Who'd think the US Department of Health and Human Services would make for such interesting fodder? While its not near so glamorous as the resignation of, say, John Ashcroft or Tom Ridge, the closing comments of the outgoing Tommy Thompson raise some compelling...
"Gliding" toward elections in Iraq:In the second major assault on Baghdad's police force in two days, two car bombs -including at least one detonated by a suicide attacker -exploded next to an Iraqi police station just outside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday, killing...
I'm wary of people who pick the worst among their opponents to "prove" the superiority of their own position. I won't say Viktor Yushchenko is an anti-Semite just because this nut believes in a kosher conspiracy (literally). I won't say National Review is full of...
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(see 10 for introduction) 7 next For Thursday's Capital Times , John Nichols reworked his latest Nation On-Line Beat entry, which topped Common Dreams' list Wednesday. The subject was the thwarting of a church's attempt to celebrate inclusiveness. I'm attempting to...
Or, How Many Daughters Does Michael Ledeen Have? The following is apparently supposed to be yet another example of the wonderful Iraq news the doggone librull media get up early in the morning to suppress. According to our source, the young lady who authored this...
A new threat has emerged against freedom; the threat from life on Mars: "Earth’s defences may need to be boosted against risk of potentially deadly microbes returning on space probes" This represents the greatest threat to democracy since Saddam Hussein. What we need...
The "bombs-and-Jesus crowd" (Hunter Thompson's decade-old description) – whose heart is in Dixie – has become the decisive voting bloc in American politics. For nearly a century after the civil war Dixie voted solidly Democrat until a magic bullet in Dallas killed the...
Who do these guys think they're kidding?However, Qassim Dawoud, Iraq's national security adviser, said insurgent attacks were down since the invasion of Fallujah. He provided no details but said Iraq didn't need U.S.-led coalition forces' help to safeguard the...
The Department of Defense released the names of three more US troops killed in Iraq, bringing the November US death total in Iraq to 137, the highest since the war began. In April of this year, 135 US troops were killed. Each of the three soldiers killed died from...
