Category: Blog

Illegal Alien? No Problem Unpaid Ticket? Lose Use of Your Car

NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi points out this interesting enforcement priorities in a Washington suburb: In Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., police plan to adopt a narrow interpretation of a new state law aimed at curbing crime ...
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“Your Bloods Will Be the River of Hope for Us”

Sean at the Everything I Know Is Wrong blog has a very heartwarming roundup of selections from Iraqi bloggers today. If you would like to feel good about something today, read it. Then read it again tomorrow ...
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Some People Don’t Trust This Story

In the Reuters article today by Tom Perry entitled Governing Body, U.S. Pick CIA Link Allawi as Iraqi PM, the following paragraph appears: "It was unclear how far U.S. officials or Brahimi influenced the choice of a long-time exile known ...
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“Here in Baghdad We are Facing a Serious Sustained Terrorist Offensive”

In the last few days, the Washington Times, New York Times and Washington Post (here and here) all have run stories about the work of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. This is, of course, the division to which our ...
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Family-Friendly Far From Fair? Part III

I received a thoughtful e-mail tonight regarding the conversation Ally (at the Who Moved My Truth blog) and I have been having about family-friendly policies in the workplace and society. With permission, I am sharing it: Hi. I've had the ...
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1st Armored Division Claims Victory Over Sheik

Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times has an article today, "Army Unit Claims Victory Over Sheik," about the work Spc. Joe Roche and his fellow soldiers of the Army's 1st Armored Division have been doing in Iraq. The piece begins: ...
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Washington Post Lists Immunity Problems, Forgets to Explain Benefits

Today's Page One Washington Post article, "U.S. Immunity In Iraq Will Go Beyond June 30," manages to list quite a few reasons why U.S. plans to extend immunity for U.S. forces in Iraq may cause difficulties, but the article never ...
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Family-Friendly Far from Fair? Part II

Ally at the Who Moved My Truth? blog has a friendly disagreement with some of what I posted here about family-friendly policies in public accommodations and workplaces. So, in the same friendly spirit, I'll go into a little more depth ...
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Gas Prices Are About More Than Saudi Arabia

Correspondent Edward Kitsch recommends this fine article by former Delaware Governor Pete DuPont of the National Center for Policy Analysis in today's Wall Street Journal putting all the "gasoline prices are rising" news media stories in perspective. An excerpt: ...in ...
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Washington Post Covers South Korean’s Beheading With Four Paragraphs on Abu Ghraib Included

The Washington Post apparently found itself unable to run its page one story on the beheading murder of South Korean Kim Sun Il by terrorists in Iraq without spending four paragraphs of the story on the prisoner abuse that took ...
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