Minuteman volunteers concerned about the continued flow of illegal immigrants across the border from Mexico gathered Saturday with lawn chairs, binoculars and cell phones for a new month long campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the issue. A year after their first watch-and-report operation along the border in southeastern Arizona, members of the Minuteman [...]
Archive | April, 2006
Capitol Hill Police vs. Rep. McKinney
Capitol Hill Police vs. Rep. McKinney Capitol Hill police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney for her role in a scuffle with a police officer last week, the prosecutor's office confirmed. Capitol Police had no immediate comment so it's not yet known whether the intent is [...]
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Pretty and Packing Heat
Pretty and Packing Heat Hey baby, is that a glock in your pocket?Photo: Max Becherer/Polaris, NYT With chipped, painted fingernails, Nahrawan al-Janabi picked up a cartridge and slid it into the chamber. “Like this,” she said, loading her new Glock pistol with a loud, satisfying click. “You see, like this.” Akram Abdulzahra now keeps his [...]
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The End of the Jill Carroll Jihad
The End of the Jill Carroll Jihad From bloomers to jilbab, women know your place. In a video recorded before she was freed, and posted by her captors on an Islamist website, Carroll spoke out against the US military presence in Iraq. But in a weekend statement the freelance journalist, a hostage since January, said [...]
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McCain’s Clumsy Conversion
McCain's Clumsy Conversion Mr. Maverick has drunk the Kool Aid. It's what has to happen if you want to lead the emerging post Bush clique. Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a [...]
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Adam Nagourney, Is Anybody Home?
Adam Nagourney, Is Anybody Home? Hey, Adam, remember this one? … Bloggers, for all the benefits they might bring to both parties, have proved to be a complicating political influence for Democrats. They have tugged the party consistently to the left, particularly on issues like the war, and have been openly critical of such moderate [...]
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C-SPAN Good Morning
C-SPAN Good Morning God bless this country and the patriotic Democratic Americans who are fighting to restore her honor. First, I want to thank Steve Scully and everyone at Washington Journal, as well as C-SPAN, for arranging a satellite feed from Las Vegas. Zumi at Cover Edge was a doll. He stayed up all night, [...]
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Iraqi Violence Shifting
On Washington Journal tomorrow Iraqi Violence Shifting … The Iraqi public's reaction to the violence has been substantial. Since the shrine bombing, 30,000 to 36,000 Iraqis have fled their homes because of sectarian violence or fear of reprisals, say officials at the International Organization for Migration in Geneva. The Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration [...]
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The Next Iraqi Occupation
The Next Iraqi Occupation cross posted at firedoglake We learned this week that in January 2003, George W. Bush was set on preemptive war. WMDs didn't have anything to do with it. Yet in early March 2003, Bush went on national TV and said it was up to Saddam as to whether there would be [...]
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Where is the Iraqi Government?
Where is the Iraqi Government? Greeted by antiwar protesters at almost every stop in a tour of a working-class region of England, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the Bush administration has probably made thousands of “tactical errors” in its handling of the Iraq war. But she defended the invasion as the right [...]
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