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Archive for June, 2006

At Least Someone Understands

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under War On Terror

I’m not a fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but at least he understands what the War on Terror is all about:
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s special services to hunt down and “destroy” the killers of four Russians in Iraq, the Kremlin said.
Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service [...]

A Glimpse Into The Gulag

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under Foreign Affairs, Individual Liberty, North Korea

From Will Collier at Vodkapundit comes a link to photos taken by a Russian web designer on a recent visit to North Korea. Most of these photos were taken without permission, meaning we get a glimpse of what life inside one of the world’s last Gulag’s is really like.

Connecting America

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under History

It is, I think, fair to say that the Interstate Highway System was an important to the development of 20th Century America as the Transcontinental Railroad was 100 years earlier. Before interstates, traveling across the country took longer and usually involved taking alot of indirect movements. Before interstates, moving goods across the country by truck [...]

Political Change In Prince William County

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under Virginia Politics

It looks like my home county will be getting a new leader:
Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Sean T. Connaughton, who presided over a period of unprecedented growth in one of the nation’s most diverse and dynamic suburban areas, was nominated yesterday by President Bush to be the head of the U.S. Maritime Administration.
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Depending [...]

Superman or Superdud

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under Movies

Superman Returns opened and the reviews are pouring in.
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Here’s the verdict from the Washington Post:
The much ballyhooed movie, far from great [...]

Then What’s The Point Of Watching Tennis ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, June 28th, 2006. Filed under Sports

Wimbledon lays down the law on low-cut tennis tops:
Tennis teases beware: Wimbledon is watching.
Tournament officials have warned players at this year’s event that they risk expulsion for breaking the strict dress code by wearing overly revealing outfits.
The move is targeted in part at the likes of Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko, noted for their low-cut [...]

Flag Burning Amendment Dies In Senate

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, U.S. Constitution

The Senate voted today on the Flag Burning Amendment, and fell one vote short of what would have been a very foolish Amendment to the Constitution.
The Senate today fell one vote short of passing a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed Congress to prohibit the desecration of the American flag.
The proposed amendment went down [...]

Baby Its Wet Outside

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under Weather

The Washington, D.C. area has gotten an amazing amount of rain over the past three days, and it looks like its not over yet.
More heavy rains were headed to the Washington area this afternoon, bringing a serious threat of additional flash flooding, the National Weather Service warned.
“We could see very intense rain, three to five [...]

Congress’s Next Victim: Our Right To Contract

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under Individual Liberty, Property Rights, Right to Contract

As if the Flag Burning Amendment weren’t bad enough, there are a host of other flag-related proposals before Congress this week. One would bar Federal Courts from hearing lawsuits attempting to challenge the inclusion of the words “Under God” in the Pledge Of Allegience. Like the Flag Burning Amendment, this one is pure symbolism. The [...]

Nicole Kidman And Tom Cruise Were Never Married

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 27th, 2006. Filed under Catholic Church, Celebrities, Religion

As I sort-of-followed the news about the wedding of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, I wondered how it was possible for them to get married in a Catholic Church considering that Kidman had been married to Tom Cruise for ten years and having two children. Now, it appears I have an answer, in the eyes [...]

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