In the department of “It’s About Time…”, fallen soldier Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s father has filed suit against Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for disrupting his son’s funeral.
The Evening Sun has the full story.
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AP reports on a case that is disturbing on several levels. The political/religious nature of the petition-driven convening of this grand jury is front and center, yet the legal standing doesn’t appear to be in question.
Moreover, this attempt comes on the heels of an unsuccessful previous attempt at using the same grand jury tactic […]

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Wow, this must feel at least a LITTLE like being wrongly prosecuted for a crime you didn’t commit…
The North Carolina Attorney Generals office has refused former prosecutor Mike Nifongs request that the state represent him or pay his legal bills from a civil lawsuit against him filed by three Duke lacrosse players exonerated of rape
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Dave Johnson exposes Republicans’ attempt to smear Democrats with a false story about them suggesting immunizations prior to visiting NASCAR events.
Johnson reveals:
In fact the aides were visiting “health care centers, detention facilities and other operations where they could be exposed to communicable diseases” and the immunizations are routine.
The Drudge Report has been headlining the smear […]

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It NEVER fails…
Just walked by CNN regurgitating the latest story about Al-Qaeda coming to the US and stopped for second, wondering out loud, “How long before the Terrorists On Monkey Bars Clip comes on…”
We shit you not, 5 seconds later, there it is… You know the one:

It is the universal Al-Qaeda training camp […]

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Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s […]

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In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, […]

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Ezra Klein posted this video which could not point out any more lucidly the staggeringly craven hypocrisy of the Frost Family/S-CHIP “outrage” currently dominating the blogosphere.

As Ezra rightly points out, no one staked out their house to verify the story; nobody questioned the family’s qualifications for their suffering; no one smeared this poor girl who’s […]

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Cute as a bug White House spokesperson Dana Perino insists Congress was “fully briefed” on secret torture opinion.

However, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) was more than a little pissed about discovering, from the New York Times, that the WH gave the CIA secret approval in 2005.
Now, Rockefeller is demanding copies of all […]

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