Filed at 10:36 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Hotline has some unanswered questions about the Foley sex scandal:
Foley’s actions raised enough alarm bells that a number of investigating actions were started late last year and in early spring. In addition, ABC News reports that the 16-year-old page had been warned to watch out for Foley, suggesting that the congressman’s behavior was an […]
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Filed at 8:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Hey everybody, I wanted to just let you know that I’ve added a new feature to the site: the Digg button. Digg.com is a free online community where people can share cool stuff that they find on the internet. You can sign up for free here if you haven’t already, and “digg” stuff you find […]
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Filed at 7:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As promised, I’m featuring leaked snippits of conversation between Republican Congressman Mark Foley and an unidentified male minor. Foley abruptly resigned in disgrace on Friday over the scandal. The AOL Instant Messenger screenname Foley uses is Maf54. The other screenname (shown in red) is redacted for obvious privacy reasons. Reader discretion is advised.
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Ever since Republican Representative Mark Foley handed his resignation to Denny Hastert yesterday (by way of Jeb Bush, I hear) the question has evolved into more of a “what did Republican House leadership know, and when did they know it?” The answers to that question are ensuring that this does not just stay a one-day […]
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Filed at 5:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday I asked if disgraced Republican Rep Mark Foley’s House seat could be an unexpected pickup for Dems this year. This is the third House race where Republicans have been forced to run a replacement candidate by the way.
A picture of what’s going to happen regarding the election is becoming more clear. According to Florida […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As promised, I’m featuring leaked snippits of conversation between Republican Congressman Mark Foley and an unidentified male minor. Foley abruptly resigned in disgrace on Friday over the scandal. The AOL Instant Messenger screenname Foley uses is Maf54. The other screenname (shown in red) is redacted for obvious privacy reasons. Reader discretion is advised.
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Filed at 2:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s your weekend fix for the Virginia Senate race. I’ve got 5 stories for you.
1. David Shuster of MSNBC’s Hardball recently interviewed Pat Waring on the show. Waring says she personally heard Republican incumbnet Senator George Allen loudly and repeatedly used the word “nigger” at a football game. This comes on the heals of even […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The now well known hard-hitting VoteVets advertisement slamming Republican lawmakers about failing to vote for body armor for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (which debuted running against Republican George Allen in Virginia, then Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum) will be running against Senator Conrad Burns in Montana, in favor of excellent progressive Democratic organic farmer Jon […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
For a Human Rights class I’m taking, we’re supposed to formulate a question(s) related to human rights each week for class. The following is my third one. You can read my first and second here and here, respectively.
On some level does the concept of universal HR inherently violate the concept of sovereignty? Might sovereignty concerns […]
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Filed at 10:30 am, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
As promised, I’m featuring leaked snippits of conversation between Republican Congressman Mark Foley and an unidentified male minor. Foley abruptly resigned in disgrace on Friday over the scandal. The AOL Instant Messenger screenname Foley uses is Maf54. The other screenname (shown in red) is redacted for obvious privacy reasons. Reader discretion is advised.
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Filed at 9:30 am, Saturday September 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Filed at 10:30 pm, Friday September 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
You ready for some laughs this weekend? All weekend long I’ll be featuring quotes from a leaked instant message conversation between (now former) Republican Representative Mark Foley, who resigned today in disgrace. For a preview, let me just say that the Congressman is a terrible speller. Either that, or he was doing two things at […]
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Filed at 8:30 pm, Friday September 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press reports on Republican Representative Don Sherwood from Pennsylvania:
Sex could be the undoing of a family values Republican.
Four-term Rep. Don Sherwood recently had one of the safest seats in Congress as his conservatism played well in his heavily GOP, rural district in northeastern Pennsylvania. Democrats didn’t even bother fielding a candidate in the last […]
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Filed at 7:30 pm, Friday September 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press reports on the political implications of Republican House Rep Mark Foley’s abrupt and shameful resignation over inappropriate and lewd contact with minors:
His resignation further complicates the political landscape for Republicans, who are fighting to retain control of Congress. Democrats need to win a net of 15 Republican seats to regain the power they […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Friday September 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The New York Times editorial board yesterday cited seven examples of how the White-House-backed detainee treatment plan which has now passed both the Senate and the House is both thoroughly immoral and unconstitutional:
Enemy Combatants: A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant†in the bill could subject legal residents of the United States, as well […]
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