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From Adventure Comics #363, the ultimate crossover event of the 1960's:Super-Turtle popped up a few times as filler. This was about as funny as it ever got. Then again, this is as entertaining as Superman ever gets, so there you go.Meanwhile, I never knew this:and I have to admit, it answers a lot of questions I never even thought to ask.From the letters page:Fair question. I'm not sure who the ne

Man, thank goodness I didn't shell out those 10G's I was planning on sending to Obama! haha .... j/k of course. But seriously, i had no idea you couldn't write them off. I bet you used to be able to, but like always, someone (or a bunch of someones) ruined it for all of us.It's surely not the end of the world, and def. shouldn't be one of the top reasons to donate to a cause, but it did get me thi

The European Union should not change its policy towards Cuba until political changes in Havana become reality and any 'critical' dialogue with Cuban authorities are extended to the representatives of democratic movements.This was the main conclusion of the two-day conference organised in Brussels by the Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman Foundations and chaired by EPP-ED Vice-Chairman, Jaime Mayor

I read this L.A. Times article about the presidential candidates' handwriting, and I am of two minds about it. On the one hand, looking at the candidates' handwriting and trying to get a feel for their personalities is somewhat humanizing. The graphic is particularly illustrative: McCain is "intense yet private," Clinton is "controlled, smart and forceful," Obama "deals with different people an

From the June 2008 issue of Blender Magazine, an interview with Lil Wayne:BLENDER: Who do you want to take the White House?LIL WAYNE: Barack, I guess, but I can't made a real opinion. I ain't watching no debates. I just want my people to understand that Hillary and Barack are not running for president--they running to be able to run for president. There's a Republican party, too--we ain't ab

I think this upcoming miniseries called DCU Decisions is a bad idea, especially considering that the 2 people writing it are Judd Winick and Bill Willingham, the former whose writing is overly liberal and who penned the wretched Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, and the latter who's known, or should be known, for how he beat up on Stephanie Brown in Batman: War Games. And that the overseer of

Devlet Bahceli, leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party(MHP), claimed the ruling Justice and Developmnt Party(AKP) led by Prime Minister Erdogan, is using the attempt by the prosecutor’s office to close it down as a strategy of placing itself as a victim rather than confronting real issues that have occurred during its administration of the [...]

House G.O.P. Adopts Change Theme - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog “Through our “Change You Deserve” message and through our “American Families Agenda,” House Republicans will continue our efforts to speak directly to an American public looking for leaders who will offer real solutions for the challenges they confront every day,” said the memo prepared for lawmakers.The pa

Pakistani leaders meeting in London in an effort to resolve the conflict regarding the positon of judges fired by President Musharraf have yet to come to an agreement on how to handle the situation. Musharraf sacked judges last fall who opposed him including the head of the Pakistan Supreme Court. Asif Ali Zardari, widow of [...]

Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly points out in the Washington Post delineates: Obama proved persuasive enough that the bill passed both houses of the legislature, the Senate by an incredible 35 to 0. Then he talked Blagojevich into signing the bill, making Illinois the first state to require such videotaping. Obama didn’t stop there. He played [...]

Blogwars: The New Political Battleground# Author:David D. Perlmutter# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA # Number Of Pages: 272 # Publication Date: 2008-03-07 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195305574 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195305579 Political blogs have grown astronomically in the last half-decade. In just one month in 2005, for example, popular blog DailyKos received more unique visitors than th

Some older issues, political cartoons Political Toons pages - Just Sick Shit - Click Here Glad they are finally starting to warm up to us   We always knew his ears may have looked a bit too big for his head

Now, the entire nation and countless foreigners are absorbing a moment that had seemed decades away, if possible at all. Smart strategists and rank-and-file voters ponder how Obama rose so far so... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Actor Alec Baldwin wants to become a politician when his acting career is over. The 50-year-old is a staunch supporter of the Democrat Party, and reveals he is considering a future run for office.[...] Read more!

AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task — getting elected to public office.

The news is inconsequential: another entry to the endless entertainment of electoral politics. However, I just found it funny that the McCain campaign read Obama’s “losing his bearings” comment as a commentary about his age, and not his temper. I’ve only heard old people using the expression to denote senility, most young people use “lose [...]

One of the key benefits that came from the existence of 18 Doughty Street - whatever you thought of the overall balance (old bones that I am not interested in gnawing) - was the opportunity for political bloggers to talk and debate together, and to interact with the wider political blogosphere instantaneously.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday he preferred to risk unpopularity by raising fuel prices than to leave the country’s economy in jeopardy. “I’ve received messages from the public demanding the government delay the increase until next year’s presidential election, but I’ve responded that if that was my consideration then I would be wrong. I [...]

Morning everyone!Sorry about bailing on everyone last night man. I was just pooped. I finally overcame the staying up all night and sleeping all day nonsense. I now keep some very early hours, and I mean VERY early. I mean as in, being in bed at 9:00 P.M. and being up at 4:00 A.M., I would say "old people" hours, but I'm 35, so, I'll just refrain from the old people jokes. You young punks quit that damn snickering, ya hear? and get off my lawn! Anyhow, silliness aside, I have been snooping around this morning on the Politics sites, and I've seen how Barry and Hillary made out. As most people know, Barry pulled off a big victory in North Carolina. Which I wasn't surprised to hear about. Although, his victory there was racially lopsided, they say. As for Hillary, she squeaked one out, in Ind

In 1972, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright became pastor of an 87-member church, Trinity United Church of Christ, in Chicago. Three and half decades later its membership has grown to over six thousand, making it the largest church in the United Church of Christ denomination. In addition to Sunday services of worship, Trinity United Church of Christ supports numerous ministries in the poor neighborhood that surrounds it: tutoring for kids, programs for women’s health, ministry to people with HIV/AIDS, providing food for the poor, prison ministry, a senior citizens home and others. From the beginning of his ministry Reverend Wright was determined that the Church at worship would also be the Church that served the least of the brothers and sisters in the world that surrounds it. That support rea

BUCHAREST, May 6 (Xinhua) — China’s top political advisor Jia Qinglin said here Monday that China and Romania share the same task of opening up a new era in their all-round partnership of friendship and cooperation.     Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China’s top political consultative body, [...]

Roundup of Wisdom, Good Advice & Relevant Musings from the Mainstream Media for May 5 2008 First, let’s take a look at relevant pronouncements from the MSM, Newspapers and magazines. And MSM, electionic/digital division. That’s it. The collected relevant MSM political wisdom for May 5 2008. Hope you enjoyed it. by Mondoreb image: DBKP Source: Mainstream Media outlets including Time, Newsweek, CNN, [...]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Exit polls: Red/blue divide shows in North Carolina « - Blogs from CNN.com CNN chose not to post a comment I wrote on the blog above. All I said was that America needs to look beyond Red and Blue and unite behind a leader [...]

Oh why can't our opposition ever stop and say to themselves, "Wait a minute -- aren't we doing the very thing that we're accusing the gays of doing?" We ask this after seeing the following blurb over on Focus on...

The decision by the Chief Prosecutor to close down the Justice and Development Party(AKP) has resulted in a quiet shift from concern over issues regarding wearning the headscarf to those pertaining to the very fabric of a democratic society. Secular forces in Turkey believe the AKP and its support for allowing women to wear a [...]

This article orginally featured at Charlotte Home Mortgages. Unathorized duplication prohibited. Political Joke by Hillary Clinton and John McCain Hillary Clinton and John McCain offer a Joke to Voters Hillary wants to use a “windfall tax” on the oil companies (which will increase their expenses…

I’ve begun to ponder the issue of political correctness. Is it synonymous with tolerance? Is it a first cousin perhaps? Has it gone too far or not far enough? I have begun thinking about it, and as you know that can be dangerous. A good deal of what we defend as political correctness is well correct [...]

British Political Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary 英国政要人物传略词典# Author:Keith Laybourn # Format:PDF 2.3MB# Page Count: 363 pages# Publisher: ABC-CLIO Ltd (Aug 2001)# Language English# ISBN-10: 1576070433# ISBN-13: 978-1576070437This historical, biographical dictionary covers those individuals who have held the “Great Offices of State” (i.e., the posts of prime minister, foreign secretary [formerly secretary of state for the Northern Department], home secretary [formerly secretary of state for the Southern Department], and Chancellor of the Exchequer) in Britain since 1730. It also includes the four politicians who occupied the post of secretary of state for the American colonies, two of whom never held any of the four “Great Offices.”

Say What? I think some bias was showing there.... yikes! Others agree: Political Machine, Wonkette, NewsBusters.org, The Carpetbagger Report, Patterico's Pontifications, Think Progress, FishBowlDC, JammieWearingFool and Media Blog

by Dave MindemanPolitical HodgePodgeMinnesota Budget: When it comes to the budget, Pawlenty likes caps. Cap on property taxes.... cap on state portion of the Central Corridor. It's a good way to pass the buck. A property tax cap would tie the hands of local government officials and make them do the hard math (instead of the Governor). Cap on Central Corridor would force local units to come up with more of the additional costs, which would be the result of the furthur delays caused by Pawlenty's original veto. It would also absolve the state from any responsible and accountable position. Steve Sarvi: Steve Sarvi will probably be endorsed as the DFL opponent to John Kline. Still no evidence that he can compete with Kline on the money front. Without that evidence he won't get any DCC

A re Obama’s chickens coming home to roost? Or is his chicken being roasted? What a glorious day it will be when the fork is stuck in and he is DONE! With those thoughts in mind, I thought I would throw these Rasmussen poll results out there. For what they are worth. Make of the results what you [...]

picture with Wright, where is it? ← Previous revision Revision as of 04:50, 2 May 2008 Line 510: Line 510: :::::If you find a piece where Coulter is praising the media's behavior over the past eleven days, feel free to add it. [[User:Ewenss|Ewenss]] ([[User talk:Ewenss|talk]]) 15:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC) :::::If you find a piece where Coulter is praising the media's behavior over the past eleven days, feel free to add it. [[User:Ewenss|Ewenss]] ([[User talk:Ewenss|talk]]) 15:25, 1 May 2008 (UTC) -   - == picture with Wright, where is it? ==   -   - Where is the picture with him and Obama? While I've debated pics with Johnson and Clinton, being that his relationship with Wr

It's like preparing for Civil Services exam for Chiranjeevi now. He appointed a few people to read English and Hindi news papers for him and explain everything to him with all important things. It is said that Chiranjeevi is preparing very well to face journalists in near future.He is also improving his language skills in English as well as Hindi. Very interesting aspect is that he is maintaining running notes and jotting down all the necessary current affairs and happenings in the state. He is also preparing notes with all the statistics with which various welfare and development activities are going on in the state now. He is thus developing command on everything. This is to surprise the media and public by talking concrete terms once he announces party and faces interviewer.Courtesy:gre

CHICAGO – As a testament to its set design, it wasn’t immediately clear if certain structures were naturally part of the Strawdog Theatre space or if they were fabricated specifically for the “Old Town” production. It turned out to be the latter as this story of Chicago’s political machine unfolded with song, dance, wit, a relatively large cast and a 10-piece live band. In double-sworded fate, this relatively large cast turned out to be both a blessing and also its burden. The story’s set at a fictional hotel on election night where the Weltz dynasty wrangles with the Chicago voting public. Despite characters galore, Kat McDonnell as Cindy Weltz – the daughter of the man who’s currently running but just can’t cut it – melts nearly everyone else away. Karen Mosher (Sha

As if we needed any other kind of proof that John McCain is a asshole. There's this: Quote: ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Republican John McCain said Wednesday that the bridge collapse in Minnesota that killed 13 people last year would not have happened if Congress had not wasted so much money on pork-barrel spending Federal investigators cite undersize steel plates as the "critical factor" in the collapse of the bridge. Heavy loads of construction materials on the bridge also contributed to the disaster that injured 145 people on Aug. 1, according to preliminary findings by the National Transportation Safety Board. "The bridge in Minneapolis didn't collapse because there wasn't enough money," McCain told reporters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "The bridg

agree with Barack that getting rid of the gas tax isn't going to do crap for us. All the oil companies will do is say, hey, now we can charge 6 cents more. I don't necessarily agree that we need to develop alternative fuels, we need rearrange our lifestyles and change the fact that we need so many cars. Just the idea of a fuel to burn is wrong, even hydrogen is stupid. We'd be wasting energy converting electricity into a liquid form when we could just NOT turn it into hydrogen and save all of that energy. We don't need alternative fuels, we need alternative energy and to be more efficient energy in general. We need to be smart. (sigh) It's not that great of an ad except for that last line. "And you thought no one could be worse than George Bush", that kills me.

A couple months ago I posted about how the EPA overruled its own experts and denied California's plan to address greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Well this pattern of using politics, rather than science, to create rules and justify actions by the EPA has infected the agency to a dangerous degree, according to a new report. The Union of Concerned Scientists, concerned about how the EPA's decisions "have too often led to the suppression and the distortion of the scientific findings underlying those decisions," took on the task of investigating the treatment of EPA scientists and how their work was used. After a comprehensive survey of over 1500 EPA scientists, UCS found that 60% of the had encountered at least one instance of political interference in the previous five years.

Societies that cannot stare the truth in the eye and call it by its correct name will perish. They will pack up under the burden of dishonesty, hypocrisy and multiple standards. For one hears, today, a cacophony of insincere passionate pleas from just about everybody to President Kibaki and to ODM leader Mr Raila Odinga. [...]

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The Goldsboroughs ← Previous revision Revision as of 17:45, 28 April 2008 Line 917: Line 917: ***[[Charles Goldsborough]] (1765-1834), Maryland State Senator 1791-1795 1799-1801, U.S. Representative from Maryland 1805-1817, Governor of Maryland 1819. Grandson of Robert Goldsborough.[ ***[[Charles Goldsborough]] (1765-1834), Maryland State Senator 1791-1795 1799-1801, U.S. Representative from Maryland 1805-1817, Governor of Maryland 1819. Grandson of Robert Goldsborough.[ ****[[Winder Laird Henry]] (1864-1940), U.S. Representative from Maryland 1894-1895, Chief Judicial Circuit Court Judge in Maryland 1908-1909. Great-grandson of Charles Goldsborough.[#R9M0J0BFU] ****[[Winder Laird Henry]] (1864-1940), U.S. Representa

On Gawker, Towleroad, and Mother Jones: Video footage of Obama making his concession speech after losing Pennsylvania shows three guys, all clad in Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirts. The one on the left seems particularly well-prepared for television coverage, his “Fitch” being the largest visible brand on the screen (even beating the Obama campaign’s own slogan [...]

Redesigning the UN logo to mark the 60th anniversary of the world’s most translated document - the UN Human Rights Declaration - started the same way any logo design project usually does - with the best of intentions and the goal of graphically illustrating an event or central theme. Months after it’s release, the new [...]

All thanks to a better political climate following the general election in December.The king of duty-free shopping - as he likes to be known in Thailand and abroad - Vichai has started to woo back some of the world's luxury brands, such as Rolex, which had previously turned down an offer to open shops at Suvarnabhumi Airport.He has also approached the chief executive of Korea's Lotte Duty Free, one of the four duty-free retailers at Incheon International Airport, for a partnership to develop a new shopping and entertainment complex near Suvarnabhumi Airport.In other words, Vichai has regained some confidence lost over the past one-and-a-half years following the September 2006 coup.Cases filed by King Power Group of Companies seeking restoration of the two duty-free and commercial-retailin

I have started to construct a Political Game site. It is - basically - a quiz site, where questions are related to politics, and more often than not are quite not obvious. It is intended as an "edu-tainment" site, where one can find amusement as well as hard facts.The name of this site is "The Game" and the address comments are most welcome!

Doug Farah's post about the Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report (GMBDR) item in which the Muslim Brotherhood gives written advice on how to vote Islamic is quite disturbing. The most ominous thing is that they appear to be doing this within the U.S., even as we speak. Coincidentally, the GMBDR contains another article about how an American Muslim organization has asked one of the Presidential candidates to avoid referring to "Islamic terrorism," as if religion is irrelevant to the violent actions...(read more)

The Associated Press is reporting on a survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists that shows half of EPA scientists have felt political pressure while working for the Agency. Nearly 400 EPA scientists have seen Agency officials misrepresenting scientific data in public discussions. Over 250 have seen officials manipulating data to serve a specific political purpose. There has been a

The political essay by its name means the composition that will cover nothing but politics. This is a delicate subject to handle. It requires lot of finesse to compose a paper like this. The word politics need not be always negative n nature. It has lot of positive attributes as well. As a matter of [...]

Do you want peace and prosperity here in Malaysia?Chant all together now; Yeah! Yeah!Do you want to be free from that dreaded sense of hatred prevalent here in Malaysia?Chant all together now; Yeah! Yeah!Do you want to be free from that awful sense of anguish prevalent here in Malaysia?Chant all together now; Yeah! Yeah!Good! Good! Here is something that you could to help you solve Malaysia’s biggest problems; racial turmoil, hatred and anguish.Stop reading Malaysian blogs that bang fellow Malaysians everyday as if we do not have any other concerns in the world today. Such bloggers are driven by extreme hate and I’m scared of their influence on our Malaysian society.It doesn’t matter if you are a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist or Hindu. Go back and read your Holy Scriptures every day fr

Tonight's ATW is the first of our new weekly series called the political madness hour, co-starring Yours truly, SonlitKnight and esteemed forensic psychiatrist Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter Jr, author of the blockbuster smash; The Liberal Mind; the psychological causes of political madness.Tonight's show will center on the shocking lack of tolerance the Liberals have for dissenting opinions- on any matter- and the disturbing-even alarming- lengths they will go to to prevent free speech for anyone they disagree with.The show is live tonight at :00 PM Eastern time646-652-2670

Welcome to the April 20, 2008 edition of carnival of political solutions.Apparently we are in a great need for some solution: the number of submissions to this carnival is truly astonishing.Sagar presents a full-of-hope economic forecast for the presidency Barack Obama in 10 Surprising Economic Implications of a Barack Obama Presidency posted at Currency Trading.net.Jeffrey Stingerstein presents h

One controversial area where the brain, politics, and law collide is in cases where people suffer severe brain damage and are in a persistent vegetative state (this is more accurately termed complete vegetative state). In this state, the higher cortical functions of the brain are essentially wiped out. The person’s brain stem is often still [...]

Bradford Police in West Yorkshire have had a double dose of political correctness come their way. It seems they can't abide anything English. The gobbledegook stuff they come up with is "health and safety" when they succeeded in banning a St.George's Day parade. The mean-spirited plods, who were in collusion with the council chiefs (a bunch of ne'er-do-well plonkers), just rabbitted on about this one issue. Shame on them. Why don't they go to China to enjoy themselves?Bradford City councillor Quasim Khan said, "We were told by the police at the meeting that the original route had not been risk assessed and if we wanted a march to go ahead on that date, St George's Day, we would have to accept a smaller, different route. The police officers were getting quite animated, saying things like 'l

Time’s Greatest Mistakes of the Past Three Years Originally, this was to be a story on “Time magazine’s greatest errors”. After a little cursory research, it was determined that a book would have to be written to cover that subject. Part of the reason is Time’s been around since 1923. But a larger part of the problem [...]

Lucknow, Apr 19 (ANI): Sharpening her attack on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday asked him to stop his “political drama”. She said that Rahul should focus on reducing inflation not on Bundelkhand politics. She even threatened to withdraw support to the UPA Government. Mayawati told reporters that Rahul was doing all [...]

Time's Greatest Mistakes of the Past Two YearsOriginally, this was to be a story on "Time magazine's greatest errors". After a little cursory research, it was determined that a book would have to be written to cover that subject.Part of the reason is Time's been around since 1923. But a larger part of the problem can be traced to the moment when Time's management made the decision that liberal political shilling--whether for global warming, taxes, the latest Democrat "next big thing"--would be an acceptable substitute for objective news reporting.So the subject was limited to the last couple of years, a more manageable topic.NOVEMBER 2007: FISA Falsehoods by Joe KleinJoe Klein tells outright falsehoods--we called them "lies" when I was a kid--about the FISA bill and misleads his readers ab

The political essay by its name means the composition that will cover nothing but politics. This is a delicate subject to handle. It requires lot of finesse to compose a paper like this. The word politics need not be always negative n nature. It has lot of positive attributes as well. As a matter of [...]

Obama, Clinton, and McCain: Breached Passport Information and Mrs Plum with the Gun in the Kitchen...or not.The Obama Campaign, though publicly outraged, privately must have breathed a sigh of relief when the news broke. The focus on Reverend Wright and his incindiary remarks moved to the back burner last Thursday as The Washington Times reported that the Senator's passport information had been breached. The press went wild with the story, and upper level State Department officials couldn't seem to get their story straight.One official said the violations hadn't been reported up the chain of command, while another said that on the dates of the Obama passport violations investigations were initiated by officials at the State Department. Confusion abounded and questions began to be ask

Nicaragua’s right-wing opposition has “started to organize against what it claims is President Daniel Ortega’s similar [to Venezuela] intentions to consolidate power in this country” according to a recent Tim Roger’s article “Nicaraguan opposition resists Chavez’s expanding ‘revolution…’” Rogers writes, “Mr. Ortega, an ally of Venezuela’s president, has promised to implement his own version of ‘direct [...]

This would not be so bad if the political parties actually represented a large proportion of the public, but in fact it is just the opposite, as their policies have become evermore detached from those that interest the majority of the public, they have been bleeding members, as voters have found the party they once felt best represented their view with its raft of policies now no longer fits the bill. Now the parties combined membership represents only about 1% of the public. This means the parties do not have a mass support and do not have a mass input into the formation of their priorities on which they build their policies.

I've been asked to post a link to this survey pertaining to the 2008 primaries. The survey is for a study being conducted by NYU.I encourage all my readers to participate if they have about 10-20 minutes.In order to not prejudice the survey results, I have closed comments to this post.

It's now after Noon Eastern on April 15th and our long wait is finally over! The new website is up and here is the first news release: News Release: Mike Huckabee announces new Political Action Committee April 15, 2008 April 15, 2008 Little Rock, AR - Former Governor Mike Huckabee (AR) has started Huck PAC, a Political Action Committee to raise funds for Republican candidates and continue promoting the principles and ideas of conservative, smaller and more responsible government, it was announced today. "During the course of our campaign, we saw something happen that went beyond the campaign for President. It was a COMMUNITY that was devoted to a CAUSE that is bigger than any of us and not just about the next election, but the next generation. Our goal is to secure a better future

Silvio Berlusconi bought himself another electoral victory in Italy because the nation is simply tired of politicians and decided to go along with a right wing egomaniac as the best of all possible choices. Center-Left leader, Walter Veltroni conceded defeat as his party garned 38.2% of the vote to the victor’s 44.9%. It appears at [...]

For the second time in two years Italian voters went to the polls in a general election whose results they expect will not result in any change in their lives nor of the economy of their nation. In many polling stations there was a dramatic drop in the number of people casing ballots due [...]

The people of Turkey are uneasy regarding attempts by Chief Prosecutor Abudurrahman Yacinkaya to have the Constitutional Court outlaw the Justice and Development Party which represents the views of moderate Muslims. A recent poll conducted in Turkey reveals that 70% of Turks oppose any attempt to declare illegal a political party which is currently governing [...]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN to air exclusively ‘The Compassion Forum’ « - Blogs from CNN.com CNN forgot to invite me for some bizarre reason. I ooze compassion! If you don’t believe me, you can ask my mom. She caught me oozing compassion when I was [...]

"Let's 'Surge' Some MoreBy MICHAEL YONApril 11, 2008; Page A17It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces unit

Hillary is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Trying to spin unemployment as an opportunity for resilience and optimism is about as low and uncaring as a politician can get.The end is coming soon...

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Author: Ariel HeryantoApproximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals, neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This book investigates the profound political consequences of these mass killings in Indonesia upon public life in the subsequent decades, highlighting the historical specificities of the violence and comparable incidents of identity politics in more recent times.Contrary to the general notion, state terrorism was a common, persistent and basic mode of rule in the 20th century with a diversity in scope, intensity, duration and style. In many societies today it is close to having the status of a standard rather than aberrant mode of state rule. It has, at least on the surface, some modern and rational e

For years, the right wing has complained about political correctness as the preserve of the left.  The "debate" about political correctness often descends into nonsense, and I don't think the term itself is very useful.  However, I find it interesting and revealing when the media uses euphemisms to make the Bush administration's conduct sound more benign than it actually is.  An example yesterday: the Associated Press refused to use precise words when describing recent news (not really "news" to most who have followed this) about high level Bush administration officials, including Vice President Cheney, approving the use of torture. The AP story blandly reported that "Cheney, Others Ok'd Harsh Interrogations."  A "harsh interrogation" sounds like someone on Law and Order using words

From: An Election Without Meaning   The 2008 presidential race is a media entertainment spectacle with props, gossip, accusations, and public relations. It is impression management from a candidates' perspective. How can we fool the most people into believing that we stand for something? It is billions of dollars of gravy for the media folks and continued profit maximunization for the war machine, Wall Street, and insurance companies no matter who is determined the winner in November.  We must face the fact that the US government's primary mission is to protect the wealthy and insure capital expansion worldwide. The US military—spending more than the rest of the militaries of the world combined—is the muscle behind this protect-capital-at-all-costs agenda, and will