OK, I don’t usually recommend pay sites or ones where you have to wade through an advertisement first but there is an article on Salon by Wil Wheaton (yes, that Wil Wheaton) which points out the real war on Christmas and on America’s families and culture being waged by O’Reilly, Gibson and the rest of [...]
Yikes. I know the NYTimes has a not all that well-deserved reputation as a hotbed of liberal obstructionism (though the editorial page is more liberal than the news pages) but today’s editorial reads like it could have been written by longstanding opponents of this administration, not by a newspaper that has done more enabling [...]
What if George W. Bush were transported back to a different time in America, one in which a young Mohammed Ali might be asked to comment on something he said about hurricane Katrina or the war in Iraq? What would the Champ make of him if he had the same abilities for satire now that [...]
This is how the Bush administration supports the troops and their families.
There’s controversy over how the military is transporting the bodies of service members killed overseas, 10News reported.
A local family said fallen soldiers and Marines deserve better and that one would think our war heroes are being transported with dignity, care and respect. It said [...]
Journalist Dahr Jamail on:
1. The increase in an air war in Iraq.
2. The kidnapping of the Christian Peacemaker Team members.
3. Calls for the US to pull out of Iraq and what would happen if they did so.
4. Videos about Iraq and a new feature on his web site, the Middle East News Wire.
“Almost a thousand [...]
Today’s Op-Ed by General Wesley Clark in the NYTimes.
While the Bush administration and its critics escalated the debate last week over how long our troops should stay in Iraq, I was able to see the issue through the eyes of America’s friends in the Persian Gulf region. The Arab states agree on one thing: Iran [...]
Riverbend, who writes the Iraq blog Baghdad Burning, now has had her first year of blog entries turned into a book.
Earlier this year, Baghdad Burning the blog was turned into “Baghdad Burning” - the book. Feminist Press published the whole first year of blogs in book form and it was a huge honor. The [...]