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Starz Denver Film Festival: What Movies Will You See? (VOTE)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Two Spirits, Dnc, The Young Victoria, Starz Denver Film Festival, Condoleezza Rice, Slidepoll, Poliwood, Precious, Hick Town, Heath Ledger the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Turtle: The Incredible Journey, Denver, Colorado, Denver News

The 32nd annual Starz Denver Film Festival begins this Thursday, bringing Denver 11 days with more than 200 films from 40 different countries. Scr...

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"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John Yoo, Beth El Synagogue, CIA Torture, Robert Delahunty, Torture Memos, Torture, Golden Shield, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.

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Palin, Cheney, Rice & Bush: You Might Buy Their Books, But Which Will You Read? (POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Sarah Palin Book, Political Books, Books, Slidepoll, George W. Bush, Palin Memoir, Going Rogue, Condoleezza Rice Memoir, Dick Cheney, Bestsellers, Dick Cheney Memoir, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Political Memoirs, Sarah Palin, Bush Memoir, Books News

Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney have hotly anticipated new memoirs coming out soon, but even if you buy them, will you actually read them? A new poll from...

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Specter of Forced Repatriation

Allan Gerson | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Pmoi, Camp Ashraf, Mek, Geneva Conventions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mojahedin-E-Khalq, Condoleezza Rice, Martin Indyk, Dell Dailey, Libya, Pan Am Flight 103, State Department, Mohammed Khatami, World News
Allan Gerson

The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.

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What is Condoleezza Rice Talking About?

Malou Innocent | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Malou Innocent

Americans should reject Ms. Rice's atrocious interpretation of policy and remember that she and her ilk were adept at keeping the American public in an elevated state of panic.

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Condoleezza Rice: "If You Want Another Terrorist Attack In The U.S., Abandon Afghanistan"

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Politics News

Those in Congress who would like to see the U.S. begin to pull out of Afghanistan don't have a supporter in former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gop, Reagan Administration, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Satan, Change, Unemployment, Gay Rights, Bailout, Conservatives, Condoleezza Rice, Climate Change, Single Payer, Abraham Lincoln, Fatal Attraction, Polar Bears, Mount Rushmore, Health Care, Michael Steele, Michelle Obama, Elephants, Rush Limbaugh, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Moderates, Bush Administration, Health Care Reform, Afghanistan, Bipartisanship, Republicans, Partisanship, Diversity, Republican National Convention, Comedy News
Dave Astor

Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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Torture Trading Cards Feature Bush, Cheney, Et Al

Mother Jones | Michael Mechanic | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Center for Constitutional Rights, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Bay, Trading Cards, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It was only a matter of time. Remember those Operation Enduring Freedom trading cards that Topps put out in 2001? And who could forget those Iraq's Mo...

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Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Upcoming Book

Beth Armogida | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Vice President, Book Excerpt, Condoleezza Rice, Halliburton, Dick Cheney's Memoirs, Donald Rumsfeld, Memoir, Alberto Gonzales, President Bush, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Comedy News
Beth Armogida

I was hatched on a cold, Nebraska day, January 30, 1941. It was the first of two fateful events for our country that year. The second took place in December.

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A Female Secretary of State, Making a Difference in Africa

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women in Politics, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Africa, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

One slip of the tongue for Hillary Clinton threatens to undermine all that she has accomplished. Why, after having proven that she is a skilled diplomat, are the commentators so quick to jump on her?

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Top 10 Status Updates on the New Social Networking Site for Former Bush Staffers

Mark Morford | Posted 09.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bush Staff, Political Satire, Conservatives, Facebook, Condoleezza Rice, Social Networking, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Comedy News
Mark Morford

Donald Rumsfeld is U R all dead to me. Reject my friend requests, oh yeah? I'll kill you all in your sleep. Kidding. OK, so not kidding.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Libya's Qaddafi Gave Condi Rice $212,000 In Gifts, Including A Diamond Ring

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jakaya Kikwete, Condoleezza Rice, Samak Sundaravej, George W. Bush, Foreign Gifts, Nicolas Sarkozy, Kadafi, Politics News

Scroll down for the State Department report In its final months in office, the Bush administration made out pretty well in odd and exotic gifts from ...

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'Bill Clinton is Syrian' and Other Tales of Obama's Speech From Damascus

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Arab World, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Syria, Bill Clinton, Arab Opinion, Damascus-Syria, Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Syrian, Reactions to Obama's Cairo Speech, Hillary Clinton, Arabic, Obama Cairo Speech, Obama Israel, Syrian-Public-Opinion, Condoleezza Rice, World News
Freddy Deknatel

Syrians will continue to ignore gestures of American reconciliation and Obama's optimistic oratory until an American ambassador is returned to Damascus and sanctions are lifted.

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Book: Bush Needed Condi To Explain Biden's "Articulate" Gaffe

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Richard Wolffe, Clean-and-Articulate, Richard Wolffe Renegade, Joe Biden, President George W. Bush, Politics News

Did George W. Bush really summon his African-American secretary of state for a lesson on junior-high-level racial politics? So reports Newsweek's Ric...

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Richard Clarke Slams Cheney, Rice: "The Trauma Of 9/11 Is No Excuse"

Washington Post | Richard A. Clarke | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Richard Clarke, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, 9/11, Iraq, Torture, Richard Clarke and Dick Cheney, Politics News

Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call ...

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R.I. Dem Offers To Waterboard Bush For Charity

AP | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rod Driver, Condoleezza Rice, Waterboard for Charity, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Waterboarding, Westerly-Rhode Island, Politics News

WESTERLY, R.I. — A Rhode Island Democratic lawmaker says he'll donate $100 to charity for every second former President George W. Bush withstand...

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Seven and Half Months--Seven and a Half Years

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Richard Clarke, Condoleezza Rice, Waterboarding, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, Torture, Osama Bin Laden, 9/11, George Bush, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.

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Condi Stumbles Again

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleeza Rice, Stanford Students, Frost/Nixon, Condi Rice, Condoleezza Rice, Politics News
Blaise Zerega

Under questioning by Leon Wieseltier, Rice clumsily debunks her "Nixon/Frost moment," and addresses the grilling about torture she received from Stanford University students.

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Stanford Anti-War Alumni, Students Call for Condi War Crimes Probe

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, Prosecution, Torture, Waterboarding, Stanford, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.

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DC Classic Rock Showdown: 4th Grader Grills Condi Rice on Led Zeppelin Fave

Eric Shutt | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Black Dog, Led Zeppelin, Condoleezza Rice, Entertainment News
Eric Shutt

"I like all kinds of music. I like Led Zepplin, I like Cream, I like really hard rock," said former foreign-policy mogul Condi Rice.

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Babes in TortureLand

Rory O'Connor | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Frost, Waterboarding, Richard Nixon, Condoleezza Rice, Torture, Politics News
Rory O'Connor

Is waterboarding torture? And if so, is it illegal -- even when the president condones it? Or are there no limits to what a president can do, even if it's patently illegal?

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Condi Rice, Msnbc, Harpers, Television Torture, Philip Zelikow, Truth Commission, CIA Torture, 9/11 Commission, Jack Balkin, John Yoo, Sheldon Whitehouse, Moveon Special Prosecutor, John Conyers, Russ Feingold, Cenk Uyger, Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, Scott Horton, Waterboarding, Pat Leahy, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Torture, Youtube Politics, Youtube Media, Media News
Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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Misha Lerner, 4th-Grader, Questions Condoleezza Rice on Waterboarding (VIDEO)

Washington Post | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Condi Rice, Condi Rice Torture, Misha Lerner, 4th Grader Questions Rice, Jewish Primary Day School, Politics News

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stirred controversy last week when, under questioning from students at Stanford University, she insisted th...

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Stanford Anti-War Protesters Want Condi Booted for War Crimes

Phil Trounstine | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Condoleezza Rice, Rice Stanford Universtiy, Stanford University, Stanford, Palo Alto, Condoleezza Rice War Crimes, Politics News
Phil Trounstine

About 150 protest veterans, who led the fight 40 years ago to dislodge Stanford University from the War in Vietnam, on Sunday called on Stanford to sever relations with former Provost Condoleezza Rice.

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