Month: December 2006

Johnson suffers stroke

MSNBC is reporting that Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) has suffered a stroke and has been transported to a Washington area hospital for observation. The Senator apparently was felled by the stroke,of which the severity is not known at...

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Senator Brownback Goes To Jail

Sam Brownback in jail?!!  Well, yes.In a move that some would call prescient, Senator Brownback has gone to spend some time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Food Channel devotees might suggest that Perhaps he is an...

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The James Baker/Saudi “Quid Pro Quo”?

A lot has been made about James Baker, the Iraq Study Group report as well as the Saudi threat that it may start to fund the Sunnis if the US leaves Iraq. However, a comment that Maccabee made in his diary today about the delay...

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Data Mining Sucks

And by “suck” I mean to say that data mining of the type probably being used by the NSA isn’t likely to be very effective in finding that terrorist needle in the American haystack. At least, that’s the...

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Dubya Down on Iraq

Cross posted at the front pages of Pen and Sword, ePluribus and My Left Wing.  Also at Kos. The very fact that so many differing strategies for Iraq are being proposed now should be your first clue that there are no good...

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