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Thumbs on the scale
FROM MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA During a speech to the Israeli parliament yesterday morning, President Bush attacked Barack Obama, comparing him to Nazi appeasers for the Illinois senator’s willingness to hold discussions with Iran. One problem: Bush’s speech came just hours after The Washington Post reported that Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, said that the…
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Obama takes on McCain/Bush
Obama Hits Back: Debate With McCain And Bush Over Foreign Policy Is One “I Will Win” By Greg Sargent, May 16, 2008 In remarks in South Dakota just now, Barack Obama hit back hard at George Bush’s and John McCain’s foreign policy attacks yesterday, stating flatly that a debate with the two Republicans over foreign…
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BMW's New Baby: Fast, Not Fresh
THE DRIVER’S SEAT By JEFF SABATINI, May 16, 2008 BMW 135i coupe The 1-Series is the German auto maker’s smallest and least expensive model. In Europe, BMW sells 3- and 5-door hatchback version of the 1-Series and offers four-cylinder gas engines as well as diesel engines. The convertible 1-Series offers the same engines and is…
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Hillary Is Too Boring to Be President
By JOE QUEENAN, May 16, 2008; Page A13 Journalists like to pretend that it makes no difference to them who gets elected president, but this is a lie. A few years ago, I disclosed in print that I had two handwritten notes from Steve Forbes that would vastly increase in value were he elected to…
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Hypocrisy on Hamas
McCain Was for Talking Before He Was Against It by James P. Rubin, Friday, May 16, 2008; A19 If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media…
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California Ruling Reignites Same-Sex Marriage Debate
By NATHAN KOPPEL and T.W. FARNAM , May 16, 2008; Page A1 The California Supreme Court opened the door to same-sex marriages in the nation’s largest state, reigniting a hot-button social issue amid a presidential election campaign so far dominated by economic issues and the war in Iraq. The ruling makes California the second state,…
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'Appeasement' remark by Bush sets off political fray
The president, speaking to Israeli lawmakers, takes apparent aim at Obama in saying that negotiating with some dictatorships amounts to ‘appeasement.’ Obama calls it a ‘false political attack.’ By Johanna Neuman,Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, May 15, 2008 WASHINGTON — Addressing the Israeli parliament, President Bush set off a political firestorm today with an apparent…
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Barr on gay marriage: California decision is how it’s supposed to work
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Friday, May 16, 2008 Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr says that when it comes to gay marriage, what happens in California is California’s own business. He’s a states’ rights man. Here’s the statement Barr’s issued, which — one week before the Libertarian national convention in Denver — is likely to generate some…
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What's a monk to do?
I think I know the reason why the story of Michael Roach and Christie McNally bugged me so. There’s enough hypocrisy in this world. We are choking on it. The hypocrisy of religion is even more of a danger because it’s almost always cloaked in piety. Roach proclaimed himself a monk. He practiced it, lived…
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Hello, Dalai
Oh, enough already! So, I am this really horny 44-year-old guy (I have not had sex since I was 22 years old) and standing before me is a blond bombshell the same age I was when I foolishly became a monk. I mean, gorgeous. And she digs me; I just know it. I can really…