Month: June 2006

Before you join the media horde trumpeting the arrests of alleged members of a fledgling Al Qaeda cell in Miami, a couple of notes of caution.  Initial reports are usually wrong and hyped.  Remember the arrest of the...

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.  – Tom Robbins

I haven’t seen this addressed by anyone yet: Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror (NYT) .Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have...

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Crossposted at My Left Wing, Daily Kos, and Street Prophets. A longer version is posted at Faithful Ohio. Click here to read the whole post, and to share words of compassion, empathy, and support for those who have been hurt by...