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I’ve been tagging del.icio.us links with this phrase today: RhetoricOfFailure. In fact, I bundled it together with a lot of other terms, like “CorruptRepublicans” and “SmirkingBastards” and “anti-truth.” Because every time I read a news item about something that didn’t go so well lately for the current Administration, I tag it and add it to [...]

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It’s Alive! It’s Alive! It’s… not quite dead, but it’s feeling better.
Call your Congressdrone:
Error may snag $39 billion spending-cut bill - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A typographical error in a $39 billion U.S. domestic spending-cut bill signed into law by President George W. Bush on Wednesday could mean another vote on [...]

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Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake Tribune Home Page
Women’s ‘pill bill’ dies again
Contraception: Planned Parenthood director tells lawmakers to provide ‘health care that eliminates the need for abortion’

Insurance and business leaders gave the all-male (emphasis Blogula Rasa’s) Senate Health and Human Services Committee the reasons they were looking for to kill the so-called “pill bill” [...]

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Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake Tribune: Evolution bill survives by a vote

A proposal targeting evolution survived its toughest challenge Wednesday when it eked out of a House committee by one vote.
SB96, which requires teachers to say the state doesn’t endorse any theory involving the “origins of species,” needs only the [...]

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