The President of Iran or, as is the case with this latest McCain ad, Fidel Castro, it is not so much substantive [...]

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