Monthly Archives: July 2005

Lame- Duck?

Posted by on 7/30/2005 2 comments

AP President Bush on Saturday celebrated victories Congress handed him this week, but he urged lawmakers not to rest on their laurels and to quickly approve his nomination of John Roberts to serve on the Supreme Court. Senators should use …

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Saddam attacked; U.S. denies it

Posted by on 7/30/2005 Comments Off

Reuters Lawyers for Saddam Hussein said on Saturday their client was attacked by an unidentified man during a court appearance in Baghdad this week, but U.S. forces guarding him denied any such incident took place. A statement issued by Saddam’s …

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It looks like they are hunting Byrd

Posted by on 7/30/2005 46 comments

Fox Republicans accuse West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd (search) of sharply changing his priorities over the last five decades in the first television ad purchased by either of the campaign committees in a warmup to the 2006 congressional campaign. The …

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Daylight savings is extended

Posted by on 7/29/2005 19 comments

Highlights of the Energy Bill Tax breaks of $14.5 billion over 10 years for energy companies, renewable energy sources and promotion of efficiency. – Requirement for refiners to use 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol annually by 2012, double current production. …

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How much does it need to cost to renovate the UN building?

Posted by on 7/29/2005 8 comments

Fox Can Donald Trump (search) come to the rescue of the United Nations and do the job for free? At Senate hearings this month on the proposed $1.2 billion U.N. renovation plan, Trump blasted the proposal, saying U.N. officials are …

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American Muslim scholars condemn terrorism

Posted by on 7/29/2005 4 comments

Fox Following deadly bombings in Britain and other nations, American Muslim scholars issued an edict Thursday condemning religious extremism and calling terrorists “criminals, not ‘martyrs.”‘ The 18-member Fiqh Council of North America (search) said Muslims were barred from helping “any …

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Who Is Gov. Mark Warner ?

Posted by on 7/28/2005 8 comments

He is emerging as the alternative to HillaryThis week in Columbus, Ohio, the Democrats held their first dress rehearsal of sorts for the 2008 presidential nomination battle under the auspices of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton …

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The White House hurts its own executive privilege case.

Posted by on 7/28/2005 8 comments

WSJThe Senate response to the White House’s unprecedented decision to release 75,000 pages of documents relating to John Roberts’s tenure in the Reagan Administration gives new meaning to the adage that no good deed goes unpunished. At about the time …

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NASA Grounds Future Shuttle Flights

Posted by on 7/28/2005 13 comments

AP In a numbing setback sure to set off a national debate over the future of the space program, NASA has grounded all future shuttle flights because of a large chunk of foam that broke off Discovery’s fuel tank in …

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Hillary Angers Her Voters

Posted by on 7/28/2005 14 comments

Senator Accused of Siding With Centrists Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s call for an ideological cease-fire in the Democratic Party drew an angry reaction yesterday from liberal bloggers and others on the left, who accused her of siding with the centrist …

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How Innocent is Syria?

Posted by on 7/27/2005 2 comments

Fox Congressional lawmakers on Wednesday laid out a detailed and disturbing picture of alleged Syrian complicity with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. And because of that complicity, money funneled into Iraq may have gone to help fuel the insurgency currently targeting U.S. …

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Oh No She Didn’t!

Posted by on 7/27/2005 52 comments

Fox Plame Gave Money to Anti-Bush Group Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame last fall gave a campaign contribution to go toward an anti-Bush fund-raising concert starring Bruce Springsteen, it was revealed Tuesday night. It’s the first revelation that Plame participated …

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WHAT? The Democrats may have a plan?

Posted by on 7/26/2005 111 comments

WP House Democrats intend to propose a retirement-savings plan today that will be their first leadership-backed alternative to Republican plans for a broad retirement-security package, which includes changes to Social Security. The Democratic plan, called AmeriSave, would increase incentives for …

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Documents Detail Ties Between Syria and Iraq

Posted by on 7/26/2005 1 comment

Fox Syria had $3 billion in illegal oil-import and arms-export deals with Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to documents obtained by the House International Relations Committee. The documents, prepared by IRS special agents, have emerged as a new avenue …

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$41 Billion to remove illegals?

Posted by on 7/26/2005 9 comments

WP A new study by a liberal Washington think tank puts the cost of forcibly removing most of the nation’s estimated 10 million illegal immigrants at $41 billion a year, a sum that exceeds the annual budget of the Department …

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