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<p>There are no weapons of mass destruction after all. That's the emerging consensus of the second team of weapons sleuths commanded by the United States in Iraq, as reported last week in the Los Angeles Times. The 1,400-member Iraq Survey Group found what the first wave of U.S. military experts and the United Nations inspectors before them discovered - nada.</p>

Cruz Bustamante it is. Or should be if not for the "giggle factor" that might propel a Jesse Ventura wannabe into management of the world's sixth-largest economy. Even if one accepts the false assumption of the recall — that California's governor, reelected by a clear majority less than a year ago, is suddenly unfit to govern — then the logical and fair alternative is to replace him with the lieutenant governor, who was selected by the voters for just that purpose. Bustamante has the training, experience and track record required to work with the Legislature to produce a budget come...

Analysis of US Casualties in Iraq by Week and Month - post Baghdad Liberation Day   April: Post- Baghdad Liberation Day - April 30   Week of Apr. 10 - Apr.16:   Apr.10: One Marine killed 22 wounded securing Baghdad Mosque:  Iraqi regime loyalists, terrorists and paramilitary forces engaged elements of Regimental Combat Team 5 (RCT-5) from the protection of an 8th century Shia Mosque. In over one hour of heavy gunfire exchange, the Marines of RCT-5 cleared the mosque for return to the Iraqi people....Marines quickly assessed the situation. After receiving permission to engage the enemy inside, Marines swiftly defeated the Iraqi...

The Republican fall guy in CaliforniaCalifornia Republicans should blame Bush, not Davis, for their state's economic woes. - - - - - - - - - - - -By Robert ScheerJuly 2, 2003  | The other day a woman asked me to sign a petition calling for the recall of California Gov. Gray Davis. Why, I asked. Because he bankrupted the state, she said. When I begged to differ that it was the Bush administration and its buddies at companies like Enron that had put the state into an economic tailspin, she said she was being paid according to the number...

Clinton Assigns BlameAnd, no, it’s not his fault.By Kevin M. Cherry, a writer living in Alexandria, Va..November 8, 2001 11:30 a.m.   n a speech at Georgetown University, President Bill Clinton blamed, in part, the United States for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Speaking to a group of about 1,000 students, the former president said that our nation is "paying a price" for slavery and for its treatment of the "significant number of native Americans" who "were dispossessed and killed."Osama bin Laden certainly has given no indication that he was concerned about the American sin of slavery —...

Scheer tells me all I need to know about local tax advocates. The Oregonian almost had me convinced. In this Sunday's commentary section. I waded soberly through the first two articles telling me how proud I should be for swallowing a local tax increase that, although it might break this family's budget, is surely good for the County. Then I get to Robert Scheer's propaganda. One week after its original publication (seven days of discrediting), the original editorial has been exposed as nothing more than hateful propaganda from enemies at the BBC (the same BBC that refuses now to defend...

Is anyone able to listen to this speech ? I have an older version of Real Player which doesn't work at this site. O'Reilly has been blasting LA Times reporter Robert Scheer this week. He might be interested in a sound bite from Robert Scheer defending (I am guessing) the Black Panthers: January 26, 1968 Rally for the Oakland 7. Includes speeches by Bobby Seale, Bettina Apthecker* (Free Speech Movement), Robert Scheer (Managing Editor, Ramparts Magazine), Bob Avakian (Peace & Freedom Party), and John Kelly (Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley). Listen to this recording (requires RealAudio) KPFA Radio, February 20,...

.Slandering the military? Posted: May 21, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Hard-left Los Angeles Times' columnist Robert Scheer's Tuesday column should not be missed. In "Saving Private Lynch: Take 2" Scheer asserts that the rescue of Jessica Lynch was a "fabrication" and a "caper." Scheer argues that the "manipulation of this saga really gets ugly" because of the "premeditated manufacture of the rescue itself, which stains those who have performed real acts of bravery, whether in war or peacetime." Scheer cites a BBC report, and ignores a Pentagon denial of the report. He rushed into print even as the BBC was...

In an odd way, I eagerly await the next could-be scandal that the left will attempt to hang around the neck of George W. Bush. It has become a perverse type of spectator sport for me. Granted the current "corporate greed" thing hasn't run its course and it may yet "have legs", irrespective of any truth behind it. No matter, should it die out tomorrow, whatever the next big problem may be, we can all rest assured that it will be Bush's fault. If we're to accept the rhetoric of the Democrats and the blazingly irresponsible headlines in the...