Archive for the ‘Not Quite Right’ Category
While it's informative and easy to point out the silly, poor and sometimes malicious actions of government bodies and officials, I think it's equally important to give credit when due as well and intend to make a bigger point of that in the future here at PBNV.com.
Today I'd like to ...
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Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in which she chastised President Bush for the implementation of a revised national security strategy that acknowledges evil and means to confront it. Her piece, an indictment of the U.S. efforts in Iraq and ...
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As a professional speechwriter, I wanted to take a few minutes to examine President Bush's 2006 State of the Union speech and the Democrats' response, delivered by recently elected Virginia Governor Tim Kaine.
The president accomplished quite a bit in his speech last night, firmly establishing that -- despite having suffered ...
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Leaders among the Senate Democrats are scrambling today to determine whether or not they can sustain a filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. Immune to the embarrassment they should be feeling after the shameful acts of Senators Kennedy, Leahy, Biden and others during the Alito confirmation ...
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You can't favor states' rights only when the state's majority opinion aligns with your own. That's the lesson the Bush administration and many on the far right of my party are struggling with this week after the Supreme Court ruled that the Justice Department had acted improperly in an attempt ...
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