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Columbia Leaders Unsuccessfully Trying to Put Ransom Rumors to Rest. Someone get the bug spray.

Bill Lenner — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:37:00 GMT

And evidence that the rumor may be true keeps sneaking in 'como mosquitos pesados'.Excerpt: LA Times report "Colombia leaders call ransom story 'absolutely false' ":BTW, before the excerpts I'll remind you that Col

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US Government Given Heads Up on Rescue Attempt of Columbian Hostages. Did Bush administration pass it on to McCain's campaign? European news is reporting the hostages were released because of a deal i
Columbia Releases Video Purporting to Show Authentic Rescue. Production Shows Signs of Editing
Columbian President Causes Reporter to Flee Country
Journalism School Probes Possible Cheating on Ethics Exam

Bush Administration Working to Weaken Rules Protecting Investors Created After Enron Collapse and Stock Market Meltdown of 2002

Bill Lenner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:06:00 GMT

According to NY Times report "Accounting Plan Would Allow Use of Foreign Rules ": Apparently the Bush administration is pushing to breakdown what were considered pretty wimpy protections put in place after the Enron collapse and stock

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Why Did John McCain Put A Swift Boat Veteran Out to Smear Clark and Obama

Bill Lenner — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:42:00 GMT

Just to put this in other words: since John McCain is trying to portray himself as a new kind of Republican, not one of those like his predecessors with their reliance on Karl Rove, why did he allow the lying attack on WesleyClark?This was not a 527

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US Government Given Heads Up on Rescue Attempt of Columbian Hostages. Did Bush administration pass it on to McCain's campaign? European news is reporting the hostages were released because of a deal i

Bill Lenner — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:59:00 GMT

The coincidence of McCain traveling to Columbia just as a hostage rescue is worked strains the credulity genes. Shades of storytelling like was done about the 'rescue of Jessica Lynch? or worse did they have to wait for McCain's trip to get release

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Hunt Oil Got Insider Information on oil deal in Iraq (and may have gotten another heads up on the original 'Kurdistan' deal via seat on Bush's Foreign Intelligence Policy Board)

Bill Lenner — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:08:00 GMT

An oil deal that flew in the face of stated Bush and al Maliki administration goals was crafted between Texas company Hunt Oil and the leadership of Kurdistan (oops, the Kurdish part of Iraq, of course. Just because the Kurds administer themsel

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Who Needs 527s? RNC Forming Committee To Run Pro-McCain Ads

Bill Lenner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Remember when Barack Obama turned down public financing because the GOP gets around the restrictions by having the national committee and 527s create big money ads for their candidate, thereby destroying the effectiveness and purpose of the system?An

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Flash to News Media and McCain Crew: Wesley Clark is not a part of the Barack Obama Campaign

Bill Lenner — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Wesley Clark is not a surrogate for Barack Obama as an LA Times report "The campaign comment that will not die " points out:Clark isn't even a member of Obama's campaign. He backed Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nominatio

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Tom Brokaw Tells Schwarzenegger that He'd Be Fired If He Were a CEO

Bill Lenner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT

The Governator replies that state's problems are due to national economic crisis.See LA Times "Brokaw needles Schwarzenegger on spending, economy ". But, of course in 2003 Rs ignored national economic crisis as they demanded a reca

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Wayne La Pierre Needs to Check into Public Housing

Bill Lenner — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:28:00 GMT

I'll make a deal with him. If Mr. La Pierre wants his organization to promote forcing municipalities to allow guns in public housing, that he should make a deal to live in the first public housing system that gets regunned, at least for 6 m

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Supreme Court Takes A Bite Out Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 and May Endanger Even More Basic Campaign Finance Laws

Bill Lenner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT

This year's legislation from the court strikes down the "Millionaire's Amendment" which allows easing of campaign finance rules when a candidate is faced with an opponent who can spend large amounts of his or her own money.Richard B

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Supreme Court Strikes Down DC's Handgun Law. Justice Antonin 'Torture is good!' Scalia Cites 'Historical Narrative'. No kidding

Bill Lenner — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:00 GMT

Somebody watched too many John Wayne movies when he was a kid.Apparently, to make the a decision to decide that Washington DC's handgun ban was unconstitutional Justice Antonin Scalia had to use 'historical narrative' as his guide since t

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Air Force Refueling Tankers Controversy Show McCain Camp A Little Too Cozy With European Arms Contractors. Interfering with Military Needs.

Bill Lenner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:04:00 GMT

Excerpt Newsweek report "McCain’s Boeing Battle Boomerangs ":One of John McCain's most celebrated achievements in recent years was his crusade to block a Pentagon contract with Boeing for a new fleet of midair refueling tankers. I

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The Truth About Obama and Public Financing

Bill Lenner — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:47:00 GMT

Most of mainstream failed to get the whole story and tell it to you, but here's a video that covers it from MSNBC's Countdown.Most of mainstream news is like the blind men and the elephant and even at that they tend to put their hands where

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Day Five Without Michelle Obama's Video Surfacing. Was Lie Based on a Published Work of Fiction?

Bill Lenner — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Sad to say that it took the right wing National Review had someone who remembered a book in which a black candidate was heard saying he'd f* whitey" if he got into office.Then again, the way the incident makes Republicans look good, it becom

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CA Supreme Court Refuses to Delay Gay Marriage Rights.

Bill Lenner — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:21:00 GMT

This morning California's Supreme Court refused to 'delay' implementation of its historic decision that the California Constitution gives same sex couples the right to marry.The same four out of 7 justices that ruled in favor of recognizi

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A Female VP for Obama?

Bill Lenner — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:35:00 GMT

Names are floating around. A senator and two governors. None surnamed Clinton.See Politico Female VP hopefuls contrast with Clinton Excerpt: Some common themes emerge when talking to Republicans who have battled them. All three

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Which Death Camp Did Barack Obama's Great Uncle Help Liberate?

Bill Lenner — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:25:00 GMT

Barack Obama had a lapse of memory on which death camp his great uncle helped liberate during WW2. Now this isn't even what his grandfather did, but his great uncle. And it's history from over 60 years ago. It is a fact that isn&#

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Bush Said Likely to Attack Iran Before He Leaves Office

Bill Lenner — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:40:00 GMT

The signs are ominous. It will be funny (or actually not) if President 'Do Everything That Daddy Didn't' (he even gave up golf for the troops as his 'sacrifice') ends his term by attacking another nation just as he leav

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Does Barack Obama Give a Good Speech?

Bill Lenner — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:12:00 GMT

Obama Speech in Philadelphia in March, 2008I've been wondering why Hillary's claim that Barack Obama is just ahead because he gives a good speech made little twitchy things start to happen in the back of my brain. Then the other day the

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Zellow Journalism: Tribune Bureau and New York Times Pile on JFK In Re: Vienna Summit w/ Khrushchev

Bill Lenner — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:39:00 GMT

I read a horrendous little piece in the NY Times Op Ed department this morning, which was written by a Jerusalem Post journalist and an doctoral student at Columbia. I can only imagine that the doctoral student might have been needed to help cl

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