Posted on October 30th, 2005 by RonChusid
There’s been a lot of speculation since Friday as to how likely it is that Karl Rove will still be indicted. The Washington Post presents an argument that Rove remains at high risk of indictment: Rove’s attorney provided Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald with a last-minute flurry of material and evidence supporting Rove’s contention that [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2005 by RonChusid
Alabama’s state textbook committee “rejected three elementary-level books for containing material on evolution which was deemed “controversial” for that age group.” AP describes this “controversial” material: The book “Geologic Time” (Perfection Learning Company) was rejected for an illustrated diagram that shows humans evolving from apes. Similarly, “Reptiles” (Heinemann-Raintree Classroom), incorporates two pages on reptiles evolving [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Prince Charles granted a rare interview to 60 Minutes that was aired tonight. In the interview Prince Charles expressed “concern that economic progress is “upsetting the whole balance of nature.”” “You know, if you look at the latest figures on climate change and global warming … they’re terrifying, terrifying,” Charles told CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
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Filed under: Environment, In The News, International
Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
(AP Photo/Lisa Poole) John Kerry, applaudes Congressman John Lewis, of Georgia, as Lewis takes the podium to speak to a crowd today at the First Church in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Hundreds of people “gathered in Boston this afternoon to re-enact a march that Martin Luther King led 40 years ago to protest school [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry was in Nyack, NY yesterday, stumping for Rockland county executive candidate Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic county legislator from Suffern. Kerry has been actively supporting Democrats across the country in upcoming 2005 elections. While in Nyack, Kerry poked more than a few jabs at Bush and his fellow floundering republicans… The indictment of high-ranking [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Elections, In The News, Politics, Republicans
Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
The price of loyalty can be very, very costly – especially the type of loyalty that Bush administration has bred. Jonathan Alter notes this in his latest Newsweek column. …the consequences of a bias for loyalty over debate—even internal debate—have been devastating. The same president who seeks democracy, transparency and dissent in Iraq is irritated [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
Harry Reid was firing away at Bush this morning on ABC’s “This Week” and slammed him with a brisk one – two punch. It was a right hook on the Libby indictment and a left hook on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination. Here’s some highlights of his comments on the Libby indictment, and his call [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2005 by Pamela Leavey
A couple of “Washington lawyers who served in the Justice Department during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush” have offered up a load of B.S. on the indictment of “Scooter” Libby. Their OP/ED, “No More Special Counsels” is so loaded with right-wing talking points that would serve better as something else that [...]
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