Former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, Ted Olson is the principal lawyer for those seeking to overturn Prop 8 in the highly publicized trial taking place in San Francisco. He pens a thoughtful piece in this week’s edition of Newsweek making the conservative case for gay marriage. It is all about, in a...
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Tags: conservatives, Freedom, Gay Marriage, George W. Bush, Prop 8, San Francisco, Ted Olson
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While the Irvine City Council is officially non-partisan, Council member Steven Choi has taken the extreme step of conservative partisanship to show up in the lobby of the Irvine Hilton wearing a banner on his back equating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Josef Stalin, complete with a Hammer and Sickle.
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Tags: Choi, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, Irvine, Irvine City Council, Josef Stalin, Larry Agran, Mouth Breather, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi, Sharon Wallin, Stalin, Steven Choi
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Sunday’s New York Times features this terrific column by Nobel-prize winning economist and Princeton professor Paul Krugman who speculates on why Reaganism’s economic promise is a documented failure but still lives on in Conservative strongholds in Congress and State Legislatures.
From the column:
First of all, even before the current crisis Reaganomics had failed to deliver...
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Tags: George W. Bush, NY Times, OC Register, Paul Krugman, Reaagnism, Reaganism, Reaganomics, Red County
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Last night Councilman Andy Quach, who was arrested on August 2 after driving his Mercedes S550 into a power pole and block wall with a .26% blood alcohol level, apologized for his actions. Comparing himself to Former President George W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy, he vowed to recover from this storm. Below is the report...
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Tags: Apology, Councilman Andy Quach, dui, George W. Bush, Ted Kennedy, Westminster
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The article below was posted on the Los Angeles based 501c3 group, The Public Record website today. An FBI email claims that “W” signed an executive order approving torture. This explosive bit of information should further heat up the debate over torture.
See the actual email by clicking on the link below.
I want to know if the...
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Tags: Abu Ghraib, Alberto Gonzales, Bush, FBI, George W. Bush, Torture, torture memos, W
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I have just returned from a debate on presidential power at Chapman University Law School.
In retrospect, the event should more properly have been called “The Trial of John Yoo.”
And strikingly, it was Yoo who cast himself in the role of defendant.
The debate was titled “Presidential Power and Success in Times of Crisis,” and the...
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Tags: .C. 2340, Bill of Rights, Central Intelligence Agency, Chapman, Chapman Law School, Chapman University, Chapman University School of Law, CIA, civil liberties, constitutional law, Convention Against Torture, George Bush, George W. Bush, Interrogation Techniques, Jay Bybee, John Eastman, John Yoo, Judge Jay Bybee, Katherine Darmer, Larry Rosenthal, law, Office of Legal Counsel, president george w. bush, presidential power, Terrorism, Torture, torture memos, U.S. Constitution, United Nations Convention Against Torture, United States Constitution, war on terror, waterboarding, Yoo
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