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Poll: 54% of Repubs Think ACORN Stole Election

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:17:03 -0500

The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.

Fox News Runs More Bogus Crowd Footage

doc_sarvis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:56 -0500

A week after admitting to running old crowd footage that exaggerated the size of a health reform bill protest, Fox News ran old footage in a report on crowds greeting Sarah Palin on her book tour. The network again claimed a "production error," but critics are asking whether the news organization is intentionally manipulating its audience.

Oklahoma Plans 'Christian' Prison

Doc_Sarvis — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:32:29 -0500

A proposal to establish a "Christian prison" in Wakita, Oklahoma has come under fire. According to media accounts, the prison would hire only Christian staff and its inmates would be required to participate in a Christ-centered curriculum. The criticism is based on the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of church-state separation.

GOP Group Got $200,000 from Accused Fraudster

Doc_Sarvis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:32:42 -0500

The Republican Governors Association got a $200,000 donation last year from Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein, who is being accused of a fraud worth as much as $1 billion. The RGA did not respond to requests for comment about the contribution, and it's not known whether the money has, or will be, returned.

Remnants of 50,000-Man Army Lost for 2,500 Years Found?

Doc_Sarvis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:06:41 -0500

In 525 B.C., the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination. The punitive expedition disappeared, swallowed up by the Sahara, and its fate became one of antiquity's most dramatic episodes of imperial overreach. But recent excavations in western Egypt by a team of Italian archaeologists may have unearthed traces of this long-lost army, entombed in the desert for some 2,500 years.

Palin Angered by Newsweek Cover

Doc_Sarvis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:36:36 -0500

This week's issue of Newsweek features a cover of Sarah Palin posed in running attire alongside a U.S. fag that she blasts as "out-of-context" and "sexist" on her Facebook page.

'Equalizer' Edward Woodward Dies

doc_sarvis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:38:10 -0500

Veteran actor Edward Woodward has died in England. He was 79. Woodward starred in the t.v. series The Equalizer and Callan, as well as the films The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant.

In Cold Blood, 50 Years on

Doc_Sarvis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:32:43 -0500

Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then Truman Capote arrived in town.

Rich: Missking Link From Killeen to Kabul

Doc_Sarvis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:40:56 -0500

"The dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right," writes Frank Rich. "[And if] something has been learned from the massacre at Fort Hood, it's that our hawks are utterly confused about who it is we're fighting in Afghanistan.

Disgraced Fundie Ted Haggard's Comeback Starts With a Lie

Doc_Sarvis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:42:54 -0500

Before resigning in disgrace after a three-year relationship with a male prostitute, Ted Haggard was one of the Christian Right's most powerful figures president of the National Association of Evangelicals and a close confidante of the Bush White House. Haggard, now purportedly "completely heterosexual," hosted a prayer meeting at his Colorado home last night in an attempt to mount a comeback, attracting 110 people. Saying "America loves a scandal, but they love a comeback even more," Haggard argued he can redeem himself in part because he was never a "hateful, anti-gay guy."

9/11 Trial Poses Unparalleled Legal Obstacles for Both Sides

doc_sarvis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:42:08 -0500

How do you defend one of the most notorious terrorist figures in history? One step, legal analysts say, may be to ask for a change of venue.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's lawyers, whoever they are, will no doubt question whether he can get a fair trial from a jury sitting, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. noted, in a Manhattan courthouse "just blocks away from where the Twin Towers once stood."

Then will come the inevitable challenges to interrogation methods used on Mr. Mohammed during more than six years in detention.

Florida Man Dials 911 for Phone Sex

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:32:28 -0500

A Tampa, Fl., man was arrested yesterday after allegedly placing a series of obscene 911 calls during which he asked a female operator about her breasts and whether she would have sex with him. Joshua Basso, 29, told police that his cell phone was out of minutes and he "called 911 because it was free."

Sullivan: Obama Has Strength Not Seen Since Reagan

Doc_Sarvis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:59:21 -0500

"The president waits, prods, allows the parties to reveal their hands, and keeps his final detailed position to himself," writes conservative Andrew Sullivan of Obama's decision making process. 'By allowing the debate to continue in public, he also tries to get the public more, rather than less, involved....But he won't be bounced and his concern seems to be genuinely to do the right and the most sustainable thing. Which is a kind of strength we haven't seen in a president since Reagan."

Key 9/11 Suspect to Be Tried in New York

doc_sarvis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:35:10 -0500

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused in the plot will be prosecuted in federal court in New York City, a federal law enforcement official said early on Friday.

Egan: The Social Contract Has Been Broken

Doc_Sarvis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:33:39 -0500

"It takes quite a bit for Americans to say that the social contract is broken, or look upon concentrated wealth as anything except a virtue," writes Timothy Egan. "But we may have reached that breach. Our politics are not simply left and right, conservative and liberal. Never have been. Every once in a while, the great middle of independents are stirred to one side. My guess is, if the drift caused by recent actions continues, the United States will be consumed in the coming year by the politics of betrayal, and the winner will be ahead of the rage."