Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
The top spot in a Congressional softball league belongs to drug reform advocates who are “busting the stoners-as-slackers stereotype,” Roll Call reports. The “One Hitters,” took over the No. 1 spot in the Congressional Softball League last week, and the team fielded by Students for a Sensible Drug Policy and NORML holds a 13-3 record […]
MoreAP Via Yahoo: Iraq’s power grid is on the brink of collapse because of insurgent sabotage of infrastructure, rising demand, fuel shortages and provinces that are unplugging local power stations from the national grid, officials said Saturday. Electricity Ministry spokesman Aziz al-Shimari said power generation nationally is only meeting half the demand, and there had […]
MoreJanuary 9, 2007 Tomorrow night at 9 p.m. EST, President Bush will address the nation and announce an escalation of the war in Iraq by sending about 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq. Can Congress do anything about it? Some members have claimed that anything other than symbolic action is unconstitutional. Legal scholars on both […]
MoreThe Abu Ghraib whistleblower’s ordeal By Dawn Bryan BBC News The US soldier who exposed the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison found himself a marked man after his anonymity was blown in the most astonishing way by Donald Rumsfeld. When Joe Darby saw the horrific photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison […]
MoreSaturday , 04 /08 /2007 Time 5:59:12 Najaf – Voices of Iraq Najaf, Aug 4, (VOI) – The holy Shiite city of Najaf suffered from a power cut during the past two days after the National Electricity Network turned off the power station that provides the city with electricity, adding to the agony of local […]
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