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“We, therefore…do…solemnly public and declare, That these United Colonies are…Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown…” Read the Declaration of Independence. I do every July 4th.

w00p! Now we can get rid of § 18.2-361 (“Crimes against nature”) here in Virginia. It’ll be funny to watch the Republicans try to fight this.

“When I’m president, we’ll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.” –Rep. Dick Gephardt, 07/22/2003 Hmm… Dick Gephardt John Kerry Howard Dean

Back in early May, I was frustrated about the difficulty of finding orange juice that wasn’t picked by slaves. It turns out that most OJ is made from oranges picked by slave labor. By “slave,” I don’t mean “poorly paid person working under poor conditions,” I mean slave. Thus came my revelation that, despite my …

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I just watched Houston pitch a no-hitter against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. It was a beautiful sight. Boston, at the bottom of the 8th, is 13 to 1 over St. Louis. In the words of Nelson Muntz: “Ha ha!”

The Guardian: “Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war.” Well, duh. I suppose that I shouldn’t hold my breath waiting for conservatives to apologize.

And Friedman. I [heart] Thomas Friedman, too.

I [heart] Paul Krugman.

“I hear a lot of talk here about how we’re going to impose this leader or that leader,” Bush said. “Forget it. From Day One, we have said the Iraqi people are capable of running their own country. That is what we believe.” -“U.N. to Have ‘Vital Role’ in Iraq,” Washington Post, April 9, 2003

The Financial Times reports that a late 2002 U.S. Treasury study shows that we’re facing a minimum of a $44 trillion deficit, with a recommended remedy of an immediate 66% tax increase. The report was commissioned by then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. He was fired in December. The White House decided not to release the report. …

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