Rove appears confused on whether education is good or bad

In the world of former Bush political adviser Karl Rove, “eggheads from academia” are either good or bad, depending on which position seems most opportune: even if it’s one, then the other mere moments later.
Source:http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0612/fox-news-segment-rove-appears-confused-education-good-bad/

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Quayle: 51 Votes ‘Not What Our Founding Fathers Had In Mind’

Yes, Former VP to Bush 41, Dan Quayle.
It’s either really sad that the GOP is tapping him to warn the Democrats away from reconciliation, or they’re just picking up old names out of a hat to flood the airwaves as usual.
Source:http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/quayle-51-votes-not-what-our-founding-fathers-had-in-mind.php

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Pentagon used psychological operation on US public: docs

A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Admin’s military analyst program — aimed at selling the Iraq war to the American people — operated through a secretive collaboration between the Defense Dept’s press and community relations offices. Raw Story has also uncovered evidence that…
Source:http://rawstory.com/2009/10/bryan-whitman-2/

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Judge rules FBI can’t keep Cheney interview buried

A federal judge has ruled that the FBI must release its interview with then-Vice President Dick Cheney concerning the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
The Bush and Obama administrations have both sought to keep the Cheney interview secret, but Judge Emmet Sullivan has determined that there is no reason since the investigation has [...]

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Constitutional Amendment to Criminalize Birth Control

Yes, the state that brought you Bush v.
Gore, the sex offender colony under the bridge, and the shoot-first-ask-questions-later legislation known as the “Stand Your Ground Law” has another idea up its sleeve. And this one’s for the ladies.
Source:http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/142623/anti-choice_floridians_peddling_constitutional_amendment_to_criminalize_birth_control_pill/

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Report: Bush admin ‘blacklisted liberal groups’

In a blow to the notion of meritocratic government, applicants to the Justice Department’s internships and Honors Program were widely rejected if their resumes included the names of liberal groups on a departmental blacklist, the Washington Blade reports.
Source:http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/report-bush-admin-blacklisted-liberal-groups/

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Bush May Haunt Republicans for Generations

Some fascinating data based on more than 120,000 interviews completed over the past four months, on the way that partisan identification breaks down by age.
Check it out here:http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/bush-may-haunt-republicans-for.html

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Scandal Erupts Involving Rep. Jane Harman, AGAG and AIPAC

CQ reports that a key member of Congress was caught on wiretaps agreeing to intervene in a criminal prosecution of AIPAC officials, but Bush’s AG(Alberto Gonzales) protected her.
The full story is here:http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/20/harman/index.html

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UN torture investigator: Obama has broken International law

The United Nations top torture investigator has suggested it is illegal under International law for President Barack Obama to announce that the United States government has no intention of prosecuting low-level CIA officers who carried out torture sanctioned by the Bush Administratio
From:http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/18/un-torture-investigator-obama-has-broken-international-law/

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Bush’s Torture Program: Were Democrats Complicit?

One day after the Obama administration released four gruesome Bush-era torture memos, a majority of Democrats have remained collectively silent on whether the disclosures warrant a full-scale criminal investigation.
That begs the question: were Democrats aware of the torture program and are simply remaining silent because they approved it?
Link:http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/839-bushs-torture-program-were-democrats-complicit.html

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