January 10, 2008 – 8:42 pm
The final post from Andrew Olmsted, to be published in the event of his death, which unfortunately occured recently in Iraq.
A very well written, thought and emotion provoking piece; I highly recommend it.
Even though this is old news, and I haven’t been posting any political stuff on here at all, I couldn’t pass this one by, since I just heard the audio from this for the first time, which is even more revealing than the transcript I had previously read. This is an audio clip I edited [...]
Well, it looks like my longest running streak yet of not talking about war or international political issues on here has come to somewhat of an end.
I do hope I can still keep it to a minimum, though, and not get worked up into 20 paragraph rants / arguments. It will be difficult, but I [...]
“The Middle East is littered with the results of people believing there are military solutions to political problems in the region.” - U.N. Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown
This morning we launched the largest military offensive operation since the beginning of our invasion in Iraq. The target was the area of Samarra.
All of the news reports so far have been sure to mention the fact that there were 50 aircraft, 200 “tactical vehicles”, and 1500 troops engaged in the attack. I couldn’t help [...]
December 19, 2005 – 3:20 pm
In this Reuters article about the recent spying on Americans controversy, the administration attempts to defend the practice of spying on Americans (which they have previously denied and now have been caught doing secretly, so now they have to defend it). It is illegal for the government to spy on citizens without the approval of [...]
December 14, 2005 – 3:31 pm
Alternate title: They can’t “hate our freedom” if we get rid of it; that’ll show ‘em!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to renew the USA Patriot Act, setting up a showdown with the Senate over a centerpiece of President George W. Bush’s war on terrorism.
On a 251-174 vote, the [...]
December 8, 2005 – 8:48 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has secretly paid Iraqi newspapers to run dozens of pro-American articles written by a special military task force, The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.
The newspaper also reported that the “Information Operations Task Force” in Baghdad has bought an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, and [...]
November 9, 2005 – 7:53 pm
Who would Jesus torture? - by David Batstone
Christians of strong religious faith and sound moral conscience often end up in disagreement. Human affairs are a messy business, unfortunately, and even at the best of times we only see through a glass, darkly.
It is hard for that reason to call Christians to a universal standard of [...]
November 7, 2005 – 10:18 am
[Mercury News article]PASADENA, Calif. - One of the state’s largest and most liberal churches could lose its tax-exempt status because of an anti-war sermon that a former rector delivered two days before the 2004 presidential election, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
In his sermon, the Rev. George F. Regas did not urge parishioners at All [...]