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I got this email from godaddy.com today:
Dear Valued Go Daddy Customer,
Today I have the unfortunate responsibility of informing you that there has been a decision made by bureaucrats of a Federal agency that takes away your right to privacy as guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
This decision was unilaterally made by the National Telecommunications and [...]

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Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer called on NASA Tuesday to go ahead with plans to send a robot to service the Hubble Space Telescope while officials from the space agency said such a mission likely won’t happen due to proposed budget cuts.
"This is a very important mission for us to continue and complete," he said during [...]

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Australians consider US foreign policy as dangerous as Islamic fundamentalism, and are more worried about global warming than terrorism, a survey has revealed.
The inaugural Lowy Institute Poll asked 1,000 randomly-sele cted Australians for their views on a range of foreign policy issues including the war in Iraq, the US free trade agreement (FTA) and globalisation.
The [...]

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I have heard non-stop for two years how teh reason there is still a war in Iraq is because Iraqis hate us.  Here’s some samples:

Iraqis Hate U.S. Policies, Not Freedom
Why Iraqis Hate us
90 Percent Of Iraqis Hate Us And The Other 10 Percent Have Left Iraq
ABC: Iraqis Hate U.S.; NBC: Iraqis Still Fear [...]

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Yesterday I made this observation:
I really doubt Annan will resign tomorrow.  Although he should.

Today’s headline:
Will Annan Resign? ‘Hell No’

Here’s the Volcker Report.  Be careful, it’s about a 3.5 meg PDF file that will blow Internet Explorer’s mind sometimes.
Annan still should resign.  He’s going to be fighting these accusations for years.

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Left2right caught this little irony:

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A jury began deliberating Monday in a lawsuit accusing New Orleans’ first black district attorney of racial discrimination for dismissing dozens of white employees upon taking office.
In closing arguments, lawyers for District Attorney Eddie Jordan said he had a right to hire and fire whomever he wanted, and was motivated not by racism but by [...]

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This blog has new information from sources close to the investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Scandal by Paul Volcker’s Independent Inquiry Committee. After some delay, the committee is releasing its preliminary results at noon Tuesday. This report may reveal, among other things, startling information tending to indicate Secretary General Kofi Annan had more knowledge [...]

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We’ve apparently got a new Democrat issue to deal with:
The shocking thing is that of the debt we went out and borrowed last year, almost all of it was borrowed from foreign sources, said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., at a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing. And the two biggest sources that we’re borrowing from are [...]

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John Gibson states today:
Just to burnish my reputation as a bomb thrower, I think Jeb Bush should give serious thought to storming the Bastille.
By that I mean he should think about telling his cops to go over to Terri Schiavo’s hospice, go inside, put her on a gurney and load her into an ambulance. [...]

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