Author: Marie2

Walking The Talk In France

Or an easy way to silence critics. Guillaume Larrivé, an MP with the former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party, tabled a parliamentary question in March asking how much Trierweiler’s staff at the Elysée...

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Annoyance Continues [update]

About the guns used by the Tsarnaev brothers in their firefights with the police last Friday morning and evening: Two U.S. officials say investigators in the Boston bombings have recovered only one handgun believed to have been...

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Yanks Mourn Thatcher

But first from The Guardian, George Galloway, MP: “We’re spending £10m on the canonisation of this wicked woman, this woman who laid waste to industrial Britain, to the north, to Scotland, to south Wales....

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One Old Big Fat Rightwing SSI Lie

It goes like this: President Lyndon Johnson raids the Social Security Trust Fund to wage the Vietnam War President Johnson created the `unified budget’ in the late 1960s to disguise the real cost of the Vietnam...

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TVA For Sale

Another budget gem from the most “liberal” President evah: President Barack Obama’s budget proposal Wednesday said TVA could be sold after a coming “strategic review” and suggested transferring...

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