Slim's Blog (9)

I'm so confused. By Edward N. Luttwak, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and über concern troll:

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no diffe

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Last Saturday, Clark County Dems gathered for our county convention to elect our delegates for the congressional district and state conventions. It was also an opportunity for Hillary and Obama supporters to switch sides if they so chose (few did). Like any Democratic gathering, it was a zoo: organized in the macro sense, getting everyone badged and out on the gym floor, but turning to chaos when it got down to action. Where was the 49th supporters supposed to caucus? Were the Hillary delegates… Continue

In what sane country would you prosecute a straight-A student with no prior arrests, an obvious psychological problem and a 10-lb. bag of fertilizer for "attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction"?

CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) -- An 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school will be charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a possible life sentence, the top

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not only to to admit his mistakes, but to do it in his local newspaper:

Way to go, Dad. You just made up for it by showing all the people in town who respect you - and also voted for W - that change is good, and you can face up to your errors in judgment, even in public. Continue

Jill kindly provides the email addresses to let ABC/Disney and the debate sponsors know exactly how you feel about their reprehensible bread and circuses performance Wednesday: Disney:… Continue

On a recent episode of This American Life, host Iraq Glass asks, "What could be harsher than playing hardball with volunteer firemen who died on 9/11?" Jack Hitt answers.

Jack Hitt: ...Raquel was from Brazil, and came to Florida to see America, and learn to be a nurse. And then she met Derek one night, on the way home from a party, at a gas station. They talked, but it was get

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Our son L. knows how I cherish my few weekly hours with Sam Seder on Sunday afternoons by the way he has to beg to get me out of the house or car. Losing Morning Sedition and the Majority Report was bad, but when AAR put Sam into Al Franken's morning slot it was almost worse: Sam w… Continue

It's been five months since Riverbend last posted on her blog, Baghdad Burning; that last post was on her family's move to Syria, joining the 2 million Iraqis who have fled their homes to escape the violence and segregation that have come to dominate everyday life in Iraq. In her last post, Riverbend wrote about Syria's be… Continue

Between Admiral William Fallon's forced resignation and the jerry-rigging of the Iran NIE conclusions to change the focus from uranium enrichment to weapons design, things are not looking good for those of us who desperately want to stop any BushCo action against Iran in the waning days o… Continue