Obama had a little bit of a relationship with a guy who later turned out to be involved in illegal activity. YES it would be really, really interesting if we could turn this into a John Grisham legal thrilled full of wild plot twists and murders -- but it's not that interesting. Obama is not a made-man working for the mafia. He's a dude who happened to work with someone who was involved in fraud. I think the mainstream media is made up of wannabe fiction writers as opposed to journalists. Not everything is THAT intersting. Sometimes shit is actually boring and routine.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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