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Entries from October 2006

ScrappleFace Video: Kerry Smart

by Scott Ott · 49 Comments

A public service from the ScrappleFace Enterprise Institute.
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Tags: Politics · U.S. News · Video

Schumer: Election a Referendum on Richard Nixon

by Scott Ott · 67 Comments

(2006-10-31) — New York Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, said today that next Tuesday’s Congressional elections are shaping up to be “more and more a referendum on former President Richard Nixon.”
The remarks come a day after Sen. Schumer received significant media coverage for saying that the election is increasingly becoming [...]

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Tags: Politics · U.S. News

Rove Offers Pelosi Amnesty After Elections

by Scott Ott · 64 Comments

(2006-10-30) — Presidential adviser Karl Rove, the so-called ‘architect’ of Republican electoral victories in 2002 and 2004, today offered to allow Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to keep her House minority leader post after the Republican triumph at the polls next week.
Mr. Rove has mystified pollsters and pundits in recent days with his confident statements that [...]

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Tags: Politics · U.S. News

Bush Fails to Install Puppet Regime in Iraq

by Scott Ott · 32 Comments

(2006-10-29) — Democrats today slammed President George Bush for spending dozens of months, billions of dollars and thousands of American lives, and yet failing to install a puppet regime in Iraq.
The criticism comes just a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared that he is a friend of the United States, but not “America’s [...]

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Tags: Global News

Hezbollah Spins Off Political Unit to Focus on Terror

by Scott Ott · 63 Comments

(2006-10-28) — Under pressure from the U.S. to disarm in the wake of this summer’s war with Israel, Hezbollah announced today that it would spin off its political and social service units to focus on its core business — the development and distribution of terror.

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Tags: Global News

New Purell Product for Politicians: Mouth Sanitizer

by Scott Ott · 25 Comments

(2006-10-28) — On the very day that the New York Times featured a major investigative piece about the use of hand sanitizer by politicians on the campaign trail, the makers of the popular brand Purell announced release of a new product made specifically for politicians and people like them — Purell Mouth Sanitizer.

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Tags: Business  · Politics · U.S. News

Bush Approves 700-Mile ‘Concept Fence’ at Border

by Scott Ott · 131 Comments

(2006-10-26) — President George Bush today signed into law a bill that authorizes a 700-mile long “concept fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Tags: U.S. News