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One side wants scrutiny. The other is desperate to avoid it.Read the latest developments at Error Theory. [...]
Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald reports from beautiful, sunny Guantanamo Bay:
In a stunning rebuke, a six-member U.S. military jury Thursday ignored a Pentagon prosecutor’s plea for a 30 years-plus term and ordered Osama bin Laden’s driver to 66 months in prison.
With credit for time served given by the [...]
The Obama campaign is sending Lehigh County executive Don Cunningham, Democratic congressional candidate Sam Bennett and Lehigh County Democratic chair Rick Daugherty to its Allentown office opening tonight.
The "official" opening of the office at 4140 W. Tilghman is one of 29 slated across the state [...]
The Century Foundation recently held a conference titled "Billionaires and Their Impact" to examine, well, billionaires. Seems like we got a lot more of them than we used to.
This year Forbes magazine listed 1,125 billionaires in the world, compared to 946 in 2007—and a measly 140 billionaires in 1986, [...]
Dowling played a key role in planning the escape. He forged documents, made maps and was nicknamed "Digger" for his work helping to excavate the three escape tunnels, code-named Tom, Dick and Harry.
I've seen a lot of good stuff written about McCain's dopey tire guage stunt but I haven't seen anyone point out how well it fits in with the learned helplessness theory of governance that conservatives have made their stock and trade. Empowering Americans to feel like they can [...]
We think we are [...]
Rob Wonderling has the answers. Really, he does. It's all right there in his book.That's the specialty-of-the-house in the Bush Age.
A Wall Street consortium led by Goldman Sachs managing director E. Gerald Corrigan recommended new standards Wednesday for monitoring and managing risk, saying the financial industry must be better equipped to contain the type of widespread damage wrought by the credit crunch. [...]
Optimism has been the guiding force of conservatism for almost 40 years at least. Liberals and progressives who have warned of the dangers of recinding regulatory protections have been called "Chicken Littles", "Nervous Nellies", cowards, and Enemies of the State. Election campaign after election campaign has been labeled a referundum [...]
I have some questions and concerns about The City of Allentown public pools. The other day we went to Cedar Beach pool. It's a nice pool, seems well maintained. It was a perfect summer day for swimming. I had anticipated a huge crowd of kids. [...]
