"Balance, diversity, creativity - these are the elements of Republican equation. Republicans agree, Republicans agree heartily to disagree on many, many of their applications, but we have never disagreed on the basic fundamental issues of why you and I are Republicans. This is a party, this Republican Party, a Party for free men, not for blind followers, and not for conformists. Back in 1858 Abraham Lincoln said this of the Republican party - and I quote him, because he probably coul...
on first consideration, this may seem like a difficult argument to make, but let's not forget self-preservation has motivated even the lowliest single-cell parasitic organisms to develop amazingly successful defensive strategies. with that in mind, it shouldnt surprise anyone that the president has done the same thing on a considerably less grand scale. here are two examples: 1. on july 2, 2002, the whitehouse informed the rest of the world that the United States would not sign...
go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ and you'll find a photo of dick cheney speaking to a group of marines at camp pendleton, calif. according to the caption, cheney told them:. "And the terrorists will fail because men and women like you stand in their way." scroll down the page and you'll find a cheney bio full of praise for his government service. what you wont see there (or in his bio at http://www.georgewbush.com --the official bush-cheney re-electi...
except for a few hours of exploring along its side of the colorado river, the only time i've spent in arizona has been transiting east to west or vice-versa on my way to somewhere else. last time i was in the grand canyon state, i just dropped in for about 74 minutes due to a layover in phoenix. had i been thinking, i would have saved myself a few bucks by drinking a lot of arizona water. i'm not totally sure there's something special in arizona water. it ...
this is a totally subjective opinion and may or may not be correct: all things being equal, more voters will choose a republican over a democrat when voting in an election to fill an executive office. this is a conclusion based on solely on personal observation but i think its accurate: successful republican candidates for executive positions like us president and governor of california seem to share an unusual common characteristic it's a relatively recent phenomenon and very much...
about 2 weeks ago, i began receiving spam pushing a new scam. usually the subject heading reads something like: experts predict voting machine stock is a sure winner. i rarely do more with obvious spam than delete it unread but curiosity finally overcame common sense and i decided to see what they were selling. i truly could not have been more shocked to discover the originators were the olsen twins of the whitehouse...jenna and barbara bush here is the text of their pitch our nam...
someone shoulda administered the hypocratic oath to george w bush this weekend. only a few days before he flew from texas to dc to demonstrate the depth of his commitment to getting votes from the pro-lifers, a 6month-old infant had his plug pulled--against the wishes of his mother--thanks to a law bush signed in 1999. i'm not exactly positive where crawford is in relation to houston, but--even knowing how big texas is from having driven thru there for a month one weekend--the kid ...
warmonger (and, please, before you start heaving invective, understand i rarely use that designation but in this case its more than appropriate) paul wolfowitz--whose brilliant financial acumen led him to prophesy the iraq adventure he worked so hard to bring to being would practically pay for itself once the chinches started into chinchin... oops i meant once the blizzard of iraqi oil money began drifting into huge piles so it could be shoveled up--is about to validate the peter principle bey...
"No amount of money can truly compensate these brave men and women for the suffering that they went through at the hands of this very brutal regime and at the hands of Saddam Hussein." White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan November 2003. no amount of money is exactly what the 17 american pilots--who were tortured in abu gharib prison by saddam hussein's thugs after being captured and held as pows during the first gulf war--are gonna get if the bush administration has its way. t...
during a nightline televised 'town hall meeting' just before the iraqi election, senator george allen (r) va reasserted a proposition he's been advocating since april, 2004 after being inspired by an ny times op-ed piece suggesting iraqi oil profits be divided amongst and distributed to every resident-citizen of iraq. although no specific plan has been developed, the idea would use the alaska permanent fund as a rough model. after using the original contract payment to improve the ...
“By every test we have...this is as surely a liberal epoch as the late 19th Century was a conservative one.”-- presidential scholar James MacGregor Burns "He has wrecked his party for a long time to come and is not even likely to control the wreckage." -- James Reston, New York Times the quotes above refer to the presidential election of 1964 in which republican candidate, barry goldwater, and his party were crushed by lydon b. johnson and the democrats. only 40...
one of the basic requirements of torture is that the person being tortured has to remain alive. presumably the dead dont feel pain. judging from that big ol grin on sabrina harmon's face, she musta skipped the class in which that was discussed. perhaps i'm naive or want to put too much faith in or give too much credit to my fellow citizens because i really don't think this woman engaged in desecrating the dead prior to finding herself in a situation where she was...
im curious to know if any ju democtrats are active in their local (state, county, city, district, precinct/ward) democratic party organization and for how long?
im curious to know if any ju republicans are active in their local (state, county, city, district, precinct/ward) republican party organization and for how long?
while shiites and sunni representatives working on iraq's draft constitution may be able to agree on much, it appears both groups are on the same page on at least one issue. they both wanna dump the requirement by which women are guaranteed 25% of the seats in iraq's national assembly. they've obviously learned more than we might have realized from american politics cuz these guys got the whole majority vs minority anti-quota schtick down pat. check this out: "Since men and women are...