There’s an interesting description over at Baghdad Burning about riverbends a road trip to visit her aunt. Definitely worth the read if you are interested in daily life in Iraq these days – this is the progress Bush talks about.
The folks over at Rantberg seem to think that the Taliban are gone….. guess they [...]
For Iraqis, U.S. raids of pillage
On a scorching July night last year, the Abdullatif family was sleeping on the flat roof of their modest house to escape the heat. An explosion jolted them awake. U.S. troops on a counterinsurgency raid had blown open the front door. Military helicopters swooped down, so close they seemed almost [...]
The (Right)WingNut plan to ensure the poor can’t vote….. by Michael Savage.
One working man, one vote – if you are on any form of social assistance your right to vote is given up.
How does an idiot like that manage to walk down the street without getting jumped?
[ via Hoffmania ] In a classic case of ‘tell ‘em only the parts we want them to hear” VP Dick Cheney spake the following
“America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive,”
What Kerry actually said was
“I believe I [...]
And why aren’t people up in arms about it?
Evidence gained by torture allowed by British judges
‘I am quite unable to see that any … principle prohibits the Secretary of State from relying … on evidence … which has or may have been obtained by torture by agencies of other states over which he has [...]
Did you hear? An elderly woman named Julia Childs died today… and it seems that as far as the news media is concerned that unfortunate event, the hurricane hitting Florida, and the opening of the Olympic Games, pretty well sums up todays major news stories.
IMO the hurricane in Florida is news, the opening of the [...]
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