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The Republican rebellion against the war in Iraq widened over the weekend as more of the party’s senators voiced dissent against President George W. Bush’s strategy. Republican unity on Iraq has shattered in recent weeks, amid mounting pessimism about the ability of US forces to bring stability to the country. Weakening Republican support for the war has left Mr Bush looking increasingly isolated as Congressional Democrats prepare for a fresh barrage of votes aimed at forcing a US withdrawal from Iraq. Three Republican senators have joined the calls for a change of course in Iraq in recent days, adding to...

Anticipating a cloture vote on the immigration bill on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) today said he will be in opposition. He said, “I plan to vote against cloture on the immigration bill, as I have already done twice during this debate. I believe a better approach would be a more modest bill that focuses on border security, employer identification, and putting systems in place that will put us in a position to actually enforce a new immigration policy. Sen. Lamar Alexander said he will also vote against cloture.

www.wrecradio.com/main.html Mike Fleming is to have Lamar Alexander on today to talk about immigration. Maybe we might find out his stance with both GA and now TX voting "no cloture".

How Alexander the Great used 'Mother Nature' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:45am BST 15/05/2007 Alexander the Great had ''Mother Nature'' on his side when he conquered the island fortress of Tyre in 332 BC, says a study published today. A bust of Alexander the Great Tyre, in present day Lebanon, was then a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Now archeologists have at last worked out how Alexander's engineers managed to build a causeway to enable his army to conquer what had become a bastion of resistance. All previous settlements on...

KIRKLAND, Wash. - Shaun Alexander might still have a broken foot, something he doesn't want confirmed just yet. The Seattle Seahawks' star running back said Monday his left foot, broken for the final four months of last season, may still be cracked as he begins the 2007 preseason. The 2005 NFL MVP doesn't want to know for sure until after his team's veteran minicamp ends Thursday. RB Alexander tracks a pass in Seahawks minicamp. He later talks about being a new dad, the upcoming season and his injured foot.

Alexander's Afghan gold After establishing the Egyptian port city of Alexandria in 331 BC, Alexander the Great founded Greek garrison cities across Asia, including Afghanistan. His legacy is on show in a new Paris exhibition, writes David Tresilian "Sovereign and Dragon" pendant found at the Tillia Tepe treasure While not drawing quite the crowds making their way to the Grand Palais for Trésors engloutis d'Egypte, an exhibition of mostly Ptolemaic artefacts -- "submerged treasures" -- discovered off the coast of Alexandria and reviewed in Al-Ahram Weekly on 14 December, Afghanistan, les trésors retrouvés across Paris at the Musée Guimet should...

Alexander, Lieberman introducing breakfasts to help colleagues unite - WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Joe Lieberman have planned an experiment for next year aimed at getting more senators to be civil to each other and to unite on some legislative solutions. The rough idea hatched after the Nov. 7 elections showed that many voters were upset with gridlock and bickering in Washington. Their plan in brief: hold weekly breakfasts for senators only with the bold hope over time for much closer relationships between legislators of opposing parties, less arguing and fewer delays in passing bills. The meeting time...

As rumored since last year, Political Wire has learned that Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) will run for Senate Minority Whip. He launched a "quiet campaign" just before the midterm elections in anticipation that the previous holder of the position, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), would lose his re-election race. However, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) declared last week he has lined up the votes for the leadership post.

Sen. Trent Lott is being coy about whether he'll run for minority whip in the GOP leadership elections slated for Wednesday. But while Lott plays his cards close to his vest, his presumptive rival, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., has already declared himself the winner.

WASHINGTON Oct 16, 2006 (AP)— The House ethics committee Monday questioned the top aide in a Louisiana congressman's office, where a chain of events began that raised questions about Republican handling of ex-Rep. Mark Foley's approaches to male pages. Royal Alexander, chief of staff to Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., testified in closed session. The two are not related. Rep. Alexander's office last fall complained to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's staff about Foley's overly friendly but not sexually explicit e-mails to a former Louisiana teenage page the congressman had sponsored. Royal Alexander said outside the ethics committee, "We've done what we...

New fireworks in that scandal involving a 16-year-old former page: a senior congressional aide says he came forward two years ago, telling senior staffers in the House of Representatives about Congressman Mark Foley's troubling behavior with teenaged boys who worked as capital pages. One of the boys worked for Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander. In Monroe today, Alexander sat down with WAFB's Jim Shannon complaining this scandal has quickly become all about politics, and not about helping the boys involved. "At this point it's a feeding frenzy. It's a political hot bed," Louisiana Rep. Rodney Alexander says of the recent e-mail...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., the congressman who sponsored the page at the heart of the recent Capitol Hill sex scandal furor and initially said Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., "knew about the e-mails that we knew about," including one in which Foley asked the page to send his picture, has now backed off that comment, saying he discussed the e-mails with Hastert's aides, not the speaker himself. "I guess that's a poor choice of words that I made there," Alexander told AP. The speaker has said he was not aware of the e-mails...

Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children’s issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday. The exchanges began with what Republicans now describe as an “overfriendly” e-mail message from Mr. Foley to the unidentified teenager. But news reports about the exchanges have led to the disclosure of e-mail correspondence with other former pages in which the discussions became more and more sexually explicit. Shortly after he was confronted by ABC News on Friday about...

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Poster's note: this is a long read, but well worth it. Solzhenitsyn describes succinctly what many of us feel, but cannot express.Text of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 1978 I am sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today's graduates. Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we...

David Horowitz - Ward Churchill Debate From George Washington University to Air on C-SPAN Saturday, 8 EDT. The topic was Politics in the Classroom.

On April 6-7, 2006, Students for Academic Freedom will host its First National Academic Freedom Conference featuring a debate between Students for Academic Freedom Chairman David Horowitz and University of Colorado-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill. The topic for debate will be: “Can Politics Be Taken Out Of The Classroom, and Should It Be?” The debate will be held Thursday evening on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC. Young America’s Foundation and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture are the co-hosts of the debate. Seating for the debate is limited and will be determined by George Washington...

I refused to go see it at the movies, because of the rumor of the gay thing. Just watched the DVD from blockbuster, and being I swing a hammer for a living, I missed this part of my formal education....Ancient Persia. Now, there were a couple scenes where "you thought maybe..." or, was there a possible slant in my own mind that they were switch hitters? IOW, is my bigoted outlook showing me they were indeed pillow biters, or was I seeing true love in friendship back in the day? The came unglued when his Persian wife killed his life...

Bin Laden cannot be named in Damra trial Judge fears mention would inflame jurors Tuesday, June 15, 2004 John Caniglia Plain Dealer Reporter A federal judge, fearing the mention of Osama bin Laden would prejudice jurors, barred prosecutors from bringing up the terrorist's name during imam Fawaz Damra's trial, which begins today in Akron. Damra, the leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, is accused of concealing his ties to terrorism on immigration forms in 1994. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to five years in prison and deported. U.S. District Judge James Gwin's decision helped Damra, 41,...