You must also see the photographs.
The men came after midnight to Eva Hurst’s northwest Georgia mountain home to leave a burning cross as a warning to her daughter, who was seeing a biracial man.
But moments after the fire was lit, one intruder panicked and called 911. The woods surrounding the Dade County house were dry, [...]

the Arcata Eye has an interesting series of articles on the effect NAFTA has had upon small farmers here and in Mexico. It’s a compelling read, and it’s the sort of coverage that would get swallowed up by other news in a large-market newspaper, assuming it appeared at all.

This could account for whatever the pills don’t.

Because that’s what I did; no other way to get there from here. The link is to an entry which brought up a point (about a new product approved by the FDA for treatment of the depressive phase of bipolar disorders) that seems remarkably simple now that it’s explained, but which I wouldn’t ever have [...]

It isn’t as though any number of people in Pakistan and elsewhere don’t have reason to bear a grudge against Pakistani “president” Pervez Musharraf, which is why it’s a tad disappointing to see a lede like this in an article addressing the recent attempts on Musharraf’s life (emphasis mine).
After two recent assassination attempts that bear [...]

I went to see it today with my daughter, age seven, and her bullheaded Korean grandmother, age 73. This is the Universal Studios live action version, and it’s quite the cinematic extravaganza. It’s much more faithful to the book than the Disney version. My daughter liked it a lot; her grandmother liked seeing her granddaughter [...]

This should comfort any Iraqi concerned that the US may not have the fledgling democracy’s best interests at heart.
Nine months after the demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime and his feared mukhabarat (intelligence) operatives, Iraq is to get a secret police force again – courtesy of Washington.
The Bush administration is to fund the new agency in [...]

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Juan Cole notes that there’s at least a perception that the military is underreporting US casualties in Iraq, and there’s no question at all that our press is underreporting Iraqi civilian casualties and, other than Cher calling in to C-Span, not reporting at all on the extent of the injuries being suffered by troops who [...]

It hasn’t quite gone the way of St. Nicholas yet.
The Weekly Standard has an essay by University of Minnesota law professor Thomas Powers, making the case for an actual consistent and constitutionally sound process for handling terror suspects and “enemy combatants” such as the internees at Guantanamo and US citizen Jose Padilla, the “dirty bomb” [...]

Christopher Hitchens, he of the lyrical contempt for anyone who opposed the invasion of Iraq, has a column in Vanity Fair whining about some of New York’s more particular misdemeanor laws. He finds the smoking ban especially disturbing, and I can understand why: for someone who thinks smoking a carload of Iraqi civilians is just [...]

Not that this is shocking, but …
WASHINGTON — Western business executives will get to wine, dine and golf with members of Congress and top Bush administration environmental officials at Arizona gatherings this week that start with a fund-raiser for the lawmakers.
Companies whose employees or political action committees donate $3,000 can send two people to [...]

The Department of Labor is kindly advising employers how to avoid paying out more in overtime wages to low-income workers who would become eligible for overtime under new regulations.
The Labor Department is suggesting ways employers can avoid paying overtime to newly eligible workers in its proposal. It offered this example of a “payroll adjustment”:
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The most recent helicopter downing in Iraq, on Friday, was accompanied by reports that rescuers came under fire from and detained assialants wearing press vests. It turns out that the people detained actually were local employees of overseas news organizations, three working for Reuters and one for NBC. They were all released yesterday. Meanwhile, the [...]

Adam Felber notes that the US government may have confused the invasions of Mars and Iraq.

CJR has a fairly long article titled “Little Murders,” about the decline in substance of op-ed illustrations. Curiously, the journal both poses and answers the question of what happened before the lede, rendering the article obsolete before one reads a word of it. Despite that, it’s worth reading just for that righteous “tsk-tsk-what’s-the-world-coming-to” feeling one [...]

He was never the near-saint many people believed him to be, but it’s still heartrending to see him come to this.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was confident of the presentation he made about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction last year at the United Nations before the war.
“The intelligence community is confident of [...]

David Kay
Despondent WMD Hunter

According to this Congressional Budget Office report, limiting medical malpractice claims would reduce overall health care spending by perhaps four tenths of a percent and would have no discernable impact on the number of practicing physicians. On the other hand, the new Medicare legislation provides a tax-free subsidy of up to $1,300 per employee who [...]

Wishing to fend off the status of perpetual victims, the Kurds of Iraq are insisting on controlling their own fates as part of the reborn country. No one else is favorably disposed toward the loose federalism sought by the Kurds — not the US, not the Shia, certainly not the Arabs Saddam moved in to [...]

It’s true. I expect that Bubble Boy will be awash in business opportunities the moment he leaves office. Unfortunately, countries can’t earn an MBA and, according to the International Monetary Fund, prospects for the country as a whole are a bit dimmer.
The discussion in this and subsequent sections suggests that the U.S. fiscal problem is [...]

unless you’ve been there.

Clearly, this guy isn’t particularly worried about what he found in North Korea. Reuters quotes a North Korean spokesman as saying “As everybody knows, the United States compelled the DPRK (North Korea) to build a nuclear deterrent. We showed this to (delegation head John) Lewis [at left] and his party this time.”
I suppose it’s possible [...]

So many people vanished at the hands of the government in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile that they earned a mournful group sobriquet, “The Disappeared.” We’re not to that point, but stories such as this one are still more than a bit spooky.
A secret docketing system hiding some sensitive Miami federal court cases from public view has [...]

it’s “where-the-idol-used-to-be” worship. People are apparently flocking, or trickling, or treacling, to the spot where Judge Roi’s ten commandments monument used to sit in Alabama’s Supreme Court building rotunda. Not content with doing something pretty stupid, some of the visitors insist on talking to reporters as well.
Kukla and his wife, Bonnie, are singing evangelists who [...]

You may recall that when Laura Bush returned from a European tour aimed at mending fences her hubby had plowed over and through, she charmed the nation, or at least that fraction of it that pays attention to her, with an anecdote about the heartfelt poem Bubble Boy authored in her absence and presented to [...]

I’d like to make a deal with the administration. I’ll turn over enough of my confidential information as is necessary to persuade you that I’m not interested in flying an airplane into a building if you’ll turn over enough of yours to persuade me you’re not driving the country into a ditch. You first: let’s [...]

The ultra-liberal Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College has published a shrill denunciation of the Bush administration’s approach to the war on terror. Penatagon spokesman Larry DiRita, responding to reports of the report, noted that he’s unlikely to read anything other than reports reporting what he already thinks.
Among the hysterical charges contained in [...]

I’d been wondering what happened to the annual orgy of self-criticism enjoyed by the lusty press. It’s usually scheduled for the end of the year, but they’re just now getting to it. Maybe a little viagra is called for.
If you’re not familiar with the exercise, it consists of journalists asking themselves if they acquitted themselves [...]

Former treasury secretary Paul O’Neill is in trouble again. The administration can’t fire him for being honest this time, having already gone that route, so they’re investigating him. Josh Marshall has the concise version.
Number of days between Novak column outing Valerie Plame and announcement of investigation: 74 days.
Number of days between O’Neill 60 Minutes interview [...]