Monthly Archives: October 2006

Wages, benefits up at 2-year best pace

The Labor Department reported that its Employment Cost Index was up 1 percent in the third quarter, compared to a 0.9 percent rise in the April-June period. It was the biggest quarterly increase since a similar 1 percent rise in …

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The Arabs and the Midterms

James Taranto point to this link. “Arab governments are looking for change in U.S. policy in the Middle East after the midterm elections,” the Associated Press reports: One thing they hope for is that a politically weakened President Bush would …

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ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist

I guess I am not seeing the story here. Well, actually I see a different story. Media Matters claims:”An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, …

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“You can’t clean a house by replacing the dust with toxic waste”

Selwyn Duke explains why it is important to vote even if you are not thrilled with the GOP right now. voting Republican this November isn’t about being a party animal who imbibes ideology-spiked Kool-Aid. It’s about quieting that siren and …

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Can I apply to become an illegal alien?

Found this on freeper and it is hilarious! The Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes Senate Office Building 309 Hart, Washington DC, 20510 Dear Senator Sarbanes, As a native Marylander and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to …

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Kos Kid Bounced From Allen Event

H/T to Hot Air for the details! It seems that a heckler was wrestled to the ground at a George Allen event. Jon Henke at Allen HQ has background on this guy. His name’s Mike Stark, he posts at dKos, …

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“Halloween in the Hood”

Johns Hopkins University has suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity because of a “Halloween in the Hood” party that drew protests by black students. The invitation to the party, posted on the Web site Facebook, encouraged guests to wear “regional clothing …

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Kerry Blames His Stupidity On The Right Considers Katrina To Be A Foreign Policy Matter

He blamed everyone from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, to right wing talk show hosts, but never takes responsibilty for his words. He used colorful adjectives; “I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed …

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Full appeals court hears McDermott(D) Excuse For Breaking The Law

A lawyer for Rep. Jim McDermott told a federal appeals court Tuesday that McDermott should not be punished for turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters a decade ago. In arguments that evoked the Pentagon Papers and other …

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George Soros Profited From Holocaust…”in a funny way, it’s just like in markets”

I guess I missed the part that was funny……H/T to John Hawkins for this link to an interview between Steve Kroft and George Soros: Steve Kroft: And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps. George …

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North Korea Is Coming Back To The 6 Party Talks

Gee..what’s up with this? Chinese, U.S. and North Korean envoys to the negotiations held a day of unpublicized talks in Beijing during which North Korea agreed to return to the larger six-nation talks on its nuclear programs, the Chinese Foreign …

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Curry, key Democrats back Steele

The Washington Times has this reaction from Wayne K. Curry, Former Prince George’s County executive. Mr. Curry signaled his dissatisfaction with Maryland’s Democratic Party last spring, when a Democratic poll was leaked to the press, calling Mr. Steele a “unique …

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Democrats may take Congress, but will it matter in the long run?

Michael Barone writes a wonderful piece on this: All of which leaves me with the conclusion that ideas are more important than partisan vote counts. Democrats could not go beyond the New Deal from 1938 to 1958, because they had …

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John Kerry on How You End Up In Iraq

Audio via KFI AM640. “You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, …

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More Problems With The Deibold Machine?

Time gives this scenario and then goes into a long drawn out blah blah blah about human error in voting, as if this machine was to get rid of it? This machine was not ever going to get rid of …

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