Month: December 2005

An Outlet for My Anger

I spent the first two years of the Bush administration in a kind of stupefaction. In fact, it began even before Bush’s inauguration, which I watched in bed while my wife covered her head with a blanket and her ears with a...

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Today’s Iraq News: Post-Christmas Edition

On the first day after Christmas, a few more had to die: Gunmen shot and killed five police officers at a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, and six vehicle bombs exploded in the capital, leaving another five people dead and...

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FISA & NSA: Coleen Rowley Sounds Off

(From the diaries by susanhu.] (cross-posted at dKos) If anyone should know about FISA shortcomings, you’d think Coleen Rowley would be that person.  But she has no problems with FISA itself, only with the way it was...

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