Details, Details: Where, Exactly, Were the Israeli Soldiers Captured?

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 11:10 AM PDT

2006/08/01 · 11:10

Here's a question for my well-informed readers - or, at least, those better informed than I am (which is probably most of you): Where, exactly, were the two Israeli soldiers whose capture led to the current shooting war with Hezbollah captured from? We are told that Hezbollah fighters crossed the border into Israel to snatch the soldiers, but so far as I know, the only specific report is the timeline accompanying this graphic from last week's Newsweek (click on "detail," and scroll to the top) which says, "July 12 Hizbullah attacks military posts in the Shebaa Farms area and abducts two Israeli soldiers." Read More

Dick Cheney Is Telling the Truth! (With Poll)

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Wednesday February 15, 2006 · 4:57 PM PST

2006/02/15 · 16:57

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[Alleged journalist Brit] Hume said in an interview with Fox News Channel after talking to Cheney at the White House: "He said he'd had a beer at lunch. That had been many hours earlier. It was dusk, around 5 p.m., when this incident happened. And he said that they had lunch out in the field -- a barbecue. He had a beer. ... He said no one was drinking. They went back to the ranch afterward and took a break after that, and then went back out about 3 o'clock. And so you're four or five hours distant from the last alcohol that he'd consumed. And he said nobody was drinking--not he, not anybody else."

As it happens, I can confirm this. It is absolutely true that Cheney had one beer with lunch, and no more. I know this is true because I was there, and in fact I have a photograph of the two of us, sitting side by side, each having one beer: Read More

Some Thoughts On the Death of "Tookie" Williams

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 11:50 AM PST

2005/12/13 · 11:50

Stanley "Tookie" Williams was pronounced dead today at 12:35 A.M. His death was mourned by some, cheered by others.

Once, I represented a murderer. My client - let's call him Bill - beat a man to death with a baseball bat and, as if that weren't enough, strangled the victim with the sash from a bathrobe. Bill and his friends, who had killed the victim for a few hundred dollars and a big bag of weed, dumped the body down a ravine in the Eastern Washington scablands, where it was found a few days later. Bill was arrested shortly thereafter, and convicted after a brief trial. Read More

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