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Bush Can’t Fake U.S. Policy Shifts By Fareed Zakaria 6/29/2006
The Bush administration must wonder these days if it has a Rodney Dangerfield problem. No matter what it does, it can’t seem to get any respect. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has engineered a broad shift in American diplomacy over the last year, moving policy toward greater multilateralism, cooperation and common sense on Iran, North Korea and Iraq, and several other issues. And yet it hasn’t produced a change in (…)

Banning Books On Cuba Is Idiotic By Leonard Pitts 7/1/2006
The other day, I gave two teachers I know $300,000 apiece. Hypothetical money, that is. If $300,000 fell out of the sky, I said, and you could use it to improve your school, how would you spend it? Mary Ann, who works at an elementary school in Los Angeles, wanted to hire classroom aides to work one-on-one with "troublesome students who have not been properly diagnosed so they can be educated and not just written off."
Sonya, (…)

Small Farms, Pet Owners Targeted By John Hanchette July 03, 2006 Olean - Fine. I admit it. I’m not as quick or as smart or as knowledgeable as I used to be.
Until I wrote last week about the unconscionable and continuing slaughter of American horses for foreign food due to the United States Department of Agriculture’s stubborn flouting of congressional intent, this city slicker had never even heard of the latest boneheaded bureaucratic plan now brewing at USDA.
In line with the (…)

What Happened To Accountability? By Clarence Page 7/3/2006
I think President Bush does protest a bit too much about the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal’s exposure of his administration’s secret money-tracking program. Bush called it "disgraceful" that the newspapers reported that Treasury Department officials acquired access to the world’s largest international financial database, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, commonly known (…)

Thirteen From The Niagara Frontier; They Died As Heroes, Not As Numbers Analysis By Mike Hudson July 3, 2006
On June 15, White House Press Secretary and former FOX News anchor Tony Snow was asked about President George W. Bush’s reaction to the fact that the 2,500th American soldier had been killed in Iraq.
"It’s a number," he said.
But for 13 grieving families on the Niagara Frontier, and thousands of others across the country, Snow’s "number" is something much more personal. It’s a (…)

Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs By Jerry Zremski, News National Correspondent 6/25/2006 WASHINGTON - A former spokesman for President Bush recently offered to several newspapers supposedly objective freelance stories from Iraq by two combat veterans who lead a pro-war group with deep Republican ties. Several months after revelations that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi news outlets for favorable war coverage, former White House spokesman Taylor Gross approached (…)

Bush Busy Attacking Messengers As Terrorists Remain Unmolested By Bill Gallagher July 3 2006
Detroit - The attacks on the media, especially The New York Times, over revelations that the Bush administration has been secretly rummaging through international banking transactions, deflects attention from a far more serious issue. The real story is not that our government is looking at networks financing terrorist operations — a legitimate and necessary activity — but how poorly that job is (…)

No Place For Canada Foreign Invaders Will Never Control The Fierce Pashtun Tribesmen Of Afghanistan By Eric Margolis July 02, 2006 The war in Afghanistan that was supposedly won has resumed — with a vengeance. Fighting is reportedly intensifying and spreading across southern Afghanistan as resistance to foreign occupation grows.
In 2001, unable to withstand high-tech U.S. forces, the Taliban leader Mullah Omar ordered his men to disband and blend into the civilian population. At the (…)

The Myth Of Terrorism, Part Deux By Larry C Johnson Sunday, 02 July 2006 at 15:23 How afraid should we be? If you listen to the Bush Administration, a minority of Supreme Court Justices, and the extreme right wing, the answer is simple. RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! President Bush and Vice President Cheney have said repeatedly that terrorism is an “unprecedented threat”. Because it is unprecedented we must, therefore, be prepared to do anything. Ron Suskind writes in his latest oeuvre, The One (…)

Last night on CBS news they did a bit about George W. Bush’s "superb" health at aged 60 (his birthday is today, July 3rd). His heartbeat is 57, his blood pressure 110 over 65,etc.etc. Big deal.
But...
It got me thinking? Why should Dubya be in such great shape when all of his forrunners aged significantly during their terms?
Could it be that he has no conscience? Mmmm.
I’ve got this theory: Bush TRANSFERS his various "ills" to segments of society including those overseas! To wit: (…)