Watching C-span, they can't agree on a single ammendment. A few days ago, the left-wing activist group MoveOn.org began sending out emails seeking contributions to fund primary challenges against any Democratic senator who does not fully support "health care reform with a public option." Now there's an update: MoveOn executive director Justin Ruben says the group has raised $3,578,117 for...
Football legend David Beckham has lent his support to an engaging and imaginative new education resource from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which teaches students about the sacrifices made by footballers during the two world wars. Glory Days – Football in Times of War is a ten minute DVD aimed at engaging teachers and students. Introduced [...]
The latest playable class to be announced for BioWare's upcoming Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic , is the Imperial Agent, or, as it will more commonly be known, Not Jedi Knight. Inspired by Star Wars characters like Grand Moff Tarkin and Zam Wesell , the latest Not Jedi Knight class will be an expert with technology and espionage, using "abilities of subversion and subterfuge to infiltrate and...
Okay, so this guy dressed up his miniature pinscher as an AT-AT from Star Wars —which actually is the least cruel part of this video. The worst part is having an owner who not only enjoys humiliating you, but makes it insurmountably worse by ordering you to march around while he hums the Imperial March song. There's not a lake of fire in Hell deep enough for you, pal. [ Subscribe to the comments...
should perhaps consider going to fight it themselves . It would mean missing the hunting season and lauds at the Brompton Oratory; but we must all make sacrifices from time to time. After all, there's a war on. Catholics, particularly high profile Catholic convert Establishment figures, who preach the necessity of unnecessary wars haven't quite got the point of Catholicism. Discuss.
The Taliban are telling a lot of their operatives to stay inside Afghanistan over the Winter and try to organize attacks within southern cities, particularly Kandahar. The Taliban have plenty of cash to pay for Winter accommodations, and to bribe anyone they can’t bully into cooperating. This is good times for the Taliban, as the [...]
Civility! While the MSM gleefully covers civil war among Republicans, MoveOn.org has raised $3.6 million to target Blue Dog Democrats. (Via Hotair.com)
By David Swanson Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating young people, educating old people, keeping military testing and recruiting out of schools,...
Answer: Yes. … Here’s the consequence of the Republican civil war. Here’s a local example of the brewing Democratic civil war. … Can you imagine it? Rep. Lynch has the nerve of “going through the bill’’ before making a decision about the 2,000-page health-care legislation. Shame on him! … One key difference between the Dem and GOP wingnut battles against...
Not everyone implicated in the 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea will be delighted to know that Simon Mann might not keep mum. Having been released from his West African jail, the British mercenary seems ready to tell everything he knows to Scotland Yard. Might it not be better to let sleeping dogs of war lie?
No insurgency here By Nader Mousavizadeh, Foreign Policy, November 5, 2009 Two conclusions are inescapable from the fiasco of Afghanistan’s presidential elections and the McChrystal assessment: There is no electoral solution to Afghan government’s crisis of legitimacy, and there is no military solution to the challenge of the Taliban. And when observing the current Afghan conflict not [...]...
Back in September, the UN Human Rights Council's factfinding mission to Gaza found that both Israel and Palestinian militants committed war crimes in Israel's recent disproportionate campaign against Gaza. Today, the UN General Assembly voted to accept the report , demanding that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority conduct full and independent investigations into crimes committed by their forces,...
“..Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression .. .. by stripping the independence of the board that sets financial accounting standards. The move could effectively let banks set their own accounting standards in rough economic times. Astonishingly, at [...]
Plot: Darth Vader and the Empire are pil a contemporary, indissoluble Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been in iron, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to bend over backwards and complimentary him. Princess Leia - feigne what because a bounty hunter - and Chewbacca advance along what because well. The latest action takes position on the languish of Endor, with its common inhabitants, the...
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