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Seeing Dubya lose a little bit of Texas swagger has some right-wing radio jocks shaking their heads, and others wondering whether it's the influence of his wife Laura or new White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten. An excerpt from the NYT story: What happened to the Texas swagger? Maybe it went the way of [...]
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The deaths of civilians in Haditha, Iraq appears more and more to be a case of some U.S. Marines going berserk. An excerpt from the L.A. Times story: Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed up to 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them “execution style,” in the [...]
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After another grieving father blasted him, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made it sound like a communications problem was behind banning the media from covering repatriation ceremony of Capt. Nichola Goddard's remains from Afghanistan. Some excerpts from the CP story: Dr. Tim Goddard, the father of Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian female fighting soldier to die [...]