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Peggy Noonan has not left her President. Her President has left her. I left the Republican Party three years ago because the truth of every one of Noonan's criticisms of Bush (and several other criticisms as well) was obvious by then, and I was disappointed and disgusted that
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The votes on my November ballot: U.S. House (3rd):State Governor:State House (42nd):State Supreme Court:State Circuit Court (4th/28):State Circuit Court (4th/31):State Circuit Court (4th/37):State Measures (39, 44):State Measures (all others):County Measures (all):
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A friend wrote the following about the compromise a few weeks ago between the Senate and the President about the use of torture: The Senate, whose majority leader systematically killed cats obtained under false pretenses from local animal shelters, has given the sole authority to determine exactly what does and
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I received a mass-mailed advertisement from John Edwards, asking me to contribute money to help the Democrats re-gain control of the Senate. If Edwards were so concerned about that, shouldn't he have run for re-election to the Senate in 2004 rather than giving up his seat (which the
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From an analysis by cbsnews.com: none (Link courtesy of Political Wire.)
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Forty-six years before John Negroponte forced Porter Goss out as DCI, the two were fraternity brothers at Yale.
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Jack Bogdanski and the Willamette Week are both supporting the write-in of Paul Van Orden for county sheriff in this month's election. I might have written in Van Orden if I had heard about the effort before I mailed in my ballot. If I were to have written
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President Bush made a characteristic error this morning while speaking to the press: [O]n Friday I stood up and said, I don't appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld; he's doing a fine job, I strongly support him. […] I listen to all voices, but mine is
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Tertullian The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Many of today's "conservatives" are not conservative. Their reaction to the fall of Saddam three years ago was a telling case in point. Rather than burning with radicality and hubris, wouldn't remembering the wisdom of Edmund Burke have been the conservative thing to do?
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The Bush administration believed that the Iraqi war would be beneficial in the long run because the Iraqi people would accept an imposed government led by Ahmed Chalabi. The administration now believes that an Iranian war would be beneficial in the long run because the Iranian people would accept an
History
President Bush carried every state of the old Confederacy in 2004, most by substantial margins. White people in those states have generally supported the President's Iraq policies by greater margins than people in the rest of the country. Which is odd, because most white Southerners are familiar with