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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House
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ManEegee recommends:

The Devil's Highway: A True Story
by Luis Alberto Urrea

Some good history:

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner

What's going on in Iraq:

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

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Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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Larry Johnson's review

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Recent Comments:

In story: Obama Strategies

Where's Richardson? ( / )

I don't see Richardson on your Top Ten list of Veep candidates. Have you ruled him out?

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on
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In story: Take a Long Hard Look

Re: Take a Long Hard Look ( / )

American children continue to be driven around in their Suburbans with the Disney video playing so they don't have to even look out the car windows...to soccer practice, church, school, birthday parties, vacations in the national parks....why should they have to know there is a WAR going on, let alone be subjected to pictures of unfortunate children caught in its path? Jesus Christ, this is so fucked up...

by Second Nature on
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In story: Jews against occupation

Re: Jews against occupation ( / )

Thanks for the diary, shergald. Is Pluto Press one of the few brave publishers out there?

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on
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In story: Take a Long Hard Look

Re: Take a Long Hard Look ( / )

That woman who protested the photograph should go Cheney herself.

by Steven D on
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In story: 3 am And Their Superior Foreign Policy Experience

3 am ready-not ( / )

Hi cruz, nice to see you back. Great diary. I was just thinking about the responses of the candidates a few days ago and wondering at the obviously different mindset in the responses. Obama wins hands down and Hillary continues to call Chavez a dictator-proving she's not fit for foreign policy on that stupidity alone.

by chocolate ink on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

My brother is left-handed. The nuns used to tie his left hand behind his back to force him to learn how to write right-handed. Apparently left-handedness is a sign of the devil.

by Second Nature on
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In story: Obama Strategies

Re: Obama Strategies ( / )

Graham also brings a lot of experience from the Intelligence committee and Foreign Affairs. He also strongly opposed the Iraq War vote and tried to sway his Senate colleagues.

by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on
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In story: U.S. Midwest: Open Discussion

Re: U.S. Midwest: Open Discussion ( / )

Obama is coming to South Dakota on Friday (5/16)! The details have not yet been announced, but he will be in both Watertown and Sioux Falls on Friday - and potentially Aberdeen on Saturday.

I'm definitely going (as is the hubby) and will post pics and video after the event :)

by conglomerNation (conglomernationNOSPAM (at) gmail.com) on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

Wow, Drudge reports that Osama Bin Laden is left handed, too!!!

Coincidence???

I think not.

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

I think it was H. L. Mencken who once said, "Once while staying at a hotel I asked the bellboy to bring me a newspaper. The poor fellow must have been deaf, as he returned with a copy of the Los Angeles Times."

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

I thought that link was The National Enquirer or some other supermarket/porn tabloid. Really, my surprise to find it's The LATimes.

A very, very slow news day it is. Lazy.

by idredit on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

I like the "slashing comma reveals possible temper" for McCain.

What's next, a candidate's choice of font revealing deep insights into character?

by Quiddity (quiddity_q@lycos.com) on
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In story: 3 am And Their Superior Foreign Policy Experience

Re: Very glad to see... ( / )

Here is some breaking news:

Colombia Extradites 14 Paramilitary

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on
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In story: WV delegate prediction: Clinton 20, Obama 8

Re: WV delegate prediction: Clinton 20, Obama 8 ( / )

speaking of edwards...where are his 19 delegates going to go?

hrc seems unlikely, and since obama's getting very close to the magic number......

by dada on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

But they could be talking about the latest alternative energy technology discovery. Cure for cancer news. I think the problem is that the producers are themselves so limited in what they read that they stick to that.

The American public would be interested in anything they tell us to be interested in. Seriously. ;-)

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

That alone gave Mondale the bump he needed.

by BooMan on
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In story: Deep Thought

Re: Deep Thought ( / )

FSM forbid we should ever have a President who writes with his LEFT hand either!!

This is the curse of the media. Even when there's nothing to talk about, they have to find something to talk about. Most of the time what they find can be summed up in one of my mother's phrases, "You could have talked all day and not said that."

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on
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In story: Leadership in the Face of Racism

Re: Leadership in the Face of Racism ( / )

Carolyn,

Didn't Michelle say that Barak would be an inspiration for young children like this?

by Cee on
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In story: Leadership in the Face of Racism

Re: Leadership in the Face of Racism ( / )

Poor James. Now the Clinton supporters will call him Judas.

by Cee on
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In story: Leadership in the Face of Racism

Re: Leadership in the Face of Racism ( / )

Really, it's hard to fault these people. It's what they've been taught, it's what they've grown up with, and it's hard to change a lifetime of prejudices, assumptions and deeply ingrained beliefs.

I'm not sure it'll happen in my lifetime. More to the point I'm not sure it'll happen in any of these people's lifetimes. But I figure having a black president can't hurt and might accelerate the process. Fifty-four years ago many would not have accepted a black man playing major league baseball. Today we don't give it a second thought. Sometimes one guy with courage makes all the difference.

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on
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