Month: June 2005

Yesterday SusanHu posted an article about a young man named Axil Cobb, who was essentially stalked and then kidnapped by the USMC.  Fortunately for Axil, his mother had the resources and wherewithal to get him back. Link...

The purpose of this diary is to outline the next steps in the enormous task of sorting through the documents made available to the ACLU via their Freedm of Information Act request concerning US detention practices and a list of...

sidenote: my first contribution to booman trib, but I am also going to dupe this at dkos, even though I fully expect it to roll into obscurity despite the belief that these are issues that should be discussed at length –...

CNN has been bashing Dean all day in a continuous loop. From what I hear, Biden’s office is being inundated with letters and calls. The staffers are answering the phone by begging callers not to yell at them. Nice going...

Jesse Helms is publishing his memoirs. The headline of the AP article covering this reads: Helms mea culpa on AIDS, not integration He regrets gay labeling, but not stand against desegregation So Jesse is not sorry that he...