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Dick Cheney: The Traitor of Traitor-Gate

October 26, 2005

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The Feds close in….
As in Watergate, the cover-up is easier to prove than the crime itself, but obstruction of justice is surely enough to impeach a sitting Vice President…
Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report
Cheney’s involvment was categorically denied by the White House on September 29, 2003:
“Q Do your words also speak for Vice President Cheney? And can you categorically say that he was not involved in this?
“[Press Secretary Scott] McCLELLAN: I’ve made it clear that there’s been nothing, absolutely nothing, brought to our attention to suggest any White House involvement, and that includes the Vice President’s office.
“If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.”
Read the entire transcript here

Euthanasia: Do we have a Right to Die?

October 25, 2005

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As the Supreme Court decides the Constitutionality of Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Act”, we bring a new issue for Debate Tuesday to THE INSIDE SCOOP.
What is the morality of euthanasia?
Are there circumstances where people should be allowed, without coercion, to end their own lives?
Guest: Medical Historian Ian Dowbiggin, Author of A Concise History of Euthanasia and Chair of the History Department at the University of Price Edward Island in Canada.

Does the Republican Party Hate the Poor?

October 24, 2005

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Why do Republican policies punish poor working people and reward the lazy rich?
Guest Michael Lane, President of IntElephant Strategies, a consultant working to elect Republicans to political office.

Sunday Weekly Review

October 23, 2005

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Q) What do these diverse stories have in common?
— TraitorGate
— the “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal” to sell America WMD lies to support the War in Iraq
— Karen Hughes discussing the crimes of Saddam Hussein
— Saddam’s trial
— Harriet Miers on the President; the President on Harriet Myers
— Senator Ted Stevens claim that the US is “discriminating” against Alaska
— the anti-gay prejudice of the Catholic Church and the U.S. military
— the love of Republicans for Government Contractors
— Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s
A) They are all evidence that the only thing worse than a LIAR….
……is a LIAR that believes his own LIES.
PLUS a trip down memory lane…
Mark will play segments from the very first radio broadcast of THE INSIDE SCOOP on June 22, 2003.