Month: June 2006

US Troops Shoot and Kill Pregnant Iraqi Woman

Coming on the heels of the Haditha Massacre, this story just tore my heart out. It’s one of those stories that I was about to post in the News Bucket, but had too much to say about it and decided to post a diary instead....

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European Parliament Victory Over Bush

There seems to have been very little comment about the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling  on Tuesday that struck down an agreement between the EU and the USA. This requires that up to 34 pieces of information about...

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Condi’s Persian Ploy

I’m not at all convinced that this latest overture to Iran is a “diplomatic breakthrough.”  It sounds to me like the same sort of designed-to-fail negotiation tactics we’ve been employing all along....

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Bill O’Reilly Wants Jeremy Glick Dead

You heard me right. O’Reilly admitted on air that he wanted to “whack” Jeremy Glick, the son of one of the people who was murdered on 9/11 because Jeremy Glick expressed views that didn’t agree with...

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Thursday News Bucket

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world…” – William James By the way, would anyone be interesting in guest hosting the News Bucket next Friday? I’ll be in Vegas and Knoxville...

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