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October 25, 2005
To me President Bush's foreign policy is fine. His domestic policy is pretty much atrocious to me. From his moralistic stance on issues with a religious bent like the Schiavo incident or the "war on porn" to his overspending to ...
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81 members of Congress signed a letter to President Bush demanding that immigration laws be enforced before any "guest worker" program is even brought up. As frustration builds in the Republican party over this issue, more and more members of ...
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A few days ago I covered the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lies where he said they'll end the practice of "catch and release" and seemed to imply that it would happen within a year. Congressman Tom Tancredo ...
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October 16, 2005
Hey hey! It looks like the Iraqi's are ready to move forward as they went to the polls this weekend. Even more voters participated than in January which is a sign that Iraqi's are not only interested in their future, ...
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October 15, 2005
Joseph Turner, founder of Save Our State a grassroots organization against illegal aliens (see the Save Our State archives on Diggers Realm for protests we've covered), has filed a ballot measure in San Bernardino that really targets the base of ...
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October 12, 2005
Here's a press release I received from the host of Subject2Discussion, Shaun OMac. Shaun has been trying to get me to do the program for a few months and with my recent move we haven't been able to hook ...
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October 11, 2005
Senator John McCain, who lost all of my respect back in May with his massive illegal alien amnesty bill with Senator Kennedy, showed up in the golden state to help push forward Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's propositions. If it was up ...
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October 05, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project and currently running for Congress as an American Independent, made a decent showing in the 48th district election yesterday. (Contrary to what people like those at the OCBlog say was an embarrassing ...
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October 03, 2005
Do we really want a Conservative Supreme Court? I don't think I really do. With the nomination today by Bush of Harriet Miers (Nice roundup at Wizbang and The Moderate Voice of the Blogosphere reaction) I haven't a clue where ...
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Cronyism, the first word that comes to mind when mentioning Julie Myers. Here's the latest news on her nomination. The nomination of Julie Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has been put on hold by ...
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A group of Colorado lawmakers is set to take a fact-finding mission to Arizona this week to discover the true costs of illegal immigration. I suppose they chose to pick a state that has been devastated by the costs imposed ...
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Rep. J.D. Hayworth, (R-AZ) introduced his tough immigration bill to Congress on Sep 29, 2005. The Enforcement First Immigration Act of 2005 includes adding 10,000 border patrol agents, increased customs officers at ports of entry and an increase in detention ...
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September 30, 2005
In an expected move, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a Democrat led bill approving gay marriage in California. Reuters/Yahoo The Republican governor had earlier this month indicated he would veto the bill passed by California's Democrat-led legislature. The bill was the ...
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September 29, 2005
Tom DeLay has stepped down as majority leader after being indicted for conspiracy regarding campaign finance by a Texas grand jury. David Dreier of California is said to be taking charge for awhile. We here at Diggers Realm have both ...
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September 25, 2005
(Yakima, Washington) The Republican Party Executive Committee in the State of Washington has recommended that the 11th Commandment be repealed. It specifies that no Republican will attack or defame another Republican. Members believe it primarily benefits incumbent politicians. I think ...
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September 24, 2005
Republican Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona, a front-line state in the fight against illegal immigration, has called for deployment of military technology all along the nearly 2000 mile southern border. The technology consists of intelligence laden Aerostat balloons that have ...
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After my recent entry on Bush nominee Julie Myers and her lack of qualifications to head the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, I was a little disturbed to see the qualifications -- or lack thereof -- of Richard Jones, ...
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September 23, 2005
The California Teachers Association is charging all teachers $60 bucks a year in order to support their fight against three propositions from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Being fed up with this obvious political action by their union after being forced to ...
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September 22, 2005
Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado has introduced H.R. 3700, Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act. This act looks to reduce immigration levels to a manageable figure and to eliminate the "number out of the hat" system ...
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September 21, 2005
Bloggers across the Blogosphere -- left, right and center -- are teeing off on the Bush administration's nomination of Julie Myers to be the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As I reported on Sep 18 Senator ...
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September 19, 2005
James Gilchrist's Booth At The CRP Convention Several bloggers were at the California Republican Party Fall Convention and issued press credentials. One of those was SactoDan who snapped this shot of James Gilchrist's booth. He also has some great shots ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was in New York, failed to mention in his speeches that he's confiscating property in his country. While he called for the UN to be moved and took the time to scold countries, he said ...
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On September 5, 2005 The New York Times ran with a statement by Mexican President Vicente Fox that the US shares the blame for the border problem with Mexico. In that article Fox was quoted as saying: "The reconstruction of ...
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Germany is in a political purgatory as both Merkel and Schroeder are not conceding. A Schroeder led government is bad news for not only the German people, but America as well. For Germans it would be bad because in some ...
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September 18, 2005
The Council for Citizens Against Public Waste, a non-partisan watchdog group, has released their latest report card on all of Congress. If you are interested in how your Senator or Representative did or didn't waste all your taxes on worthless ...
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Ohio Senator George Voinovich, a Republican, questioned Julie Myers qualifications to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. Myers, an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said her experience "will serve me well.". Her vast experience ...
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Disregard this post. It is incorrect. See the correct entry here and more coverage at the Atlantic Review Gerhard Schroeder Wins Re-Election In Germany. In one of the closest victories in German history, and the closest since World War II, ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger announced at the end of a forum that he intends to be in office for 7 years. Polls show his approval rating at a low 36%. Of course Californians are an impatient lot that expect everything to be ...
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September 09, 2005
Democrat Gil Cedillo has once again pushed this bill. I've lost count of how many times he's put it up. About 70% of California voters are against illegal alien drivers licenses, but it keeps being brought up by Gil ...
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September 01, 2005
Pat Buchanan in an editorial calls for a Republican to file an impeachment bill against President Bush for his lack of action against illegal aliens. If this is what's needed to defend our border so be it. WND A president ...
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August 31, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, announced his candidacy for the the 48th district in Orange County California last week. As I covered in my entry on the story the Secretary of State Bruce McPherson denied Gilchrist the right ...
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August 27, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, has thrown his hat into the ring as an "American Independent" for the seat in Orange County being vacated by Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) who accepted the job as SEC Chairman. Gilchrist ...
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July 08, 2005
(Phoenix, Arizona) Apparently, the state government of Arizona cannot function properly without the direct, everyday control of the governor. From The Arizona Republic: Is the governor still the governor when she is out of Arizona? Yes, says Democratic Gov. Janet ...
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June 08, 2005
Opponents of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are whining that he hasn't met President Vicente Fox yet. While Arnolds staff says it is due to scheduling issues obviously there is absolutely nothing to gain for Arnold by meeting with the President of ...
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June 03, 2005
Having vetoed nearly 60 bills in her term, including some key bills to cut benefits and the flow of illegal aliens into the state, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is facing a political backlash that could cost her re-election in 2006. ...
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A Harvard University economist report out shows that there would be a savings of $7.7 billion in federal and state spending and a net income of $6.2 billion in revenue if Marijuana was legalized. Over 500 economists worldwide have publicly ...
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May 31, 2005
Ahh, the hypocrisy of the "old enough to die, but not to drink" crowd. When I was in the Navy I was stationed in Yokosuka, Japan and therefore didn't have to worry too much about drinking ages. When I was ...
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Initially upon hearing the news that "Deep Throat" was revealed I was like "cool!" then a minute later after seeing the old guy on TV I was like "who gives a fuck". If you really care to read more on ...
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May 26, 2005
(Washington, D.C.) Sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, legislation to apologize to American Indians has been warmly received by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The proposed legislation would "acknowledge our past failures, express sincere regrets and work toward establishing ...
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In an entry entitled "My Values Count Too: A Challenge To Secularists" over at Three Knockdown Rule, Josh puts forth the question of why people don't just accept the "Religious Right" and their conclusions on issues at face value. Why ...
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May 25, 2005
The California Border Police initiative may be facing a few hurdles. It's a shame that states may have no rights in regards to protecting themselves from a foreign country when the Federal government doesn't seem to be doing enough. Yet ...
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May 17, 2005
(Seattle, Washington) About 400 people attended a reunion of Black Panther Party members this past weekend at Seattle Central Community College, Seattle University, and Garfield Community Center. They came to participate in teach-ins, hear speeches, watch films, and listen to ...
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May 13, 2005
Senators Kennedy and McCain have introduced a bill they have entitled "2005 Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act". Sounds like it would really tackle immigration reform and secure America right? Wrong. It includes a general amnesty that would legalize over ...
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May 12, 2005
I didn't know whether to file this under humor or politics, so I put it under both. Pew research has a new questionnaire/quiz thingy that shows where your political typology fits. I came down as Disaffected. Which is totally wrong. ...
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May 10, 2005
I have no idea why this is such an issue. English is the unofficial language of America and it should be its official language. The burden should be on the individual to get their own translation if they refuse to ...
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May 07, 2005
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Yesterday, Senator John Kerry met with elementary school students to ostensibly talk about political history at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge. However, political history was pushed aside for town-hall style campaign rhetoric pushing his Kids ...
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May 06, 2005
The House passed HR 1268, the supplemental spending bill I mentioned yesterday that includes a lot of immigration reforms including the Real ID Act and increased funding for the border patrol, by a vote of 368-58. You can see how ...
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As a junior high school teacher in a California public school system, I find that we k-12 teachers aren't usually in the front lines of "what's new" in academia. That's why I was surprised to learn from Number 2 Pencil ...
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May 05, 2005
I received an email from Roy Beck of Numbersusa detailing the immigration reforms that have been attached to the Iraqi Supplemental Spending Bill that goes before the House today and the Senate next week. It should pass in the House ...
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April 12, 2005
Joseph Mussomeli, the second in charge at the U.S. embassy in the Philippines, made comments Monday that the southern island of Mindanao is a haven for terrorist training and could become "the next Afghanistan" in terms of sanctuary for al-Qaeda ...
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April 11, 2005
Virginia Governor Mark Warner, a Democrat, just signed legislation denying services to illegal aliens. The measure is similar to Proposition 200 which was passed by voters November, 2004 in Arizona. I have no idea what argument you could possibly make ...
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March 29, 2005
When all other arguments have run out just cry racism. WXIA About 100 protesters gathered at the state Capitol Thursday to rally against bills that would require that a person show a picture identification in order to vote. Backers of ...
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March 25, 2005
Congressman Tom Tancredo, the favorite representative of Diggers Realm, has moved up in a poll that World Net Daily is running for the '08 election. It's way too early to predict who is going to be running in '08, ...
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March 23, 2005
While the US and Canada talk about missile defense shields, "mad cow" disease and high tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, all the Mexican President had to argue about were all related to allowing illegal aliens into the United States. Mexican ...
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March 19, 2005
A new bill, HR 698, introduced by Rep. Nathan Deal, R-GA (Congress Grade of A+!) would kill what is known as the "anchor baby". "Anchor babies" are babies born to illegal aliens who cross the border, so that it will ...
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March 18, 2005
EdWonk over at The Education Wonks is telling us that once again the teachers "unions" are raising their dues. These are not voluntary dues, but mandatory dues paid by every teacher in the state. Why do they want to raise ...
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PoliBlog has a piece where he dismisses farm subsidies as a waste of money and that farms should be allowed to die if they aren't profitable. Spurred by this recent article where the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture talked of cuts ...
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March 16, 2005
Weird choice in my opinion, but whatever. CNN/Money President Bush said Wednesday that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is his choice to be president of the World Bank. ... President Bush outlined the reasons he chose Wolfowitz in a news ...
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March 15, 2005
Defend Colorado Now is gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that would deny all but emergency services to illegal aliens. They still need 70,000 signatures to get it on the ballot, but supporters say they should be able to get ...
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March 14, 2005
This is just a laughable story really. Some Representatives are shocked that illegal aliens working for a contractor could be admitted to a nuclear power plant. Do these people live under a rock? Michelle Malkin sums up previous incidents nicely. ...
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There was a recent discussion in the comments on an article I did a few days ago entitled "Utah Governor Signs "Driving Card" For Illegal Aliens Bill". I have decided to post some of that here and also my take ...
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March 12, 2005
The Democrats continue their stepping up as immigration as an issue. I'll tell you right now if the Democrats take this issue seriously to the forefront and are really going to do something about it I will be voting for ...
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March 09, 2005
Well I tried my best to not end up with the wife of my former Congressman, Robert Matsui who died January 1, 2005, win my districts congressional seat, but in the end she unsurprisingly won it anyway. My district here ...
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March 08, 2005
I'll be voting today for my new Representative since my old one died. Unfortunately his wife will probably win because she has the same last name as him and people are too lazy to actually vote in someone who knows ...
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March 02, 2005
Teachers in the Berkeley school district are refusing to give written homework because they are complaining they have to correct it on their own time. Now I understand what they are saying, everyone wants to get paid for the work ...
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Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska, wants decency laws to apply to premium cable channels like HBO and Cinemax as well. Never mind the fact that you have to specifically request these extra stations, it's just too indecent for ...
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February 11, 2005
The House of Representatives passed the "Real ID Act" by a vote of 261-161. The bill includes requiring states to require that they only issue drivers licenses to U.S. Citizens and those in the country legally. It also includes greater ...
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February 07, 2005
Wisconsin is the latest state to introduce legislation requiring voters to show valid ID. This is actually reviving of a current bill by Republicans. I don't see how the hell anyone can be against something that makes our voting system ...
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February 06, 2005
On January 29, 2005 I reported in my entry "California Councilwoman Resigns After Discovery She Is Not A US Citizen" that Zoila Meyer was resigning her council seat upon being informed that the district attorney's public integrity unit had discovered ...
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Recent polls show that opposition to an amendment to the constitution allowing foreign born individuals to run for president has declined from 67% to 58%. Los Angeles Times In 1772, Austria joined Prussia and Russia in dividing up Poland, which ...
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February 02, 2005
I haven't said a lot about the election since November, but it has been discovered by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that in 17 wards there were 100 more votes cast than there are actual voters. How much more fucked up ...
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Rush Limbaugh came out against the President's amnesty guest worker program on Friday calling it such a divisive issue that it could destroy the chances for the President to get his second term agenda passed. Wall Street Journal On Friday ...
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The intelligence reform bill passed last year authorized 10,000 new border patrol agents over the next 5 years nearly doubling the number of agents patrolling our borders. The bill did not include funding for the new agents and it looks ...
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Democrats lose another representative by putting their full weight against him in his efforts to simply study potential less expensive health care benefits for school kids. Not only that, but they went 100% against him in the last election because ...
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January 24, 2005
It is a joyous day indeed! Break out the party hats and cake! Recently we have seen Gary DeFilippo the DMV Commissioner for Connecticut resign, Tom Ridge, DHS Secretary resign and now we have the ridiculous Asa Hutchinson who was ...
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January 21, 2005
I say good riddance to Powell. I'm all for regulating the airwaves, but the fact that 99.8% of the complaints to the FCC were from the Parent's Television Council and that the FCC actually let such a small amount of ...
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Right Wing News sent out an email to 200 right of center bloggers asking them for their top 5 picks of who they would like to see nominated by the RNC for President in 2008. They were also asked for ...
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January 20, 2005
In the last meeting of DHS Secretary Tom Ridge and Mexico's Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, little was done other than demanding the give illegal aliens benefits, not to punish them and to, in general, give illegals free reign at the ...
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Illegal aliens were allowed to vote in Harris County because of a voter registration based on the "honor system" that pretty much lets anyone who marks a box vote with no actual checks made to the authenticity. Houston Chronicle At ...
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January 19, 2005
President Bush has announced three Arizona lawmakers to come up with details for the immigration reform plan he wants to put before Congress. The three, Republican Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain and Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe, were selected to ...
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January 04, 2005
I did an entry earlier today on the 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2004 which was put together at RightWingNews. Now we have the 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2004 as viewed from the left over at Rooftop Report. Here's ...
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What are the 40 most obnoxious quotes of 2004? I'm glad you asked because I can point you to the place that has them: RightWingNews Here's a little snippet: 11) "Latins for Republicans — it's like roaches for Raid." -- ...
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My congressman Robert Matsui died over this past weekend. The Sacramento Bee ran with the headline "A Good And Decent Man". I didn't feel that about him. He was arguably the worst of the worst when it comes to ...
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December 30, 2004
Do You Like The LA Times? Well Patterico does. So much so that he spent the entire year picking out their idiocy, so you wouldn't have to. See his report at Patterico's Pontifications: Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in ...
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November 15, 2004
Fox News is reporting that Colin Powell is resigning as Secretary of State. He announced this at a staff meeting this morning. He will remain in his post until he is replaced by Bush. Expected announcement from Bush later. There ...
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November 10, 2004
Well that was quick. Two and a half hours after my post on John Ashcroft resigning we have news of the new Attorney General pick. Fox News White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has been chosen by President Bush to be ...
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The man most hated by liberals turned in his resignation letter on election day. John Ashcroft, villified and behorned all across the web will remain in his position until a successor is confirmed. Fox News Word had floated last week ...
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October 19, 2004
Chris Short is tracking some interesting discussion and reports that John Kerry may be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Yesterday Chris delved into a report from the Catholic World News that put it succinctly A consultant to the Vatican has ...
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October 16, 2004
Liberals sometimes have a hard time figuring out why they can't organize things and get things done as well as conservatives and David at In Search Of Utopia has shown us, on a small scale why this is. His latest ...
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October 08, 2004
This is a great victory, yet not a finality, for our country's security and immigration policy. HR.10 is to implement the 9/11 commissions recommendations including Immigration provisions which restrict issuance of Drivers Licenses to illegal aliens, implements quicker deportations and ...
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My recent nail biting for legislation is over the H.R. 10 bill heading through congress. It implements a lot of the 9/11 commissions recommendations for stepping up security and is the House version of the Senate bill that was passed ...
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October 07, 2004
A bill that included a portion of the 9/11 commissions recomendations overwhelmingly passed in the Senate. Here's the voting results. It passed with a 96 Yea 2 Nay vote with 2 Senators not voting. Can you guess which two didn't ...
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October 06, 2004
The draft bill, introduced by Democrat Charlie Rangle and trumpeted across the world in emails saying that the Republicans and President Bush wanted to reinstate the draft if he's re-elected, was rejected today. The final vote was 402 Nays and ...
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Well I'm sure there's nothing to this. I mean we all know how squeaky clean Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are. Buried deep in the Washington Post is this little gem of news on the case. The Justice Department is ...
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October 03, 2004
Shiba Pillai-Diaz, a middle school teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey walked out of her class after being instructed by her supervisors to remove a picture of the President of the United States from her classroom or be fired. In ...
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October 02, 2004
Some of you out there don't pay attention to politics or don't really care and just catch some blurbs on the TV here and there. So maybe you've heard John Kerry being called a "Flip-Flopper" and figure it's just some ...
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There's a funny little test that The Truth Peddler over at Spreading Understanding found. It has some really hilarious questions of which he peddles a few of them to us. The test is pretty damn long at 179 questions and ...
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September 26, 2004
Now the conservatives out there are going to think I'm off my rocker, but Bill Maher in his latest show, Real Time with Bill Maher, ended with a commentary that suggested such. I can't find a transcript of the show ...
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September 21, 2004
More dirty tricks by the Democrats this time by one of the most annoying, Charlie Rangle. This is just really ignorant and anyone behind the Democrats should think twice about a party that would actually do something like this. Charlie ...
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September 17, 2004
The Washington Times has picked up the story of little 3 year old Sophia Parlock. Sophia was photographed crying after a Labor Union Democrat Supporter tore the sign from her hand and ripped it up. The blogosphere exploded with this ...
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First the Democrats punch a Bush supporter and now we once again have Democrats showing their true thoughts on free speech. Yahoo/AP Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney ...
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August 29, 2004
via Instapundit we find this article at The Detroit News with a nifty little graphic: Across 109.4 million tax-paying households — from the wealthiest 1 percent with incomes averaging over $1 million to the lowest-earning 20 percent of people with ...
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