nytimes.com - 5/18/2009
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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR In the Name of Politics By JOHN C. DANFORTH Published: March 30, 2005 S t. Louis BY a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians. The elements of this transformation have included advocacy of ...
nytimes.com - 5/13/2009
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Washington JUST four members of Congress were notified
in 2002 when the Central Intelligence Agency’s “enhanced interrogation...
techniques” program was first approved and carried out, according to documents released by the agency last week. They were ...
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Op-Ed Contributor - Congress’s Torture Bubble
nytimes.com - 5/17/2009
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ON March 17, a Republican lawyer, quoting a
confidential source for a Times reporter, testified to Congress...
that the newspaper killed a story last fall because it would have been “a game-changer” in the presidential election. The charge, amplified by ...
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The Public Editor - The Tip That Didn’t Pan Out - ...
nytimes.com - 5/17/2009
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WHEN the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visits
the White House on Monday for his first stage-setting...
visit, he will carry with him an agenda that clashes insistently with that of President Obama. Mr. Obama wants Mr. Netanyahu to endorse ...
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Matt Lewis: Liberal John Danforth Pushes Schweich for U.S. Senate
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Meet John Danforth , former Republican Senator from Missouri and diplomat in the George W. Bush administration. After leaving the Bush administration, he has made a career out of attacking conservatives and Republicans . He co-founded the Republican Leadership Council with Christie Todd Whitman to advance social liberals within the Republican Party . He also led the fight as honorary co-chair of the 2006 ballot initiative to support embryonic stem-cell research in Missouri. You get the point. He’s not a conservative. Earlier this year, Kit Bond retired as the senior senator from Missouri. And Danforth saw an opportunity to promote one of ...
Townhall.com blogger exposes John Danforth as GOP hater
Fired Up! Missouri —
The pro-Roy Blunt and anti-Thomas Schweich forces are working to nip this whole Senate campaign thing in the bud. Schweich says he's "flattered" by the attention, and what he calls a "vintage Washington-style smear campaign" against him. For now, anyway.
Via JohnCombest.com, we see that Townhall.com blogger Matt Lewis is particularly concerned with Sen. Danforth's alleged hatred of conservatives, Schweich's service at the UN and the fact that Danforth and Schweich have worked together.
Meet John Danforth, former Republican Senator from Missouri and diplomat in the George W. Bush administration. ...
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