Posted in Maurice Clemmons, Mike Huckabee, Washington Police Killings, tagged Clemmons Parole Documents, Maurice Clemmons, Maurice Clemmons Parole Documents, Mike Huckabee, Pardons, Seattle Washington Police Hunt for Cop Killer, Tacoma Washington Police Killings, Washington Police Killings on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
How Clemmons Went From Prisoner To Alleged Cop Killer — And Why It Matters For Mike Huckabee
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Justin Elliott | November 30, 2009, 5:17PM
How did Maurice Clemmons, once sentenced to 100 years in prison in Arkansas, end up a free man and the prime suspect in the grisly killing of four Seattle area police [...]
Posted in Evening Jukebox, Video, tagged Evening Jukebox, Peace On Earth / Walk On, Video on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
U2 – Peace On Earth / Walk On
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, America, President Obama, war, tagged Afghan War, Afghan war policy, Gen. David Petraeus, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Matthew Hoh, President Obama and Afghan war, United States on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Roger Morris and George Kenney, The Huffington Post, Nov 27, 2009
The rare resignation on principle is always telling in American government. When Matthew Hoh recently left the State Department — a Marine Captain in Iraq who became a diplomat in Afghanistan — his act was significant far beyond the first reports.
Hoh speaks grim truth to [...]
Posted in Constitution, Living Up to Our Constitution — Part III, tagged “Living Constitution”, Constitution, Defending Our Courts, Living Up to Our Constitution — Part III on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Living Up to Our Constitution — Part III
Firedoglake- By: Cynthia Kouril Saturday November 28, 2009 5:00 pm
I recently attended the Second Annual “Living Constitution” Lecture at the Brennan Center for Justice. The keynote speaker this year was Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and his topic was “Living Up to Our Constitution.”
Sen. Whitehouse identified four ways in which [...]
Posted in Afternoon Jukebox, Video, tagged Afternoon Jukebox, So This Is Christmas, Video on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Lennon- So This Is Christmas
Posted in iraq war, tagged Blair's war lies, iraq war, Iraq War Inquiry, Tony Blair on November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating ’smoking gun’ memo, which warned him the war was illegal. The MoS can disclose that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote to Mr Blair in July 2002 telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a breach of international law.
By Simon Walters, [...]
Posted in Afternoon Jukebox, Video, tagged Afternoon Jukebox, All I Want For Christmas Is You, Video on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
LeAnn Rimes- All I Want For Christmas Is You
Posted in Commentary, tagged Iraq War Inquiry on November 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by William Bowles
Global Research, November 27, 2009
“We spent a long time at dinner on IRAQ. It is clear that Bush is grateful for your support and has registered that you are getting flak. I said that you would not budge in your support for regime change but you had to manage a press, a Parliament [...]
Posted in iraq war, tagged Iraq War Inquiry on November 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Peter Biles
BBC world affairs correspondent
The sceptics might say the Iraq inquiry, chaired by Sir John Chilcot, is another pointless investigation, a colossal waste of time, and likely to be a whitewash.
But in the first week, some fascinating evidence has already emerged from these public hearings into the background to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
It [...]
Posted in Commentary, tagged JFK assassination on November 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Review of James Douglass’ Book
by Edward Curtin
Global Research, November 25, 2009
Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions. There are others who cling to the Lee Harvey Oswald “lone-nut” explanation proffered by [...]
Posted in America, George W. Bush, iraq, iraq war, tagged Blair and Bush, Condi Rice and Wolfowitz, iraq, Iraq inquiry, regime change agreement, Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda, Sir Christophe on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tony Blair and George Bush might have “signed in blood” their agreement to topple Saddam Hussein a year before the Iraq war, according to Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington.
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, The Telegraph/UK, Nov 26, 2009
Link to the video
Sir Christopher Meyer told the Iraq [...]
Posted in Thanksgiving, tagged Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!, Thanksgiving on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m Thankful for You
Thanksgiving is the appointed time
for focusing on the good in our lives.
In each of our days,
we can find small blessings,
but too often we overlook them,
choosing instead to spend our time
paying attention to problems.
We give our energy
to those who cause us trouble
instead of those who bring peace.
Starting now,
let’s be on the lookout
for the [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, IAVA, Veterans, iraq, iraq war, tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, GI Bill, IAVA, iraq, iraq war, Paul Rieckhoff, Thanksgiving, Veterans, veterans affairs, Veterans Day on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Thanksgiving, Hear What New Veterans Are Grateful For
Huffington Post
Paul Rieckhoff– Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)
Posted: November 25, 2009 06:38 PM
It’s time once again for that seasonal blend of gratitude and that deep longing for the familiar –family, health, pumpkin pie, turkey, and the Detroit Lions getting blown-out on National [...]
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Blair ‘knew WMD claim was false’
Posted in Commentary, tagged iraq war, Tony Blair, WMDs on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By DAVID ROSE, Mail on Sunday, 29th November, 2009
By the time Tony Blair led Britain to attack Iraq, he had stopped believing his own lurid claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, according to an unpublished interview with the late Robin Cook, the former Leader of the Commons who resigned from the Cabinet just [...]
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