Archive for November 1st, 2006
What the Hell is a "Person of Interest"?
I first heard the phrase used by John Ashcroft in his wild unfounded accusations against Steven Hatfill in the anthrax case and here and there a couple of times since. Now Thursday’s New York Times quotes a California criminal investigator as saying that they have a “person of interest” in custody in the case of [...]
Baghdad is under siege
It’s too much to pick quotes out of, just go read Patrick Cockburn about what America has done to Iraq. Oh yeah, and here‘s Reagan’s head of the NSA, Genera William E. “Iraq is the biggest strategic disaster in United State’s history” Odom, on how to fix it.
Demise of the Warblogs, Rise of the Antiwarblogs
Stress gets a mention by David T. Beito at the History News Network: “Little Green Footballs, once considered a leading warblog, has also moved on. Posts on Iraq, even of the “good news” sort, are few and far between these days. Instead, readers get a numbing update of every real or imagined “islamofascist” inroad in [...]
Murder is Perfectly Okay - As Long as You’re a Cop
The Denver Post Via Ryan at the LRC blog: “A teenager carrying a Bible and shouting “I want Jesus” was shot twice with a police stun gun and later died at a St. Louis hospital, authorities said. In a statement obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, police in Jerseyville, about 40 miles north of St. [...]
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