Basra Pullout Story Breaks Into The US Press
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While the coverage is still thin, the Basra pullout by British forces at least made it into the US press nowadays.
Recent weeks have brought a lot of misplaced criticism of the United Kingdom’s role in southern Iraq. It is moment to set the record straight.
Des Browne and David Miliband, the British...
“Ramadan Releases”
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Reuters reports:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fifty Iraqis will be freed from U.S. prisons in Iraq each day during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the office of Iraq’s Sunni Arab Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Friday.
The U.S. military said that week it had reached a deal with Hashemi to conduct...
ID-Sen: Larry Craig To Resign. Official Announcement Tomorrow.
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No surprise here:
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor by his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig will hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. MT...
When Headlines Attack
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There’s an interesting story at the New York Times looking into the source of an attack on Barack Obama:
When an out-of-state video crew showed up final winter in La Junta, Colo., an old railroad town, crew members told Mayor Don Rizzuto they were making a documentary on the affect of factory closings...
Katie Couric discovers heartbreak in Baghdad. thereupon leaves.
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I don’t think anybody really expected groundbreaking reporting when CBS sent Katie Couric to Baghdad. And so no one was disappointed.
There’s all the standard fare you would expect Couric to note. The plane into Baghdad didn’t have to avoid any ground fire. (Things getting better!)...
Tough Talking Elizabeth Edwards
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It’s fitting as regular a routine as paying the rent or mortgage: every few weeks, Elizabeth Edwards levels a sharp-edged critique of the campaign of her husband’s rivals, most of all Hillary Clinton. The latest version arrived that week in an interview with duration magazine, in which Mrs....
The Law & Order Candidate
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It was a good week for Fred Thompson fans, who put together “the closest thing to a draft” in recent memory to get their candidate into the presidential race, according to Thompson campaign manager Bill Lacy’s statement that week on the former Tennessee senator’s intention to...
Compassion and the Closet
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I have to acknowledge a touch of schadenfreude at yet another piece of evidence that Republican anti-gay beliefs prepare hypocrites of many simply considering living these beliefs isn’t tenable for some humans. But mostly, I feel outrage that that is still a country where police spend their date...
DNC, State Leaders Weigh in On Primary Schedule Scramble
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South Carolina–where that man is shown making his selections in the Feb. 2004 Democratic primary–joins three other early primary states to inspire candidates to disregard the calendar shuffle (AP) It’s getting ugly in the “who gets to vote first” battle. final night, Michigan...
Andray to John School
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(By Dudley M. Brooks) Andray’s trip to “John School” sounds like a good date, I guess. “The seminar features lectures by police officers and prosecutors on the laws regarding prostitution, safe sex and the dangers associated with soliciting prostitutes,” our story nowadays...


