Monthly Archives: August 2006

Altered States

Click Image to Enlarge. It turns out a freelance photographer for Reuters has been blowing smoke on his pictures.  Adnan Hajj was fired for using Photoshop to doctor Beirut bombing photos.  Reuters removed all 920 of Hajj's pictures from its … Continue reading

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Cease Fire

Click Image to Enlarge. American politicians call it the expectations game.  You set low expectations and when you exceed them people think you won.  It works for our president. The expectations bar for Hezbollah was set at simple survival. The … Continue reading

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Lucky G.O.P.

Click Image to Enlarge. Krauthammer considers Vietnam and Iraq as battles in the Cold War and War on Terror respectively.  He thinks the peace movement's party purges hurt the Democrats in the larger war. Paul Greenberg makes a similar point … Continue reading

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Defining Torture Down

Click Image to Enlarge. The British used electronic eavesdropping and money tracking to bust the plane plot.  Just the programs that have been criticized in the U.S. for violating civil liberties. In a Joseph Rago Wall Street Journal article over … Continue reading

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Onboard bomb some assembly required

Click Image to Enlarge. The Brits broke up a huge terror plot at Heathrow yesterday.  The terrorists planned to carry on liquid explosives and assemble their bombs in-flight. Not to make light of a serious situation, but how were they … Continue reading

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Not a Nice Clarett

Click Image to Enlarge. It took 5 cops with stun guns and Mace to stop Maurice Clarett's rampage.  How come he couldn't make the NFL?

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Your Ad on This Sticker

Click Image to Enlarge. Before leaving the polls, Ohio voters used to be given "I Voted Today" stickers.  Like the government, the stickers have expanded.  They now read, "I Voted Today  Change Our World Vote Your Conscience".  Not quite as … Continue reading

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Lieberman Face Time

Click Image to Enlarge. Considering Mel Gibson's attention getting commentary on Jews, why the relative silence on black face Joe Lieberman? This is a story that got a lot of play in the blog world but not much in newspapers … Continue reading

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Minimum Wage and the Death Tax

Click Image to Enlarge. Senate Republicans maneuvered the Democrats into choosing between hating the rich and loving the poor. 

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Fear the Roo a Little Less

Click Image to Enlarge. An independent panel recommended that The University of Akron rein in it's kangaroo student court. Charles Plinton was suspended from school in 2004 when the court found him responsible for buying a small amount of pot … Continue reading

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