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From The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform holds a hearing entitled “Misleading Information from the Battlefield:”
Henry Waxman questions Specialist Patrick Tillman’s mother Mary Tillman about the callous response she received from some in response to her persistence in getting the truth about her son’s death.
Busy taking care of my Mom today so [...]

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Stevie Wonder & Stevie Ray Vaughan
“Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down”

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From IAVA:
On Wednesday at 2:00pm ET, the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs will be holding a hearing on the mental health issues faced by returning combat veterans. IAVA Legislative Director Patrick Campbell will be talking about recent efforts by the VA to address these issues, and about his own experiences in Iraq. Ellen [...]

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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a bipartisan delegation to Syria earlier this month, several Republican lawmakers criticized her for undermining the President:
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH): “She’s going for one reason and that is to embarrass the president.”
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA): “The Speaker [...]

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Last week, a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, whereby hundreds of “terror suspects who had never been indicted for any crimes” have been abducted and flown to either secret agency prisons or to foreign countries such as Egypt or Syria where they are tortured.
Throughout the [...]

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Iraqi students show support for Virginia Tech

Students at Baghdad Technology University “hung up a banner to express their solidarity” with the Virginia Tech students:
We, the students of Technology University, denounce the attack at Virginia Tech. We extend our condolences to the families of the victims who faced a situation as bad [...]

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Well, look who’s spewing venom about the Democratic House and Senate! Why it’s Mr. Money Launderer himself, Tom Delay! Everybody sit down and let the story begin.

In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board yesterday, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) accused Senate Majoirty Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of [...]

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WASHINGTON - An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when he died by friendly fire said Tuesday he was told by a higher-up to conceal that information from Tillman’s family.
“I was ordered not to tell them,” U.S. Army Specialist Bryan O’Neal told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
He said he was given [...]

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Vice President Dick Cheney accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday of pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes in the next election - a charge Reid said did not warrant a response.
The two sparred hours after President Bush said he will veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress, [...]

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This article is from today’s Miami Herald. What’s wrong with this picture. This guy was fighting with some other guys, and then fled from the police. He didn’t rob a bank, he didn’t shoot anyone, he didn’t kill anyone. So the cops (18 patrol cars) chase him. He freaks out, [...]

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