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Army gives tour of Manning’s new digs
In an attempt to preclude criticism of Bradley Manning’s new accommodations at Fort Leavenworth, the Army conducted a tour for the press (USA Today link); The Fort Leavenworth prison, which opened late last year, was built near the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, the military’s maximum-security prison for inmates sentenced to at least five years confinement, including […]
Say what McCord?
Recently a short film was released for a film festival in New York called “Incident in New Baghdad.” A short film about “Collateral Murder” video. While I have huge doubts when the producer, James Spione says that this is not a anti-military film. But what gets my attention is a sudden change in tone from […]
Ezra Klein needs drug treatment
Ezra Klein in today’s Washington Post presents his case that President Obama is really a moderate republican of the 1990s; We’ve obsessed over every answer except the right one: President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s. And the Republican Party he’s facing has abandoned many […]
Insomnia cure due in June
Sorry, but I can’t think of anything more boring than Keith Olbermann unless it’s Keith Olbermann brought to you by Al Gore’s network Current TV; Cable network Current TV says Keith Olbermann will return to the air on June 20. Current said Tuesday the title of the weeknight news-commentary hour will be “Countdown with Keith […]
How’s that pump price feel?
In my travels over the last few weeks, i saw gas at $4.65 near San Francisco, it was over $4 in DC last week and then topped $4 in my rural West Virginia town yesterday. So how’s it feel? Bet I can make it feel worse. The EPA denied air permits to Shell for drilling […]
Pentagon clears Stan McCrystal
Surprise, the Pentagon says they couldn’t verify the accuracy of the reporting in the Rolling Stone article which profiled General Stan McCrystal according to the Stars & Stripes – yeah the same article for which Dickbreath Michael Hastings won a Polk Prize; Pentagon investigators said they were unable to confirm the events as reported in […]
LA Times discovers Clinton’s “balanced budget” secret
For more than ten years we’ve heard about how fiscally conservative Bill Clinton balanced the budget and how fiscally irresponsible Republicans screwed that all up with their wasteful spending on tax cuts and two unnecessary wars. I’ve been saying for years that the only reason Bill Clinton had year-over-year surpluses the last few years of […]
Matthews worries that Ryan will kill his audience
Newsbuster’s Noel Sheppard writes that Chris Matthews was worried last night that Paul Ryan’s budget cuts to medicare will kill off half of his audience; MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Monday spent much of show scaring viewers about Congressman Paul Ryan’s (R-Wisc.) recently released budget proposal. So apoplectic was the “Hardball” host that he told liberal […]
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