I’m thrilled to be living in such close proximity to these plans:
The entire New Jersey Turnpike has been marked as a possible route in the U.S. Army’s plan to reduce its stockpile of lethal VX nerve agent by neutralizing it in Indiana and transporting the chemical byproduct to the Garden State to be dumped in [...]

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Now see, if Michelle “Little Lulu” Malkin hadn’t already locked up one of those all-too-rare “female columnist” slots, maybe I’d have a job:
And now, the facts:
Every single detainee currently being held at Guantanamo Bay has received a hearing before a military tribunal. Every one.

Barbara over at Mahablog kinda sorta wants to slap her:
Oh, that [...]

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Who’d a thought it? A showdown between Curt Weldon, my favorite local wingnut congressman, and Bill O’Liely.
Guess who comes out on top?
Oh, and DC Media Girl pretty much kicks the shit out of faux Fox liberal Susan Estrich, too.

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If you think about it, this explains an awful lot.

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This is good news because, as anyone who’s seen it up close will agree, cancer really sucks:
WASHINGTON — A common virus that is harmless to people can destroy cancerous cells in the body and might be developed into a new cancer therapy, US researchers said.
The virus, called adeno-associated virus type 2, or AAV-2, infects an [...]

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An obvious question:
Academics, state officials and environmental advocates are starting to question whether massive amounts of discarded pharmaceuticals, which are often flushed down the drain, pose a threat to the nation’s aquatic life and possibly to people.
In waterways from the Potomac to the Brazos River in Texas, researchers have found fish laden with estrogen and [...]

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The Republicans propose smaller Social Security privatized accounts. Same old, same old: If it doesn’t improve matters, why do it in the first place?
Perhaps some brave member of the press corpse will bring up that salient point.

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Bill Moyers tonight, Howard Dean tomorrow night.

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Some servicemen are simply refusing to go to Iraq:
(CBS) The Pentagon says more than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started in Iraq.
60 Minutes Wednesday found several of these deserters who left the Army or Marine Corps rather than go to Iraq. Like a generation of deserters before them, they fled to [...]

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More on Walter Jones, the conservative Republican congressman who’s calling for a withdrawal timetable from Iraq:
But it’s become too much for Jones. Iraq has subsumed Jones’ political and private life on the Hill and in his district, a consequence of the ubiquitous military presence there. Perhaps more than any other politician in Washington, Jones has [...]

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Little Billy Kristol in the Weekly Standard:
Warning: THIS IS SPECULATION. Obviously, I think it’s somewhat well-informed speculation, or else I wouldn’t be writing this. But it is speculation.
(1) There will be a Supreme Court resignation within the next week. But it will be Justice O’Connor, not Chief Justice Rehnquist. There are several tea-leaf-like suggestions that [...]

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Steve Gilliard:
What I want people to do is be honest.
If you will not serve in Iraq, and no one you know will serve, stop expecting someone else to do what you will not.
Therefore, it is time to stop calling for more troops, or the US to make Iraq safe. We cannot do this and even [...]

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Manslaughter. What a joke.

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Now, you know I loved this:
We could say that George W. Bush, because he has literally become taken over by the Unconscious, is a living embodiment or incarnation of the Unconscious in human form. In other words, Bush is a living, breathing symbol, in full-bodied form, of the state of being unconscious. To recognize that [...]

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The DNC’s report, “Democracy at Risk: The 2004 Election in Ohio“, was released today. It’s based on an exhaustive search of public documents.
Click here for the entire document.

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This is all starting to seem so damned familiar, somehow:
NDP MP Bill Siksay is lending his support to a campaign aimed at allowing a growing number of American military deserters to find refuge in Canada.
According to the British Columbia MP, the issue resonates with a lot of Canadians. For example, Siksay told CTV’s Canada AM [...]

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And maybe we can bring back workhouses, too:
Massachusetts residents who choose not to obtain health insurance would face tax penalties and even the garnishing of their wages under a proposal Governor Mitt Romney unveiled yesterday.
Romney says the ”individual mandate” he is proposing, part of his broader plan to cover the roughly 500,000 people who are [...]

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Okay, I admit: I just wanted to use the headline. No one’s started a “Recall Ahnold” petition as far as I know, but the time may be coming fast:
Insiders say the no-new-taxes theme illustrates the harsh reality facing Schwarzenegger, who wooed state voters early on by portraying himself as a bipartisan reformer ready to bust [...]

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I just can’t figure out why Durbin would take his cues on morality from Republicans:
WASHINGTON Jun 22, 2005 — A week after comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes, Sen. Dick Durbin apologized on the Senate floor.
“Some may believe that my remarks crossed the [...]

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Now, how can anyone believe the ethical leaders of Ohio had anything to do with stealing the election?
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Gov. Bob Taft failed to report a number of golf outings on his financial disclosure statements, the same omission that figured in the earlier resignation of three of his agency heads.
In a letter to [...]

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Does anyone outside the Beltway find any meaning in anything they say? Can the level of discourse get any more juvenile? Stay tuned:
WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - The White House pressured Democrats on Wednesday to come up with their own solutions for overhauling Social Security rather than simply reject President George W. Bush’s proposals.
White House [...]

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Of course, when the people of conscience resign, all we have left are those without a conscience:
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - A chaplain who spoke out against religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy has resigned her commission just as a report was to be released addressing the issue.
An academy critic said the report [...]

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I was talking to my friend S. the other night. I was planning to go visit him in Pittsburgh this weekend but things fell through because of his car.
Apparently a new driver (who also happened to be exceedingly drunk) ran up onto the curb, slammed into S.’s car and also demolished the front entrance to [...]

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Leading false Christian Donald E. Wildmon (see “By their works, ye shall know them) claims victory for Dick Durbin’s apology in an email:
Sen. Dick Durbin has apologized for his remarks comparing American troops to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Durbin’s apology came after approximately 140,000 AFA On-Line supporters sent e-mails directly into his office [...]

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The Denver Three goes to Washington in their never-ending quest to find out why they were removed from a taxpayer-funded Social Security event with Bush - simply because of their bumper sticker.
It started when the three got tickets to Bush’s March 21 Social Security town hall meeting in Colorado. They flirted with protesting at the [...]

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Mark Morford:
The lies that led us into this war are indeed staggering, appalling, make Clinton’s lies about his stupid little affair sound like, well, a stupid little affair. As Dubya’s tanking poll ratings prove, even many moderate Republicans are backing away from calling Iraq a success, or even a necessary action. And Dems have recently [...]

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A comprehensive look at the impending avian flu pandemic.

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Sy Hersh mentioned this in an interview last month:
After I did Abu Ghraib, I got a bunch of digital pictures emailed me, and — was a lot of work on it, and I decided, well, we can talk about it later. You never know why you do things. You have some general rules, but in [...]

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And here, I thought BushCo had cut all the job-training funds:
WASHINGTON, June 21 - A new classified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda’s early days, because it is serving as a real-world laboratory for [...]

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Reminds me of how little kids cover their eyes and think no one can see them:
(KRT) - WASHINGTON - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq war during his service as Deputy Defense Secretary, said Tuesday that he hasn’t read any of the recently disclosed British government memos that call into [...]

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