Today is the 61st Anniversary of D-Day one of the most important battles in WWII. Let's pause for a moment to remember the brave men who undedrtook this great achievement in the fight against Germany and her allies.
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Beginning this week, The US Supreme Court should begin to deliver decision on major cases heard this term. Watch Check This Out! for reports on the decisions.
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Comments made by DNC Chairman Howard Dean about Republicans and their supporters are not only being refuted by Republicans, but some Democrats are saying Dean doesn't speak for them.
Last week Dean said that Republicans "have never made an honest living." This was just the latest harsh rhetoric Dean has used to garner support and raise funds for Democrat causes. Dean's rhetoric has caused many large donors to "sit on their wallets."
Now some top Democrats are also chiding the former Vermont governor about his rhetoric.
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) said on ABC's 'This Week that Dean "doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats."
Former senator John Edwards who is probably running for president in 2008 said Dean "is not the spokesman for the party." Well, actually Mr. Edwards, he is the spokesman for the party, the leader of the party, and the man who will lead the party into a disasterous result in 2005 and 2008 with his continued attacks on Republicans and people who live in red states.
Later Edwards said at a find-raiser in Nashville that Dean is "a voice. I don't agree with it."
If high-ranking members of the party are starting to regret Dean's election as party chairman, then it is time to do something to ether curtail the harsh rhetoric or curtail Dean. How many more elections can the Democrats afford to lose before the party is no longer viable?
Democrats Criticize Dean Attacks on GOP - Yahoo! News
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Other Interesting Stories
Recently Amnesty International said that the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was the new "gulag." Gulag is a reference to the Soviet interment camps. The human-rights organization which has strong ties to Democrat candidates and party said the US should shut down the camp used to hold suspected Al-Quieda prisoners.
In a recent interview, the head of Amnesty International US branch, William F. Schultz, defended the use of the term "gulag" to describe the character and the size of the base a Guntanamo Bay, but later admitted the organization "doesn't know for sure" what is going on there.
If you do not know what is going on at the camp, you are unaware of the procedures and policies, you have not seen how prisoners are treated, how can your organization make any comment about the camp and its conditions?
Amnesty concedes no hard evidence - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 06, 2005
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Last week Dan Rather appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and arrogantly defended both the story and the fraudulent documents used in a '60 Minutes Wednesday' segment about President Bush's Air National Guard service. During the interview. Rather continued to say he believed the documents were genuine and the story accurate.
At the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, Rather changed his tune, a little.
During his speech, for which he was paid $75,000, Rather said he had improperly defended the story after questions about the authenticity of the documents arose. CBS News eventually acknowledged the documents were unverified and the independent panel investigating the story criticized Rather for his conduct.
"I was guilty of standing by and standing up for the story," he said. "I accept the panel's criticism that I shouldn't have done that."
Well, it is just a minor apology for attempting to change the outcome of a presidential election. Will Rather ever "come clean" and admit that he and producer Mary Mapes were aware that the documents were tainted and that they both wanted Bush to lose? Unlikely, he is just too arrogant to admit his bias.
Variety.com - Journo's Rather contrite
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