Month: September 2007

And They Sent Him Back to Iraq

Cross posted from My Silver State. Yesterday,  I wrote about the latest U.S. soldier to die in Iraq. Today, we learn that 19-year-old Army Spc. Travis M. Virgadamo of Las Vegas took his own life: The death of a 19-year-old...

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Staging Nukes for Iran?

Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see postal worker in uniform walking out of a post...

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Kicking A** in Iraq

The President is down under in Australia meeting with Prime Minister John Howard and his Labour Party opponent, Kevin Rudd. You can get the sense that Australians are a little different from Americans in the following poll...

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Victory for the West Bank residents of Bil’in

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Archbishop Desmond Tutu This news was posted by Sami Awad on September 5th, 2007. Sami administers the Palestinian nonviolent resistance...

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WA-08: Netroots Show Their Muscle

It’s rare for the blogosphere to get clear cut victories. But, as Chris Bowers notes, we now have one. Rodney Tom has dropped out of the WA-08 primary against Darcy Burner, and he cited Burner’s 3,200 contributors as...

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