Month: December 2007

Abramoff Visits Now a State Secret

It is such hard work to cover-up so many crimes. The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The...

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The Venezuela Referendum in Perspective

[Background: There will be a voter referendum on a number of Constitutional amendments in Venezuela, the most notable is an abolition of term limits which would allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election without...

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Gaming Out the Primaries

What if the unthinkable happens and Hillary Clinton wins neither Iowa nor New Hampshire, while Mike Huckabee takes both contests on the Republican side? Don’t laugh…it could definitely happen. Barack Obama is now...

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Hate Speech and Violent Threats Against Democrats

Frankly and unfortunately, the only thing that surprises me about the hostage situation yesterday at Senator Clinton’s office in New Hampshire is that it took this long to have something like this happen. And no, I don’t mean...

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