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Life During Wartime
From Slate's roundup of newsweeklies: Time offers an excellent view of the end of the siege at the Imam Ali shrine. A reporter inside Najaf presents a biza…
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Week long "Fear Factor" over. World breathes sigh of relief.
Just rec'd this from Jack Ayer, who got this from a 78-year-old cousin. "On Monday President Bush said that we can't win the war on terrorism. Ye…
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Give them Zell, and then Let's Duel!
After saying that George Bush is the only person who can defend our national security and telling Democrats that they are traitors for seeking to elect someone…
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Terror Death Toll 47 on One Day
From Richard Cohen's column in the Washington Post: On the very day that George Bush changed his mind and said that the war on terrorism was in fact winnab…
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Oops! Justice Department Gets the Wrong Men
In the continuing saga of the Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight... From CNN.com: In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its…
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Shame on You, Senator Frist
Bill Frist actually had the gall to say, "Shame on you, Mr. Kerry," at the Convention, because Kerry suggested that the Administration had banned some…
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Giuliani Repeats Lies About Kerry
Per William Saletan: And referring to Kerry's claim that he voted "for the $87 billion [for postwar Iraq appropriations] before I voted against it,&qu…
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Appraising McCain and Giuliani
watched McCain and G. M was dull, and unenthusiastic. The biggest applause line was when he criticized Michael Moore. G was excited and energetic and fun--th…
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Twelve Nepalese Allegedly Executed in Iraq
From an AP report carried by the NY Times: "What sins have I committed to deserve this?'' said Jit Bahadur Khadka, the father of one of those repor…
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41 and Laura B. Slime Kerry
Both father and spouse of the current President refuse to do the honorable thing, denounce, when asked, the smears of war hero John Kerry. From the LA Times...…
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Sharing Love
Slashdot carries an interview with WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access…
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Turning a Boat into the Attack
John Dean has a nice piece arguing that Kerry should sue for defamation, that he can demonstrate the "actual malice" needed for a defamation suit brou…