Monthly Archives: July 2005 - Page 2

Boosting Up Roberts by Knocking Him

Posted by on 7/26/2005 2 comments

From Reason: Critics of negative campaigning say attack ads reflect poorly on the candidates they’re intended to benefit. That’s not necessarily true, but I do find that attack ads often reflect well on the candidates they’re intended to hurt. When …

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Hanoi Jane Returns to “Action”

Posted by on 7/26/2005 22 comments

From FoxNews: Actress and activist Jane Fonda (search) says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq. “I can’t go into any detail except to say that it’s going …

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Senate Bill Would Set Rules on Detainee Interrogations

Posted by on 7/25/2005 11 comments

FoxSenate Republicans pushed ahead Monday with legislation that would set rules for the treatment and interrogation of terrorism suspects in U.S. custody, despite a White House veto threat. The Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, is working to …

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Is Old Europe finally learning that it must join the global war on terror?

Posted by on 7/25/2005 30 comments

WSJ Nov. 9, 1989 and Sept. 11, 2001 each changed the modern world. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of 75 years of communism, and the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks the beginning of what may …

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A little competition can go a long way

Posted by on 7/25/2005 7 comments

WSJ Republicans haven’t been getting much credit on the health policy front, despite their misguided 2003 drug entitlement masquerading as Medicare “reform.” That could change soon. Last week the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill that could dramatically …

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Disgusting

Posted by on 7/24/2005 18 comments

Vandals torch 20 U.S. flags, car/Neighbors rally around family that just buried son-in-law soldier American flags, lining the lawn of the mother- and father-in-law of fallen U.S. Army Pfc. Timothy Hines Jr., were heaped in a pile early Saturday and …

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Operation Gratitude

Posted by on 7/24/2005 Comments Off

Some of our fine military receiving packages from Operation Gratitude pic courtesy Lucianne

AFL-CIO

Posted by on 7/24/2005 4 comments

Largest Union Decides to Bolt AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO succumbed to division Sunday, with its largest union deciding to bolt the 50-year-old federation and three others poised to do so in a dispute over how to reverse organized labor’s long slide. …

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How many of these goals became a reality?

Posted by on 7/24/2005 37 comments

W. Cleon Skousen was a senior FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover. In 1958, he compiled this list that was added to the January 10, 1963 Congressional Record, by Florida Congressman A.S. Herlong Jr. 1958 CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS 1. U.S. …

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Democrats Prepare Ground to Challenge Judge Roberts

Posted by on 7/23/2005 3 comments

NYTAs the Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts continued courting senators, Democrats began laying the groundwork on Friday to challenge him in his confirmation hearings, in part by seeking to shift the focus from volatile issues like abortion to the …

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Kerry: Release Records on Roberts In Their Entirety!

Posted by on 7/22/2005 26 comments

Fox Democratic Sen. John Kerry urged the White House on Friday to release “in their entirety” all documents and memos from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ (search) tenure in two Republican administrations. “We cannot do our duty if either Judge …

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The Fourth Amendment

Posted by on 7/22/2005 9 comments

Find Law The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, …

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Judge John G. Roberts Not Likely to be Another Souter

Posted by on 7/22/2005 14 comments

From Beldarblog: Conventional wisdom is that all other things being equal, the single best predictor for how a SCOTUS nominee will behave as a Justice is that nominee’s written opinions as an appellate judge on a lower court. Even then, …

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Grand Old Party Pooper?

Posted by on 7/21/2005 17 comments

The Smoking GunA New York woman claims that she was forced from her teaching post by an elementary school principal who objected to her Republican activism and last year ordered the removal of a portrait of President George W. Bush …

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Saddam Wants Greater Access to Lawyers

Posted by on 7/21/2005 5 comments

Fox Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (search) complained that he has not been allowed sufficient access to his lawyer in a new tape aired on Thursday by an Arabic satellite television station. The footage, broadcast by Dubai-based Al Arabiya (search), …

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