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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/12/06

That the U.S. secretary of state is parading around the world in dominatrix drag tells us everything we need to know about the country she is representing -- and why the image of the 'ugly American' is making an unwelcome comeback. What better outfit for the chief diplomatic official of a nation that routinely threatens other nations with invasion and worse if they don't kowtow to Washington's edicts? Americans may or may not need a 'World Citizens Guide' to advise them on how to dress, talk, and act when traveling abroad and otherwise dealing with foreigners, but surely one specifically written for U.S. government officials is long overdue...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8983


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

05/11/06

Republicans don't vote in Democratic primaries, which is why it's something of a surprise that they've already chosen the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee: Hillary Clinton. Karl Rove has declared that 'anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves.' Key GOP activists and fund-raisers are signing up with John McCain and telling his advisers they think he's the only one who can beat her in a general election. Conservative John Podhoretz has skipped over the electoral process altogether and is ready to make Clinton president. In the newly released, Can She Be Stopped?, he argues that without an immediate programmatic effort to dismantle her, she will beat the Republican candidate in 2008. Of course, letting your political opponent pick your party's nominee is like letting your mother pick your fiance...

http://www.slate.com/id/2141639/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Houston Chronicle

05/11/06

Rep. Tom DeLay, the once-powerful majority leader whose career was undermined by scandal, said today that he would resign from the House on June 9. 'As you are aware,' the Texas Republican wrote House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., 'I have recently made the decision to pursue new opportunities to engage in the important cultural and political battles of our day from an arena outside of the U.S. House of Representatives.' He told Hastert he would resign at the close of business on June 9...

http://tinyurl.com/qqhun


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp