February 28, 2006
Your Papers, Please.
Seven peace activists were arrested and charged with a federal misdemeanor for demonstrating without a permit in front of the White House yesterday.
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February 22, 2006
The Not-So-Funnies
I have had a hard time making sense of the cartoon scandal, in which people have died and the Danes have felt — so far — at least some economic blowback. Who wants the challenge of seeing one’s prophet depicted in absurd or degrading ways?
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February 13, 2006
Mama Tried?
Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in Texas over the weekend, giving fresh and all-too-real meaning to the term loose cannon, when he sprayed a quail hunting companion with bird shot in a hunting accident on Saturday afternoon.
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February 6, 2006
I’ve Seen That Movie, Too
The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings today into the Bush Administration’s domestic terrorist abatement initiative, with Chairman Arlen Specter telling Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in no uncertain terms he’d been called to account for the government’s refusal to abide by laws defining a “forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order.”
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