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• Death Toll in Iraq Bomb Attack at 250

  Wed Aug 15, 2007
  • "U.S. officials believe extremists are attempting to regroup across northern Iraq after being driven from strongholds in and around Baghdad, and commanders have warned they expected Sunni insurgents to step up attacks in a bid to upstage the report." Should read:

• Bush Down to His Base of Support

  Tue Aug 7, 2007
  • The story is about the approval rating among the US public as a whole, not among the members of Congress.

• Brown Appoints New Mideast Envoy

  Fri Aug 3, 2007
  • "Quartet of peacemakers"...absolutely disgusting to so mislabel those organizations as peacemakers.

• Car Crashes at Nuclear Weapons Plant

  Mon Jul 30, 2007
  • From the description of the event, it sounds like the guy was past the security checkpoint. How did he get away if he was already inside the security perimeter? I would think he'd have to run back past the checkpoint to get out.

• House Democrats Pass Contempt Citations

  Wed Jul 25, 2007
  • These two deserve the contempt charges, and it doesn't have to do with the executive privilege claim itself. These two didn't even show up to go on the official record that they cannot answer any questions due to the executive privilege claims. That's clearly contempt.

• Iraq Report May Mean Longer U.S. Surge

  Fri Jul 13, 2007
  • Except that in this case the military calculation is political anyway, since when dubya says he listens to his military commanders he means only the commanders that tell him what he wants to hear.

• Lawyer: Ex-Astronaut Didn't Wear Diaper

  Fri Jun 29, 2007
  • Actually, it might have been a make-or-break detail. I wonder why the lawyer said anything. Wearing a diaper would add support for an insanity defense.

• Blair Takes on Hard Job As Mideast Envoy

  Mon Jun 25, 2007
  • That's some credibility...the PEACE envoy is a guy who is co-responsible for so much WAR, death, and destruction...

• Bill OKs Lowering Flags When Troops Die

  Fri Jun 15, 2007
  • I think you missed half of the point. The governor will not be able to order the flag to half mast for any purpose, just for the purpose of honoring a member of the armed forces from that state killed while on active duty, or, as you phrased it, as "a sign of respect for the deceased".

• Proposal Would Cut Spotted Owl's Habitat

  Wed Jun 13, 2007
  • The target audience is most likely the administration and the, what is it now, 28% of the public they have left as supporters. Given that target audience, it makes perfect sense to not have any facts or citations...facts confuse those people. Well, that's not quite true.