Archive for the ‘bush’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Consumer inflation has been obvious this entire year. Annualize this month's and you get 13%+. Worst economic conditions in this country in my adult lifetime.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Only forty-one Republicans stuck with the president seeking to uphold the veto. Also, Krugman sees this as a promising beginning to universal care.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May - a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago. When drawing up regulations, government agencies put a value on human life and then weigh the costs versus the ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
In the just-released Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, the president won approval from 23% of all registered voters -- including 3% of Democrats and 58% of Republicans. Those numbers are down from February, when he had an approval rating of 35%.Read the full story
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Foreign firms set to return after 36 years for developing Iraqi oil fields. The war appears to be a "success" to corporate interests!
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Some definite temporary progress. My sense is that paying the Sunni's for peace is probably fueling a future powderkeg. It's not a sustainable strategy.Read the full story
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.Read the full story
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Officials guess it will be four days before the Cedar River drops enough for workers to even begin pumping out water that has submerged more than 400 blocks, threatened the city's drinking supply and forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital. Bush: "I will not resign until every city in ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Stephen Colbert's courageous tenacity speaking truth to power at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner deserves another look. He was mocking McCain as a maverick before the Bush administration had rearranged the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. McClellan and Scalia are there too and some not so subtle jabs at ...
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