Filed at 1:30 pm, Friday July 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
According to a new article by the Associated Press, threats towards American judges are becoming more common in the last year and a half.
Threats against federal judges are on a record-setting pace this year, nearly 18 months after the family of a federal judge was killed in Chicago.
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Threats and inappropriate communications have quadrupled over 10 […]
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Filed at 8:30 am, Friday July 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Middle East
Lebanon now estimates that 600 of its civilians have been killed in the illegal air attacks upon Lebanese cities and towns by the Israeli military. Although Hezbollah casualties are not known, they are estimated to be less than 50.
52 Israelis have been killed, 33 of them soldiers and the other 19 civilians who […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Thursday July 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Video provided by TheDailyBackground.com
Recently the Israeli military bombed a United Nations outpost, killing 4 unarmed UN observers. Do you think that the Israeli military simply made a mistake, considering the following known facts:
1. The Israeli military had been warned a dozen times about the location of the outpost
2. The Israeli military has bombed the UN […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Thursday July 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Stephen Colbert sums up the current state of Middle East affairs, concludes that Democracy is not a good thing and that Saddam should be brought back. Brilliant man, that Colbert.
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Filed at 8:30 am, Thursday July 27th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Middle East
Lebanon– 9-14 Israeli soldiers, “dozens” of Hezbollah militants, and 23 Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday. This raises the Israeli death toll to around 30-35 (about half of whom are civilians). Roughly 140 Palestinian civilians have been killed by the Israeli military since the fighting began on June 25th. A family of Eight Canadian […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Wednesday July 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I’ve long been a fan of the Freeway Blogger (I think I may have mentioned him before but if not, check out his website). He encourages people to make homemade cardboard signs on freeway overpasses and other places where they can be seen by a great deal of people. Some signs stay up for only […]
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Filed at 4:30 pm, Wednesday July 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday I posted a video of Ben (of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream) explaining how more than 17 billion dollars of American’s tax money is being wasted every year. This video is sort of the sequel: he explains more about the tax money waste with an Oreo cookie analogy. Check it out. I think Americans […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Wednesday July 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
For the latest Middle East news, check out my Middle East Update published this morning.
2006 Elections
Florida–Katherine Harris has actually gone down in the polls. I’m not sure anyone thought that was possible.
Connecticut– Bill Clinton stumped for Joe Lieberman yesterday, and most people think it’s somehow connected with Hillary (FDL has a roundup of interesting theories). […]
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Filed at 8:30 am, Wednesday July 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Disclaimer
Before I start today, I want to make it very clear what my stance on the current violence in Lebanon and Israel is. Both sides (Hezbollah and the Israeli military) have committed war crimes and have violated international law in attacking civilians a great deal over the last two weeks that violence has been ongoing.
I […]
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Filed at 8:30 pm, Tuesday July 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The folks over at KickTheOilHabit.org (specifically the guys in the roadtrip
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Tuesday July 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I just have to share this. At the moment I am beaming because I just got a comment that alerted me to the fact that the Michael J. Fox stem cell video that I posted a few days ago made Digg.com with more than 1,590 people “digging” it. Or maybe I should say dugg. I […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Tuesday July 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Video provided by TheDailyBackground.com
Ben (co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream) explains how 17 billion dollars of American’s tax money could be spent on actually helping Americans, instead of being wasted. The United States has more than enough nuclear warheads to plunge the entire earth into nuclear winter more than 100 times over, do we […]
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Filed at 8:30 am, Tuesday July 25th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Sorry for the abbreviated Daily Brief today, I’m travelling back to New Hampshire. Normal posting will resume tomorrow, and I’ve pre-posted some video posts for later today.
The Middle East Headlines To Go
British Prime Minister Blair has called the situation in Lebanon “a catastrophe.” Intelligent bloggers wonder when he’ll say the same about Iraq.
Israeli Prime Minister […]
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Filed at 6:30 pm, Monday July 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Okay what the hell, Associated Press? Seriously just what the hell. You’re a very trusted name in print news (for good reason), but sometimes you guys seriously slip up.
Remember a few days ago when it was reported that a UN observation post had been caught in the crossfire on the border between Lebanon and […]
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Filed at 1:30 pm, Monday July 24th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Yesterday on Meet the Press with Tim Russert, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton (not to be confused with that idiot John Bolton representing our country at the UN), made a fool of himself. Russert really sliced and diced the guy. Check out this partial transcript:
MR. RUSSERT: Murder. The president believes that using an […]
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