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The big lies of the Iraq war were not the faulty intelligence about weapons of mass destruction or the fabricated link between Saddam and 9/11. More serious were the infantile fantasies promoted by the Bush Administration and their supporters that the war would be a "cake walk." They argued that it ...

There are more vacancies on the federal courts now than when Obama took office nearly four years ago. And he is the first president in generations to fail to put a nominee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the second most influential court in the land and traditionally a training gr...

Sad, more than funny. And the pig calls another poster partisan - contards are inevitably veritable FOUNTAINS of irony....

Look who's back from exile. But the funny thing is he hasn't learned a single thing in all this time away from the forum....

Isn't it funny that in 2005 Congress enacted a law, under heavy lobbying from the NRA and the gun industry, that gives gun manufacturers and dealers broad immunity from being sued? Which other industry enjoys such an immunity? Nothing unusual about it at all. It is appropriate under the Commerce C...

The NRA and its members, without many exceptions, are insane....

Also, regarding this Halligan thing: you're going to get filibusters on the basis of gun-nut-enthusiasm when you try to legislate gun-control reforms.I agree with you, and I'm sure that the NRA was lobbying hard against her nomination, but as far as the lawsuit that would have made gun manufacturers...

The D.C. Circuit is considered the nation's second-highest court, but it now has more vacancies than any other circuit court. Gone are the days when Republicans ran around insisting on an 'up or down vote' for one of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. It's called politics, and the Democrats shoul...

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