If Bush and Cheney were being sincere, then they're lying to themselves; if not, they're lying to the rest of us. My money is on the latter.
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Eugene Robinson, addressing recent statements by Bush that "We've never been 'stay the course' " and by Cheney that the Iraqi government is doing "remarkably well."
Both [the leaders of North Korea and Iran] are like Hitler, who was willing to see his own people decimated and his own country reduced to rubble rather than quit when it was obvious to all that he could not win. If you can imagine Hitler with a few nuclear weapons to use to vent his all-consuming hatreds in a lost cause, you can see what a nuclear North Korea or a nuclear Iran would mean for America and the world.
Thomas Sowell, conservative columnist, playing "the Hitler card" as he laments something or other about the fact that the Democrats appear poised to take back congress, or that the media care more about Foley than N. Korea and Iran, or.....
Here's a royal cutie I found over at YouTube. Guess who it stars? Guess what it says?.........
My wife goes apoplectic when the subject of voting integrity comes up. How in the f'ing world, she wonders loudly, can the Democrats and the media simply continue to ignore such a serious problem with the fundamental activity on which our democracy rests? Well, ABC News finally reports that Electronic voting machines could skew elections. Better late than never, right? But, as usual, the report deals only with a piece--though obviously a crucial piece--of the overall problem.
This was publicly reported in England back in 2004, but didn't get nearly as much play here as it did there. For the record, here's the link to The Guardian story on the connection between Prescott Bush and companies run by, and apparently for, the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s.
You have to wonder, at times, about Rush Lardbutt and his inability to focus on reality at times...
The complaints from those denied the right to vote during the 2000 Florida presidential election were anything but isolated or episodic. Credible evidence shows many Floridians were denied the right to vote. Analysis of the testimony and evidence gathered by the Commission show that these denials fell most squarely on persons of color.
Official Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights,
Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election,
Chapter 1.The Brad Blog has the transcript of a major broadcast network interview, which was never aired, with former U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) chair Rev. DeForest Soaries.
How successful was the Pentagon policy of moving additional American troops to Baghdad to quell the violence?
You think the U.S., or the west generally, has a corner on puff news? From Pravda:
