... ask a nine-year-old.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/6/25723/26527/751/431492

I've avoided watching the debates until now because I saw them as little more than exercises in media manipulation. This time, I wanted to watch the Republican debate just ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901055.html

( Such a bill could have only one motive: to protect unconstitutional government actions advancing religion )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070300925.html

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Or, to be precise, the State Department's Official Translation:( Looks pretty familiar, doesn't it? )

(I even tried resetting our router, but for once, it actually is the site and not the router.)
Here's my view on the translation of the National Anthem to Spanish:I don't object to its being translated to Spanish-after all, I live in a state that's officially bilingual-but I find it amusing that there are essentially two camps on this: the "it's a ( Read more... )

One of the authors of this book criticizing the Bush administration has been put on the National No Fly List.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Also, in case you've been under a rock, you might have missed hearing that President Bush has ordered the NSA to intercept phone and email communications of thousands of Americans without a warrantYes, ( Read more... )

They're showing Forrester and Corzine's last gubernatorial debate. It's frickin' hilarious. It's like watching a drunken bar argument ( Read more... )

Does anyone have any actual, backed-up statistics for overall numbers for this thing? I mean, I know there are

120 dead in Mississippi at last count
20,000 or so stuck in the Superdome
50,000 (including those in the Superdome) being moved to Texas
pop. of New Orleans was about 480,000 with another million in the metro area

Does anyone have any ( Read more... )

August 30, 2005. San Diego, California.

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( Letter from Mom and Dad )