Month: May 2005

Prisoner Recants Quran-Desecration Claims

A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who complained that a military guard threw a Quran holy book in the toilet has since recanted the story, senior Pentagon officials said Thursday.The prisoner, who made his complaint in an FBI...

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Deconstructing Horowitz

[Crossposted on dKos] After months of reading and writing about him, I think I am finally beginning to understand the mindset of David Horowitz, a rightist so extraordinarily dedicated to the destruction of the left.  ...

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Cross Burning in Durham

Pam knows from North Carolina: Three crosses were burned last night in my progressive hometown, one only a couple of miles away from our house, near a middle-class, suburban subdivision. Some are tying it to the visit of members...

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Go, MA Bloggers, Go!

“What the Bloggers are Saying,” is the title of a sidebar to the cover story about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick in this week’s Valley Advocate (also The Springfield Advocate). These papers...

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Music and other ramblings. (Poll)

Music and art in general are things that really only people can create – they are abstract forms of expression, useless really.  In and of themselves they are not destructive – unless we want to quibble about...

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