Video: Ted Stevens Campaign Ad for Sarah Palin

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 10:20 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 10:20

It's also worth noting her former chief of staff is running Ted Steven's re-election campaign:

Assistant Attorney General Mike Barnhill said all the calls from then-chief of staff Tibbles, who is now running Sen. Ted Stevens' re-election campaign, regarding Wooten looked to be appropriate.

This ad is from 2006. Hat tip to The Atlantic:

Author risks $250K to show "Path to 9/11" distortions

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 6:19 PM PDT

2007/09/10 · 18:19

UPDATE: This is his response to the LA Times piece claiming the Clintons are blocking DVD distribution.

Whatever your view of Peter Lance, you have to admit this takes guts.

As the author of one of the three books on which The Path was based, I’m now weighing in – despite a gag order - to suggest that ABC may have other reasons for shelving Nowrasteh’s Clinton bash; a mini-series that virtually blames 9/11 on the ex-President’s failures to get bin Laden, yet gives a pass to Bush 41 for failing to stop the first World Trade Center bombing and Bush 43 for "The Day Of;" arguably the greatest defense failure in US history....

As Lance explains:

But the [$250K] deal contained a "non-disparagement" clause and gag order. In order to keep me from telling the real truth behind their distortion of my work, ABC would hold off paying me the final $50K until a month after The Path to 9/11 aired.

It gets better.

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Sunday November 27, 2005 · 10:17 AM PST

2005/11/27 · 10:17

Add your name to the list of 246 members of the House who have already signed Congressman Weldon's letter calling for open hearings on Able Danger, the intel unit that identified Mohamed Atta in 2000 only to be prevented from sharing the information with the FBI then later shut down by the incoming Bush administration.

Sign it here then spread the word.

Here are some of the 100 Democrats in the House who signed:

Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-NY)
John Murtha, John P. (D-PA)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY)
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Jane Harman (D-CA)
Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
John Lewis (D-GA)
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)

The full text of the letter is below. Read More

Sneak preview of new conservative mega-blog OSM.ORG

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 2:44 PM PST

2005/11/15 · 14:44

It doesn't launch until tomorrow, but you can see it today and decide for yourself how bi-partisan it really is. I don't see very many liberal bloggers in their blogroll.

From the AP:

A media Web site scheduled to debut Wednesday will seek to blend traditional journalism with the freeform commentary developed through the emerging Web format known as blogs.
Some 70 Web journalists, including Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds and David Corn, Washington editor of the Nation magazine, have agreed to participate in OSM -- short for Open Source Media....
Although Simon and co-founder Charles Johnson are often described as conservative, Simon said the site will transcend labels and include bloggers of all political leanings.
OSM was founded last year as Pajamas Media, a play on bloggers' ability to opine from home at all hours, day or night. It has raised $3.5 million from venture capitalists.

The URL is apparently still secret, but it was not very hard to guess. You can preview the site here.
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Witness Pentagon silenced now accused of stealing pens

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Friday September 30, 2005 · 8:30 AM PDT

2005/09/30 · 08:30

Regardless of party, it's time for members of Congress to start speaking out against this. Can we all agree now Rumsfeld's Pentagon is covering something up?

From the AP:

An officer who has claimed that a classified military unit identified four Sept. 11 hijackers before the 2001 attacks is facing Pentagon accusations of breaking numerous rules, allegations his lawyer suggests are aimed at undermining his credibility.
The alleged infractions by Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, 42, include obtaining a service medal under false pretenses, improperly flashing military identification while drunk and stealing pens, according to military paperwork shown by his attorney to The Associated Press.

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Pentagon blocks testimony that Bush could have stopped 9/11

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Tuesday September 20, 2005 · 6:52 PM PDT

2005/09/20 · 18:52

Want answers? We need to get Democrats involved. Only Biden even showed up for the hearing, and he left early.

First the Pentagon had never heard of Able Danger, then it was "merely" a planning effort that ran it's course in early 2001, now it is so top secret and vital to national security - more than four years after 9/11 - that no one can testify about it to Congress. From the New York Times:

The Pentagon said today that it had blocked a group of military officers and intelligence analysts from testifying at an open Congressional hearing about a highly classified military intelligence program that, the officers have said, identified a ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks.
The announcement came a day before the officers and intelligence analysts had been scheduled to testify about the program, known as Able Danger, at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Pentagon must have realized their testimony would show that Bush stopped efforts against Al Qaeda in early 2001 that could have stopped 9/11.
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Key to winning filibuster battle: It's illegal

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Monday May 16, 2005 · 9:26 AM PDT

2005/05/16 · 09:26

Not being familiar with the rules of the Senate, I had assumed from all this talk that changing the rules was within Frist's power to do. It's not. You can only change the rules with a two-thirds majority vote for cloture on the motion to change the rules! The Senate rules are very clear on this point.

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule22.htm

"Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn -- except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting -- then said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.

Is Frist proposing that any Vice President can simply re-write the rules of order as he pleases? A motion to change the rules is still a motion. http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule05.htm Read More

Smoking gun on Joint Chiefs nominee Pace

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Friday April 22, 2005 · 8:18 AM PDT

2005/04/22 · 08:18

For all I know, he might be a great general, but he still needs to answer to this. From Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack:

Four days later, December 1, a Saturday, Rumsfeld sent through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a Top Secret planning order to Franks asking him to come up with the commander's estimate to build the base of a new Iraq war plan.... "He had a month and we took 27 days away," recalled Marine General Pete Pace, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Rumsfeld favorite. Franks was to report in person three days later. (Page 38)

What was happening in late November early December 2001? I mean, besides Tora Bora:

The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.... Though there remains a remote chance that he died there, the intelligence community is persuaded that bin Laden slipped away in the first 10 days of December.

These Sunday simulcasts are nothing new

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Saturday April 16, 2005 · 12:37 AM PDT

2005/04/16 · 00:37

For what it's worth, you might think this is a "historic" event as the FRC puts it, but the truth is they have sent out these pre-recorded messages to their affiliated churches before. Details to Second 'Battle for Marriage' Simulcast Announced:

Saturday, Jun. 26, 2004

The second "Battle for Marriage" simulcast will be broadcasted live on Sunday evening, July 11, from Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Family Research Council (FRC) who is co-hosting the event along with the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in association with Focus on the Family (FOTF), National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and SkyAngel.

"Battle for Marriage: Imminent Vote"will also coincide with the date for "Marriage Protection Sunday," another pro-family effort to rally support for the Federal Marriage Amendment which asks churches to preach on the issue and encourage its members to urge Senators to vote in favor of protecting traditional marriage by contacting them on "Call Your Senator Day," July 12.

Frist's participation is unique, but not these events. More below. Read More

Bush assures foreign investors: "It's just paper!"

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Tuesday April 05, 2005 · 4:18 PM PDT

2005/04/05 · 16:18

With foreign holders of U.S. Treasury notes covering $2 trillion of our $7 trillion public debt,

and lack of confidence in these treasury notes causing major concerns about the declining dollar,

clearly there was only one way to win back confidence in U.S. Treasury notes:

President Bush sought to dramatize Social Security's solvency problems Tuesday by pointing to government IOUs stored in a file cabinet that are supposed to finance America's future retirement needs.

"A lot of people in America think there is a trust that we take your money in payroll taxes and then we hold it for you and then when you retire, we give it back to you," Bush said in a speech at the University of West Virginia at Parkersburg.

"But that's not the way it works," Bush said. "There is no trust `fund' just IOUs that I saw firsthand," Bush said.

NOTE: "It's just paper!" is not an exact quote. Read More

Half of Blacks, Latinos, and Southerners Dropout

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Tuesday March 22, 2005 · 1:00 PM PST

2005/03/22 · 13:00

Normally I'd never quote the neo-con Manhattan Institute, but since the Bush Education Department no longer keeps these statistics, here's their report:

The state with the highest graduation rate in the nation in 2002 was New Jersey (89%), followed by Iowa, Wisconsin, and North Dakota (each at 85%). The state with the lowest graduation rate in the nation was South Carolina (53%), followed by Georgia (56%), Tennessee (57%), and Alabama (58%).

There is a wide disparity in the graduation rates of white and minority students. In the class of 2002, about 78% of white students graduated from high school with a regular diploma, compared to 56% of African-American students and 52% of Hispanic students.

There is also a large difference among racial and ethnic groups in the percentage of students who leave high school eligible for college admission. About 40% of white students, 23% of African-American students, and 20% of Hispanic students who started public high school graduated college-ready in 2002.

Clearly, No Child Left Behind is working wonders.

Lindsey Graham: Personal accounts are "a sideshow"

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Wednesday March 09, 2005 · 8:23 AM PST

2005/03/09 · 08:23

Haven't we been saying this all along? From the Washington Post:

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who has spent weeks attempting to recruit Democratic support for a plan to restructure Social Security, said yesterday that Republicans "made a strategic mistake" by initially focusing on a proposal to create individual investment accounts.

The accounts, the centerpiece of President Bush's proposal, would benefit young and poorer workers by letting them use compound interest to help make up for any benefit reductions, Graham said. But he said the accounts, by themselves, will not fix the solvency problem Social Security faces as baby boomers begin to retire.

"We've now got this huge fight over a sideshow," Graham said during a meeting with Washington Post reporters and editors. "It's always been a sideshow, but we sold it as the main event. [Critics are] attacking it as the undoing of Social Security. That's what frustrates me -- that we're off in a ditch over a sideshow, and there's plenty of blame to go around."

That's right, he said it three times.

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