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“Don’t let your kids go hunting with the vice president. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land or energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted. He’ll shoot them in the face.” | video
Posted on Feb 14, 2006
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Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident, has a birdshot pellet in his heart and had “a minor heart attack” Tuesday morning. He is back in intensive care. | story
The ER chief at the Texas hospital, asked if the birdshot could endanger Whittington’s life, responded: “When birdshot is in your body, there’s always the risk they can move. We’ll watch very closely for any migration.”
Continuing Coverage:
Account of Doctors raises questions on heart injury
Think Progress: Scott McClellan concealed the heart attack from the press.
A White House spokesman cracked jokes on the record about the incident (before Whittington suffered the heart attack).
The Smoking Gun surfaces the Texas hunting accident report. (hat tip: Huffington Post)
The lowdown on what hunting rules Cheney broke.
Slow Leak: Time publishes an inside account of why Cheney didn’t publicly disclose news of the accident for 24 hours.
Unloading on Cheney: Comedians take aim at the vice president.
Posted on Feb 14, 2006
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From Paramount Pictures via Yahoo.com
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The versatile 57-year-old actor will play an Army medic who struggles to resume his normal life in “Home of the Brave.” | story
This is one of the first big-budget films to deal with the ongoing conflict.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
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Illustration by Jennifer Grey
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Sir Ian McKellen says, “It is very, very, very difficult for an American [gay] actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality.” | story
This is exactly what Truthdig’s Larry Gross was getting at in “Year of the Queer: Hollywood and Homosexuality.”
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
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The maker of the insanely popular online game says it was wrong to threaten a user with expulsion for advertising a gay-friendly team. | story
People take these online universes seriously; Warcraft has apparently seen its share of gay pride marches.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
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London zookeepers are hoping that CK’s Obsession fragrance will induce two endangered Sumatran felines to get it on.
Obsession: trusted by tomcats to make kitties purr.
Posted on Feb 13, 2006
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From News of the World
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The News of the World (UK) publishes images and releases a video of a squadron of English soldiers savagely beating a group of rioting Iraqi teenagers in 2004. | story or watch video
UPDATE: British authorities have arrested a serving soldier in connection with the incident. | story
Posted on Feb 12, 2006
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The Weekly Standard masterfully fleshes out the story of the floating casino company that Jack Abramoff bought from a Greek developer allegedly murdered by mobsters. |story
Posted on Feb 12, 2006
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The largely ineffectual interim leader is now set to take formal control of the country. He is backed by theocratic Shiites in Iran and the rabidly anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr in Iraq. A theocratic state, virulently hostile to U.S. interests? Right now Ahmad Chalabi is almost starting to look good in comparison. | story
Posted on Feb 12, 2006
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Mr. Fish
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Truthdig says: It strains credulity to suggest, as the White House has, that the vice president couldn’t inform the national media of the incident while also ensuring proper medical care of the guy on the receiving end of his shotgun blast.
Lots of updates on the next page.
Posted on Feb 12, 2006
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From the White House via The New York Times
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The New York Times publishes a 2001 picture of Jack Abramoff in a White House room with the president—along with an Indian tribal leader whom the now-indicted lobbyist was trying to sign up as a client. | story
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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From Staff Sgt. Tony R. Tolley / dod.gov
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In the wake of a nationwide petition drive by evangelicals, sectarian prayer and other such divisive elements are creeping back into the service. | story
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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From www.jeffsweather.com
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An investigative report by The Independent (of London) concludes that a critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable. Comparing notes with leading scientists, the newspaper discovered that we’ve already apparently passed the point of no return. | story
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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The former CIA official who coordinated America’s intelligence in the Middle East accused the Bush administration of misusing prewar intelligence to hype the Iraq threat. | story
This is a big deal: it’s the same unnerving story we heard firsthand from Richard Clarke when he left the White House.
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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Who will pay this piper? Four years of terrible trade deficits—and this year is the historical worst. | story
Posted on Feb 11, 2006
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Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
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