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Mavericks - Heat
Can Dallas keep Shaq and all-world Wade in check? I hope so!!
Go Mavs!!!
Where’s the Outrage podcast 3-18-06
This was my first show on WPEK in Asheville, NC. I had 2 great guests - Senate Bob Graham - Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee during 9/11 and author of Intelligence Matters. PJ Crowley of the Center for American Progress who is an expert on border security.
Public Broadcasting on the chopping block…again
“While we appreciate the difficult choices confronting the Appropriations Committee, we are disappointed with the funding levels contained in the current House Labor-HHS bill,” said Patricia Harrison, CPB president and CEO. “A twenty-plus percent cut, amounting to 104.5 million dollars, will impact all CPB programs, and undermine public broadcasting’s ability to continue to offer essential educational services and provide a backbone for a national emergency alert system.”
The rest of the press release is at http://www.cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?prn=551
MoveOn is on top of this already. Write your congressman here: http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/?id=7965-4773644-hz_n.2HDvRrY_Kb_uCw6xQ&t=3
President Bush (41) tried to fire Rummy?
Former President George H.W. Bush waged a secret campaign over several months early this year to remove Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The elder Bush went so far as to recruit Rumsfeld’s potential replacement, personally asking a retired four-star general if he would accept the position, a reliable source close to the general told me. But the former president’s effort failed, apparently rebuffed by the current president. When seven retired generals who had been commanders in Iraq demanded Rumsfeld’s resignation in April, the younger Bush leapt to his defense. “I’m the decider and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain,” he said. His endorsement of Rumsfeld was a rebuke not only to the generals but also to his father.
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Well, this is very interesting. The relationship between Jr. and Sr. will have psychiatrists busy for years.
I have no idea if this report is true. It would seem very unlikely that Dad would intervene and try to have one of his son’s closest advisors replaced. President Bush (41) has gone out of his way not seem like he is looking over his son’s shoulder. It is still interesting nonetheless.
Al-Zarqawi is apparently killed in an airstrike
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the coalition’s most wanted man in Iraq, was killed in an airstrike near Baquba, jubilant U.S. and Iraqi authorities announced Thursday.
Al-Zarqawi’s death gives Iraq a chance to “turn the tide” in the fight against the nation’s insurgency, President Bush said at the White House.
“The ideology of terror has lost one of its most visible and aggressive leaders,” Bush said. “Zarqawi’s death is a severe blow to al Qaeda.”
“Special Operations forces, acting on tips and intelligence from Iraqis, confirmed Zarqawi’s location and delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq,” Bush said.
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I hope that this is the real deal. What I am sure of is that we need to get more of the really bad guys in this War on Terror. We need to secure the country and re-deploy troops back in Afghanistan before that country slips back into the abyss.
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
