NY Times, Moveon do Dems Dirty Work

"By writing off more than half of its normal price, it encouraged the publication of a nasty hit piece on the honor of a serving commander in a theater of war. The Paper of Record helped call Petraeus a...

Shifting Sands: Iraq Govt Expels Pilgrims

  NowPublic contributor phrolen is a veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom and Joint Taskforce Katrina. His commentary is based on actualexperience.         The recent...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards threaten US

"Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to ''punch'' the US, in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported...

Bush arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon?

"As a result, Hersh implies, the Bush administration is no longer acting rationally in its policy. "We're in the business of supporting the Sunnis anywhere we can against the Shia. ... "We're in the business of...

Hugh Grant Busted in Baked Bean Battle

My favorite part of a martial-arts film is when the protagonists use non-weapons as weapons: umbrellas, chairs, lamps, fans. A tub of baked beans, though, is Jackie-Chan caliber."Hugh Grant has been arrested and...

Religous Discrimination in Germany?

"In Hamburg, Germany's domestic intelligence agency used undercover agents and intelligence methods such as surveillance and wiretapping phone calls."

Defending mascots = attacking Indians

"The University of Illinois is investigating online threats made against an American Indian student on a Web page that defended the use of the school's Chief Illiniwek mascot, the university's chancellor said Tuesday. In a letter sent Tuesday to faculty and others on campus,...

US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbat...

" US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19...

US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbat...

" US vetoes 'biased' UN resolution attacking Israel's Gaza bloodbath Britain abstained, France and Russia voted in favour, but America refused to allow the United Nations to condemn the Israelis after Wednesday's mistaken rocket strike on Beit Hanoun, which killed 19...

The Improbability of God

"By way of attacking his position, the atheist often hears the line from theists that, “You can’t prove there’s no such thing as god.” The wholly logical response, of course, is to admit the theist’s point. However, it is important to note that the...

Olbermann: The President of the United States owes this country an apology

"Keith Olbermann delivered another stunning special comment tonight, this time attacking Bush’s Rose Garden press conference from last Friday."

The Blackout Of Hawaii On The Eve Of Pearl Harbor

"Although there is no doubt that after September, 1939, Roosevelt definitely preferred to get into the war directly in Europe, he had always kept Japan as an ace in his sleeve ever since his meeting with Stimson in January, 1933, and the first meeting of his Cabinet in March,...

Roosevelt's Policies Prior To Pearl Harbor

"This was done to undermine the Japanese peace party that was still in office, and to strengthen the war party. This aim was fully accomplished when Roosevelt and Hull unceremoniously brushed off the impressive effort of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye of Japan to reach...

Pearl Harbor Report -- Supreme Court Associate Justice Roberts

* OWEN JOSEPHUS ROBERTS, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court * WILLIAM HARRISON STANDLEY, Admiral * JOSEPH MASON "BULL" REEVES, Admiral * FRANK ROSS MCCOY, Major General * JOSEPH TAGGART MCNARNEY, General  

The Administration Had Detailed Advance Warning Of The Attack

"The attack was a surprise to our men at Pearl, their families, the American public, and the world at large. But while the extent of the human toll may have come as a shock to him, FDR was hardly surprised by the attack itself."

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