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Padilla verdict: a resounding defeat for Bush
Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges MIAMI, Florida (CNN) — The jury in the Jose Padilla terror trial has found the American guilty of conspiracy to support Islamic terrorism overseas. art.jose.padilla.ap.jpgJose […]
Snow jobless?
White House spokesjobber Tony Snow said on a radio show that he is not going to stick around for the end of Bush’s term, following Karl Rove out the door. Snow won’t […]
Quotabull
And Brian will be back in our next hour with a look at the life- and-death question that is now being asked in Utah. Is it possible for those trapped miners to […]
The inaugural Scholars and Rogues Interview (and our newest Scrogue): Graham Parker
The mid-1970s were a wonderful time for music lovers. For starters, exciting and innovative new music was popping up all over the place. And when it did, it actually got played on […]
ACLU obtains more info on Iraq prison abuse “cover-up”
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a press release in which it says it has obtained new details of a possible cover-up of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Documents “suggest that senior […]
Rudy Giuliani: Everything you hate about Bush, and worse
“I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gay rights,” Giuliani said.By Martin Bosworth —CNN.com Inside Politics, May 2, 1999. Giuliani has described himself as a backer of civil unions and is frequently described that way in […]
Scroguely Works: The Saint’s Getaway
The Saint’s Getaway by Leslie Charteris, first published 1932, 250 pages, ISBN 978-1558820845 For the song and the sword and the Pipes of Pan Are birthrights sold to a usurer But I […]
Changes in U.S. climate data do nothing to debunk global heating
A while back, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) revised their temperature data for the United States based on the work of Steve McIntyre of Climateaudit.org. In the process, 1998 (which […]
A Karl Rove Quotabull
I don’t see Dick Cheney’s leadership in running a construction and oil service company to be a problem at all when compared to [the Clinton] administration’s failure to have a comprehensive energy […]
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