Let Them Eat Steak
April 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The steaks are great, of course. But it isn’t the T-bones, the porterhouses or the rib-eyes that will be sorely, even painfully, missed when Fran O’Brien’s Stadium Steakhouse loses its lease and closes its doors this month. The downtown D.C. restaurant, which has hosted a decade’s worth of power lunches, political dinners and salacious hookups, [...]
Rosa Parks Takes Her Seat…
October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
When Rosa Parks refused to get up, an entire race of people began to stand up for their rights as human beings. It was a simple act that took extraordinary courage in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. It was a place where black people had no rights white people had to respect. It was a time [...]
Spanish Judge Wants US Soldiers
June 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment
A Spanish judge wants to question three U.S. soldiers as suspects in the death of a Spanish cameraman who was killed when a U.S. tank fired on a hotel housing foreign journalists during the 2003 assault on Baghdad. The Pentagon has found no fault with the soldiers, but High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz wants to [...]
Zarqawi Dead?
June 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq – died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah’s cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to [...]
King Fahd Near Death?
May 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment
“King Fahd is well, thank God, and the medical tests he is undergoing are proceeding in a normal way,” it reported, quoting a Saudi official. Few details were given about his condition. A Saudi diplomatic source told CNN the monarch is suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms and that his condition is “quite serious,” though not believed [...]
Memorial Day
May 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The words on his tombstone help define Navy Lt. Thomas Mullen Adams, a La Mesa native and descendant of two presidents, who was buried yesterday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Etched on the white stone is this: “He’s Just Pining.” The sentiment comes from Adams’ favorite Monty Python skit, “The Dead Parrot Sketch,” which represents [...]
Pablo’s Pity Party
May 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment
We urge you to join us in a “National Day of Action for GI Resisters” on Tuesday May 10, 2005. This is the day before the US military is planning to bring sailor Pablo Paredes and soldier Kevin Benderman before military court martial tribunals for their opposition to the Iraq War. They face forfeiture of [...]
More Good News From Iraq
May 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There’s some consternation about a foreign policy survey released in Australia early this week. “Australians say U.S. policies as threatening as Islamic fundamentalism,” thunders “USA Today”. “A majority of Australians ranked the United States near the bottom of their list of favored allied.” (hat tip: Jeffery A Norris) While the survey’s results are somewhat ambiguous, [...]
Marine to Lead Joint Chiefs
April 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON Apr 22, 2005 — President Bush on Friday named Marine Gen. Peter Pace, who quietly helped shape the Pentagon’s role in the global war on terrorism, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace, 59, would succeed Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers. He was expected to win easy Senate [...]
Earthquakes, Tsunami, and Volcanoes, Oh My!
April 13, 2005 | Leave a Comment
AIR BATUMBO, Indonesia (AP) – Scientists have warned hikers and visitors to stay away from two more Indonesian volcanoes, a day after another volcano spewed ash on disaster-stricken Sumatra island and forced the evacuation of some 25,000 people. Sensors on the slopes of the two mountains — Anak Krakatoa on the southern tip of Sumatra [...]
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