Month: August 2007

Bone and blood is the price of "No New Taxes."

Digby pretty much says what is really important. …you cannot look at something like this and not wonder if the years and years of infrastructure neglect at the hands of GOP propagandists who have been starving government...

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Riding Shotgun in Bourbon Street

. Blackwater, USA: Reaping war racket rewards I walked deeper into the French Quarter down Bourbon Street, and sure enough, I found a handful of Blackwater guys sort of congregating on a corner. I went up and started talking to...

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Death Penalty: The Kenneth Foster Case

I’m sure most of the Democratic candidates will toe the line and support the continuation of the death penalty in America. Which is a shame. It’s one of the main reasons that other developed nations consider...

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Taxes and Infrastructure

The collapse of the Minnesota bridge has raised issues in both the regional press and the national media concerning what we spend money on when we know something is wrong. We know the bridge was rated “structurally...

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Meanwhile in Iraq

The “unity” government has fallen apart (a major bloc of Sunnis left this time), 13 more people died in a suicide car bomb attack Thursday, and 142 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead Wednesday according to the...

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