We normally steer very clear of the Israeli-Palestinian tangle, but how could this go unremarked:
Palestinian militant factions who captured an Israeli soldier demanded on Saturday that Israel free 1,000 prisoners from its jails and end an assault on Gaza launched to win the soldier’s release.
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The statement did not specify that this would be in exchange […]
This may be the most bizarre atrocity story to come out of the War on Iraq yet:
Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on Friday.
The soldiers also allegedly burned the […]
How screwed up is the state of our democracy and everything this nation is supposed to stand for when the President actually comments on a Supreme Court decision that he will respect the decision and take it seriously and conform to it, and the entire mainstream media (print and TV) treats that statement as major […]
(1) Will All His Blank Checks Bounce?
The Bush administration has confidently asserted till now that the military commissions set up to try Guantanamo prisoners were perfectly legal, that the President inherently had the legal authority to set up these commissions and to place Guantanamo prisoners under their jurisdiction.
They knew it was perfectly legal because General […]
The laptop with “the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of millions of current and former service members” that was stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst has been turned in to the authorities. “Sensitive personal information of 26.5 million veterans and military personnel apparently had not been […]
The Times is in trouble now:
The Dean of Library Services at University of the Incarnate Word canceled the library’s subscription to the New York Times Wednesday to protest recent stories exposing a secret government program that monitors international financial transactions in the hunt for terrorists.
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“Since no one elected the New York Times to determine national […]
A few weeks ago, the Veterans Administration received a big black eye when it was discovered that a laptop chock full of veterans’ personal information had been stolen. The laptop has been recovered, and something smells fishy:
The government has recovered a stolen laptop computer and external hard drive that contains the birthdates and Social […]
Can’t tell the truth about anything:
The Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday the 500 munitions collected over the last three years in Iraq with mustard and sarin gas are 20 years old.
DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Maples told the House Armed Services Committee the shells were manufactured prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and […]
President Bush: Not a king:
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in creating military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies.
When the President and Vice President thundered and fulminated at the NYT as they have the last few days, presumably they had no idea that the classified information they were so incensed at the NYT for publishing was not exactly much of a secret. That’s why it’s generally a good idea to leave the […]
