Archive for February, 2005
Monday, February 28th, 2005
At the White House Press briefing today regarding the resignation of the Lebanese Government Helen Thomas goes waaayy off topic: (Q is Helen Thomas):
Q Has the President ever issued an order against torture of prisoners? And do we still send prisoners to Syria to be ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
Via Fox News: Lebanon's Prime Minister says whole government to resign. The Lebanese are rising against the Syrian forces.
Prime Minister Omar Karami:
"I am keen that the government will not be a hurdle in front of those who want the good for this country. I declare the resignation of the government ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
I've been posting lightly because I received my new laptop on Friday and have been getting it up to speed with all my old software. I also have a paper due tomorrow for my current class, so posting on my part will still be fairly light.
I have a brand new ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
From the International Herald Tribune:
As the International Atomic Energy Agency prepared to open a meeting in Vienna on Monday to review Tehran's nuclear program, Iranian officials reluctantly turned over new evidence that strongly suggests it discussed acquiring technologies central to making nuclear weapons and hid that fact for 18 years, ...
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Even after raising the bar, Rall concedes that his ridiculous challenge has been met:
Believe it or not, no, I did NOT know that any of this stuff was out there. I'd read references by Republican bloggers to such things, but no one ever provided a link and I could never ...
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
As usual Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head. His latest is an article entitled "U.S. can sit back and watch Europe implode." He writes:
Europe's problems -- its unaffordable social programs, its deathbed demographics, its dependence on immigration numbers that no stable ...
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
Mubarak is calling for a change to the constitution to allow for multi-party presidential elections.
I guess the left will have to stroke off "what about Egypt" from the list of canned responses to the success of democracy in the region.
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
You all probably know about Rall's challenge to conservative bloggers. Well take a look at his original challenge:
Several Bushist blogger types have written to assert that there are as many violent and threatening remarks and insults coming from liberals online as there are from conservatives against liberals. I've spent ...
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Saturday, February 26th, 2005
Here's a few quotes from the Guardian:
Welcome though these assurances on Iran are, they do not go to the heart of the matter, which remains the neocons' agenda for the Arab world and their support for the most hardline elements in Israel. Europe needs to be highly wary.
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But it is ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
The judge has ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube can be removed in three weeks, stating "The court is no longer comfortable granting stays simply upon the filings of new motions..."
How could a court make such a callous statement, as if it wasn't a human life at stake, but rather ...
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