Filed at 2:31 pm, Saturday April 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Retired Lt General William Odom (pictured right) today called for President Bush to sign the Iraq bill which passed through Congress this past week, calling for withdrawal from Iraq by April 1st, 2008. The Associated Press:
Odom, an outspoken critic of the war who served as the Army’s top intelligence officer and headed the National Security […]
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Filed at 10:11 am, Saturday April 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Democrats are planning to send their Iraq withdrawal bill, which was approved by both the House and the Senate this past week, to President Bush’s desk on Tuesday, May 1st. Tuesday, May 1st, as in the anniversary of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech. How’s that for symbolic timing?
The bill will, almost certainly, be vetoed. Here’s part […]
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Filed at 8:43 pm, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Randal L. Tobias, Deputy Secretary of State, resigned today after it was discovered that he had been a frequent customer of a notorious DC prostitution service, Pamela Martin and Associates, which the Department of Justice has brought to court. The owner of the service says she will call Tobias and other famous clients as witnesses in her trial in order to prove that she only engaged in legal activity.
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Filed at 8:02 pm, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Mike Luckovich is a genius.
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Filed at 4:57 pm, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
A hate crime? Or just a ham sandwich? I dunno, Steve Doocy, you tell me.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’ve ever portrayed a fake news story from a parody website as being real. And they say bloggers are more sloppy than the “mainstream media”…
Well, what do you expect from Fox News, […]
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Filed at 2:51 pm, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Many people forget the attitude that American military commanders had towards civilian life during the Vietnam war. It’s especially instructional to remember and examine the attitudes that those who were in charge of the Vietnam war had towards civilian life, especially in the context of the current war in Iraq.
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Filed at 1:17 pm, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Chairman Henry Waxman, of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has requested today that former Bush Administration CIA Director George Tenet testify before his Committee. Waxman has said he is interested in the use of pre-war intelligence, especially in light of Tenet’s claims in his new book that the Administration misused his statement […]
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Filed at 8:45 am, Friday April 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Oh great, now this is really constitutional, and moral:
The Bush administration is urging a federal appeals court to clamp down on Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ ability to see their attorneys and obtain government records to help argue their innocence.
As the legal battle over the detentions moves to a new arena, the Justice Department is trying to […]
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Filed at 10:29 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Dear Yahoo! News, could you have possibly chosen a more unflattering photograph to represent the Democratic debate on Thursday night? Here’s what they have attatched to their AP wire story about it:
Here’s a closeup:
I mean, come on. Not even Drudge is using that one.
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Filed at 8:42 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Click through for some polling numbers.
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Filed at 7:15 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Mike Huckabee’s son tried to take a loaded Glock– the same kind of pistol that the VA Tech shooter used to kill dozens of students– on a plane today.
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Filed at 5:51 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I’m very glad to hear that MSNBC has given permission to C-SPAN to simulcast tonight’s Democratic presidential debates on the internet (and C-SPAN radio, but who the hell outside of DC even gets that anyways… well I guess they have a streaming audio version at least).
Any bets on how long it will take for C-SPAN’s […]
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Filed at 4:32 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
AP: “N.J. Governor Says He’ Glad to Be Alive“
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Filed at 1:37 pm, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
With the Senate’s vote Thursday and the House’s vote on Wednesday, Congress is headed on a collision course with the White House that is almost certain to result in a veto of Iraq withdrawal legislation that calls for all combat troops to be withdrawn by April 1st, 2008.
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Filed at 9:37 am, Thursday April 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
For those curious, I thought I’d post a traffic chart showing the effect that getting linked to from the front page of reddit.com (a popular web aggregate site similar to Digg in some ways) has on a website’s traffic. You can see a chart from the last month or so of my website’s meager traffic […]
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