Turkey Bombs Suspected Kurdish Rebels Turkish warplanes bombed positions of suspected Kurdish rebels Wednesday, and the prime minister said preparations for parliamentary approval of a military mission against separatist fighters in Iraq were under way. A cross-border operation could hurt Turkey’s relationship with the United States, which opposes Turkish intervention in northern Iraq, a region […]
A New Generation Expresses its Skepticism and Frustration with Christianity As the nation’s culture changes in diverse ways, one of the most significant shifts is the declining reputation of Christianity, especially among young Americans. A new study by The Barna Group conducted among 16- to 29-year-olds shows that a new generation is more skeptical of […]
Suu Kyi rejects Burma junta’s preconditions on peace talks Having beaten them, abused them and shot many of them dead, Burma’s military junta says it is trying to rebuild a relationship with the country’s Buddhist monks by donating supplies of food, medicine and toothpaste. Lieutenant-General Myint Swe has apparently delivered £4,000 of supplies to 50 […]
Richard Roberts Address Lawsuit On “Larry King Live” Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts gave his first public interview Tuesday night, one week after being sued by three former professors. Roberts and his wife Lindsay appeared on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” During the interview, Roberts stressed that he has done nothing wrong, and the allegations […]
GOP congressmen quit because of five-day work week Nine Republican congressmen have so far announced that they will not be running for re-election. One of those lawmakers, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL), complained “that the Democrats’ new five-day workweek” is part of the reason they’re all retiring… In Dec. 2006, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) also griped […]
Leak Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda’s Secrets Firm Says Administration’s Handling of Video Ruined Its Spying Efforts A small private intelligence company that monitors Islamic terrorist groups obtained a new Osama bin Laden video ahead of its official release last month, and around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, it notified the Bush administration of its […]
Charlie Savage: Cheney Plotted Bush’s Imperial Presidency ‘Thirty Years Ago’ The Bush administration has long held that President Bush’s expanded executive power is justified due to 9/11. “I believe in a strong, robust executive authority and I think that the world we live in demands it,” claimed Vice President Cheney in 2005. But in his […]
Rush Smears 12-Yr Old: ‘They Filled His Head With Lies Just As They Have Some Of These Soldiers’ Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted the right wing has been orchestrating a coordinated effort to smear a 12 year old recipient of SCHIP. These conservatives have been propagating baseless “facts” to suggest that young Graeme Frost was actually a […]
I had a strange thought last night. In the blogosphere, there are spurts of anger at the Democratic Party for not extracting us from Iraq fast enough, or not opposing Bush hard enough. Sometimes people hint at or even suggest that we need another Party, the Progressives, that will better represent our more Liberal ideas. […]
I’ve been avoiding watching Ken Burns The War, letting it take up space on our DVR. Tonight, I watched the first installment. I think I figured out why I was avoiding it. When it got to Pearl Harbor, and F.D.R.’s response, rallying the country, all I could think about was what happened after 9/11, and […]