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Jul.25.2010
If former White House lawyer and deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, John Yoo, were ever to decide to join the ranks of newfangled conservatives running for office he would be hard-pressed to hide the skeleton in his closet. Mr. Yoo, who now teaches international law...
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Jul.16.2010
U.S. forces turned the last, and biggest detention camp in their country over to Iraqis on Thursday.
As the Christian Science Monitor reports, more than 1500 prisoners are now in Iraqi custody including two dozen officials who served under the regime of Saddam Hussein, most of whom would be...
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Jul.16.2010
U.S. forces turned the last, and biggest detention camp in their country over to Iraqis on Thursday.
As the Christian Science Monitor reports, more than 1500 prisoners are now in Iraqi custody including two dozen officials who served under the regime of Saddam Hussein, most of whom would be...
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Jun.25.2010
On impulse I turned right instead of left from Polk onto Bay and drove to the Warming Hut on the beach near Fort Point below the Golden Gate Bridge. Part Two of "Adoptimists" had been blocking me. I got into a trance, and the words just came. There's magic in being somewhere physically...
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May.20.2010
I have to share the publisher's blurb of this landmark book, which I view as a good writer's resource: "To abuse or neglect a child, to deprive the child of his or her own identity and ability to experience joy in life, is to commit soul murder. Soul murder is the perpetration of brutal or subtle...
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Apr.11.2010
On a day when both a Supreme Court judge, and a controversial Democratic senator announced their retirement, another major announcement largely slipped through the cracks. The President's pick to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, Dawn Johnsen, withdrew her bid for confirmation...
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Dec.30.2009
The Road Out Of Hell– Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
By Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark
Union Square Press; 285 pages, $24.95
It’s not often we get to hear the story from the victim of a serial killer as we do in this sensitively written account of Sanford...
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Oct.16.2009
With much respect and admiration to those honorable professionals within the intelligence profession:
Many have forgotten what the true goal of a National Intelligence Service actually is. Intelligence is about bringing information in an understandable and clear decisive manner to those in...
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Oct.07.2009
Easier than telling a story in a comic. I've never written a comic, so I have no idea about this, but the word "easy" got me thinking about the "easy" process of writing a book.
Everyone probably has their own way of going about writing a book, but I would bet there’s a general...
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Sep.24.2009
by Adrianne Aron
September 23, 2009, 5:44 pm
For this week's theme of Saying Good-bye, two little contributions. One was sung this morning, 9/23/2009, at the Federal Courthouse, where the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was hearing a case having to do with sexual abuse. On the bench of the 9th...
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