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Here's something I put together for CTV.ca: A backgrounder on the Afghanistan elections. It has links to various reports by Human Rights Watch and Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. While I hate to sound brainwashed by Imperial Hubris, here is the sobering conclusion to the Afghanistan chapter: “The reestablishment of an Islamic regime in Kabul [...]
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Had lunch today with a friend of mine who was holidaying in Massachusetts last month. He overheard a disquieting comment when he was down there. Two older women, obviously of wealth, were chatting loudly. One of them said (and this is a paraphrase, obviously) that if the masses were electing presidents like George W. Bush, [...]
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Bill O'Reilly, the (ahem) combative host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, was on the Daily Show tonight. One thing he said that grabbed me was that one reason Bush deserved to be re-elected was because the United States hasn't been attacked again. He should read Imperial Hubris. Here is a snippet from page 152 [...]
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U.S. President George Bush said he didn't pick Dick Cheney to be his running-mate because of his hairdo, but because of his judgment. The response on the Daily Show is why John Kerry should have hired away its writers: “To bad his (Cheney's) judgment is as bad is as bad as his hairdo,” was John Stewart's riposte on [...]
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A New York Times reporter is facing jail time over her refusual to identify a source in the Valery Plame case. The twist is while she did reporting on it, she never published a story. Here is my CAJ-L posting ——————- From nytimes.com … Bill Doskoch Toronto, ON —————– Reporter for Times, Silent Over Sources, [...]
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