Month: May 2005

The Newly Free Afghans Love America

Lest you think that Iraq is our only burning foreign policy crisis, news from Afghanistan is not too encouraging: Shouting “Death to America!” more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted and threw stones at a U.S. military...

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Yemeni woman’s execution – hopeful updates

[From the diaries by susanhbu.] A possibly innocent woman has lost her husband and one child, been imprisoned from the age of 14-21 where she was reportedly raped by a guard, and come within moments of a firing squad twice. Will...

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Cartoon: Always Get It In Writing

Since I already dusted off one old cartoon today, I figured one more won’t hurt.  I was reading a piece Jim Lampley (of all people) wrote, contending that the 2004 election was stolen.  It reminded me of this...

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Harry Reid: My Hero?

I never thought I’d be saying that, but Minority Leader Reid is showing the kind of plain-spoken honesty that has been so greivously LACKING from national Democratic spokesmen recently– at least, since Howard Dean...

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