December 2010
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Senator Bernie Sanders
Thanks, Bernie.
Now one of the things that we’re going to see going on is that while we struggle with a record breaking deficit and a large national debt; caused by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, caused by tax breaks for the wealthy, caused by an unpaid for medicare part D prescription drug program, caused by the wall-street bailout; driving up the deficit, driving up the national debt.
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JackTard of the Week
Bob Beckel, democratic strategist and all around master of nuance, in an appearance on Fox News recently, had this to say about Julian Assange:
A dead man can’t leak stuff. This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so…there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a...
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Lieberman for President
I feel bad for all our friends at the State Department and USAID who have been “banned” by their employers from accessing the WikiLeaks site, both at work and on their own home computers.
Essentially, the Federal Government’s logic is that because these cables haven’t officially been declassified, reading them would be breaking the law.
OK
Well, I guess that’s that. I’m glad the Government...
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Pakistan?
I wonder if the American government will ever be able to summon the courage to face the cablegate leaks with the same type of aplomb shown by nations that truly embrace free speech.
Nations like ..wait. What? Oh come on, really? Pakistan? You’ve got to be kidding me.
From Pakistan’s Lahore High Court ruling on whether or not to ban the Wikileaks site:
We must bear the truth, no matter how...
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Executed as Spies
WikiLeaks has been taking a bit of a pounding from the right since it began the release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables last week. Sarah Palin called for the organization’s founder Julian Assange to be treated as a terrorist and described him as an “anti-American operative with blood on his hands”. Mike Huckabee, and others in the right wing press, went further and suggested that those involved...