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POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has called President Bush a loser and a liar and has referred to him derisively as King George. Reid also has apologized - but only, he likes to point out, for the "loser" line. Mostly, the Nevada Democrat calls.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 10:42pm neoform

Reuters -- The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended. The Federal Emergency Management Agen.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Sep 23, 2007 @ 8:51pm neoform

CNN -- Some called it a bridge to the future. Others called it the bridge to nowhere. On Friday, Alaska decided the bridge really was going nowhere, officially abandoning the project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork-barrel spending... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 29, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

Washington Post -- A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 12:21pm neoform

USA Today -- —One day after the Senate agreed to take up the issue again, President Bush on Friday called on Congress to pass an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws by year's end. "Each day our nation fails to act, the problem only grows worse. I will contin.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:19am neoform

USA Today -- Declining to say whether the U.S. and its partners are winning the war on terror, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Saturday for more focus on combating poverty and other underlying causes of extremism. "I think we are still early in this contest,".. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:15pm neoform

CNN -- In a letter written Saturday to former CIA Director George Tenet, six former CIA officers described their former boss as "the Alberto Gonzales of the intelligence community," and called his book "an admission of failed leadership." The writers said Ten.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Mar 24, 2007 @ 5:10am neoform

FOX News -- House Democrats called for a new direction in Iraq on Friday, passing a measure ordering President Bush to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2008. Bush vowed to veto the measure if it makes it to his desk. "A narrow majority in the.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 1:23am neoform

Reuters -- President George W. Bush on Tuesday called for Americans to cut their gasoline use by 20 percent over a decade, mostly through a nearly five-fold increase in use of home-grown fuels such as ethanol by 2017... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jan 3, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- Toward this end, Mr. Edwards called at the time for establishing a more effective program to train Iraqi troops and channeling reconstruction work to Iraqis instead of American contractors. While he called for removing a significant number of American for.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Nov 23, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

MSNBC -- President Bush, who visited troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving after the U.S. invasion in 2003, called several servicemen and women Thursday to extend best wishes and say it was “the least I can do.” Three of those receiving holiday greetings are in th.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 3:33pm neoform

TheState.com -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday on Democrats seeking the 2008 nomination for president to give S.C. voters “something to vote for” when they go to the polls in January... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Democratic presidential candidates Thursday called for ending tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in a debate focusing on domestic issues related to minorities. The Democratic hopefuls called for a more direct presidential role in addressing racism t.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 2:10pm neoform

Washington Post -- Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 4:37pm neoform

USA Today -- —President Bush called Thursday for an international conference on global warming involving all major industrial nations, including the USA, China and India. In a speech devoted to his agenda for next week's Group of Eight summit of industrialized nat.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Tue May 22, 2007 @ 8:00am neoform

Alter Net -- When Hugo Chavez called President Bush the devil at the U.N., he was way out of line. Everybody knows Bush isn't the devil. Cheney is. You've got to love Vice President Cheney. He made another unannounced visit to Iraq in his unofficial capacity as hea.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Fri May 11, 2007 @ 4:59pm neoform

Alter Net -- A McCain staffer has called Planned Parenthood "one of the most radical pro-abortion groups in the country." Here's Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards' response. John McCain's presidential campaign has taken a troubling turn. This week, the L.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 5:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Florida's new governor on Tuesday called on state lawmakers to roll back property taxes, reward top teachers and help fight global warming. Delivering his first state of the state speech at the start of a 60-day state legislative session, Gov. Charlie.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 8:24am neoform

ABC News -- Voters around the country get the recorded messages — called robocalls — up to five times a day, telling them to vote for Republican and Democratic candidates in their region... Read More