The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    And the answer is....

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 3:50am |
    The Pew survey has lots of other nuggets that should provide many, many hours of blog discussions beginning with the opening paragraph of the summary:"Both major political parties have a problem with their approach toward religion, in the eyes of...

    The Fair Tax game begins.

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 3:42am |
    This is an FYI post.Guess what book is the second bestseller at Amazon.com:  Neal Boortz and John Linder's The Fair Tax, beaten only by the latest Harry Potter.Kind of scary, isn't it.Also today Boortz launched his book tour on Hannity and...
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    eavesdropping and the "new technology" riddle: an hypothesis

    By jollyroger on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:21am |
    Josh has linked to a variety of tech/sigint/spook sites mulling the interface of technology, tradecraft, and gumshoe lore seeking an explanation for the strange decision by the administration to eschew the legal route to sigint for a darker and more...
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    A Life Change

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:17am |
    I needed a job, partly because my health insurance is terrible because as a private person, the fact that I had breast cancer 7 years ago counts against me so much that I simply HAD to be in a group. ...
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    Stop the Presses! We Have the Wrong President

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:09am |
    A computer expert has testified http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htmthat he was asked to, and did produce software that allowed hacking into voting computers in Ohio which would flip the vote from say, 49 - 51 to the opposite.  He also said it was untraceable. ...
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    The Bridge to Nowhere Ammendment

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:08am |
    Vote Summary By Senator Name         By Home StateGrouped By Vote PositionYEAs ---15Allard (R-CO)Allen (R-VA)Bayh (D-IN)Burr (R-NC)Coburn (R-OK)Conrad (D-ND)DeMint (R-SC)DeWine (R-OH)Feingold (D-WI)Graham (R-SC)Kyl (R-AZ)Landrieu (D-LA)Sessions (R-AL)Sununu (R-NH)Vitter (R-LA)NAYs ---82Akaka (D-HI)Alexander (R-TN)Baucus (D-MT)Bennett (R-UT)Biden (D-DE)Bingaman (D-NM)Bond (R-MO)Boxer (D-CA)Brownback (R-KS)Bunning (R-KY)Burns (R-MT)Byrd (D-WV)Cantwell...
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    President Bush: "Who me?"

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:07am |
    What do you think of this from today's New York Daily News?http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/357107p-304312c.htmlSome are using this story to go after Bush's and McClelland's statements about Rove, Libby, and leakers in general.   Horrors!  This proves that they must be disengenuous! My take on it is...
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    Let's Look at Bankruptcy

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:05am |
    Well, for starters, I didn't used to feel sympathy for them, but then my best friend, one of the smartest people I know confided in me that she was $50,000 in debt to credit card companies.  I couldn't believe it! ...
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    Practice What We Preach

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:04am |
    Many of us made much of Karen Hughes' blunders in Saudi Arabia and Turkey.  Her unstated theme was, "If you just really knew us you would like us so much.  We have all the answers, and so you should try...
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    HELP!

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:03am |
    The ad by Patty Wetterling that bops from one view to another is so distracting that I wouldn't vote for her no matter what!  Please!  Stop that ad and don't put any more like that!  I can't read unless I...
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    As If We Needed Any More Bad News...

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:02am |
    For an administration that views every problem as one that can be managed with spin; with the right public relations ploy, Karen Hughes is a no-brainer (pun intended).This is a woman who "feminized" Bush -- taught him to always say...
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    What About the Next Emergency?

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:00am |
    I buy produce, meat, poultry, seafood, etc as I eat it.  I don't have a freezer full of stuff.  I did buy a whole bunch of water containers last winter, but they froze and leaked all over my garage floor.So,...
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    Where is the Coverage?

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 1:00am |
    I mean,  I care about those who have suffered from mother nature.  After all, YOU CAN'T FOOL MOTHER NATURE, can you?But let's face it -- you can only review the same footage 1000 times before it gets, well... old!So, why...
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    A Song for September 24th

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:59am |
    I posted this as a comment to someone else's blog, but it is so short and catchy, I thought I'd try to get it out to more people.  I think this would be a great chant in DC next week...
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    Venezuela, France to the Rescue -- Maybe

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:51am |
    A lesson that I learned the hard way is that the ability to graciously accept help is an indication of strength and friendship.  We in the US are usually on the other side of the equasion, and often generously offer aid to...
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    Rovegate and Nesting Dolls

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:49am |
    most particulary those (Time, The NYT, et al) who granted double-super-secret status -- NOT to the whistleblower -- but to those who wanted to ruin the whistleblower!  He likens this to Erlichman and Haldeman meeting, say, a Matt Cooper in...
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    Fair Tax

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:49am |
    If they had, they would not be referring to it as a VAT Tax.  Regarding Social Security and its threatened demise:  Recently people became so concerned about the latest Supreme Court decision regarding eminent domain, that they made their concerns...
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    Cindy Sheehan and the Glorification of Leaders

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:49am |
    For a neo-con to actually look at Bush's record and to acknowledge that (best case senario here...) he was mistaken about WMD's, that there most likely wasn't adequate or realistic preparation for the aftermath of the invasion; to site two...
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    CNN's Dead Wrong

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:47am |
    Seeing Condi Rice talk about the "mushroom cloud," Cheney snarling about bioweapons and nuclear devices, and Colin Powell prostituting himself at the UN sent a chill up my spine.  Then, finally, Bush himself with that deer-in-the-headlights expression on his face, and the...
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    Mother of Dead Vet told she had to walk in the ditch near Crawford in order to protest

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:43am |
    Why should this woman have to walk in the ditch in the first place?  The account never states that they were interfering with traffic -- who in their right mind would be out on the road in Texas in August...
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    Recess Appointments

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:41am |
    The President's power to make recess appointments is enumerated in the U.S. Constitution: Article. II. Section. 2. Clause 3: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting...

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