Tag: news
group name: blog
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September 20, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
As a rookie reporter, I once received a letter – and a lasting lesson -- from a great American. It may seem odd in this highly partisan political age, but I was a war-protesting radical rabble-rouser . . . more
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March 05, 2007 09:49 AM EST --
I know it isn’t fashionable, but I feel sorry for Ann Coulter.
While it would no doubt prove eminently, if only momentarily, satisfying to denounce Coulter in terms familiar to her and similar to . . . more
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July 20, 2006 03:59 PM EDT --
The Defense Department is seeking to create a powerful and sophisticated new weapon to help win the Global War on Terror -- a blog search engine. "We're out to make a machine that will analyze . . . more
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May 24, 2007 08:47 PM EDT --
I did see the movie “Borat” and yes, I am stealing that joke for the title of this piece. Our ‘War of Terror’ is defined by the applause that backs it up during an event like the . . . more
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July 14, 2006 05:23 PM EDT --
©This article copyright Sean-Paul Kelley
Since the war started we've been repeatedly told that we're building Iraqi schools, healthcare centers, and my personal favorite: turning the electricity . . . more
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August 23, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
I'm inclined to extend this analogy a little further when it comes to the US versus the Russians in strategic terms: it's more like chess players versus checkers players. But still, this graf . . . more
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April 11, 2006 01:43 PM EDT --
originally posted at The Agonist
Yesterday the San Antonio Express-News' Ombudsman, Bob Richter, asked, "You want more titillating stories -- or less?"
And today, on CNN, Kira Phillips' . . . more
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July 02, 2006 10:59 PM EDT --
Well, now our Defense Department is into $450,000 blog studies.
Says one scientist involved in this cutting edge project, "Blog entries have a different structure," Ulicny said. "They are . . . more
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February 19, 2008 05:14 AM EST --
Castro has quit!
He is no longer in power.
This is MAJOR news, and GREAT news.
The Russian puppet is gone, and the world is better off.
Castro has been a thorn in the lives of millions over . . . more
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August 27, 2006 08:35 PM EDT --
I've never been the type to hold a grudge. I'm usually the first person in an argument to try and solve the problem, as opposed to making it worse. I can't stand open, tense conflict, as a . . . more
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December 17, 2006 02:08 PM EST --
From the J-Post, on what I consider to be good news:
Rafsanjani, one of Ahmadinejad's main opponents, gained almost two times more votes than the presidential candidate Mohamad-Taqi Mesbah- Yazdi, . . . more
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July 05, 2006 10:49 PM EDT --
This post comes from a comment made in this post. It is about why we cannot discuss Israel in this country like mature adults:
If they want to discuss the role of AIPAC on American foreign policy, well, . . . more
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September 21, 2006 12:29 AM EDT --
I don't even know where to start with this story. But I'll give it a shot: basically loans sharks, legal ones, have set up shop outside of military bases around the country preying on families . . . more
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August 20, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
As I get it, people are being tossed from their homes because of some mortgage, or bank foul-up. The original homeowners are now living in tents.
Now these houses are up for auction and you, dear neighbor, . . . more
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September 10, 2006 12:17 PM EDT --
The more I learn about this ABC fakumentary, like the fact that director is a Christianist and that it's got a few scenes of Clinton hate porn, I'm just weirded out by the whole thing. I mean . . . more
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October 04, 2006 01:22 AM EDT --
Just look at the photo attached to this post and see for yourself. Mark Foley is a Republican (R-FL), not a Democrat (D-FL) although Fox News and the Republican Party wish that he were.
This really is . . . more
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October 10, 2006 11:41 PM EDT --
I really, really hope this number is incorrect. 600,000 souls. Six-hundred thousand lives snuffed out. And why? Ignorance? Pride? Hubris? I'm speechless.
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July 24, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
IF IT'S THURSDAY IT MUST BE BERLIN
He could have saved himself the trouble and given the same speech in Berlin, New Jersey. It's what we in the writing business call an "evergreen," . . . more
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June 02, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
Several days ago William Arkin wrote up a post at the WaPo about what we discussed last night. I find Arkin's post much better and more thought provoking than George Friedman's, mostly because . . . more
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January 28, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Remember back in the last century, when Toni Morrison playfully dubbed Bill Clinton our first "Black President," adding that Clinton "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent . . . more
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