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It's still almost a year until the first US Presidential primary, yet from all the media coverage about the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination, you would expect that it was only a few weeks away. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,...tibia macro download proxy
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The Mid Terms are almost over in the US and it appears to be bad news for the Republicans. They have definitely lost the House, with almost 30 seats picked up, giving them a significant majority. This will make Nancy...tibia macro download proxy
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David Farrar has just posted a graph showing the significant increase in federal expenditure over the past four years, despite Republicans, normally the fiscally prudent party, holding the White House and majorities in both Houses of Congress. This is likely...tibia macro download proxy
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The US Supreme Court begins its next term today, and as noted in the San Francisco Chronicle, will consider some contraversial issues this term. The most contraversial will probably be a review of an appeal against the Federal Partial Birth...tibia macro download proxy
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The next US Presidential Primaries are still almost 18 months away, but are gaining some attention now with the new rules just put in place by the Democratic party. Up until now, the Iowa caucus has always been first, followed...tibia macro download proxy
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Joe Lieberman has lost the Democrat primary for one of Connecticut's seats in the US Senate that is up for election in November, losing to Ned Lamont. However, he plans for register for the ballot as an independent tomorrow, creating...tibia macro download proxy
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There are a number of Democrat Primary elections this coming Tuesday, in preparation for the mid-term elections in November. One of the more interesting ones is for one of the Senate seats in Connecticut where incumbant Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman...tibia macro download proxy
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There's an interesting situation developing in US over the use of signing statements by the President when signing bills into law. The US Constitution allows the President to either sign a bill into law, veto it in its entirety, or...tibia macro download proxy
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Valerie Plum, the ex-CIA officer who was outed by members of the Bush administration, is now sueing the Vice President, and a number of senior White House officials. I'm not sure what she is claiming as a remedy (this doesn't...tibia macro download proxy
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Unsurprisingly, the US federal judge who granted the initial search warrant of Congressman Jefferson's Capitol Hill office has refused to force the FBI to hand over the seized documents, and allowed them to start examining them. Jefferson had challenged this...tibia macro download proxy
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Two state supreme courts in the united states, the New York Court of Appeals and the Geogia Supreme Court, have rejected arguments for same-sex marriage. In Georgia, a recent ammendment to the state constitution was passed (by an overwhelming majority)...tibia macro download proxy
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The New Jersey government has been partially shutdown after a budget impasse between the Governor and the Legislature. The proposed budget from the Governor has proposed an increased sales tax to meet a deficit of $4.5 billion. Apparently the legislature...tibia macro download proxy
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Alasdair has asked me what my position is on same-sex marriage, given that I have blogged several times on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) recently debated in the US Senate. I don't think the issue is as simple as whether...tibia macro download proxy
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The US Senate has today rejected the Federal Marriage Ammendment, that would ban same-sex marriage in the United States. The vote was for cloture on the dabate, so that an up-or-down vote could take place shortly afterwards, and failed by...tibia macro download proxy
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The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case, deciding whether skin colour can be used as a factor when assiging children to public schools. This reopens the whole issue of affirmative action that has been in play since...tibia macro download proxy
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Republican leaders have scheduled a vote in the Senate for sometime this week on the Federal Marriage Ammendment (FMA), which ammends the US constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. The second clause of the ammendment is not as clear though. It...tibia macro download proxy
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There are further rumours that Hillary Clinton is planning to run for President in 2008. She has just kicked off her US Senate re-election campaign, but many commentators seem to think that her speech seemed to more directed towards the...tibia macro download proxy
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Senate Majority Leader Bill First has come out in favour of the FBI raid of Congressman Jefferson's offices at the Capitol, saying that "nobody in government should be above the law, period". This is in contrast with the Speaker of...tibia macro download proxy
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, indirectly threatened to resign if President Bush ordered them to return the documents seized from Congressman Jefferson's offices. All three strongly believed that...tibia macro download proxy
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The Senate has confirmed General Michael Hayden has the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency by a 78-15 vote, giving him wide bipartisan support. Among those Democrats voting for his was the Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee,...tibia macro download proxy
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The US House of Representative leaders have conceded that the FBI that have the right to search Congressial offices with a court-issued warrant. However, they have instructed House lawyers to come up with protocols for such a search within the...tibia macro download proxy
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President Bush has ordered that all the records seized from Congressman Jefferson's Capitol office be selaed for 45 days, to allow time for the dispute between the Justice Deparment and Congress to be resolved. I think this is a good...tibia macro download proxy
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Further to my previous post about the FBI's raid on Congressman Jefferson's Capitol office last weekend, the Speaker of the House (Republican Dennis Hastert) and the Minority Leader (Democrat Nancy Pelosi) have issued a joint press statement saying that the...tibia macro download proxy
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A Democratic congressman, William Jefferson, in the United States is currently under corruption by the FBI for his role in a corruption scandel. Apparently $90,000 in cash was found in his freezer at his home, along with additional evidence. He...tibia macro download proxy
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General Michael Hayden, Bush's nominee for DCIA after Porter Goss' resignation, has been recommended for confirmation by the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 12-3. The vote was held in secret (as was a substantial part of the confirmation...tibia macro download proxy
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The US Supreme Court has just ruled on a high-profile patent case between online retailer eBay, and Patent Troll MercExchange, over eBay's "Buy Now" feature. They ruled that an injunction against further breaches of a patent does not automatically follow...tibia macro download proxy
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After Porter Goss' recent resignation as Directory of the Central Intelligence Agency (rumoured to be because he lost a power struggle with DNI John Negroponte), President Bush has nominated Air Force 4-star General Michael Hayden as his replacement.This could be...tibia macro download proxy
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Now that Moussaoui has avoided the death sentence for his role in the September 11 attacks, he has filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he now has sufficient confidence in US justice system that he will get...tibia macro download proxy
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A Democrat representative from Long Island's Nassau County, Jeffrey Toback, has filed a lawsuit against Google for "facilitating deviant criminals in the procurement, transfer, and marketing of illicit and patently illegal material, including child pornography".The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and...tibia macro download proxy
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The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter Goss, has resigned unexpectedly yesterday, with no replacement named as yet by US President George Bush. Reuters reports that there has apparently been a lot of displeasure with his leadership from within...tibia macro download proxy
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The US is currently having a number of protest marches about proposed immigration changes. These changes would make unlawfully entering the US or assisting an illegal migrant a felony offence, and would build a wall on parts of the Mexican...tibia macro download proxy
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Unsurprisingly, South Dakota's new anti-abortion law is being challenged. It is not set to take effect until July 1, but a group called the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families has filed papers for a petition to force a referendum...tibia macro download proxy
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South Dakota has now enacted a new abortion law, banning pretty much all abortions in the state. The Governor, Mike Rounds, signed the bill which passed the legislature last month. The new act is set to take effect from July.This...tibia macro download proxy
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Roe vs. Wade was the landmark abortion decision by the US Supreme Court in 1973, giving a constitutional right to abortion as part of the right of privacy. This was very significant, as with abortion made a constitutional right, the...tibia macro download proxy
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