Things got beyond heated last night outside the Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate in Lexington last night: At one point, violence broke out when Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org approached Paul and tried to give him an “employee of the month award” from Republicorp. Republicorp is a fake business MoveOn created to symbolize what it says is […]
Don’t let the lack of reports fool you. Iraq is still very unstable, and seeing some very deadly days: Six car bombs exploded across Baghdad Monday, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores, police said, after a spate of arrests targeting Sunni Arab fighters raised tensions in the Iraqi capital. A blast at a […]
This has a real potential to become a fire storm: Fifteen British Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been “seized” by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said. The Marines were “engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,” the ministry said in a statement on Friday. […]
That is Israeli children signing a missile before it is fired off to Lebanon. It is the first picture seen on a new site fromisrael2lebanon.com. Following that is a series of grotesque pictures showing children and civilians in Lebanon that have been killed from the recent bombings. The site at first appears to be taking […]
Here is the reason why we won’t be able to help Israel out militarily – we can’t. Look at a couple of the stories today. First from Iraq: A suicide bomber pulled his van into a busy market on Tuesday, lured labourers with job offers and blew himself up, killing scores in one of the […]
With all the tensions in the Middle East, leave it to our President to have a little blunder that at least gives us some humor: President Bush, not realizing his remarks were being picked up by a microphone, bluntly expressed his frustration with the actions of Hezbollah, a militant Islamic group believed backed by Iran […]
Gives me flashbacks of Footloose: Chicago gay rights activists are concerned about what may have been a hate crime in the Lakeview neighborhood. The Chicago Public Library says that about 100 books were destroyed after someone set a fire in the section for gay and lesbian literature. It happened Tuesday about noon at the John […]
Tony Snow’s first day in front of the camera and already he has stuck his foot in his mouth (via Crooks and Liars): CBS REPORTER: Why not declassify [the NSA’s call records database]? I mean, the President did talk about the surveillance program a day after the New York Times broke that story. This would […]
My post earlier today showed how even a senior official in the Iraqi government is calling the tensions there a “civil war”. Ironically CBS is still sucking up to the Bush administration’s talking point by avoiding that term. This is a shot from their web page today: “Civil Conflict”. 80 people died yesterday (which is […]
OK sitting here thinking about the revelation today of Bush authorizing the leak I have come up with something. Back when it was being reported that Cheney authorized the leak, one argument was regarding the declassification of information and if the vice-president has that power. It is clear that the President does in fact have […]