Month: January 2010

What He Died for in Haiti

. Hédi Annabi, the U.N. special representative killed in the earthquake In May 2000, after the U.N. Security Council had decided to send thousands of troops to keep a band of psychotic killers known as the RUF from toppling...

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Friday Foto Flogging

Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual...

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Haiti: What Bush Wouldn’t Have Done

Sometimes getting the job done to save lives after a a natural disaster means doing whatever it takes. Yet somehow I can’t imagine George Bush doing this to help Haiti: … Thursday night, the United States reached an...

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Thursday Dog Blog (CSI edition)

The evidence. (Ever wonder what a cell phone looks like after a dog has had it for awhile?)The shifty-eyed suspect. Show us your “crimes in the home”, or just the criminals, if they’ve completely destroyed the...

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Closed Briefings

I guess I must not understand the purpose of closed briefings. Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security intelligence subcommittee, said in a telephone interview that...

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