[ Posted Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 – 03:00 UTC ]
Farce returned his attention to her handbag. Digging past the outrageous wads of bills, he found two objects at the bottom. He pulled the first out. It was a gigantic medieval shield, something a knight in full armor would carry into battle. He pulled it out by its straps, and slowly turned it over to reveal the text of the Constitution on the face of it. He noticed right away that in the midst of the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment had indeed been blacked out. Crudely spray painted on top of it in blood red letters was the phrase: "In Gonzales we trust."
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[ Posted Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 – 06:00 UTC ]
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[ Posted Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 – 15:32 UTC ]
Enter a quirky Texan with a lot of money to spend named H. Ross Perot. He forced the issue into the campaign in a big way. He started renting television time in half-hour chunks and giving what were essentially infomercials on the subject of the deficit. He forced Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush to confront the issue. And he also got almost one vote in five on election day.
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[ Posted Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 – 06:00 UTC ]
[ Posted Monday, July 30th, 2007 – 15:53 UTC ]
Photo Credit: By Saul Loeb -- AFP
Photo found on Yahoo News
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[ Posted Friday, July 27th, 2007 – 13:37 UTC ]
This is another reason the story isn't getting much play in the media. They seem to be accepting the spin from the White House that "this Congress can't do anything but investigate and obstruct."
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[ Posted Thursday, July 26th, 2007 – 10:18 UTC ]
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[ Posted Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 – 02:36 UTC ]
But the glorious Fourth is all about what a cool idea America was in the first place, and how we of all nations came up with the idea first. It is a day even a tree-hugging liberal in San Francisco can fly an American flag proudly -- with no militaristic overtones taken by her tree-hugging liberal neighbors, it should be noted -- since it is a day to celebrate what the ideal of America is. And that's something every American holds deeply in their own heart, and can celebrate in a very personal way -- even while enjoying the public celebrations.
So go ahead this Independence Day. Have a hot dog. Jump in some water somewhere. Watch a parade. Drink a beer. Drink two! Watch some fireworks.
The Founding Fathers not only would have approved of the concept of you having a great July 4th, they founded the whole damn country just so you could exercise your natural right to do so. You would be letting them down, in essence, by not doing so.
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