More “Hazing”
Charles Arthur of The Independent on ‘Secret film shows Iraq prisoners sodomised’ Seymour Hersh, who reported on the torture of the prisoners in New Yorker magazine in May, told an audience in San Francisco...
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More on Darfur
Dr. Muqtedar Khan on Darfur Horror Continues: What are Muslims Waiting For? It seems that while the rest of the world is indulging in semantic and diplomatic tussles, the Muslim World is waiting for...
CBC Does Cheney Impression on Nader
My friend A.D. Powell has a couple of interesting postings at A Mixed Blog on the squabble between Ralph Nader and members of the Congressional Black Caucus (here and here). An excerpt from from...
Statist Marriage Reformers
Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik comes correct on the issue of big government marriage amendments: Government involvement in marriage had an ugly beginning, Badnarik noted. “The only reason that marriage licenses even exist is...
Veterans for Common Sense News Update
Stress disorder in vets can be helped today Posted: 2004-07-13 20:33:00.000 VETPAC Releases Priorities for Support of 2004 Candidates Posted: 2004-07-13 21:37:00.000 The “Fahrenheit” boiling point Posted: 2004-07-14 00:11:00.000
Gulf War Illness (Again)
New Scientist on Gulf war veterans have fertility problems: The largest ever survey of men who served in the 1990-1991 Gulf War has found that veterans are 40 to 50% less likely to be...
Blogging the Nomination
The New York Times talks about convention bloggers in Conventioneering.com: H. L. Mencken is said to have guffawed and slapped his thigh in delight at times as he would write about a typical day...
Big Government Marriage Amendment Fails
Well, the big government conservatives (yes – it is my new mantra) have failed in their bid to expand their power into areas it was never meant to reach. The bid to “protect” marriage...
Love Your Children
D.C. Thornton has a (unfortunately) timely posting on children, cars and summer days. Folks – DON’T LEAVE YOUR KIDS LOCKED UP IN HOT CARS! How fucking hard is that?
What’s That Book You’ve Got There – Citizen?!
Nevada Libertarian Congressional Candidate Jim Duensing on the Freedom to Read: 18 Republicans, 191 Democrats, and the only Independent in Congress voted to protect our library and book store records from the prying eyes...