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When Will Bush Go To Prison?
Last weekend, I finally got the chance to finish watching Frontline' s excellent two-part, four-hour series, " Bush's War ," which recounts in excruciating detail the events leading up to the Iraq war and the events of the war itself. I'm sure some will
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What Michelle Meant To Say ...
When I heard what Michelle Obama said , I thought uh-oh, classic Di Kinsley an gaffe: She said something true but unflattering, and thus a total no-no for someone in her position; that's why they call it impolitic. I also assumed she was talking about
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The Audacity of Hopelessness, Part 2
Dahlia , your post about McCain's powerful message of hopelessness cracked me up and reminded me of this great spoof of Obama's "Yes We Can" video: You might call it McCain's "No, We Can't." Check out the actors' expressions toward the end. That said,
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McCain, Galileo, and the High Price of Getting Off a Good One
Ellen , that is how I felt after I read an interview with The Sopranos ' creator David Chase way back when, explaining that every word out of every character's mouth was a lie. (Up until then, I'd spent the whole hour going, "Well, that's not true ...
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Yet Another Legal Black Hole
Via Matt Yglesias , a story about Jamie Leigh Jones, a former employee of Haliburton/KBR who told ABC news she was gang-raped at a KBR camp in the Green Zone in Iraq, then held in a shipping container without food or water and threatened with termination
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