Separation of church and state, anyone? The president doesn't speak for the state in the same way that the Queen of England does, for instance. Abraham Lincoln: ``I have often wished I was a more devout man. Nevertheless, amid the great difficulties of my administration, when I could not see...

Florida List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed By FORD FESSENDEN Published: July 10, 2004 Florida election officials used a flawed method to come up with a listing of people believed to be convicted felons, a list that they are recommending be used to purge voter registration rolls, state...

Oh ho! The Pentagon said Bush 43's military records had been destroyed. Guess what? Dulicate copies exist. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=16&u=/ap/bush_military_service WASHINGTON - The Associated Press asked a federal judge Friday to order the Pentagon (news - web...

More objective research before jumping to the conclusion of "dishonest and dishonorable" might be very appropriate in this PARTICULAR case! Senator Kerry's 1969 fitness report: "In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action LTJG (Lieutenant Junior Grade) Kerry was...

"Says retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, a member of the group who is advising John Kerry but was Oregon chairman for the Dole campaign in 1996 and a Veteran for Bush in 2000: “I don’t think that this accusation of politics on my part will wash. It’s just this administration has gone away...

Kerry has not and will not release either of his records. View Kerry's records he http://awolbush.com/ Walt

NEW YORK — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged Democrats and liberals as the Republican convention here wrapped up this week. Their shoulders hunched, their eyes at a droop, they lower their voice to a whisper hoping that if they don't say it too loud it may not...

Records show pledges unmet September 8, 2004 This article was reported by the Globe Spotlight Team -- reporters Stephen Kurkjian, Francie Latour, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes, and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Robinson. In February, when the White House made public...

Bush fell short on duty at Guard WRONG. According to new documents obtained by the Boston Globe, Bush signed a statement that he would find a new drilling unit in the Boston area within 60 days of locating there. He never did.

Today's NY Times: "It would be silly, of course, to overstate the parallels between 1776 and 2004. The signers of the declaration were colonial subjects of a man they had come to see as a foreign king. One of their major grievances had to do with the tax burden imposed on them to support the...

Hey Art. Check this out: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prices for medicines most used by older Americans rose steadily after the Bush administration enacted the new Medicare law late last year, the nation's largest group representing the elderly said on Wednesday. AARP, formerly known as the American...

Now, can the president ensure that every government employee, or serviceman/woman is doing their full duty 100% of the time? No. But he's in charge, and he is responsible. You can't be held responsible for things outside your ability to control. Your two statements above are...

100 Miserable Failures of the Bush Administration: 1. Failing to build a real international coalition prior to the Iraq invasion, forcing the US to shoulder the full cost and consequences of the war. 2. Approving the demobilization of the Iraqi Army in May, 2003 – bypassing the Joint Chiefs of...

From the New York Times: Just when you've persuaded yourself yet again that this isn't Vietnam, you are hit by another acid flashback. Last weekend that flashback was to 1969. It was in June 1969 that Life magazine ran its cover story "The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll,"...

Analysis - By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 1 (IPS) - Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on U.S. foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo-conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favour, both within the administration of President George W Bush and in Baghdad...

Oh, yes. There is a Republican party dirty tricks apparatus: "Donald H. Segretti (born September 17, 1941) was a political operative for the Nixon White House during the 1970s. Segretti ran a campaign of dirty tricks against the Democrats. His actions were part of the larger Watergate Scandal. He...

"It wasn’t reported in mainstream press, but the NAACP sued Harris and the gang for the black purge, and won. The state threw up its hands immediately and said, ‘You got us! We’ll put these people back as soon as we can. The NCAACP simply wanted voting rights to be returned to those whom were...

Where to start? "Tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze all threat information in a single location. Our government must have the very best...

Today's New York Times: "The extreme reach of the administration's view that a war president is not subject to check by the other branches of government was apparent in the recently disclosed memorandums on torturing prisoners. A Defense Department memo from March 2003 said that "any effort by...

Bush Avoided Going after Zarqawi for political reasons. In his effort to claim he is the strongest candidate on national security, President Bush has lately been speaking a lot about how he is doing everything possible to track down terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi1 - the man thought to be...