More details on abuse at Abu Ghraib
A horrible story in the NY Times. It looks like Sgts Graner and Frederick are the sadists-in-chief of this despicable bunch. Some excerpts -- this is mostly the testimony of Jeremy C. Sivits, who is...
View ArticlePressure on Pakistan to get Osama by election -- TNR
I am sorry if this has been mentioned already, but my jaw dropped when I saw this article in The New Republic (not my favorite mag, but I do subscribe!) -- "July Surprise" by John B. Judis, Spencer...
View ArticleVanity Fair piece on Florida -- the felon list
Thanks to SCOTUSBlog for posting links to two PDF files containing the recent Vanity Fair article entitled "The Path to Florida". This is a GREAT article summarizing the 2000 debacle and raising...
View ArticleRepub policies causing huge risk shifts
There's a great article in the L.A. Times today about how families have been shouldering more and more of the burden of their own economic security since the 1970s. It's one of the best I've seen at...
View ArticleAnne Frank quote .. can anyone help?
When I was a child I had a copy of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and it was one of my favorite books. Now, I can't swear to this (maybe I dreamed it?) but I THINK there was something in the forward, or...
View ArticleIs is time for another Court Challenge on Segregated Schools? (w/poll)
OK, I've been reading Jonothan Kozol's "The Shame of the Nation" -- what an eye-opener. Most Americans think that Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights struggles of the fifties and sixties...
View ArticleFrank Rich: Pat Tillman Through the Looking Glass
Frank Rich has an interesting column detailing the "Pat Tillman Fantasy". I must admit I did not follow this story too closely when it was in the news .. either the fake story or the real one....
View ArticleBrownstein likens Bush to Polk -- ultimately forgotten!!
I didn't see this diaried anywhere today, so forgive me if it's a repeat. Ronald Brownstein has an interesting column in the LA Times today in which he makes the case that the former president Bush...
View ArticleNational Review: GOP in Deep Doo-Doo
[Promoted by DHinMI: I've recently explored the possibility that the 2008 election could be somewhat like the 1932 election when FDR was elected with a huge majority, which was the start of a...
View ArticleMcCain Could Win
... And I don't mean the nomination, I mean the election. I mean this diary as a "wake-up call", lest we get too confident. We need to be as prepared as possible. Of course we don't yet know if McCain...
View ArticleMy Email Exchange with Party Insider on Superdelegates
I just had an email exchange with a regional director of the Democratic Party that has me a little disturbed -- but I'm not sure whether or not I should be! I won't say his name or where I live because...
View ArticleNY Times: Hillary will twist superdelegate arms
This is a going to be a short diary -- I'm at work. I didn't see anyone else diarying this, so ... Article in NY Times: Clinton Campaign Plans an Endgame. Money quote: Mrs. Clinton and her advisers...
View ArticleHouston, We have a (Party Unity) Problem (Hillary supporters welcome!)
This is regarding Paul Krugman's most recent column. I know there have been several diaries about it, but this one, in particular, is about the comments on that column in his blog. I don't think this...
View ArticleA Word on the Bag Tax
No .. I don't want kos to take down the bag tax ad. Well, I would like to see it gone. But I guess he has the right to put up any ad that he gets paid for. I gather from the previous diary that not...
View ArticleJon Stewart Skewers the Press
Per CNN, Jon Stewart just took the press to task, apparently, for their inane coverage of the presidential race. (I didn't find that this had been previously diaried, but if so I will delete.) Example:...
View ArticleA Quiet Hero
I never knew my maternal grandfather; he died before I was born. But I heard enough about him from my mother to know he was one of my heroes. My grandfather was a shy man, temperamentally not quite...
View ArticleObama Has to get Tough about the Stimulus -- NOW!!
I really think Obama has been making a mistake in being, not just focused on "bipartisanship" and bringing the Republicans around, but somehow not fully HERE with regard to the stimulus package. Until...
View ArticleNun fired for authorizing abortion to save woman's life
I didn't see a diary on this anywhere -- this is shocking to me. A nun and administrator at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been reassigned and rebuked by the local bishop for agreeing that a...
View ArticleCIVIL FORTFEITURE: How innocent people can LEGALLY be stripped of their money...
I got my latest New Yorker on my Kindle this morning, and while browsing through it, I ran into an article that sounded intriguing entitled Taken. I was utterly shocked and dumbfounded at what I read....
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