Month: August 2005

A Longer Brief on Crawford Part 6

It gets long attempting to give detail.  I keep remembering things that I need to add like how Buddy Spell shouted out at Camp Casey on Thursday night that he guessed there wasn’t going to be any arrest, or how Tim...

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The Neglected Political Power of Story

Cindy Sheehan’s quest for an interview with the president has captured the attention of a nation. For the first time in a long time, liberals have an edge on leading the national conversation. Trouble is, they don’t...

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Missiles Fired at U.S. Ships In Jordan

“Qaeda” group claims rocket attack on U.S. ship (Yahoo/Reuters). The Jordanian attack was launched from an industrial warehouse area near Aqaba, Jordan. Reuters has the militants’ supposed statement. NYT:...

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Fit To Print Me – Day 33

A Tale of Two New York Times’ War Stories. It was the best of fluff piece war coverage; it was the worst of fluff piece war coverage.  It was an age of writing crap about the war; it was an age when real war news was...

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New Zealand Election: Day – 28

[For those who don’t follow the news from the bottom of the world: New Zealand’s general election will be held on September 17th. New Zealand uses a Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) system similar to that used in...

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