Author: Dean Pajevic

Karl Rove’s Secret Affair

“Rove’s secret affair,” by kos, via Radar magazine. Is this tawdry? You bet. Is it fair? You bet. P.S. Radar magazine is smart and snarky. But it IS smart, and has great sources. Enjoy.

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Dog Handlers Competed at Abu Ghraib

“Two U.S. dog handlers in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison used unmuzzled dogs to threaten prisoners and competed to see who could make inmates urinate on themselves, according to testimony at a military hearing on...

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Baghdad: Worms in the Drinking Water

“Talib Abu Younes put his lips to a glass of tap water recently and watched worms swimming in the bottom,” reports Leila Fadel in Baghdad for Knight-Ridder/Yahoo News. Electricity flickers on and off for two hours in...

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Hillary to Head DLC Initiative

Update [2005-7-26 14:51:33 by susanhu]: Slate’s “Day to Day on NPR discusses Hillary and the DLC at noon PDT, via Seattle’s KUOW, which has great Internet listening. From the LAT (sub. free): COLUMBUS, Ohio —...

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The Iraq War Cost OPEN THREAD

Gov’t Study Estimate War Cost to Reach $700B A new government study has found that the total cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will top $700 billion over the next decade. Already $300 billion has been spent. The...

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