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"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work." Irving Kristol - Founder of American Neoconservatism Leo Strauss and Our Current Political Condition
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"Harriet Miers, at the time staff secretary, is seen on Aug. 6, 2001, briefing President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."
NEW YORK On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.
USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or (…)

From the New York Times. I certainly have not seen or heard of this on ANY news broadcasts or in any print media.
Op-Ed Contributor Mission Creep E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Save Article By MARK D. GEARAN Published: October 4, 2005 Geneva, N.Y.
OF the many ways that Americans serve the public good, service in the armed forces holds a special pre-eminence. For obvious reasons, the tremendous personal risks undertaken and sacrifices made by armed service members on behalf (…)

Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown
October 3, 2005 — Packing the Supreme Court in Anticipation of a Constitutional Showdown. The Kabuki dance between George W. Bush and Special Prosecutor on the CIA leak case Patrick Fitzgerald continues with Bush’s nomination of his one-time personal lawyer and current White House Counsel Harriet Miers, a person who has never served on the bench, as the replacement for outgoing Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day (…)

Posted on Mon, Oct. 03, 2005
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Noel Harvey and vice chief of staff Gen. Richard Cody said Monday that the Army was using looser Defense Department rules that permitted it to sign up more high school dropouts and people who score lower on mental-qualification tests, but they denied that this meant it was lowering standards.
Until Army recruiters began having trouble signing up enough recruits earlier this year, (…)

BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!
Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq.
Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon (…)

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We Will Not Be Intimidated
First they came for the communists,
I did not speak out
because I was not a communist.
When they came for the social democrats,
I did not speak out
because I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists
I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews
I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew;
And when they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
(poem by Pastor Martin (…)

The cast of administration characters with known connections to the outing of an undercover CIA agent:
Karl Rove I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Condoleezza Rice Stephen Hadley Andrew Card Alberto Gonzales Mary Matalin Ari Fleischer Susan Ralston Israel Hernandez John Hannah Scott McClellan Dan Bartlett Claire Buchan Catherine Martin Colin Powell Karen Hughes Adam Levine Bob Joseph Vice President Dick Cheney President George W. Bush
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"With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing"
by Mike Leonard
David Shuster has spent most of the past month covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And the Bloomington native and television correspondent admits he’s really not that fond of catastrophe reporting.
"I’d rather get slugged by an angry politician than hit over the head (…)