Month: March 2007

Homeland Insecurity

Ah these lovely Bush years, so full of increased violence, both abroad, and at home: Violent crime rose by double-digit percentages in cities across the country over the last two years, reversing the declines of the mid-to-late...

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The human rights of Witches.

Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing click to enlargeYou know, they are still killing witches these days. Two elderly women accused of practicing witchcraft in Papua New Guinea were tortured and murdered by a...

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DOJ Inspector General Report Today

David Johnston and Eric Lipton have a scoop in the New York Times about an upcoming report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. It deals with the FBI’s use of ‘national security letters’....

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Friday News Bucket

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.  – Robert Ingersoll (US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator)

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Munn had a Batting Average of Zero

When my cousins Todd and Pete Heino and I were little kids in Massachusetts, we thought the most fun thing in the world to do was looking at the 1,500 page Baseball Encyclopedia and looking up baseball players from the 1800s...

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