Rep. Tom Lantos passed away this morning.
Rep. Tom Lantos, who as a teenager twice escaped from a Nazi-run forced labor camp in Hungary and became the only Holocaust survivor to win a seat in Congress, has died. He was 80.
Spokeswoman Lynne Weil said Lantos, a Californian, died early Monday at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center [...]
Archive for February 11th, 2008
RIP Rep. Lantos
Posted in Health, US House, tagged Rep. Tom Lantos on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To Kill or Not to Kill
Posted in Bush Administration, Courts, Military & War, tagged death penalty, kangaroo courts on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had started writing up a post about US Prosecutors seeking the death penalty for 6 Guantanamo detainees,
A Defense Department official said prosecutors were seeking the death penalty because “if any case warrants it, it would be for individuals who were parties to a crime of that scale.” The officials spoke anonymously because no one [...]
Censoring A Plan For Failure
Posted in Bush Administration, Military & War, tagged Army, failure, Iraq, RAND study, War on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We expect our Army to be successful, no matter what they are doing or where they are. But, the army has been mired down by politics for decades, and that is never more evident than when they bury a study that faults their planning for post-war Iraq.
The Army is accustomed to protecting classified information. But [...]
Pretty Ballsy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art, Cezanne, Degas, Monet, thefts, van Gogh, Zurich on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Walk into a museum and steal $90 million dollars worth of art.
Several paintings by some of the most celebrated European artists have been stolen from a Zurich gallery. Works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were stolen from an art foundation’s gallery in Zurich, Switzerland, according to Bernd Quellenberg, a [...]
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