I’d like to think the Illinois man just busted for allegedly stealing more than $45,000 worth of eyeglasses is a politician of some type: who else would be so myopic that they would need so many pair?
Unfortunately, the Associated Press story fails to mention what the man does for a living….though we apparently know what [...]

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Looks like the evil number two (Dick Cheney) was more evil than anyone could have imagined. Seems he deliberately kept a secret program the CIA was running away from congressional scrutiny.

In fact, it appears, according to reports, as if he even kept knowledge of the program from other high ranking members of the Bush administration.
Now, [...]

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Looks like President “W” set up a domestic surveillance operation of historic–and probably illegal–proportions, according to an Associated Press report quoting “a team of federal inspectors” who just issued a devastating report.
The five inspectors general say the Bush program featured “unprecedented collection activities.”  And, worse still, most of these activities are apparently still top secret [...]

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Just a brief word about the Michael Jackson memorial today in Los Angeles.
I got to cover it from inside Staples Center…one of the more extraordinary “events” I have witnessed: Part funeral, part celebration, part concert!
Although there were many high powered performers there–friends of Jackson’s–the truest moment, it seemed to me, belonged to his young daughter [...]

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President Obama’s stimulus plan, so far, doesn’t seem to be stimulating nearly enough.
True, Obama did say that it would take time to get out of the utter economic mess the country now finds itself in…but, that said, it would have been nice if people, by now, could have seen some real progress being made.
Instead, the [...]

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