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The Dick Cheney Magical Mystery Media Tour

Posted on May 16th, 2009 by Walter Brasch

Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour.
He has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president.
The topic is always the same. Torture was done during the Bush-Cheney Administration, and it was effective. Persons [...]

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Must Reads of the Day

Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey

I’m a little preoccupied with business this week and trying to get ready to hit the road first thing Friday morning for another trip down to Massachusetts, so my posting here has been sporadic at best.
I do want to point readers to a couple of links in the “must reads of the day” category:

USA Today, LA [...]

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Toothless: The Watchdog Press That Became the Government’s Lapdog (Part 2: The Lapdog Gets Some Teeth)

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 by Walter Brasch

PART II: The Lapdogs Get Some Teeth
In May 2004, the New York Times, while claiming it was aggressive in pursuing stories about the Bush-Cheney Administration, slipped in an apology for acting more as the mouthpiece for politicians than as a watchdog for society. “Coverage was not as rigorous as it should have been,” the Times [...]

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I Will Sleep Better Tonight Knowing This Criminal is Off the Streets

Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Frenchdoc

Via Der Spiegel:

“When garden gnomes go missing in France, most are tempted to blame the shadowy Garden Gnome Liberation Front . The group has been linked to the disappearance of dozens of miniature garden residents over the years.
Not this time, however. Some 170 gnomes and other ornaments have been stolen in the north-western [...]

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Book Review – Standard Operating Procedure

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Frenchdoc

Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Standard Operating Procedure is a book co-authored by Philip Gourevitch (also author of the great We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and writer for the New Yorker) and Errol Morris (director of the great documentary The Fog of War [...]

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Filed under: Afghanistan, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Bush Admin, Foreign Policy, Frenchdoc, George W. Bush, Iraq, Military, Movies, Scandals, War