Last week, the White House promoted the Miers nomination by talking up her Evangelical Christian beliefs and pressured Republican Senators with presidential aspirations, like Brownback of Kansas, into supporting her appointment to the Supreme Court. I guess that they think they have the power to put the brakes on the campaign of anyone who [...]
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Republicans Should Show Strength by Opposing Miers
Published by October 16th, 2005 in Politics. 0 Comments
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Harold Pinter, the man who wrote the play, The Birthday Party, after which Nick Cave named his pre-”Bad Seeds” band, won the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday.
When will Nick get his Nobel Prize?
Never… but I couldn’t help but wonder…
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Posting this week has been light because I have been extremely busy. I shouldn’t even take time out to post this, but I need a break…
A few spots down you will find a “curveball” post with excerpts from a column written by the conservative George Will. Today I read column by Gerard Baker [...]
From today’s New York Times:
“You are the best governor ever - deserving of great respect,” Harriet E. Miers wrote to George W. Bush days after his 51st birthday in July 1997. She also found him “cool,” said he and his wife, Laura, were “the greatest!” and told him: “Keep up the great work. Texas is [...]
Bush stood before the TV cameras this morning and babbled about the War on Terror. Transcript here. Excerpt follows:
Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, “what is good for them and what is not.” And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor [...]
I’m still trying to figure out Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and why so many conservatives are adamantly opposed to it. I’ve been reading quite a few opinion pieces about it and I have a few ideas, but nothing very coherent yet.
So… for now I would like to [...]
So when the president talks to God, does he ever discuss cruel and unusual punishment, humiliating photos, and torture? If he does, apparently God approves of it, because Bush has threatened to veto a bill that contains guidelines for putting a stop to those kinds of interrogation tactics used by the U.S. military.
Late yesterday, [...]
This just in from the BBC via Common Dreams:
President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals.
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Nabil Shaath says: “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell [...]
Tired of supporting corporate coffee houses? If you are addicted to the bean, sometimes you can’t avoid it because Starbucks has taken over the area where you live or work. My neighborhood has no shortage of excellent locally owned coffee shops, but the place where I work is what you might call “Corporate [...]
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum says this about Harriet Miers, nominated by Bush today to replace O’Connor on the Supreme Court:
In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.
I think [...]
