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  1. Blank check

    ... Given the weeklong 24-hour coverage of President Reagan's death, it is quite likely that most missed Attorney General Ashcroft's Senate testimony. It is a shame that the testimony did not get more air time or print time because it clearly revealed spreading bacteria in the body of our democracy. ...

  2. No blank check for Bush

    ... "If Putin had written it, I would have understood it." That's what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had to say about the big Bush $700 billion-plus bailout plan. Echoed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Not even Stalin was ever given so much power or so much money to spend." When leaders of the left ...

  3. No more blank checks for war

    ... After the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, Austria got from Kaiser Wilhelm a "blank cheque" to punish Serbia. Germany would follow whatever course its ally chose to take. Austria chose war on Serbia. And World War I resulted. On March 31, 1939, Britain gave a blank check ...

  4. GOP blank check for war?

    ... High among the blunders of history was the "blank cheque" Kaiser Wilhelm gave Vienna, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to deal with the Serbs as they saw fit. Five weeks later, Vienna cashed the check and declared war, after Belgrade refused to submit to all 10 demands of an u...

  5. Barack 'Blank' Obama

    ... Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been anointed by the mainstream media as a frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. He's been a guest on "Meet the Press" and, more importantly, "Oprah." He's been featured on the covers of Time magazine and Harper's, and profiled in The New Yorker....

  6. Bailout's 'blank check' enraging Republicans

    ... Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. In a letter written to fellow legislators over the weekend, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., added his voice to a dedicated resistance still fighting against the federal government's $700 billion bailout of the financial industry and demanding accountability f...

  7. 'Fast and Furious' data request yields blank pages

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    ... (CBS NEWS) — For more than a year, CBS News has been investigating the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms' "Fast and Furious" operation and related cases that also employed the controversial tactic of "gunwalking." With Justice Department officials refusing all interview requests to date, ...

  8. Perry draws blank on Texas anti-sodomy case

    ... Texas Gov. Rick Perry admitted Thursday that he didn’t know about the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, a case decided while he was governor which struck down the state’s anti-sodomy law and similar laws in 13 others. A voter at a meet and greet asked him to defend his cri...

  9. Science behind 'negative image' illusion

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    ... (YAHOO!GAMES) — Stare at the red dot on this woman's nose for thirty seconds. Then, look over at a blank white space (a piece of paper or an empty browser tab will do). Did you see the "correct" version of the image? Here's how it works ......

  10. Hate of U.S. keeps weapons trade thriving

    ... Intelligence analysts say the three-way relationship, especially involving weapons trade, between Russia, China and Iran is complex, but it's held together by a common enemy: The United States. A recently released report by Stephen Blank for the Jamestown Foundation says the Russi...

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