Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Documents released by the Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base Florida, in relation to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests files for documents relating to the military investigation into the Scott Thomas Beauchamp “Shock Troops” article in The New Republic magazine.
The following are the […]
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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Documents released by the Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base Florida, in relation to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests files for documents relating to the military investigation into the Scott Thomas Beauchamp “Shock Troops” article in The New Republic magazine.
The following are the […]
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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Though that isn’t quite the spin put on it by Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press:
Emotional pleas by relatives of Virginia Tech shooting victims failed Friday to persuade a legislative committee to close a loophole that allows criminals and the mentally ill to buy firearms at gun shows.
The […]
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Cross-posted at the Democracy Project:
By: Bruce Kesler
In 2001, there were 44 U.S. members of the ombudsman organization. In 2008, there are 36.
The ombudsman movement once promised us and itself to be true “readers representatives,” delving inside their venues to investigate what went wrong.
Instead, most ombudsmen spend their valuable space occasionally correcting a minor matter but […]
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Cross-posted at the Democracy Project:
By: Bruce Kesler
5219 words, and what do you get?
Another week older, and deeper in killer vet
With apologies to Tennessee Ernie, that’s how I felt while reading this week’s installment of the New York Times’ series “War Torn,” already torn to shreds from the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal to […]
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