What terrorist ties? Oh… Those: A wanted Palestinian fugitive, Abu Abbas, has been detained by US forces in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. He led the Palestinian Liberation Front, which hijacked a US cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, in 1985. During the hijack, an elderly American passenger was killed. Abu Abbas had been mentioned by US …
Politics
RIP, Michael Kelly
From the WaPo: Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed while traveling with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Kelly, the first American journalist killed in the war, had also served as editor of the New Republic …
Media Irregularities
Mac Diva has spent a while trying to detail all the misreported information regarding the capture and imprisonment of PFC Lynch. In the process, she decides to take a swipe at me: Stories such as the Chronicle’s were, in turn, used to support the claims of biased Right Wing bloggers, such as this one. “Such …
Very Cool
I don’t care what you think about his politics, I think it is pretty damn cool that Gary Hart has a weblog. HE should have named it the ‘Monkey Business,’ so then we wouldn’t even have to deal with the issue when some arsehole reporter tries to make a big deal of it- that story …
Riskier Than Risky?
What is riskier than a war to the DNC? Why, tax cuts, of course: Dear , Senate Democrats won a huge victory for working families this week, winning a crucial vote to cut by more than half President Bush’s latest scheme to give an enormous tax cut to the wealthiest sliver of Americans. Every Democrat …
The War Is Lost…
according to the left, Scott Ritter, and the Jordan Times– the cartoon I posted here is an accurate portrayal of the media disinformation campaign mounted by the opponents of the war. I am surprised all of our troops have not thrown down their weapons and run from the battlefield, since they “are achieving small victories …
All The News That is Fit To Spin
Check out the latest NYT/CBS Poll regarding the war in Iraq. Here are two graphics from the CBS website that I thought you might find interesting. Notice anything weird? Look again. Notice anything funny in the graph in the second image? The size of the bar for 63% compared to the size of the bar …