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and why has this major turn of events being ignored by our News Media? Karl Rove skipping a date with Congress is one thing.
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“Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) defended Rove, saying that he did have immunity from testifying and that the Democratic insistence on holding the hearing was a “partisan stunt.”

Cannon said Rove was out of the country on a “long-planned trip.”

But leaving the country? and just where did Mr. Rove go on his “long-planned trip”? why, according to NotionsCapitol he’s vacationing in the Crimea. and where is the Crimea? Why in the Ukraine. And, just what is so special about the Ukraine that it drew Mr. Rove to the shores of the Crimea River? Their lack of an Extradition Treaty with the United States. I would say that the Traitor Rove has admitted his Treasonous Acts by fleeing.

I say “Good Riddance to ya, ya black-hearted traitor”

Airport stall may return to spotlight :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Elections

It’s a bathroom door the GOP would rather keep closed.

Thousands of members of the international media will have to walk past it when they land at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul at the end of the summer.

Larry Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after his arrest in this stall where gays meet for sex.

Many will feel obligated to stop and file a story.

For the party that bills itself as stronger on family values than the Democrats, it likely will prove an unwelcome distraction.

Could the irony be any more delicious? Will the male members of the delegations hold it till they got to the hotel?

GovTrack: H.R. 2356: Text of Legislation
On Tuesday, June 3, 2008, the President signed into law:

H.R. 2356, which encourages the display of the flag of the United States on Father’s Day;

To what purpose? To conflate Fatherhood with Patriotism? is that like the Women in WWII Germany who became Breeders for the Fatherland???
H.R.2356
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate) In perusing this Bil, I can find no mention of Father’s Day and the Flag… oh… it’s a DIFFERENT H.R.2356…..

Now, there is another test of “Patriotism”… Flying the Flag on a made up holiday. Can’t wait for the size of the flag to be deisgnated

If elected president, Senator John McCain would reserve the right to run his own warrantless wiretapping program against Americans, based on the theory that the president’s wartime powers trump federal criminal statutes and court oversight, according to a statement released by his campaign Monday.

Do we really want more of the same? Does he make you feel all warm and gooey inside. This is not the John McCain I met back in 2004 as when I was a Greeter for the City of NY during the Republican National Convention. I don’t recognize this man. I seriously don’t, and that is what worries me. Sen. McCain survived the Hanoi Hilton, but did he survive the Religious Right of his Party? is he suffering from the trauma of having his career and life thrashed by the very groups he now kowtows to? I fear so. and, the John McCain who stood up to bush in 2000 has been disappeared.d.

Print Story: Chertoff: ID must comply to fly on Yahoo! News

Homeland security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new driver’s license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved, could cause big air travel headaches.

For weeks, the Homeland Security Department has been headed toward a showdown with some states over a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for state-issued driver’s licenses. Yet a late Good Friday letter from a top DHS official suggested Washington may be backing away from a messy fight.

South Carolina, Maine and Montana are the only states that have not sought extensions to comply, or already started toward compliance with Real ID, which was passed after the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.

On Friday, the federal agency granted Montana an extension, even though state officials didn’t ask for one and insist they will not adhere to the Real ID law.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told The Associated Press that DHS “painted themselves in a corner.”

A fourth state, New Hampshire, has asked to be exempted, but Homeland Security officials have not found that letter legally acceptable, so the Granite State has not received an extension.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer be able to use their driver’s licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter federal buildings.

Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.

There is the operative phrase: Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.

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Voter ID law splits high court justices / Rift opens along ideological fault lines as lawyers argue over photo requirement
Supreme Court justices divided along ideological lines during arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of an Indiana law that requires residents to show government-issued photo IDs before they can vote.

Conservatives on the panel, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, characterized the photo ID requirement as a harmless way to prevent voter fraud. The liberals on the court, including Justices David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, signaled their concern that the statute would impose a tough burden on poor would-be voters who don’t have driver’s licenses or passports.

The high court’s decision in the case could have repercussions for similar voter ID laws in several states.

Voting Rights activists are all over themselves regarding photo ID for voting. But where is the HUman Cry over REAL-ID? Those without REAL-ID will not have the Right to Vote. Hell, they won’t even have the basic Freedom to Travel. Yet Silence.. Does Silence = $?
Asks this cynic Does “Silence = Disnefranchisement?” 4 months before you have to prove you were born here, pay taxes here, and have a utility bill…

Now, I am no conspiracy theory nut, but this is just odd”

Blackwater dropped riot gas on U.S. troops
The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and U.S. military personnel.

Suddenly, on that May day in 2005, the copter dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance the U.S. military in Iraq can use only under the strictest conditions and with the approval of top military commanders. An armored vehicle on the ground also released the gas, temporarily blinding drivers, passers-by and at least 10 U.S. soldiers operating the checkpoint.

“This was decidedly uncool and very, very dangerous,” Army Capt. Kincy Clark, the senior officer at the scene, wrote later that day. “It’s not a good thing to cause soldiers who are standing guard against car bombs, snipers and suicide bombers to cover their faces, choke, cough and otherwise degrade our awareness.”

They gassed our own troops to “get through traffic” or were they just running an exercise for Nov. 2, 2008? They operate above and beyond the Law, which means, they were given what once was called Carte Blancheand answer to no one but Cheney….