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The Jamie Leigh Jones gang rape case

Posted by: ST on December 12, 2007 at 10:51 pm » 11 Comments

ABC News reported a story yesterday about a woman who alleges she was gang-raped two years ago in the Green Zone in Iraq by some of her Halliburton/KBR co-workers: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie [...]

 

Mike Huckabee – take 2 – PLUS: Other campaign 2008 news

Posted by: ST on December 12, 2007 at 1:26 pm » 9 Comments

Last night I wrote about the Huckabee surge in the polls, and why I didn’t find him a viable candidate for president. My belief in that has solidified even more today after reading about a question he asked in an upcoming interview to be published in Sunday’s NYT magazine: WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful [...]

 

Republicans win in Virginia and Ohio special elections

Posted by: ST on December 12, 2007 at 9:32 am » 3 Comments

Some rare good news these days for Republicans on the election front: Republicans retained two House seats in special elections Tuesday, including a hotly contested Ohio race that the two parties spent nearly $700,000 trying to win. Republican officials immediately pointed to the issue of immigration, an increasingly pivotal theme in contests across the nation [...]