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What Are The Conservatives Saying?
Posted on January 4th, 2006 on
Curious to find out what those who still support Bush and company are thinking, I’ve just looked over two dozen conservative commentary pi...

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The Wire Tap Flap
Posted on December 31st, 2005 on
For reasons unknown, national debate over the Bush-mandated warrantless wire tapping policy has yet to focus on the most relevant question re...

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Inclemency of the Very Worst Kind
Posted on December 21st, 2005 on
A recent period of unfortunate meteorological occurrences is threatening more harm to the United States than even Katrina wrought. I am speaki...

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Big Brother Bush
Posted on December 17th, 2005 on
There was notable, strong reaction on the Republican side of the aisle against the Bush-ordered domestic surveillance of American citizens ...

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Is the Death Penalty Barbaric?
Posted on December 14th, 2005 on
Schwarzeneger, in explaining why he would not grant a stay of execution for Stanley Tookie Williams, said among other things that Mr. Williams ha...

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The Right’s War on the Bogus War on Christmas
Posted on December 14th, 2005 on
The alleged “War on Christmas” is largely a figament of Bill O’Reilly’s, John Gibson’s and Joe Scarborough’s imaginatio...

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Gang Violence in Iraq
Posted on December 13th, 2005 on
In putting Stanley Tookie Williams to death for the alleged shotgun killings of four people, society could be considered to have erred. Fir...

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Lock Condi Up And Throw Away The Key
Posted on December 6th, 2005 on
Disgracefully, Condoleezza Rice has made answer to European critics of clandestine CIA prisons in Eastern European countries, not by admitt...

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A Murderer Died–Does it Matter How?
Posted on November 11th, 2005 on
A death row inmate is dead, but of natural causes. To some people, this is a problem. Samuel A. Pettit murdered a prosecutor in 1988 and was ...

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No Go To Alito
Posted on November 6th, 2005 on
Central to the Bush administration’s philosophy of domestic governance is the notion that the Federal Government should be contained in bo...

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Church-State Separation in More Danger Than Ever
Posted on November 4th, 2005 on
The Supreme Court clearly is not a non-partisan, objective evaluator of legal situations. Its role in deciding the 2000 presidential election, fo...

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