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Watchdog, Historians Declare Preemptive War on Cheney

By | 09.08.08 | 4:30 pm

As The Washington Post previewed this morning, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics, a watchdog group, along with two historians and three historical organizations, filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court this afternoon against the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives. More…

General: Palin Never Ordered National Guard To Do Anything

By | 09.04.08 | 1:07 am

Remember when the McCain campaign got all bent out of shape because CNN’s big, bad Campbell Brown beat up on campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds for not being able to name a single instance in which Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ordered the state’s National Guard to do anything More…