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added 2007 Thu Jun 14 3:38:39 by Mark Stevens
University of Washington is working on something rather startling. Studies that Einstein described as "spooky". The Denzel Washington Movie Deja Vu maybe closer to fact than fiction. This is one more thing that is making science fiction harder to come by.
added 2007 Wed Jun 13 18:42:45 by Aidenag
The Bush administration proposes cutting 1.5 million acres from Northwest forests considered critical to the survival of the northern spotted owl.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 8:42:12 by Neophile
Breaking a 211-year media silence, retired Army Gen. George Washington appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to speak out against many aspects of the way the Iraq war has been waged.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 8:42:12 by Neophile
Breaking a 211-year media silence, retired Army Gen. George Washington appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to speak out against many aspects of the way the Iraq war has been waged.
added 2007 Mon Jun 4 4:15:47 by y_soitenly
For the first two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iran's leaders and diplomats sought to persuade all Iraqi Shiite Islamist factions in Iraq to work together through a US-led political process, but the Bush administration scuttled those efforts, the Congressional Research Service reported last week.
added 2007 Tue May 29 8:19:35 by Aidenag
The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington. More than 70 cities and 14 state Democratic parties have urged impeachment or investigations that could lead to impeachment.
added 2007 Mon May 28 7:15:22 by y_soitenly
President Bush has declared that the 3.5% pay raise for the troops proposed by Democrats as being "unnecessary" but requested the legislature to make the President's tax cuts for the rich permanent, actions that have earned the administration the wrath of unions.
added 2007 Sat May 19 6:35:13 by populist
In addition to making whiskey and farming different crops on his Mount Vernon acreage, George Washington also grew hemp (cannabis), like many people of his time. A replica of his whiskey distillery has been built, and Mount Vernon officials say they may produce some for special occasions and might try to get approval to bottle and sell it.
added 2007 Fri May 18 5:40:29 by y_soitenly
The plan would create a temporary worker program to bring new arrivals to the U.S and a separate program to cover agricultural workers. Skills and education-level would for the first time be weighted over family connections in deciding whether future immigrants should get permanent legal status. New high-tech employment verification measures also w

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added 2007 Fri May 18 5:34:10 by y_soitenly
WASHINGTON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a farewell visit Wednesday to President Bush, an opportunity for close allies to showcase their unity on the war in Iraq and hammer out differences on climate change and trade.
added 2007 Fri May 4 5:50:07 by bubba2
Several military personnel have worked as independent contractors for a California woman who federal prosecutors say ran a prostitution ring in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 13 years, according to the woman's lawyer. A Naval Academy instructor was among those working for the "D.C. madam," Montgomery Blair Sibley said.
added 2007 Sun Apr 29 8:02:24 by TechnologyExpert
ABC News' Brian Ross revealed tonight that the list of customers of an alleged Washington-based prostitution service includes White House and Pentagon officials as well as prominent attorneys. "There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers," Ross said.
added 2007 Fri Apr 20 11:33:57 by Aidenag
For the first time, the city of Seattle has earned a spot in the $1,000 club. That means it now costs at least $1,000 per month to rent an average apartment in the city. Only seven other West Coast cities have earned spots in the $1,000 club, and they're all in California.
added 2007 Sat Apr 7 6:48:29 by bubba2
The Washington Post published an editorial attacking Speaker Pelosi's bipartisan delegation trip to the Middle East. In a telling sign, the poisonous editorial contradicts the Post's own reporting on the Speaker's visit to Syria. Speaker Pelosi accurately relayed a message given to her by Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to Syrian President Assad.
added 2007 Tue Apr 3 20:18:50 by Wil
The FBI used a secret intelligence unit to detain war protesters in Washington and interrogate them about their political and religious views, according to police logs that have recently surfaced in a civil lawsuit filed by 20 demonstrators who were arrested by D.C. police in 2002 during rallies on the mall.
added 2007 Tue Mar 27 11:14:06 by Aidenag
Mount St. Helens may be following the example of Kilauea in Hawaii with magma being replaced from a reservoir beneath the volcano as fast as it emerges as lava at the surface, scientists say.
added 2007 Mon Mar 26 7:47:29 by Aidenag
One of the eight former U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration said yesterday that White House officials questioned his performance in highly partisan political terms at a meeting in Washington in September, three months before his dismissal.
added 2007 Sat Mar 24 19:11:27 by catstevens
IN one of the most depressing pieces of news to come along in years, the organization that presides over high school sports in Washington State is considering a ban on booing at sporting events.
added 2007 Mon Mar 19 19:36:31 by TechnologyExpert
About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia. Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out job applications.
added 2007 Sat Mar 17 17:45:35 by Neophile
Alexander Semin scored a goal and added two assists to lead the lowly Washington Capitals to a 5-1 home romp over the listless Leafs on Friday night.
added 2007 Sat Mar 10 2:31:38 by corey.spring
Video shot by Joseph La Sac shows an officer demanding the student turn off his camera. La Sac was there to document the controversial onloading of Stryker military equipment to a ship bound for the Iraq war. [via Lost Remote]
added 2007 Tue Mar 6 15:36:15 by Spadecaller
But here we are - four years from Mission Unaccomplished with most of America sick to death of this stupid, pointless war. Do you really want to wait until the clock runs out before we get rid of Bush? Busloads of activists will travel to Washington as they bring their anti-war demands directly to Shock and Awe Headquarters.
added 2007 Fri Feb 16 19:22:33 by Wil
More than 2 days after an inflammatory quote used by a regular Washington Times columnist was shown to be fabricated, the newspaper still hasn't removed it from the article, or carried a correction. That's one reason Don Young (R-AK) cited the quote on the floor of the House in the debate over the Iraq war "surge." He took it to be true.
added 2007 Thu Feb 15 12:40:12 by unknown user
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added 2007 Sun Jan 28 12:23:55 by Spadecaller
400,000 protesters converged on the Nation's Capitol Sat. to oppose the Iraq War and its escalation. Among many groups, thousands of veterans were well represented. "This one is a war of choice and a war for profit against a culture and people we don't understand," said a 54-year-old carpenter from Prairie Village, Kansas.
added 2007 Sun Jan 28 4:54:48 by Aidenag
Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro.
added 2007 Sat Jan 27 12:17:23 by Spadecaller
Tens of thousands of demonstrators are set to arrive in the capital this weekend for a major antiwar march, staging the first of several protests intended to persuade the new Democratic-controlled Congress to do more than simply speak against President Bush's Iraq policy.
added 2007 Thu Jan 25 9:28:30 by STONERS
A convicted murderer's statements to the FBI about the deaths of two young girls in Washington are not sufficient to bring criminal charges in the deaths, though the man remains "a viable person of interest" in the slayings, investigators said Wednesday.
added 2007 Wed Jan 24 11:04:38 by Spadecaller
Plot your itinerary now. George Bush's newly announced intent to send an additional 21,500 troops into the burgeoning civil war-his so-called "surge" plan-has given this particular march on Washington unexpected momentum. Help mobilize for the big march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, January 27.
added 2007 Tue Jan 23 18:30:33 by Aidenag
A visit to Washington state, which has the highest minimum wage in the country, reveals a booming economy with none of the problems Big Business had been warning about.