February 5, 2008
Watched some of the "New Hampshire Debates" last night on TV — about half of the Republican session (couldn't stand any more). The GOP presidential candidates debated—well, bickered about—some of the “issues” like a bunch of schoolkids, attacking each other, bullying to get their word in, ...
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How many Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US invasion in 2003? The cautious Iraq Body Count website puts the figure at almost 88,000. Fifteen months ago, the Lancet medical journal estimated 655,000. Yesterday the World Health Organisation calculated about 151,000, but maybe as much as 223...
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I can't figure out why I don't like Hillary Clinton. She's a woman battling it out in a men's world, so she ought to have plenty of sympathy. But she reminds me of Margaret Thatcher — a woman trying to be a man, hard and brassy and over-rehearsed and ruthless, eager to show she can be even more od...
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