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p>Atlantic Online Politics & Prose | by Jack Beatty

Two new studies of cable news throw light on the sources of Bush’s failure-proof support

Twenty-eight percent of Americans, in the most recent polls, approve of President Bush’s performance in office, suggesting that failure has a surprising large constituency. Who are these people and how can they still believe [...]

by Don Nash

Is that what that CNN/YouBoob thingy was? A debate? Come on, seriously. That wasn’t a debate. Let’s check the old dictionary for some relevance.

debate (di’bÄ?t) noun, a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward.

That was NOT a debate. Not in [...]

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p>NewsWithViews.com

By: Devvy July 23, 2007

“Certainly it is highly constitutionally questionable to empower the government to destroy someone economically without giving notice. This is so sweeping it’s staggering. I’ve never seen anything so broad that it expands beyond terrorism, beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to cower or intimidate a population…” Bruce Fein, [...]

Why Germans Supported Hitler Part I & II   Sophie Scholl: The Final Days  July 23, 2007

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The most remarkable part of the movie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is the courtroom scene, which is based on recently discovered German archives. Sophie and her brother Hans, along with their friend Christoph Probst, stand before the infamous [...]

by Don Nash

Pope Benedict the Sixteenth came out and stated quite categorically, “war is against God.� Wow there Pope-a-baby, really? Old Pope the Catholic Head Homeboy was reciting one of his fabulously famous Sunday Encyclical gizmos and got quite animated when he said what he said.

So let me see if I’ve got this straight. God [...]

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p>Columbus Free Press, OH

by Paul Craig Roberts

July 21, 2007

Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.

Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of “executive orders” that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national [...]

by Don Nash

Here’s the thing, American democracy belongs to ‘we the people’. American democracy doesn’t belong to Congress or to G. Bush or even to the Supremes of the Supreme Court. Hear that Antonin? Ain’t yours so, piss off!

American democracy isn’t a “commodity� that’s to be exported hither and yon at the whim and whimsy [...]