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Reason #3 to Vote for Kerry: Democracy

…taken to new heights the censoring of information that doesn’t fit well with state administration policies. Whether it’s some inconvenient comments by administration officials, information from the CDC website about…

Reason #2 to Vote for Kerry: The Iraq Decision

…intelligence we had indicated that Iraq had WMDs, and that Bush could only base his decision on the information he had at the time. But the premise of this argument…

Good News

…Terrorism Act after finding that they possessed surveillance information on the same financial centers in Washington, New York and New Jersey that were the focus of the terror alert earlier…

Cry Wolf?

From the NYT: WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and…

…ineptness are revealed on page 208 of the commission report, however. All of the information presented all summer long about the impending terrorist attack was apparently falling of deaf ears:…

…the Tugabe report (spelling is approximate for reasons which will become obvious momentarily). Someone has given the news media classified information and they are distributing it. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN…

…CHENEY: Yeah, worried about attacks on computer systems and sophisticated information technology systems we have these days that an adversary would use or try use. RUSH: Well, now, that explains…

…the immorality of abortion and the “threats of biotechnology.” Never adjust policy in response to information. Simply pick and choose scientists so as to adapt the information to policy. AB…

…that we care about. The only possible use it may have is if it contains information about other things in the economy that we do care about. But even a…

…data from their own historical budget documents. One particular White House document contains the salient information: “Historical Tables, Budget of the US”. The two tables that contain the relevant information