Republican Party

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GOP Armed Services Chair: Dropping Benghazi, Military did all it Could (Is the Witch Hunt Over?)

(By Juan Cole) Republican Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, declared on Thursday that the US military did all it could during the chaotic two days of September 11-12, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya and that his own investigation of the US response to the violence of that day is over. […]

art and photography

George W. Bush Used Top Google Results For All His Paintings; Is he in Legal Trouble?

Juan Cole

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Inequality

Colbert’s Send-up of O’Reilly on “Inequality” makes Bill Squawk

Juan Cole

Colbert Report: Bill O’Reilly’s Defense of Inequality The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive Raw Story reports on O’Reilly’s hysterical response: Bill O’Reilly lashes out at ‘ideological fanatic’ Stephen Colbert and his fellow ‘believers’ (via Raw Story ) Fox News host Bill O’Reilly fired back at Comedy Central counterpart Stephen Colbert […]

Democratic Party

2 GOP Latino Strategies Clash: Sen. Ted Cruz disses Jeb Bush’s ‘Immigration for Love’ Meme

Juan Cole

(By Juan Cole) Sen. Ted Cruz criticized Jeb Bush for appearing to downplay the rule of law in arguing that undocumented immigration to the US is a crime of passion, resorted to out of an abundance of love for families in straitened circumstances. Cruz said that such an argument injures the sovereignty of the US […]

Energy

Is Rand Paul right that Cheney invaded Iraq for Halliburton Profits?

Juan Cole

(By Juan Cole) David Corn at Mother Jones got the scoop: In 2009, Rand Paul gave a talk at Western Kentucky University in which he accused former vice president Dick Cheney of having gotten up the Iraq War to rescue his troubled oil services company, Halliburton, which– along with its subsidiaries– was awarded enormous no-bid […]

Republican Party

Pelosi: “Cheney Proud of ordering CIA Torture”; Sen A. King: ‘Waterboard Cheney!’

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CIA

State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry

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Barack Obama

Ted Cruz Pwned by own Facebook Poll on Obamacare (Young Turks)

Juan Cole

Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks: “Facebook Poll Hilariously Backfires On Senator” Crooks & Liars writes: Ted Cruz, Don’t Ask The Question If You Don’t Want To Know The Answer (via http://crooksandliars.com) Ted Cruz thought he could rile up his followers on Facebook by posting the following “straw poll”: Quick poll: Obamacare was signed into […]