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Wow. Go read this if you want to learn just how Rove wants to use the legal system to settle political scores. Of course, I've always felt that Alabama was really a third world banana republic run by the sort of folks who belong in John Grisham novels -- but I digress.

And, apparently, it all would've worked perfectly but Dana Simpson, a Republican, had to open her mouth and blow the whistle. So now the Rovian mafioso-like intimidation begins:
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Wow. Check this out:
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Get a load of this:

Dobson's organization says his daily radio program is heard by as many as 220 million listeners over 3,500 stations in the United States.

Yeah. Right. Two-thirds of Americans tune in to his radio show everyday. Okay.....

Bwaahaaaahaaaa. Why, praytell, does anybody listen to this boob? If he's willing to lie like this his credibility has got be a wee bit suspect, huh? Read below the fold...

Wow. Gonzales lied again:
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My gosh. Can you believe these two paragraphs by Howard Fineman about the monster that was Jerry Falwell?
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Boy, it's getting crowded in here. All of a sudden the big boys are talking about what at times has seemed like our little story here in this particular part of the blogosphere. Read below the fold...

Ah, this sounds familiar:
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Well, it's finally happened:
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Wow. You ought to see what the KC Star did to this excellent piece about the actions of the local "interim" U.S. Attorney, Brad Schlozman.

(If you recall, they forced out Todd Graves, the USA in KC in March 2006, a few months before they fired the other attorneys.) Read below the fold...

confirmed:

Two of the four said they resigned voluntarily before the mass firings of U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7. Two continue to serve as federal prosecutors.

The latest revelation could provide new evidence to critics who contend that politics, not performance, played the determining role in the firings. The White House and the Justice Department have repeatedly denied that politics played any role.

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that the Gonzales testimony tomorrow is just ridiculously unimportant compared to this shooting.

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I just got finished grading 160 freshman university history papers. It's been a hard week. The book I had them read was John Crawford's The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq. I then had them write a paper about it. It's a fascinating and well-written book that tells the story of a college student who was a soldier in Iraq for 18 months in 2003 and 2004. After serving for nearly two years, he comes back to a very different world. Read below the fold...

Really -- has anyone asked John McCain about the market workers today? Read below the fold...

The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital.

The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.
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Two of the e-mails in one of the e-mail dumps show that U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Todd Graves, was forced out.

So I was right about that. Um, Missouri Press, uh, National Press, why aren't you asking questions about this?

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