{"id":140,"date":"2006-07-01T06:58:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/01\/scott-horton-homers\/"},"modified":"2006-07-01T06:58:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T11:58:56","slug":"scott-horton-homers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/01\/scott-horton-homers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Horton Homers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton of Antiwar.com has an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/only-cranks-care-if-the-government-illegally-searches-their-bank-records\/\">excellent column<\/a><\/strong> today on the fabrications of Leviathan&#8217;s friends.\u00a0 Amazing to see how a representative invents hokum whole cloth to defend the Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside to Scott&#8217;s zippety piece is that it might cause some people to lose faith in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton of Antiwar.com has an excellent column today on the fabrications of Leviathan&#8217;s friends.\u00a0 Amazing to see how a representative invents hokum whole cloth to defend the Bush administration. 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