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Why don't we start a letter writing campaign to the court to encourage them to give solid, real sentences to these monsters and not give them a slap on the wrist? By doing that we'll ensure that justice is done.

Sorry Barry, you've got to stay with the girl who brought you to the dance. You couldn't have been elected without the press on your side, now they expect to stand by your side . . . 24/7. From Politico. The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time. Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to...

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The one term junior Senator from Illinois and former community organizer has landed in Afghanistan, the first stop on his unprecedented tour of Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. It is a sad day when American politics has degenerated to the point where presidential candidates are holding public rallies in Europe. How might George Washington or John Adams react? Still worse is the fawning, supine, cult-of-personality American press that is traveling en mass with Obama. As we all know, the press coverage will be embarrasingly laudatory - glowing to the point of glorification. So, we are inviting our readers...

snip Despite evidence of progress on the ground in Iraq, the masters of the media — and the majority in Congress appear unwilling to desist in their attacks — and intend to continue their barrage of defeatism. The mainstream media all but ignored press releases from Iraqi and coalition commands on successes against both Iranian-backed terror cells in Baghdad's Sadr City and al Qaeda's network in northern Iraq, Salahadin, Diyala and Al Anbar provinces. Instead of covering these stories with in-depth reporting from the front, the potentates of the press launched a "shock and awe" campaign of their own. The...

DELIVERY AND DEATH, SENATE PASSES BAN ON PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION In a breathless report, Jim Abrams of the Associated Press announces the Senate's approval of a ban on "a practice that critics call partial birth abortion." Later, journalist Jim describes the practice, in his own words as "abortions, generally carried out in the second or third trimester, in which a fetus is partially delivered before being killed." Good thing you attributed the "partial birth" phrase to "critics". I guess "partially-delivered baby/fetus killing" would be more approriate. Jimbo says "the bill imposes the most far-reaching limits on abortion since the Supreme Court...

New Chief Abizaid Is Departure From Previous Army Leaders By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 3, 2003; Page A18 BAGHDAD -- Army Gen. John P. Abizaid always knew that the responsibilities of leading the U.S. Central Command were enormous. But as Centcom's deputy commander, he also knew they were someone else's. "When you're the number two guy, you always say to yourself, 'Gee, the CinC's sure got a big problem, I wonder how he's gonna get out of this one,' " he said in a recent interview, using the military term for commander in chief. "Now,...