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Roger L. Simon asks a very simple question, "What does "fair and balanced" mean anyway?".  This is a no-brainer to me, but for some reason it’s not a widely accepted definition.  "It" being "just the facts m’am."  Just give me the details, I’ll spin it, apply my own biases, and interpret it as I see [...]

Tags: Opinions

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The Guantanamo detainee who told an FBI agent in 2002 that U.S. personnel there had flushed a Koran in a toilet retracted his allegation when questioned this month by military investigators, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
"We’ve gone back to the detainee who allegedly made the allegation and he has said it didn’t happen. So [...]

Tags: The Media

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Bill Hobbs has the individual indictments on his web page.  They make for some very interesting reading.  The best one by far is John Ford’s.  He actually apparently is taped saying he would kill someone if they were an FBI agent.  He said it to, an FBI agent.  He’s toast.  The rest have apparently been [...]

Tags: Ethics

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For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president in 2008, according to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday.

Well, that’s not a totally correct headline.  Here’s why:
In the poll, 29% were "very likely" to vote for Clinton for [...]

Tags: 2006 US Senate Races, 2008 Presidential Race

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There’s some interesting events occurring in Tennessee right now:
From Bill Hobbs.com:
The Nashville City Paper has just posted a report the same names I had: State Sen. Ward Crutchfield, D-Chattanooga, and state Rep. Chris Newton, R-Cleveland. The City Paper says the two were arrested by the FBI near the state Capitol this morning and led away [...]

Tags: National Politics

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I’ve been involved in a discussion on The Motley Fool with one of my buddies, CCSand, and others. Specifically regarding whether or not women voters tend to vote more with their libido than male voters. I expected to be trashed for suggesting such, and I was. However, I have experienced the political [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, bella-abzug, henry-waxman, jessica-simpson, National Politics, voting-with-your-penis

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Now that’s something I really didn’t expect to see anytime soon.  What
that is is the Iraqi stock exchange. 
It’s kinda small right now, in fact,
here’s every company
trading at this time.  That’s a list of only 65 companies trading at
this time.
Now, the financial instinct I have is that their prices MUST be depressed at
this time.
( DISCLAIMERS: Buy [...]

Tags: International Issues

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I don’t even believe this one.  Newsweek’s at it again.  This was their February 2nd US cover:

And here’s their foreign cover:

It translates to:
The red text at the left just above the ��Newsweek�� logo says:
��America forsaken.��
The big white and yellow text says:
��The Day America Died The ideal of ��freedom�� falls to the ground due to [...]

Tags: The Media

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My buddy Stormwarning posted this on The Motley Fool.  I liked it so much I stole it ( again ).  Here it is:
The Council on Foreign Relations is a very reputable and accepted website for accurate and objective information. It should also be noted (by any that care, that Steven Flynn. a member of CFR’s [...]

Tags: International Politics

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As the price of oil skyrocketed, the pie in the sky hopes of the environmentalists and the pragmatists such as myself started to appear more realistic of finally seeing society accept the concept of alternatives to relying on petroleum.  Yesterday was another important step in that direction:
In an announcement made at 11 a.m., Kentucky Governor [...]

Tags: Businesses, Oil Supply

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