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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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The Forest and the Trees. Another failure of the press. Notice how the media fixation on the sensational, such as the current focus on the alleged shooting of a wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque, serves to obsure the larger atrocity of the destruction of... By Chris Dominguez. [LewRockwell.com Blog]
Indeed. I expect that in the end the murderer will get at most a slap on the wrist, and the whole matter will be forgotten--at least within the US.
11:52:55 PM 
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There's an editorial in the Los Angeles Times today about how Colin Powell is supposedly not as good as liberals give him credit for. Curiously, one of the arguements it makes is this:
Powell's risk aversion clouded his judgement on some high-profile policy debates earlier in his career. As head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was opposed to the Persian Gulf War and had to be swatted down by then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who told him to keep his political views to himself. During the Clinton administration, Powell did it again, undercutting urgent calls for intervention to stop ethnic warfare in the Balkans.
It's odd that the Times chooses two cases where Powell was right as examples of his alleged bad judgement. I also find it interesting that in both cases Powell was arguing against going to war. I suppose the Times editorialist's view of this as bad judgement is an example of the peace-loving nature of liberals.
11:50:46 PM
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School officials flip over gymnastics, suspend girl. Some cartwheels and handstands sent an 11-year-old West Covina girl tumbling into the principal's office and booted out of school this week.
Deirdre Faegre, a sixth-grader at San Jose-Edison Academy in West Covina -- a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade charter school with 1,150 students --was suspended Tuesday when school authorities warned her for the last time to stop doing gymnastic stunts during lunchtime. [San Gabriel Valley Tribune]
This line from the article explains what the suspension was really about:
But, she said, Deirdre continues to defy authority.
Good for Deirdre!
10:08:49 AM
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