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The Pentagon’s ban on photography of coffins containing remains of American soldiers killed in war has been a topic of debate among journalists, war opponents and war supporters since it first came into play during Gulf War I. Many people thought this policy — for a variety of personal agendas...

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The Statue

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There’s an email circulating that starts off with another of those typical “the media won’t tell you this” lines. In this particular case, the accusation is that the story “doesn’t have the shock effect.” But as usual, there’s a little more to it than that...something that the “they” who composed...

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4,000

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Just a few minutes ago, a bulletin from the New York Times reported that a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four U.S. soldiers, bringing the official American death toll, as tabulated by the Associated Press, to 4,000. The grim milestone came on the same day that rockets and mortars pounded...

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Five

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It was not a dark and stormy night, although perhaps that would have been a more appropriate setting, obvious cliché aside. In fact, it was an otherwise quiet morning in Washington, around 9:00am, when President George W. Bush gave the executive order from the Situation Room that launched Operation Iraqi...

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It’s The Information Age, Mike!

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In an upcoming article, Mike Huckabee, who has surged ahead in the GOP polls, is questioning the Mormon faith: “Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, ‘Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?’ “The article, to be published in Sunday's New York Times...

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Is Hillary a Done Deal?

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Who’ll be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008? It would seem that Karl Rove has already decided that it’ll be Hillary Clinton. In his Newsweek column, he discusses how the Republican candidate — he apparently hasn’t decided who that will be, yet — can beat her: “Say in authentic terms...

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Six Years Later, The 9/11 Myth Lingers

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Did Saddam Hussein participate in the 9/11 terror attacks? It’s a simple question, and the answer has been confirmed by official sources, including some at the White House. But the answer still doesn’t come easily for some Americans. A new CBS/New York Times poll reveals that even today, 1 in...

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The Outrage

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“A threat to your children.” Where did that quote come from? To what does it refer? Was it spoken by George W. Bush on the subject of terrorists? Or was it how Al Gore described global warming? “It is not a question of left vs. right; it is a question...

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Sheehan Calls It Quits

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The War in Iraq’s most vocal and well-known critic, activist Cindy Sheehan, says she’s giving up her fight. She blames her decision, since someone else is always to blame, on Democrats who caved on their showdown with the president as well as some attacks from the left that have targeted...

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What Would You Say?

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What do you say on Memorial Day? Especially while an unpopular war continues to divide the country so bitterly that little if anything seems to get done because of all of the arguing. You send your condolences to the families who’ve lost loved ones. Not that there is anything anyone...

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Rosie’s Out: Surprise, Surprise

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Rosie O’Donnell won’t be returning to The View following an on-air skirmish between the former comedienne and colleague Elizabeth Hasselbeck, it was announced on Friday. O’Donnell was riding out the last few weeks of her contract with ABC and was planning to leave at the end of the season. What...

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Taking Advantage of Bad News

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Some people are taking the story of the massacre at Virginia Tech and using it to make a political point. Those who speak out against the current administration, and there are many, are comparing the bloodshed in Blacksburg to the bloodshed on any average day in Iraq. Some of them...

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Politics and Photo Ops

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Occasionally, a comment appears that I consider important enough to address in its own post.In response to my post about McCain's trip to Iraq to prove how much safer the streets of Baghdad are, and particularly after I stated that McCain has essentially zapped his chances of winning my vote,...

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McCain’s Springtime Stroll … in Baghdad!

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There was a time when I had every intention of voting for John McCain in 2008. It might have begun as early as 2000, in fact. The recent news item about the presidential candidate's recent trip to Iraq, to make a point about the effectiveness of the War in Iraq,...

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