USDA To Meatpackers: You Have No Right To Test For Deadly Diseases

The USDA fears that testing will reveal too many 'false positives,' scaring the hell out of consumers and threatening the financial health of the nation's meat industry.



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The fat lady is singing for President Bush

When Peggy Noonan says in her WSJ column that it's time (indeed, past time) for conservatives to abandon President Bush and his supporters, the fat lady is singing loudly for this presidency. Ms. Noonan's writing and reasoning in this article are excellent IMO.



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"Enhanced interrogation" techniques used by U.S. resemble Nazi techniques

Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new.



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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Slams Giuliani for Ron Paul remarks.

FTA: "The Paul incident went to the very heart of who Giuliani is as a politician. To the extent that conservatism in the Bush years has morphed into a celebration of mindless patriotism and the paranoid witch-hunting of liberals and other dissenters, Rudy seems the most anxious of any Republican candidate to take up that mantle."



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Bush: Army Should Remain In Iraq Like They Have In South Korea For 50 Years

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday. The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea to guard against a North Korean invasion for 50 years.



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Giuliani Closed Off Streets to Avoid 9/11 Victims' Families

Some 50 Family Members and We Are Change Crew Demand Answers from Former Mayor Giuliani on Trashing Remains of 9/11 Victims; Candidate Smiles, Laughs Behind Policy and Security Insulation. Police blocked off some demonstrators from questioning Giuliani on the matters. Other such questions were ignored as autograph & smile smoozing goes on...



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Please digg this & Save Endangered Bison from Meaningless Slaughter AGAIN!

Christian Mackay, EO of the Montana Dept of Livestock Executive Office/Board 444-9321 Fax 444-4316 |Animal Health Division 444-2043|Plans to forcibly thin the Yellowstone herd comes even as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed allowing hunters to kill more than half the bison reducing the herd from 1,100 to 500 animals| http://mt.gov/liv/



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