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Prepare your mind and body for a trip into the Twilight Zone. Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives said yesterday that the Democrats will offer no unified position on Iraq in 2006. Despite claims by Democrats and the media that the Bush administration has no plan, Pelosi said that differing opinions within her party regarding Iraq are “a sign of strength.” In comments made to the Washington Post, Pelosi told reporters and editors that Democrats “should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual...

Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open the Door, I'll Get it Myself)." – James Brown “In the colonies the truth stood naked but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth I double-dog dare anyone to solve the mystery of the Negro Conservative. The dictionaries define conservatism as “the tendency to maintain the existing order and to resist change;” conservative is “favoring preservation of the existing order.” Why would an African American, whose historical experience and contemporary status are largely shaped by racism...

The media has bombarded us with these stories about the 9/11 families' dismay at the Bush ads. But who are these people? After watching them on Today, Hardball, Fox, etc. etc. etc., I decided to do a little snooping. I didn't have the names of those on TV, so I went with news articles on the web. This is probably not news to you, but they're bleeding heart, anti war, peace protesters. If the press weren't so biased they would be calling them the "Bush Haters". What I found is below:

This is the best they got?KerryIt's Vietnam all over again, A quagmire I tell you a quagmire! My vote for the war was so you couldn't go to war! How dare you go to the UN with promises instead of empty rhetoric! Brent Scowcroft and Jim Baker promised me (or someone I know) that you were only kidding! You misled us by telling us what you were going to do, and had the balls to actually do it!! No politician does that you liar!! W, I went to Vietnam, I served in Vietnam, We lost in Vietnam, and Mr. Bush,...

The study by the Joint Committee on Taxation said Enron's management viewed its tax department as a profit center and was assisted by outside advisers that included major accounting firms, investment banks and lawyers. Now-bankrupt Enron also paid just $325 million in federal income taxes for the period 1990 to 1995 and $63 million for the 2000 to 2001 period. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee which requested the report, said the Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) was "kept in the dark and out maneuvered." "Enron not only engaged in accounting...