I was scanning USA Today at the coffee shop, and I saw that a Duke alumnus purchased a full page ad for them. This is the only write-up I can find at google news: A Duke alumnus purchased a full-page ad in today’s USA Today to support the Duke men’s lacrosse team. Bob Pascal’s black-and-white …
Archives for May 2007
Torture
Please explain to me how we are having this godawful stupid debate. [P]sychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has yet to create an elite corps of interrogators trained to glean secrets from terrorism suspects. While …
Fact Of The Day, Number 2: Plame Definitively Was Covert
Surprise! Government documents released by Fitzgerald’s invstigation reveal that Valerie Plame was a covert agent at the time that the White House gleefully blew her cover. Poppy Bush, 4/26/1999: “I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the …
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Everett Dirksen Weeps
Some depressing financial news: The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The loss reflects a continued deterioration in the finances of Social Security and government retirement programs for civil servants and …
Break Out the Post Hole Diggers
It s time to move the goalposts again: U.S. military leaders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that most of the broad political goals President Bush laid out early this year in his announcement of a troop buildup will not be met this summer and are seeking ways to redefine success. In September, Army Gen. David …
Adios Cindy
I am not going to talk too much about Cindy Sheehan’s latest meltdown- I am over her. I felt she was nothing but a pathetic woman devastated by grief, and I felt she was used for a good long while by people who don’t really care about her, but found her position to be useful. …
Death Penalty Silliness
Thia seeems to be another pointless law which will have more adverse effects than positive achievements: Louisiana’s Supreme Court ruled that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation’s highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a …