Think Progress is compiling a very nice timeline of the Foley incident. I want to bring to attention a certain date range so you can see if you notice what is missing: 2005 — Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) sends inappropriate emails to another former Congressional page. [CREW] SEPTEMBER 2005 — Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA), who […]
As I go through trying to fine tune everything I have noticed a couple small problems with the site. First off there was a couple days where it was slow loading. This was actually a problem with the hosting company. Thankfully they were quick to remedy the situation. It took a couple days because I […]
The well informed Juan Cole takes a look at the events of the past couple days and the outcome does not look good. Tuesday was an apocalyptic day in Iraq. I am not normally exactly sanguine about the situation there. But the atmospherics are very, very bad, in a way that most Western observers will […]
The Associated Press is reporting that al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Al-Zarqawi, may be amongst the dead from a gun fight that erupted between our forces and insurgents held up in a house in Mosul. This of course would be an expected victory for Bush. There is a problem though. We have heard these rumors […]
Will we ever be able to handle control of Iraq over to its troops? More importantly will be if we can pass the torch to them and be somewhat assured that they will not turn to the same tyrannical leadership styles Saddam followed. NEW YORK In a remarkable report published widely Thursday, Tom Lasseter, longtime […]
An interesting story has been developing in Iraq over the past couple days, and its one that does not seem to be gaining attention here in the United States. With the Katrina recovery and Rita steaming forward as a category 4 hurricane, it should be no shock as this information really shows a state of […]
I haven’t done that many posts the last couple days due to an unexpected reformat of my hard drive (luckily I was able to save everything). I did see this story today that I wanted to share however: From the Waco Tribue Arrests, rhetoric highlight protests By Thaddeus DeJesus and J.B. Smith Tribune-Herald staff writers […]