US Politics and Current Events

US Politics and Current Events

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Written by TrooperThorn on
Happy Fourth of July to all the bloggy readers of Dogs & Jeans. I've been away travelling for a week and have not really had much opportunity to produce my normal volume of jackassery. So by way of a birthday tribute to my neighbors to the south, here is a reposting of a past celebration of the Great 50 States. Alaska: It’s bigger than Texas and slightly more hospitable than it’s latitudinal cousins: Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories. However, movies and TV shows set in Alaska are usually filmed in Washington or British Columbia. That’s like filming a movie set in Detroit in Mexico ... Read Full Story
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By Alan Caruba It’s taken barely half a year to make George W. Bush look good to a lot of Americans who experienced “Bush Derangement Syndrome” or, like myself, were critical of several of his policies while President. I imagine Bush watching the evening news these days and just laughing as he watches Obama just “step in it” every time he encounters the same or some new problem with which Bush dealt. On the issue of taxes, Bush was a dedicated tax-cutter. On the issue of spending, Bush never saw a spending bill he couldn’t sign until deep into his second term. He even ... Read Full Story
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By Alan Caruba As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we will hear about our Founding Fathers, about those who fought our wars to preserve and safeguard our nation, and other men and women who contributed to the nation’s greatness. It is good to look back, but future generations will look back as well and wonder how such a great nation became such a silly nation, the object of scorn and ridicule around the world, challenged by every gangster nation that shares the planet; attacked by Al Qaeda, threatened by North Korea, mocked by Venezuela, insulted by Iran, and sustained by the wealth of ... Read Full Story
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By Walter Brasch Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour. He has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president. The topic is always the same. Torture was done during the Bush-Cheney Administration, and it was effective. Persons held at Guantanamo Bay are evil and should never be released. President Obama's actions are a threat to national security. Cheney claims that because of the actions he and George W. Bush took after 9/11, there were no more attacks upon the United States. ... Read Full Story
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After Suffering Back-to-Back Major Defeats at the Ballot Box, the GOP Is Rapidly Imploding as Hard-Line Conservatives Openly Attack Anyone and Everyone Who Do Not Conform to Their Right-Wing Worldview in an All-Out Attempt to Drive Out the GOP's Few Remaining Moderates and Turn the Party Even Farther Rightward Is Republican National Chairman Michael Steele presiding over a dying party? Recent events strongly suggest that the GOP is rapidly imploding, with conservatives appearing hell-bent on ridding the party of its last remaining moderates and taking it even farther to the right -- further alienating the GOP from a growing majority of voters. This was ... Read Full Story
Posted online a few days ago: Saddam denied any connections to the "zealot" Osama bin Laden, cited North Korea as his most likely ally in a crunch, and shared President George W. Bush's hostility towards the "fanatic" Iranian mullahs, according...  
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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she would come out ahead if she went one-on-one in a race with President Barack Obama - a race, as in a long run. "I betcha I'd have more endurance," she told Runner's World magazine. "My one claim to fame in my own ...  
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Air America host Ron Reagan attacked Rush Limbaugh on his show as a wife-beater. In June, Limbaugh criticized Obama for hiring a new "adviser on domestic violence." This gave Reagan fodder to hit Limbaugh for his several previous marriages and to imply he abused them.  
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Saddam Hussein vs. George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions FBI Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, March 13, 2004 [...] (S) Regarding limitations placed on the Iraqi military during this time period [when Iraqi troops were crushing the post-Gulf War uprising in 1991], Hussein asked, "What do you mean by limits?" Hussein denied that the Geneva convention applied to this situation, claiming it only applied to wars. Hussein claimed that with...  
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The highest scoring minority firefighters, passed over, took exception and took New Haven to court over it while President Barack Hussein Obama's top (so-called) “liberal” SCOTUS nominee, the latina justice Sonia Sotomayor ruled in ...  
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday expressed concern that the pending pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq's cities could reverse the military progress made by American and Iraqi forces there since the George W. Bush administration's 2007 surge ...  
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The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the war crimes conviction of a businessman for selling chemicals to Saddam Hussein that his regime in Iraq turned into poison gas and unleashed on Kurds and Iranians. ... In May 2007 a Hague appeals court upheld Van Anraat's 2005 conviction for complicity in war crimes and increased his sentence from 15 to 17 years. ... Presiding Judge Leo van Dorst said that from the mid-1980s Van Anraat was Iraq's...  
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“I am deeply disappointed in the decision made by the state Supreme Court, and I share the frustration of Minnesota’s voters. At the core of our democracy lies two concrete principles: No valid vote should go uncounted and all votes should be treated equally. Sadly, those principles were not adhered to during this election. While I would have proudly stood behind Norm Coleman had he chosen to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, I know that his...  
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"When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many. Lies about the war and lies to cover up the lies about the war. Lies about torture and surveillance. Lies about Valerie Plame. Vice President Dick Cheney's lies, criminally prosecutable but for his chief of staff Scooter Libby's lies. I also think about the extraordinary and fundamentally cancerous expansion of executive power that led to violations of our laws and...  
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The Supreme Court has overturned an appeals court decision made by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, ruling that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn. were unfairly denied promotions due to their race: Ricci Decision Provides Rallying Point for Opposition. Conservatives are jumping all over today’s Supreme Court decision that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, using it to...  
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