Meet: Suzanne Swift!
Spc. Swift, facing a redeployment to Iraq while serving under the command of the same individuals now under investigation for rape and sexual harassment, chose to go absent without leave rather than subjugate herself to the horrors she experienced during her first tour of duty....more

Despite 'The Incident' in 2003, Dixie Chicks still going strong
The album was a smash, selling 1,373,000 copies so far. There were a few problems on the road, some country fans didn't jam every venue (as the Chicks conservative TV and radio foes gleefully reported) but they remain a hot, creative music force....more

Dixie Chicks : The Accidents & Accusations Tour

St Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL

Thu, Oct 5, 2006 07:30 PM

LA gangsters launch music careers

Auditions have been held in some of the toughest gang neighbourhoods in Los Angeles to try to find the next generation of rap stars.....more

Germany to open Holocaust archive

A German archive containing millions of files on Nazi warcrimes, including details on how the Holocaust was carried out, is to be opened to researchers for the first time....more

Coastal Drilling's High Cost
Tyson Slocum is director of Public Citizen’s energy program.
Opening environmentally sensitive areas to oil and natural gas drilling won’t ease energy prices or reduce oil imports and should be rejected by the Senate when it votes this week.
With the November elections looming, congressional leaders are desperately seeking ways to convince the public that they are working to lower gas prices for consumers and improve national security by reducing energy imports, but this isn’t the way to do it....more

Spazeboy and Jane Speak Out



Hands Off Connecticut
Here we go again … There is a grass-roots movement picking up steam in the nutmeg state, but the old guard is rushing in to maintain the status quo. Bill Clinton is rushing to Connecticut to save Joseph Lieberman for the party insiders who don't want to lose their power in the party....more

Lieberman Camp Responds To Charges They Barred Lamont Supporter From Event

Howard Dean

In Tampa

Mirta's Coffeehouse & Gallery
119 S. Hyde Park Ave.Tampa
Wednesday, July 26th 6:30pm

Veep Veep
The conventional wisdom that there's a predictable political divide between the two dailies – Trib = Republican, Times = Democrat – isn't always borne out by the evidence. But you had to be struck by the placement of stories today about the visit to Tampa of Vice President Cheney....more

Phyllis Busansky

Bombings Hit Children Hardest
About 55 percent of all casualties at the Beirut Government University Hospital are children of 15 years of age or less, hospital records show....more

Fox News chairman Ailes calls Olbermann `over the line'
Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes responded to Keith Olbermann's latest critical volley against Bill O'Reilly on Monday, saying the MSNBC host's behavior "is over the line."....more

Man gets 25 years for Ybor City death brawl
Michael Pyne was sentenced 25 years Monday for stabbing a man to death in Ybor City last June.....more

Lebanon and Israel: The war from where I stand

I was in Beirut only five weeks - or a lifetime ago, as things are measured in the Middle East. I fell in love with a once beautiful city that was ever so slowly recreating itself out of the rubble of a long and bloody civil war and previous Palestinian and Israeli battles in its streets....more

Pakistan 'building reactor for 50 nukes'
Pakistan is reported to be building a nuclear reactor that could produce enough plutonium for up to 50 nuclear weapons a year....more

Democrats lash Bush for losing Mideast control
Leading Democrats have attacked US President George W Bush for losing control of the Middle East by neglecting specific regional powers and sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on only a brief crisis trip.....more

Morales rekindles revolutionary spirit

Summoning President Evo Morales at dawn to the great hall of the presidential palace, two poncho-clad Indian shamans pour alcohol on coca leaves, candies and a dried llama fetus, and set them on fire....more

Dixie Chicks - Shut Up & Listen

www.shutupandlisten.net

A girls' night out in Detroit

W.Va mill town suffers slow death
Mary Tice drove along Main Street, barely seeing the worn storefronts, the seedy strip clubs, the flashy video poker bars promising better luck....more

What to Read While the Cradle of Civilization Burns
The Middle East is both the birthplace of civilization and, as the globe's largest repository of fossil fuels, the mother's milk of the modern industrialized world....more

Afghanistan close to anarchy
The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan yesterday described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding problems caused by local corruption....more

Weekend notes: It's not World War 3
This blog is a collection of things that I wrote in the past 48 hours....more

Republicans Reject Ralph Reed's Hypocrisy
For those who still claim that the Jack Abramoff scandal will not "play" politically, the Republican voters of Georgia beg to differ.....more

No, this is not 'our war'
We are not "all Israelis." Some of us still think of ourselves as Americans, first, last and always.
And, no, this is not "our war." It's your war.....more