Month: June 2008

Lots and lots of Iraqis want the US Military to just go home (sort of like a lot of us, over here): BAGHDAD (AFP) — People torched a US flag in Baghdad’s Shiite stronghold of Sadr City after weekly Friday prayers to...

From Sabbah’s blog comes this interesting story about an Italian judge who was injured by the Israeli army during a peaceful demonstration against the Wall in Bil’in, West Bank. These nonviolent demonstrations have...

I’ll be blunt. I didn’t expect much. However, I thought today Hillary Clinton began the campaign to resurrect herself and remake herself as a Democratic Leader in the fashion of Ted Kennedy. This was not a perfect...

There’s a reason I use the breakin line to Greg Mitchells book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits–and the President–Failed on Iraq. Part of that reason is an article printed in the Asian Times, I...

I would very much like to pray that as I spun around last night and attempted to volley the football on the goal, I did not severely sprain my ankle.  I’d like to pray I won’t be out two to six weeks while my...