Monthly Archives: June 2006

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Take a Toke of Some Homegrown…Terrorists

Today: Revelations about spying on bank records. Mueller gives a speech on “homegrown terrorists.” Gonzales faces Senate questioning on domestic spying. The Indian Affairs report released, detailing how Abramoff worked with Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist to launder money from tribes through various organizations. Norquist writes much of Bush’s corporate crony-ass policies, Reed is God’s…

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Dead Again: The Zarqawi Effect

Al-Zarqawi is dead. Again. That’s right. This is the second time he’s been reported dead. This time we have a Polaroid of his peaceful-looking face after an airstike apparently killed the visage of Al-Qaeda’s franchise in our imperial outpost. This time we have officials pushing the story. This time. Last time, it was just news…

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Haditha

This just in…we might actually care about Iraqi deaths. Might. It’s been some time since Lancet, the British medical journal, determined that over 100,000 Iraqis were killed in the invasion and immediate aftermath of our pre-emptive strike against the non-threat known as Iraq. It’s been some time since the massacre at Fallujah, where we employed…