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Today's papers suggest that Bush and Frist are both getting cold feet on on the Gay-Bashing Amendment to the US Constitution. First, Bob Novak slams the president for all sorts of not-family-values policy decisions in DC, including his announcement he isn't going to push for the Gay-Bashing Amendment this term (forget the fact that he ran on it during his re-election). Then Frist refuses to include the amendment in the Top 10 list of GOP congressional priorities for this congress, just released today.

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Former Atty Gen. John Ashcroft gave a farwell speech today.

He talked about unity, God, and of course Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Was he talking about Rummy, Cheny, and Bushie?

To see him sing his famous song click here.

by Karen Kaplan Times Staff Writer

All human embryonic stem cell lines approved for use in federally funded research are contaminated with a foreign molecule from mice that may make them risky for use in medical therapies, according to a study released Sunday....read on

The finding is a setback to the Bush administration's controversial policy that provides federal funding only for research using embryonic stem cell lines that were created before August 2001. Evidence that all such lines are contaminated supports long-standing concerns among researchers that the lines eligible for federal money are insufficient to propel research forward.

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The transcript of Hewitt's open urinating on his own ideals.

This is my favorite part:

Krauthammer was missing from his usual appearance with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday in their round table discussion group during the second half of the show. The panel is usually comprised of Mara Liasson of National Public Radio; Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, and Juan Williams of National Public Radio. This week Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard was sitting in. Was it due to his reported contribution to President Bush's Inaugural speech? We aren't sure, but it did have us wondering and we are planning to call FOX News about it. Also, will it disqualify him from being a member in future panel discussions about the administration's policies, since obviously he is working to promote the President's agenda.

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California
defends her questioning of Condi Rice with Wolf Blitzer

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I'd like to know how someone's character can be called into question when that someone is confronted with their own statements.

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Thomas called the retirement system's finances a "problem" rather than a crisis, distancing himself from the crisis terminology used by the White House in seeking public support for creating private accounts.

"I think 'problem' really is what we're dealing with," said Thomas, when asked if he thought it was a crisis.

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Negroponte was evasive as ever as he deflected questions from Tim Russert.

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When asked how many troops were trained; Negroponte said they had such and such battalions operating. Russert asked for numbers and he replied in battalions. Does anyone know how many troops make up a battalion? I know I could look it up, but do you think Tim could have asked that question? It's not a brain teaser to actually have an idea of the amount of trained Iraqi's.

Also on the insurgents:

MR. RUSSERT: How large is the insurgency?

AMB. NEGROPONTE: Well, I can say I don't think anybody knows with absolute certainty how large it is. But I can say that since I have been here over the past six months, I think the level of military activity and the level of incidents instigated by the insurgency has remained roughly the same.

What does their activity have to do with their size? By the way, it seems to most Americans, journalists, Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush that attacks have escalated in an attempt to try and intimidate voters as the election nears.

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