The War on Terror. Read those words; The. War. On. Terror. Each word has a blunt finality about it, this is not A War on Terror, it is not The Struggle Against Terror, and it is not The War on Extremists or weapon wielding maniacs, or the policy to protect people. It is simply The War on Terror and...

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Democrats hit GOP on support for Medicare cuts By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS – 12 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat, accused Republicans of putting seniors and military families at risk by siding with President Bush against a measure to prevent Medicare cuts. Durbin, D-Ill., used a Saturday national radio address to call on Republicans to back the bill to stave off a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. It passed the House overwhelmingly last week in defiance of Bush's threat to veto it, but it fell just one vote short of the 60 it needed to advance in the Senate, with most Republicans voting "no." "It's time for the Republican senators who are filibustering this measure to put our seniors and our military families ahead of private insurance companies and let the Senate pass this bill as soon as possible," Durbin said. Bush and Senate Republicans don't like the bill because it includes offsetting cuts to insurance companies that use Medicare money to offer private health care coverage to about 20 percent of seniors.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jShQ40uMs7Ury4UQuDH46cSHL19gD91NOU0O0

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Although this article appeared earlier in the New York Times, the news blackout in this country did not mention a word. This memo unequivocally establishes that Bush knew there were no WMD and talked about literally painting military planes to look like U.N. planes to fly over Iraq so that they...

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and Dennis Kucinich appears to share it. take four minutes of your day to watch DK introduce 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush I realize there is no chance of this impeachment happening, and I am in general, not fond of symbolic gestures. but I will make an exception for this one if...

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From World2theoriesAdded on Apr 24 2008Watch video of President Bush telling Pope Benedict, "Thank you, your holiness. Awesome speech!"Are you a video enthusiast, always uploading your latest videos to sites like YouTube? Well, we want to show your stuff! Let us showcase your video for you on About.com.Submit Your Own VideoWatch Other Users' Videos

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I read about Mr. Bush's aggrievedly giving up his golf game in "solidarity" with Americans killed in Iraq. I read about this about five minutes earlier in an article in The Guardian (U.K.) newspaper. Funny, but the major American news networks have ignored this story. -Mike Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on two topics a lot of us had foolishly thought, had naively hoped, we would not again have to address… and a third topic nobody thought a president would ever seriously mention in public unless perhaps he'd just been hit in the head with something and was not in full possession of his faculties - how he expressed his "empathy" to the families of the dead in Iraq - by giving up golf.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508A.shtml

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In his usual form, former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter told a packed crowd at the Oriental Theater in Denver to stop whining about corporate media and become their own intelligence operatives. We the people have the same resources and tools that intelligence networks rely heavily on; it’s called “Google” he said.

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I'm trying to look past the Democratic primary to the general election. Now, there are some people who say that McCain wouldn't be that bad. I'm here to tell you that this is a gravely mistaken assumption. Here's one in a long list of reasons why McCain would be just as bad as Bush... Equal pay for...

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University administrators of the world's largest scientific database on reproductive health blocked the word "abortion" as a search term after receiving a complaint from the Bush administration over two abortion-related articles listed in the database.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/administrators.html

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