
No shortage of pork here...
Senate Democrats backed off promises to reform pork spending yesterday, using procedural tactics similar to ones they attacked Republicans for employing in past Congresses.
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Friday, January 12
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 11:44 PM EST
No shortage of pork here... Senate Democrats backed off promises to reform pork spending yesterday, using procedural tactics similar to ones they attacked Republicans for employing in past Congresses.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 11:18 PM EST
The “runaway bride” and her former fiancé have dropped lawsuits they filed against each other last year. Jennifer Wilbanks and John Mason withdrew the lawsuits in court documents filed last month.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 11:01 PM EST
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 10:57 PM EST
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 10:54 PM EST
Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson has been indicted on charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs, Maricopa County's top prosecutor announced Friday.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 09:28 PM EST
TRISHA Helfer plays an evil machine on "Battlestar Galactica," but the sexy Cylon may cause her fans to short-circuit when they see the latest edition of Playboy.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 09:19 PM EST
The forensic expert hired by the prosecutor in the Duke rape case says he made a "big error" in judgment by not stating in his report that the only DNA he found on the accuser was from several men who were not on the Duke lacrosse team.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 08:48 PM EST
But now I will say publicly that I no longer have faith in the leadership of George W. Bush. I stand by the Constitution, so he is still the President until his term is up.
by
The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:28 PM EST
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Hedley Lamarr
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:25 PM EST
![]() "Bush Cheered at Fort Benning: FORT BENNING, Ga.--President Bush, surrounded on Thursday by cheering soldiers in camouflage, defended his decision to send 21,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq and cautioned that the buildup will not produce quick results. 'It's going to take awhile,' he said."--headline and lead paragraph, Associated Press, Jan. 11 ![]() "Bush Speaks and Base Is Subdued: FORT BENNING, Ga., Jan. 11--President Bush came to this Georgia military base looking for a friendly audience to sell his new Iraq strategy. But his lunchtime talk received a restrained response from soldiers who clapped politely but showed little of the wild enthusiasm that they ordinarily shower on the commander in chief."--New York Times, Jan. 12 Typical. However some people still claim with a straight face that the New York Times is not biased.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:12 PM EST
by
The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:58 PM EST
Hateful, shrill and disgraceful... where the legions of Kos Kiddies get their ideas: Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go - attacking Secre tary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:46 PM EST
A criminal defense lawyer who worked as a federal and state prosecutor in New Jersey has been indicted for running a Manhattan-based escort service, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced Wednesday.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:43 PM EST
He poured out his heart to pals while on holiday with daughter Beatrice The former Beatle, 64, told them at his five-star resort in Jamaica: “I’m through with women. It’s been horrible.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:40 PM EST
Complaints from the Chinese embassy in Moscow forced an advertising agency to scrap a chewing gum commercial playing on Russian television which featured China's national anthem as backing music.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:25 AM EST
ISRAEL'S first Muslim cabinet minister received a baptism of fire yesterday as an extremist Jewish coalition partner termed him a "plague" and hard-line Arab nationalists denounced him as a "fig leaf" for apartheid.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:20 AM EST
If you ever wanted to see That, at least, is the unpleasant, yet entirely unavoidable conclusion to be drawn from Think I'm exaggerating? Consider a few cold hard facts.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:14 AM EST
FIFTEEN women suicide bombers have been sent to murder British troops in
Taliban chiefs have ordered them to dress as beggars or teachers and hide devices under burkas, a secret intelligence report has warned.
It marks an alarming new tactic in the Afghan conflict, although women suicide bombers have been used in
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:08 AM EST
Violence, terrorism and the Islamists' growing influence pose a threat to Christianity in the
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 03:03 AM EST
The admiral in charge of the U.S. Pacific Fleet pressed Chinese military leaders to explain why an armed submarine challenged a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific by sailing within five miles of the warship, U.S. defense officials said. The Chinese responded by claiming the Song-class submarine that surfaced near the USS Kitty Hawk on Oct. 27 was there by accident, and that it did not shadow the warship before making its presence known, the officials said.
Defense officials familiar with reports of closed-door military meetings in Beijing, Shanghai and Zhanjiang privately doubted the Chinese explanations and said it is more likely the Song-class diesel electric submarine was practicing anti-aircraft carrier operations.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 02:58 AM EST
An internal The Israel Security Agency has concluded that one in every seven suicide bombers was a Palestinian or Arab who acquired Israeli citizenship through marriage. Officials said the citizenship was obtained through a family reunification program.
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The Bartender
on Fri 12 Jan 2007 01:38 AM EST
Rep. Ron Paul, the iconoclastic, nine-term lawmaker from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward a second, quixotic presidential bid — this time as a Republican. |
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