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Secretary of State Rice Goes All Nip-Tuck on Iraq Policy
by Steve Young
January 18, 2007 -- Hollywood (apj.us) -- While Fox New and the far-right Lords of Loud took aim at the important news on the Senate Hearings -- namely, Barbara Boxer having told Condaleezza Rice that either of them might not suffer through the war like someone with a kid over there would -- they completely ignored what Rice suggested President Bush really had in mind.
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Steve Young is a Senior Fellow at the Extreme Far Centrist Foundation' Political Husbandry Conservation Centre and Stereo Repair. In his spare time, he is also an author, comedy writer, columnist, LA talk show host and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."(What? You STILL haven't bought it? Then visit http://www.greatfailure.com/) and the new "15 Minutes". You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.
from crisispapers.org
Mainstream Media to Bloggers: Bug Off!
by Ernest Partridge
January 16, 2007 (crisispapers.org) -- The Internet has the mainstream journalists worried, and for good reason.
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Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. He has taught Philosophy at the University of California, and in Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin. He publishes the website, "The Online Gadfly" (www.igc.org/gadfly) and co-edits the progressive website, "The Crisis Papers" (www.crisispapers.org). His book in progress, "Conscience of a Progressive," can be seen at www.igc.org/gadfly/progressive/^toc.htm . Send comments to: crisispapers@hotmail.com .
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Dick Cheney's "Modest Proposal" to Round Up More Troops
Double-secret memo intercepted
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Date: 16 January 2007
From: Dick Cheney
To: George W. Bush
cc: Karl Rove, Bob Gates, John McCain, Joe Lieberman
OK guys, let's think this one through.
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The Speech George W. Bush Should Have Given the American People on Iraq
By Jeff Koopersmith
Jan. 14, 2007 (apj.us) -- NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: It's no wonder the President's speech on his latest shift in Iraq tactics was a bigger bomb than Ishtar.
It wasn't Bush's nervous, stiff demeanor. It wasn't the fact that he preempted prime couch potato fare. What it came down to is that most people have no faith in Bush's Iraq Adventure. And it sure as hell didn't help that nobody -- but nobody -- likes an obfuscator, especially when they speak in short, declarative sentences that make people feel as if they're being treated like children.
Jeff Koopersmith took a look at the text of Bush's disastrous speech and added a huge helping of the truth. Here's what he thinks Bush should have said about Iraq.
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JEFF KOOPERSMITH is a political consultant, opinion research authority, policy analyst, and self-described "renegade lobbyist."
Sacrifice and Healing
Man or monster, Bush has to go this year
by Alan Bisbort
"When I reflect on the pompous titles bestowed on unworthy men, I feel an indignity that instructs me to despise absurdity. The Honorable plunderer of his country, or the Right Honorable murderer of mankind, create such a contrast of ideas as exhibit a monster rather than a man."
–Thomas Paine, May 1775
Jan. 7, 2006 -- Hartford (apj.us) -- Sacrifice and healing. Those are now the catchwords of the minority party in America, the Republicans. They're still making demands, even though they've been booted out of power. They're still arrogant, still insisting they control the debate. And, in a sense, they're right, since the mainstream media continues to honor their spin about a "surge" even though only 11% of the American people support a troop surge in Iraq.
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ALAN BISBORT is a columnist for the Hartford Advocate. His book, When You Read This, They Will Have Killed Me: The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America, has been hailed as the definitive work on one of the most controversial cases in American judicial history. Published by Carroll & Graf, you can click here to order it from Powell Books.
Here's a Democratic Southern Strategy: Compete!
by Stephen Crockett
Dec. 18, 2006 (democratictalkradio.com) -- There seems to be a growing sentiment that Democrats do not need to win elections in the South to control the political future of the United States. There is some truth in this position but little political wisdom.
The fact is, just looking at the numbers for Congressional seats, Senate seats or electoral votes for President, that Democrats can control American national politics without Southern victories. However, the South is an important bloc of votes and is winnable for Democrats. There is little reason not to compete for Southern voters.
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Dale R. Tavris, MD, MPH is an epidemiologist with the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and drug Administration.
Out: Evangelicalism. In: Segregationism!
Trent Lott Is Back -- And That's Great News for the Democrats
by Dave "Doctor" Gonzo
Nov. 15, 2006 -- New York (apj.us) -- How can you not love the incoming Senate GOP minority?
In an act of sheer desperation disguised as a "rapid and decisive move," the 49 sore loser Republicans -- still recovering from the shocking and entertaining national application of rigorous red-ass by blue America -- have voted to rehabilitate America's favorite segregationist advocate, Senator Trent Lott (White-MS), as their "whip," the number two man in the Senate GOP leadership.
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