Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
I have pondered this question several times recently, as I have learned more about how the Department of Justice has increasingly at best turned a blind eye toward civil liberties violations and at worst participated in said violations. From the torture and indefinite detention of an American citizen to a ...
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
I read a very interesting interview transcript over at Salon tonight. The interview was with Nina Berman, the woman who took the above picture of injured Marine Ty Ziegel and his wife Renee on their wedding day. I found this be an unbelievably powerful photograph and was interested in knowing ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Perusing the websites of some of America's best known news outlets, four stories are being featured on the main page of these sites that are exceptionally damaging to the Bush administration. First, there's the Walter Reed fiasco, where the administration has so overlooked the treatment that our returning soldiers are ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Bruce Hoffman, professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at West Point's Combating Terrorism Center, has an extremely important opinion piece in today's Los Angeles Times. The gist of the article is that Al Qaeda is regrouping and strengthening as the United States spends more and more resources immersing ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
I was reading a post over at Digby's blog titled "Do As I Say, Not As I Said", and I couldn't help reproducing an abbreviated version of a couple of quotes from Representative Sam Johnson from my home state of Texas. You should definitely go read Digby's post for a ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
Here is what Tony Snow said on Sunday about a majority of both houses of Congress voting to make a public statement of no confidence in President Bush's plan to send additional troops to Iraq:
He said President Bush should not see votes in Congress in opposition of his new Iraqi ...
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