The Scarlet Pimpernel

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• O'Reilly on Media Matters: "Any of the presidential candidates who can deport those swine -- I'm voting for them"
• Argentine Dirty War officers punished
• Evolution
• No Respect
• Florida Strategy
• About as Likely
• 2nd migrant flees to Chicago church
• Pays to pay attention
• 9-11 Meaning
• Cause and Effect
• Agency claims Justice Dept. blocks probe
• Mexico issues warrant for US marine
• Negroponte's Confession Convicts the Bush Administration
• 2008 Political Oscars
• Hiring Time, part II
• Out Of Line: State of the Union
• The Daily Szep: The State of the Union
• King Momo kicks off "royal" Carnival in Rio
• Venezuelan bank robbers arrested, hostages freed
• Holocaust-themed Rio Carnival float causes strain
• Showdown in Blackwater's Backyard
• Practice makes perfect
• New National Park
• Hiring Time
• A Brief History
• Chilean activist ends long hunger strike
• Colombian rebel leader gets 60-year U.S. prison term
• Karl Rove drops prep school speech
• Peru death squad ate cake after Fujimori-era hit
• Change?
• More gift cards
• Contrived
• Brazil seeks to build nuclear submarine
• Is Univision Slanted toward Hillary?
• Immigration Policy: Will the Real Senator Clinton Please Stand Up?
• Obama takes big risk on driver's license issue
• Don't stop Brazil Carnival but be careful: Lula
• Head-Off
• Good question
• Chavez calls for anti-US alliance
• Chile hunger strike puts focus on Indians' plight
• Iraq contractors tap Latin America's needy
• With a Whisper, Cuba’s Housing Market Booms
• Down from the Mountain
• Chávez escalates war of words, raises alarm
• Latin America 'falling off the map' in Davos
• Colombia orders blockade of rebel hostage camps
• Colombian rebels attack mayor, 4 police killed
• Call to boost Peru court security
• Fresh From Securing His Legacy in the Middle East…
• Campaign Roulette
• Out of Line: Fight
• Chávez says Colombia is a 'pawn' in U.S. plot
• Venezuelan Pleads Guilty in Cover-Up of Suitcase of Cash
• Key Mexican drug hitman arrested near U.S. border
• Repeat ad infinitum
• Republican Idol
• Colombia is finally moving against killers of unionists
• The Globalised are fighting back against the Globalisers
• Venezuela's Chavez: Socialism Still Our Goal
• Chavez urges withdrawals from U.S. banks
• Chavez: Colombia plans 'aggression'
• Killing in the name of public health
• Liars
• 2008 Candidate Guide
• Fighting for Safety
• Bush Urged to Renounce Torture, Restore 'Moral Authority'
• So Is Waterboarding Torture? Mukasey May Never Say
• Union Membership Sees Biggest Rise Since ’83
• Fear grows with violence in Peru's cocaine trade
• Chavez says Colombia, U.S. plotting invasion
• Rebate problem
• GOP field
• Bolivia floods kill 30 people; aid on the way
• Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens
• Guilty plea in Argentine "suitcase scandal"
• A mysterious death in Argentina
• Colombia: Show Results on Human Rights Before FTA
• Mexican inflation under control
• Retired Colombian general rounded up in drug bust
• Chávez's taunts test Colombia's Uribe
• Supreme Court: Taking Care of Business
• Judge wants answers on CIA videotapes
• Mexico anti-drug official says target of hit men
• Powerful mayor challenges Ecuador's Correa
• Rice seeks Colombian trade accord
• Brazil announces new measures to fight Amazon deforestation
• Out Of Line: Scary
• Fugitive officer arrested in rights case
• The Daily Szep: The Iraq plan
• Carnival costumes reminder of Rio violence
• Trade with Bolivia and Ecuador
• At Amateur Bullfights in Colombia, Alcohol and Blood Flow Freely
• The Daily Szep: Hillary Drops the Gloves
• GOP Hypocrisy on Race
• Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats
• In Iraq Until When?
• Telecom Immunity: Covering Up Illegality by Secrecy and Fear
• Californian convicted in Bolivia 'vampire' bombings
• The vibrancy of democracy in Venezuela under Chavez
• Brazil Indian murders rise in land conflicts
• EPA docs show agency predicted legal troubles from denying CA emissions regulation
• Advertisers Drop Savage Over Hateful Remarks, USO Hints At Suit
• Liberal Christian: 'Dominance of the religious right is finished'
• The Daily Szep: Say Good Night, Fred
• The Daily Szep: Reality Show
• Judge: NYC can't use secret arguments
• Republican "Class Warfare"
• Up Close and Personal: John Edwards
• The Politics of Greed
• La Union de Campesinos Respaldan a Clinton
• Who Will Take On the Banks?
• What Do Liberals Believe?
• Arrests, Slaying Underscore Mexico's Drug Crisis
• Morales defends Bolivian reforms
• Iraq Myopia: Day 1728
• The Daily Szep: The Rich Not Being Richer
• Gripping Dialogue
• Man Held by C.I.A. Says He Was Tortured
• FISA Follies
• Study: False Statements Preceded War
• South Carolina Slugfest
• The Daily Szep: The Risk Taker
• Found In Translation
• Turkish Spies and Other Moles...
• Going Bankrupt
• Venezuela opposition demands drug test for Chavez
• Who Wants To Be a Commander in Chief?
• The Second Amendment won't save you...
• Venezuela troops crack down on smuggling
• ACLU poll: Majority opposes telecom immunity plan
• Why Jose Padilla's 17-Year Prison Sentence Should Shock and Disgust all Americans
• Mexico City starts grope-free buses for women
• Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
• 'Huge' gas field found off Brazil
• Chávez works on U.S. image
• Ivy-League Letdown
• Amend Your Textbooks
• Welcome to South Carolina!
• Edwards Excels in Ferocious Democratic Debate
• Trickle down to a financial meltdown...
• Mexican officials take on drug cartels
• 'Drug lord's' Brazil farm invaded
• Paraguay nominates first woman candidate
• Penn quits San Francisco Chronicle over paper's "lamebrain" remarks about Chavez
• Irony
• The Daily Szep: From Florida with Thanks to the DNC
• Chavez threatens to seize farms
• Debunking the Reagan Myth
• Venezuelan ammunition reaching rebels
• Mexican housing booms despite US crisis
• FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft
• Chavez: Uribe fit to be mafia boss, not president of Colombia
• Ronald Reagan: Fiscal Disaster
• The “Surge” is Working
• Colombian president "open for dialogue" on hostages
• Playing the odds
• Place in History
• Times Online drops the other shoe on the Turkish espionage ring...
• Good Jobs Are Where the Money Is
• Cubans vote for new parliament
• Don’t mind me
• Song and Dance
• US drugs official accuses Chavez
• Jesuits select new 'black pope'
• Pump-Priming the Economy
• Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead
• Uribe's Ego Endangers Hostages
• Colombia revives European efforts over hostages
• Latino Community, Female Voters Push Clinton Over the Top
• First Visit
• Cleaning up the polls
• A Conservative Answer to MoveOn
• Canada, oh Canada...
• The Usual Democratic Bus Trip
• We the Chosen People
• Chavez warns banks on farm lending
• Is the New Supply Side Better Than the Old?
• Ecuador's Correa backers march amid lower ratings
• Dear Rich People …All you wealthy Americans, stop complaining and save the economy!
• “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)”
• Omar Khadr: Canada's Guantanamo Torture Warning Shows Double Standards
• MSNBC Brain Damage
• If I Had Sent Kids to Die or Be Wounded in Iraq I Would have Apologized to America, and Resigned
• Mike Huckabee’s White Supremacist Connections
• Good News
• Number One?
• Peru Cabinet chief testifies on attack
• From Texas to Iraq, and Center of Blackwater Case
• Between Pulpit and Podium, Huckabee Straddles Fine Line
• Could Congress Be Waking Up?
• The Immigrant Vote
• Bemoaning
• Decision 2008
• The Clinton's I Told You So
• Emergency Room Delays
• More Kremlin Harassment
• Paraguayans protesters charge primary vote fraud
• Progress
• Huckabee gave speech to white supremacists
• Investigator: School Destroyed Video It Was Ordered to Preserve of Students Being Shocked
• Senator to question televangelists again
• MSNBC analyst: Rove Obama attack close to 'outright racist'
• 2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
• Thousands flee Colombian volcano
• Assumptions
• House Panel Chairman: White House Chart Shows 473 Days of No E-Mail for Some White House Units
• Iraq: Decades Of Recovery for the American People
• Gay Tiger Attacks Huckabee
• The WORD: Scab
• Another landmark bill
• Chile and Peru again
• Few persuaded to flee Colombia volcano
• Violence spikes in Mexico
• Mexican Forces Clash With Drug Cartel Gunmen in Tijuana
• Resolutions
• Secret Service: Detailed Look at ’06 Turmoil
• Don’t Cry for Me, America
• Every Year
• Creation
• Waxman: WH Statement On Missing E-mails Conflicts With Prior Comments
• South America's Constitutional Battles
• Jon Stewart, Comedy Scab
• New Pastor
• Facing Deportation but Clinging to Life in U.S.
• Mont. high school cancels climate speech
• The Daily Szep: Huckabee's Hangup
• War, what war? Part II
• CSI Iraq: The Corpse on the Gurney
• President Bush Shouldn't Play With Sharp Objects
• Chile calls home its ambassador to Peru
• Goldberg's Liberal Fascism argument panned: 'Like saying mustaches are fascist,' Stewart tells author
• More Trivial
• Predictability
• Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch list
• Hostage Drama Shows Flaws in Washington's Policy on Colombia
• Chile congress backs pensions for all
• Account of C.I.A. Tapes Is Challenged
• Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama
• D.G.M.
• Fallen
• US fears 'disastrous' links in Latin America with Islamic militants
• QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up
• Britain slams Russia after closing culture offices
• An independent Kosovo can never join U.N.: Russia
• One More Stinkin' Example of Why We Need Universal Healthcare
• Tapes Destroyed Over CIA's Objections
• Head of World Bank Fraud Unit Resigns
• Wealthy may be next in line in U.S. home crisis
• Not Ready
• House Panel Criticizes CIA Tape Destruction
• White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003
• State Dept. Official Disputes Iraq Report
• Chavez says U.S., Colombia plot to kill him
• How the Pentagon planted a false story
• Forget the sex crimes, we got ourselves a terrorist supporter...
• Sudanese journalist describes Gitmo
• Peru disputes boundary with Chile
• The Daily Szep: This Little Piggy
• Congress Should Investigate Release of Pentagon Iran Video
• White House Missing Emails Were "Recycled"
• Newt Gingrich: A One-Legged Man at a Butt Kickin' Contest
• The Daily Szep-The making of a good evangelical christian
• No Child Left Behind
• The Cheneyites and the pillaging of two nations...
• Will the English-language press investigate whether Colombian President Uribe sabotaged the initial hostage release?
• Revolution of the Snails
• CNN's John King responds
• Stay the Course
• Vote Early and Often: California Wins in the Early Primary
• Debate Shocker: Iraq Returns to the Campaign Spotlight...and Hillary Puts it There
• How many?
• America needs realists, not William Kristol
• Limbaugh twice used word "spade" during discussion of Obama
• Who’d-a thunk?
• A Good Year
• Bush’s Bubble Economy
• Station Chief Made Appeal To Destroy CIA Tapes
• Wicker's Earmark Elicits Criticism
• Hearing Is Set on Lawsuit Over Sites for Casino Workers
• AWOL
• The Putin Plan
• Devolution II
• Scientists Take Complaints About Interference to Hill
• Citing Prices, Bush Urges OPEC to Boost Output
• The Consequences of the Bush administration...
• Intelligent Life
• Credibility
• Bigot Voting Bloc
• Bush takes distance from key Iran findings
• White House Opposes Mine Safety Bill
• The Dogs of Holy War
• Growing a Brain
• Devolution
• Nightmare
• Castro 'ready to return' - Lula
• Released Colombian hostage indicates that armed forces sabotaged earlier planned release
• Chavez: Help free Colombia captives
• A Supreme Court Reversal: Abandoning the Rights of Voters
• Anti-Cuban 'terrorists' find refuge in Florida
• Insanity
• What America Cares About
• Bursting Bush's Bubble, One ACLU Case At A Time
• Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think
• Voters' Optimism Drops As Economic Fears Rise
• Treason for sale...
• My Hero!
• lolbear
• The Daily Szep: Romney Bandwagon Rolls Into Michigan
• Ignoring Iraq: Why Has it Become the Forgotten Issue of the '08 Race?
• Suitcase of Cash Tangles U.S. and 2 Latin Nations in Intrigue
• Hot Prospect for Oil’s Big League
• Panama: Noriega Loses Another Round
• New Farc kidnappings in Colombia
• Man of the Year
• Hooded Justice
• Reason to Celebrate
• Some Bolivians torn between Morales, free trade
• Chris Matthews Doesn't Rewrite History About the Clintons, He Just Makes It Up
• Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington -- "Hello Madame Speaker"
• Americans Need to Look Beyond the Media on Venezuela
• Crying III
• Crying II
• Crying
• US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
• FBI: Housing scams more than double
• Serbia adopts plan in case of Kosovo independence
• Venezuela and Colombia
• Holier Than Thou
• Sadness II
• Sadness
• For the Blowhards Who Insist It's a Two-Way Race...
• Obama Needs a History Lesson about Hillary and King
• Are Democrats About to Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?
• Just Shut Up, Senator
• Planning Ahead
• Responding to Recession
• The Tattlesnake – Mea Culpa, Media Maxima Culpa Edition
• Every Damn Day
• Hindu Huckabee
• He May Be Unwelcome, but We’ll Survive
• Campaign exposes deep rifts in GOP coalition
• The New Bubble-Prone Economy
• The Coddled "Terrorists" Of South Florida
• Right-wing hypocrisy: Illegal immigration
• Off Target
• Why is the blogosphere chock full of ultra-rightist crackpots?
• Who Would Jesus Bomb?
• Which First?
• Escalation in the Persian Gulf
• Joint Chiefs chairman: close Guantanamo
• Oil Crisis As Barrels Go Missing, According to Audit
• Frank Rich: Haven’t We Heard This Voice Before?
• Rule #1 While Visiting New Hampshire in January
• Water-boarding 'would be torture'
• Yellow fever alert alarms Brazil
• The Equivalent of a Status of Forces Agreement
• Preventing Doomsday: Nuclear Terrorism and the 2008 Democratic Candidates
• Press' distorting lens on Chavez's statements about FARC
• Unusual pair takes over in Guatemala
• Five myths of anti-immigration talk
• Why Do We Democrats Always Do This?
• Edwards criticizes Clinton comments
• Pope turns back on congregation in old mass ritual
• Endorsement?
• Curious George
• New Years’ Kiss
• Shanghai police break up "maglev" train protest
• Wanna get away with murder? Elect Mike Huckabee.
• Vanishing Act
• Welcome to the Monkey House...
• Dana Perino: "I have not heard that."
• Anger at Argentina airport delays
• Corporate elite fear candidate Edwards
• Inquiry Focuses on Withholding of Data on Loans
• Johnson Did Help Give Life to King's Dream
• Obama, under media pressure, makes public some fund-raising events; Did not disclose fund-raiser with Gov. Patrick.
• Ensuring that censorship backfires
• Un-American
• It's Stupid's Economy
• FBI finds Blackwater trucks patched
• Clinton, Obama and Edwards Need to "Put Up Or Shut Up"
• Minutemen 'Adopt' Southern California Highway Stretch That Includes Border Patrol Checkpoint
• Roadblock
• Advantage
• Musharraf: Pakistan handling Bhutto probe
• Revisions to weaken Ortega's grip rejected
• Chávez wants another vote
• Tick Tock Goes the Middle East Decider's Clock
• Friday round up of stupid people at-large...
• GOP Voter Cleanup
• Mysterious crowd suddenly stopped Bhutto's car, officer says
• What does America stand for?
• MSNBC analyst: Rove Obama attack close to 'outright racist'
• Amid accusations of misogyny, Matthews slams 'View' hosts
• Snow falls on Baghdad for first time in memory
• Shut Up, Larry
• Keystone Cops Confront Iran
• He who shall not be named
• Ralph Reed's New Role
• This Just In…
• Huckabee And The Murderer: The Mother Of A Victim Speaks.
• Why Hillary Will Win the Nomination
• UN Says U.S. Economy's Housing Slowdown Risks Global Recession
• "Suitcase Scandal" is Another Foreign Policy Blunder
• Straits of Hormuz Incident: almost certainly a fake
• Panama honors dead from '64 canal riots
• Anti-immigration strategy fails
• The Bomb in the Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World
• So, do you take your Tonkin baked or fried?
• Blackwater gassed US troops in Iraq
• And less justice for all...
• Investigators want Pelosi to hand over Foley computer
• Soldier says he randomly shot at Iraqis
• Expert: Crime of torture could only have been ordered by the president
• Refight the Nineties?
• Fox News: We Report -- Even if We Know It's False
• Bill Kristol = George Costanza
• The Reactionary Supreme Court About to Undo 150 Years of Precedent
• Inter-American Press Association Shouldn't Pursue Partisan Agenda in Venezuela
• Attorney: Reconsider Texas border fence
• U.S. military mum on gay policy
• Sibel has photos up...
• Sibel Speaks Part II: Naming Names...
• OK, Some Evidence For Evolution
• George McGovern: Why I Believe Bush and Cheney Should Be Impeached
• SIBEL EDMONDS SPEAKS TO UK SUNDAY TIMES: SAYS U.S. OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN RELEASE OF NUKE SECRETS TO TURKEY, PAKISTAN, IRAN, OTHERS, POSSIBLY EVEN AL-QAEDA
• UK living standards outstrip US
• Why I Believe Bush Must Go
• Police expected children during drug raid
• For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets
• Sibel Speaks...
• The GOP’s Three-Legged Coalition…
• So That’s What “Caucus” Means
• Thoughts On The Obama Campaign
• Mine Safety Hack is Out, and Then He's Right Back In
• Novak Says You Are: Come Clean Sen. Obama About Demers
• How Hillary Can Win Me Back
• Bill O'Reilly lets his inner stalker shine...
• Obama vs Hillary: Read This And THEN Decide
• The winning Iowa campaigns embraced the UK media (Hillary Clinton didn't)
• For Now, Musharraf Has Muzzled Legal Critics in Pakistan
• Sweet: Fox's Bill O'Reilly in confrontation with Obama staffer at rally. UPDATE
• Trent Lott's Career in Education
• That flash of blue is the bird with the funny tail
• 72-hr City strike ahead
• Amnesty should not be viewed necessarily as rapprochement, says ex attorney general
• Scope of amnesty law could be revised
• TOURISTS RESCUED FROM EXPLODING CHILE VOLCANO
• BACKLASH AGAINST LOAN FOR CHILE’S TRANSANTIAGO
• CHILE SENATE PROTESTS U.S-MEXICO BORDER WALL
• Hostage saga embarrassment to FARC, Chávez
• Mapquest, Google scramble to add Lakota to maps
• Alert! Alert! Massive Escape from Asylum
• Play Good Together, Guys
• NBC finds 'controversy' in scientists' rebuke of creationism
• U.S. science academy stresses evolution's importance
• US host Leno criticised by union
• Swift Boaters Return
• Meanwhile, in New Hampshire…
• Book Review of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
• Book Review of Dani Rodrik's One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalisation, Institutions and Economic Growth
• Chris Dodd for Majority Leader!
• Ed Rollins miffed at Townhall blogger for eavesdropping
• Jobless Rate Hits 5 Percent, a 2-Year High, Fanning Recession Fears
• Moore: Caucus results are 'deafening' repudiation of war
• Huckabee Chairman Ed Rollins Trashes Romney
• Edwards vows to fight on in N.H.
• Venezuela's Chavez reshuffles cabinet after defeat
• U.S. limiting states on Medicaid coverage
• Bennett: Obama isn't *that* kind of black
• Chile's interior minister quits, second in month
• Co-Chairs of 9/11 Commission: CIA Stonewalled Investigation
• “Night of the Living Fred”
• Iowa Votes
• Bio-rich Costa Rica's new marvels
• Another cocaine-laden submarine sinks off Colombia
• Honduras minister resigns after video-taped brawl
• Ecuador's Congress defies shutdown
• Colombian boy, born captive, at center of mystery
• CBS, CNN obtain secret dossier alleging Pakistani vote-rigging scheme
• December 20 to be national "Day of Mourning and Reflection"
• NASA's "Air Safety" Report?
• Nader Endorses Edwards
• Obama Makes Few Friends with Slams at Gore and Kerry
• Uribe and Bush Make Last Ditch Effort to Sabotage Hostage Release