Monday, December 25, 2006

AlterNet: Recycled Christmas

"Though we really enjoyed coming together for a mid-winter celebration, the very thought of shopping ruined Christmas. Wasn't there another option? Didn't we have the right to reclaim the holiday and create our own family tradition?"

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

CQ: New House Intel Committee Chair unfamiliar with Al Qaeda

Apparently, Silvestre Reyes, soon to be the next House Intelligence Committee chair, doesn't know a most basic fact about Al Qaeda -- that it is a Sunni organization.

Reyes was chosen by Nancy Pelosi, passing over the more senior Rep. Jane Harmon, with whom she has strained relations.

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