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Contributed by Cesar Aguado
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 Obama & Richardson Governor Richardson of New Mexico Endorses Obama by Cesar Aguado. In a move that could potentially sway Democratic Hispanics to vote for Barack Obama, New Mexico Governor Richardson announced his endorsement of Obama for President on Friday. This move was surprising, since he served the Clinton administration as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations and as the Energy Secretary under the Presidency of Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton.
Although Governor Richardson reaffirmed his affection for the Clinton family, he said of Obama in a statement given in Oregon on Friday, March 21, “Your candidacy is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our nation, and you are a once-in-a-lifetime leader.” He also said he felt it was time for a new generation to lead in the White House. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Bush “Worst. President. Ever by Scott Horton. It would be
difficult to identify a President who, facing
major international and domestic crises, has failed in both as clearly
as President Bush,” concluded one respondent. “His domestic
policies,”
another noted, “have had the cumulative effect of shoring up a
semi-permanent aristocracy of capital that dwarfs the aristocracy of
land against which the founding fathers rebelled; of encouraging a
mindless retreat from science and rationalism; and of crippling the
nation’s economic base.”
America’s historians, it seems, don’t think much of George W. Bush.
Now in all fairness, historians should wait a while before passing
judgment on a president’s who served recently, much less one still in
office. But the current incumbent is a special case. After all, 81
percent of Americans, according to a recent New York Times poll,
believe he’s taken the country on the wrong track. That’s the highest
number ever registered. The same poll also says 28 percent have a
favorable view of his performance in office, which is also in
Nixon-in-the-darkest-days-of-Watergate territory.
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Contributed by Ned Vare
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 School Security School Security - Jumbo Shrimp By Ned Vare. “If I had to choose, I’d rather the state feed and clothe my children than let it educate them.” -- Iowa grain dealer, Max Belz.
“School security” is an oxymoron. Despite what school officials might say, no one is safe in public schools. I’m not talking about mad shooters. The primary attack on children comes from within the schools, not from outside, and it is constant. It comes from the poorly educated staff, the boring classes, the academic mediocrity, the distrust, the coercion, the bullying, the unfair rules and restrictions. Together, those create the culture, the climate of frustration and anger. In turn, that causes some people to commit the violence -- often extreme. Public school makes everyone its victim. Consider the following: |
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Contributed by John Lay
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 Powell, Bush & Cheney How Many False Statements Equal a Lie? Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war. Story Highlights: *Study searched database for statements by Bush, aides, in
2001-2003. *Bush made 260 false statements about Iraqi weapons, al
Qaeda, study says. *Study accuses former Secretary of State Colin Powell of 244
false statements. *Also on the list: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, former White House
spokesmen
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush and his top aides publicly
made 935
false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years
following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by
two nonprofit journalism groups.
"In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on
the basis
of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that
culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an
overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public
Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Hemp Crop Judge calls anti hemp legislation "Assinine" - That's right! He said Assinine. In the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, there's an interesting fight going on between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and members of the Lakota Nation at Pine Ridge. DEA are trying to place an injunction preventing the White Plumes from growing industrial hemp.
In what has been deemed a Tribal sovereignty case. You see the White Plume family has been planting industrial grade hemp (tho illegal to grow in the US, Industrial Hemp contains virtually none of the THC, not enough Cannabinols to give a buzz to any size human)
After the Government made it's case, Judge Arlin "Jim" Beam commented, "It seems asinine to me that they can bring in the Canadian stuff and use it but can't grow it."
Beam also suggested that it did not make sense that Congress would try to make the economy of Native American tribes more enhanced by casino gambling but not allow industrial hemp cultivation.
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