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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



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Carl+Rove
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Podhoretz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Dickerson

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

http://www.slate.com/id/2141588/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle

05/10/06

Secret Service records made public today show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff went to the White House twice in the past five years, omitting three other occasions that have been acknowledged by the Bush administration. The visits occurred on Jan. 20, 2004, the day President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, and on March 6, 2001. Abramoff stayed a total of 63 minutes, 29 seconds, but the records do not indicate where he went in the complex or who he met...

http://tinyurl.com/lvkqo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Despite the high percentage of Native Americans, only two Indian-preferred candidates have been elected in over two decades. That record prompted Pearl Cottier and Rebecca Three Stars, both members of the Oglala Sioux tribe, to file a lawsuit against the city, arguing that the voting system dilutes the voting power of Native Americans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006O.shtml

"Stunningly enough," says Mike Davis, "classical social theory, whether Marx, Weber, or even Cold War modernization theory, none of it anticipated what's happened to the city over the last 30 or 40 years. None of it anticipated the emergence of a huge class, mainly of the young, who live in cities, have no formal connection with the world economy, and no chance of ever having such a connection."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051006L.shtml