Month: August 2007
D.C. Pays $1million to Demonstrators
New York Times WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to about 120 protesters who were improperly rounded up by police during demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq, the […]
Minnesota Bridge Collapse Highlights Bush’s Misplaced Spending Priorities
the lives of thousands of American soldiers and maybe a hundred thousand mostly innocent Iraqi civilians. We have failed as a nation to come to terms with the massive costs that are less direct and […]
Dictatorship? Naw, It Could Never Happen Here
by Sheila Jackson, opednews.com/ times would fill one volume of a history book, at least. Those of us who attempt to keep abreast of the news are hard put to ferret out the important stuff […]