Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Harry Reid has threatened to filibuster Bill Frist’s immigration bill, that was unveiled last week. Frist’s bill sidesteps temporary work permits, it would further tighten the borders and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants. Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he would “use every procedural means at my disposal” to prevent Frist from bypassing the [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by RonChusid
Alan Shore’s closing argument in his secretary’s tax evasion case from last week’s Boston Legal is available on line, along with the video: Alan Shore: When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out to be not true, I expected the American people to rise up. Ha! They didn’t. Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry is fighting back against the “Swift Boat-style” attacks against that still linger after the ’04 election. AP News reports that Kerry recently created a “defense fund to pay his legal costs in a federal defamation lawsuit filed last fall by a Pennsylvania filmmaker, Carlton Sherwood.” Sherwood alleged that Kerry and a top aide [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by RonChusid
Last Saturday I posted a response to Phillip Longman’s fears that the world will become more conservative as conservatives have far more babies than liberals. CBS News reported on my blog post in today’s Blogophile. In my response I stated: “While I may have only raised one daughter, my bet is that she, and others [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry was in Puerto Rico today meeting with Puerto Rican Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, at the Puerto Rican Governor’s Mansion, in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. CNN notes today that “the Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday that sought to open U.S. presidential elections to voters in Puerto Rico.”
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Congratulations to Tammy Duckworth who won the Democratic congressional primary nomination for the Chicago district held by retiring Republican Rep. Henry Hyde! Duckworth, 38, who spent months recovering from her wounds at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., was heavily recruited by Democrats eager to give the party more credibility on security issues. [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Responding to Bush’s latest snow job, sales pitch speech on the Iraq war, Senator Ted Kennedy said today: “Despite the latest White House sales campaign, the American people have rightly lost confidence in President Bush’s disastrous handling of Iraq. He misled the American people about the need for war, and mishandled the insurgency as it [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2006 by Pamela Leavey
Prosecutors are trying to persuade a Texas appeals court today to reinstate some of the criminal charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, that were previously dropped. DeLay up for re-election to Congress while under indictment. In December, a judge threw out some of the conspiracy and money laundering charges against the former House majority leader, saying [...]
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