davidl on April 17th, 2009

In a firefight, superior firepower prevails, C.J. Chivers, New York Times;

An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns,

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Eric Florack on April 17th, 2009

Wecome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the sphere… where the typos are always free. The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the Friday Fish Fry Edition.

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Eric Florack on April 17th, 2009

You just knew someone would do this eventually.

Washington Times:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very

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davidl on April 17th, 2009

Matthew Lee, Associated Press, is no Jan Schakowsky and is unable to shallow all of Mrs. Clinton’s delusions:

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Obama administration will take the unusual step of trying to

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So where is this much promised smart diplomcay the Obama administration has been promising. Al Jazeera:

The United States has said it would welcome dialogue with Iran but has not dropped its demand for it to halt uranium enrichment

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davidl on April 17th, 2009

Funny, we just don’t seem have hair stylists like Olga, Carl Schreck, Crime Watch:

In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair

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