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Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Bush Administration Takes A Couple More Hits

Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi and William Niskanen of the libertarian Case Institute added thier voices to those of Democrates calling for the possible removal of deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove pending the outcome of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation. This comes right on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 31, 2005

Deflecting The Public's Attention From Libby, Bush Nominates Alito

Not wasting any time getting the media monster off the back of a prominent Bush administration aide, the president announced another nominee for replacing retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Samuel Alito, 55, who has been a 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judge for the past fifteen years... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Rove Dodges Bullet; Libby Indicted

Vice-president Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, was indicted today by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for lying to a grand jury. No mention was made in the five charges that Libby outed CIA agent Valerie Plame. I guess national security issues take a back burner to lying to a grand... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Amid Growing Controversy, Miers Removes Her Name From Nomination

Democrats and Republicans alike have been making pointed inquiries, demanding records, flat-out questioning the president's judgment in nominating Harriet Miers, his chief legal counsel, to the Supreme Court. Her extreme religious views have come under scrutiny and the president even invoked... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 24, 2005

Rosa Parks Dies At 92

The woman whose simple refusal to get up out of a seat for another that sparked the Civil Rights Movement in the United States has died. Rosa Parks, who, by her own admission, simply was tired and refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, died today at the age of 92. Her action led to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Rove Immediately Points Finger

After testifying before the Senate again today, Karl Rove said that he doesn't recall who exactly leaked the information, but that he may have gotten his info from Cheney's chief of staff, Libby. Not only does he not keep mum, he points a reasonably doubting finger at a cohort. Rove: stand-up guy.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 17, 2005

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The Bell South Tower in Atlanta became a giant pink-lit building this week in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's amazing. The entire building is pink. In honor of such an important month, I'd like to repost last year's entry from my blog Empyre: Sunday, October 24, 2004 Maybe Two... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

39% And Falling

Couldn't happen to a better president. Literally. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday, the president's rating on overall approval in his job performance has gone south of 40%. And only 28% of the respondents believe the United States is headed in the right direction.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

His Roommate Doesn't Think He Should Be Judged Too Harshly

I just saw the roommate of the Georgia Tech student who turned himself into police today and confessed to making the bombs that had the campus and the local and federal authorities thinking terrorism yesterday. This guy seems to think that his roomey is just a regular guy who did something stupid,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 10, 2005

A Terrorist Attack On Georgia Tech University?

Classes were cancelled and areas cordoned off as members of ATF and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia Tech security and local authorities scoured the campus of Georgia Tech for bottle bombs. Five of them were found and detonated by bomb squad experts. One exploded while a janitor... Sign in to see full entry.

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