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CONFUSION Is It A Ploy? I caught a bit of Condi's spin on television yesterday and was amazed at how contradictory it was, was she confused or was she with her way of sounding so informed and competent saying what she was, using it as a way to confuse and divert our thoughts away from what we percieve to be reality? The reality that - we do torture - that we do fly or have others fly in ...

Open and Shut By Jarrett Murphy The Village Voice Monday 05 December 2005 Four years later, we still have ten big questions. Four years later, we still have ten big questions. On Monday, December 5, the 9-11 Public Discourse Project - a private group formed by 9-11 Commission members after their official mandate lapsed in 2004 - held a wrap-up press briefing in Washington, signaling the last ...

Mr. Bush, Have I Got an Exit Strategy for You By Gus R. Stelzer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer Monday 05 December 2005 Despite much talk about an exit strategy from the Iraq quagmire in which our nation is embroiled, the No. 1 exit strategy has not been proposed. Let me fill that void. First you have a right to know where I'm coming from. When I reached the legal voting age of 21 in 1936, I ...

U.S. Interrogations Save European Lives, Rice Tells Europe...s Leaders By Joel Brinkley THE NEW YORK TIMES BERLIN Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chastised European leaders on Monday, saying that before they complain about secret jails for terror suspects in European nations, they should realize that interrogations of these suspects have produced information that helped save European lives...

So, who are you going to believe? Are you going to believe Rice, or your own eyes and ears??

Hi Patricia.....Our own eyes of course. Ha! Here is another fact, and it's not so pretty either. It isn't that when we were being accused of being sore losers, that we didn't have a right to complain and become indignant, as we could plainly see something just wasn't Kosher! We knew it, we had heard all about the impropriety, and there was more than this following article tells of. The ...

Why 'Tookie' Williams deserves clemency 2 AM ET Richard Land, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a rock-hard conservative who believes so fervently in the death penalty that he's willing to be an executioner. Land told me that if John Couey, a Florida man who confessed to raping and burying alive 9-year-old ...

. .. "If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace." : Senator Spark Matsunaga = . .. "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." ...

Former Senator Eugene McCarthy Dies at 89 The Associated Press Saturday 10 December 2005 Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89. McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he ...

The Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth and Politics By Harold Pinter The Guardian UK This is the text of the lecture to be given by Harold Pinter when he receives the 2005 Nobel prize for literature on Saturday. Forbidden by doctors from going to Stockholm to receive the 720,000 prize, the ailing playwright and poet has delivered his speech by video In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard ...