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June 5, 2008. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich publishes a piece on the upcoming presidential election in Human Events – the self described headquarter of the conservative underground. It is titled: “My Plea to Republicans,” and ties the recent loss in a Louisiana Congressional election to what he warns could end in disaster in the coming November election. His strategic piece highlights painful figures for the GOP – an 18 point Congressional polling deficit “reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster.” He warns the GOP’s current attack ads and …
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Recently, after a quiet few months on the subject, President Obama ordered the Department of Justice to release memos on interrogation, and of course — the infamous waterboarding. Many of the the liberal media outlets cried out to exploit the supposed unconstitutionality of the Bush administration, while the conservative media spoke relatively quiet on the subject.
So in a short post — I’d like to open this up to the commenters: what means of torture (if any) is acceptable — even if it gives valuable information?
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Measuring a person’s right to express themselves is constitutionally guaranteed, but one thinking quite radically may cite some minor flaws.
In the wake of one of the worst recessions our domestic economy has ever experienced, one might expect the inevitable — a grassroots political rally that uprises middle and urban America to protest somewhat unpopular decisions by the federal government. But in one of the rarest cases, this essential Democratic concept seems to partially damage the political system with its string of complications.
Held across the country, the April 15 Tax Day Tea …
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Vice President Joe Biden has recently fed into the main stream media’s growing White House side story — his “single handed war” on the past Bush Administration. The latest chapter in the proposed saga came in the form of an interview unrelated to the subject, where Biden, in the process of answering the more or less softball question of “is the US more safe now than before”, made a controversial attack at former President Bush.
“We are more safe. We are more secure. Our interests are more secure — not just at …
