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Lewis "Scooter" Libby

2007-03-14T01:44:58Z

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'''Lewis "Scooter" Libby''' is a former deputy Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor and private Attorney to Vice President [[Dick Cheney]].

On October 28, 2005, Libby was indicted on five felony counts (1*Obstruction of Justice, 2*Making False Statements, 2*Perjury) due to his involvement in the [[Valerie Plame]] affair. On March 6, 2007, Libby was found guilty of the felony offense of lying to a grand jury. He had testified that he first learned about Joe Wilson's wife from VP Dick Cheney, and that when [[Tim Russert]] mentioned her in a phone call a month or so later, Libby told Russert that he had forgotten about her. Russert testified that no one mentioned Wilson's wife on that phone call.

On October 28, 2005, after his indictment by Fitzgerald's grand jury, he resigned as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, as assistant to the Vice President for national security affairs, and as assistant to President Bush. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4979769

'''Jurors convict Libby on four of five charges'''
Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s. The case brought new attention to the Bush administration's much-criticized handling of weapons of mass destruction intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Guilty Count 1 - Obstruction of Justice: Libby intentionally deceived the grand jury about how he learned, and “disclosed to the media,” information about Valerie Plame Wilson’s employment by the CIA.
Guilty Count 2 - Making a False Statement: Libby intentionally gave FBI agents false information about a conversation he had with NBC’s Tim Russert regarding Valerie Plame Wilson, who is married to Joseph Wilson.
Not Guilty Count 3 - a charge that he gave false statements to the FBI about his conversation with Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper.
Guilty Count 4 - Perjury: Libby knowingly provided false testimony in court about a conversation he had with Russert.
Guilty Count 5 - Perjury: Libby knowingly provided false testimony in court about his conversation with reporters regarding Valerie Plame Wilson’s CIA employment.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17479718/

'''Legal observers puzzled by 'Scooter' Libby's version of events'''
Most legal experts were not surprised Tuesday when jurors convicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on four of five counts of lying to federal investigators. ...
At trial, Libby's claim was contradicted by nine witnesses, including government officials, who said he had talked to them about Plame weeks earlier. ...
From the outset, as legal experts saw it, the case against Libby was simple and straightforward — and hard to defend against. ...
Since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, one of Washington's favored cliches has been that it's not the crime but the cover-up that gets officials into trouble.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess7mar07,1,2839083.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

Republican Party

2007-03-14T01:41:50Z

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The '''Republican Party''' is one of the two major extant parties in the United States. The party is sometimes referred to as the GOP for "Grand Old Party." (The conservative party is not actually older than the Democratic Party.) The party was founded on February 28, 1854 by a coalition of different interests who opposed the expansion of slavery and wanted to industrialize the United States.
Since then the party has undergone a variety of changes and now is a socially conservative party with a generally libertarian attitude towards economic issues.
Presidents from the party include: [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[George H W Bush]], [[George W Bush]], [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Dwight Eisenhower]], and [[Theodore Roosevelt]].

== History ==

The party was founded by disaffected Free-Soilers, Whigs and Democrats (mainly from the North). The first Republican candidate for President was [[John Frémont]] who was unsuccessful in his bid for the Presidency. [[Abraham Lincoln]] then ran in 1860 and was president during the [[US Civil War]]. In the post [[Civil War]] era, [[Reconstruction]] and associated resentment of the South in the North allowed the party to stay strong through the turn of the century. As slavery fell into the past, the party became more a party of industry and business. Later, in the 1920s, the party stood for high tariffs and non-involvement with the [[League of Nations]]. During the Depression, [[Herbert Hoover]] lost to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as the party became more in favor of small government and against the [[New Deal]]. Hoover's very unsuccessful attempts to end the Great Depression were rejected in favor of the New Deal, which had much greater success. Later, in the 1950s and 60s, the party also took on a strong state's rights attitude and rejected federal efforts to desegregate. During this time, the so called [[Dixiecrat]]s left the Democratic party for the Republicans after the collapse of the 3rd party [[States' Rights Democratic Party]]. Prior to this time period, the South had generally voted Democrat in reaction to the Civil War and Reconstruction. However, often in this time period, other candidates such as [[George Wallace]], ran on 3rd party tickets and continued to capture these voters.

== Contemporary Party ==

The contemporary Republican Party represents a wide array of interests such as the conservative evangelicals and the economic libertarians. The party has had some internal conflict over attitudes about how governments should run and how large they should be, what the party stands for, and what the party's attitude towards [[neo-conservatism]] should be especially in regard to foreign policy. The party is also divided over immigration issues with some members (such as George Bush) favoring workers visas and permits and some other members favoring strict control of immigration and strong action against illegal immigration.

== Criticism of the Party ==

The Party is often criticized as not accepting non-Christian faiths, being American Imperialistic, extremely week on issues such as global warming and the environment, and ignoring the Bill of Rights. The Republican Party also often stands with big business over the common man.

Republican Party

2007-03-14T01:24:33Z

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The '''Republican Party''' is one of the two major extant parties in the United States. The party is sometimes referred to as the GOP for "Grand Old Party." The party was founded on February 28, 1854 by a coalition of different interests who opposed the expansion of slavery and wanted to industrialize the United States.
Since then the party has undergone a variety of changes and now is a socially conservative party with a generally libertarian attitude towards economic issues.
Presidents from the party include: [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[George H W Bush]], [[George W Bush]], [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Dwight Eisenhower]], and [[Theodore Roosevelt]].

== History ==

The party was founded by disaffected Free-Soilers, Whigs and Democrats (mainly from the North). The first Republican candidate for President was [[John Frémont]] who was unsuccessful in his bid for the Presidency. [[Abraham Lincoln]] then ran in 1860 and was president during the [[US Civil War]]. In the post [[Civil War]] era, [[Reconstruction]] and associated resentment of the South in the North allowed the party to stay strong through the turn of the century. As slavery fell into the past, the party became more a party of industry and business. Later, in the 1920s, the party stood for high tariffs and non-involvement with the [[League of Nations]]. During the Depression, [[Herbert Hoover]] lost to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] as the party became more in favor of small government and against the [[New Deal]]. Hoover's very unsuccessful attempts to end the Great Depression were rejected in favor of the New Deal, which had much greater success. Later, in the 1950s and 60s, the party also took on a strong state's rights attitude and rejected federal efforts to desegregate. During this time, the so called [[Dixiecrat]]s left the Democratic party for the Republicans after the collapse of the 3rd party [[States' Rights Democratic Party]]. Prior to this time period, the South had generally voted Democrat in reaction to the Civil War and Reconstruction. However, often in this time period, other candidates such as [[George Wallace]], ran on 3rd party tickets and continued to capture these voters.

== Contemporary Party ==

The contemporary Republican Party represents a wide array of interests such as the conservative evangelicals and the economic libertarians. The party has had some internal conflict over attitudes about how governments should run and how large they should be, what the party stands for, and what the party's attitude towards [[neo-conservatism]] should be especially in regard to foreign policy. The party is also divided over immigration issues with some members (such as George Bush) favoring workers visas and permits and some other members favoring strict control of immigration and strong action against illegal immigration.

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[[Category:History]]

Barack Hussein Obama

2007-03-14T01:21:21Z

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Barack Obama is a Democratic Senator from Illinois, elected to the United States Senate in 2004 after serving as a state Senator. He is a candidate and Democratic front-runner for the 2008 United States Presidential election.

== Personal Life ==
Obama was born in Hawaii August 4 1961. His father was a Kenyan former farmer, and his mother a US citizen from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was two, and Obama's mother remarried to an Indonesian man and relocated the family to Jakarta. From age ten he lived in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents, where he completed high school in 1979. Obama has a Law degree from Harvard University and a BA from Columbia University. Until he entered politics in the 1990's, he was a senior lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He is currently a recovering smoker, having made a promise to quit to his wife.

Fact

2007-03-14T01:19:12Z

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=Fact=

A fact is something that science has proven to be true. This site is quite devoid of facts, as they tend to always support what those left-of-center think. They also don't have an American Imperialistic bias and are so not to be trusted. If we were to eliminate facts, we would be able to go and live in the wonder of the Dark Ages, a period of strong conservatism that only ended with the horrible advances of the Renaissance.