Politics

PAY TO PLAY IN VEGAS

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fourwallers20mar20,0,6835689.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlinesFrom the Los Angeles Times COLUMN ONE Playing Out of Pocket In a Las Vegas practice known as ‘four-walling,’ entertainers pay to perform. It’s worked for George Wallace. Robert Goulet is another story. By Sam Howe Verhovek Times Staff Writer March 20, 2006 LAS VEGAS — To pitch his product, George Wallace has glad-handed every […]

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Where are the Meapons of Wass Destruction?

What the hell is a “weapons of mass destruction-related program activity?”  And what is its relationship to statements like these:”Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” –Dick Cheney Speech to VFW National Convention, Aug. 26, 2002 “Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for […]

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Remember when the Post did that story on missile defense?

FROM ALTERCATION:  HO HUM, More dishonesty, more wasted money, more scandals buried deep inside the Washington Post and largely uncovered elsewhere.  This one, you guessed it: “Missile Defense Testing May Be Inadequate.”  Hey Mr. Headline Writer, that is one hell of a “may” you got there.  Anyway, I miss the days when this was one of our […]

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“…Lumpy stew of discredited neoconservative ideas with some neo- Kissingerian geopolitics now mixed in”

If Bush ruled the world William Pfaff MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006 PARIS Intellectual poverty is the most striking quality of the Bush administration’s new National Security Strategy statement, issued on Thursday. Its overall incoherence, its clichés and stereotyped phraseology give the impression that Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, and his fellow authors assembled it […]

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