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Buying The War..

Anyone who was on my old FOIB list knows that I was an outspoken opponent of America’s two excursions in Iraq. Bill Moyers recently produced a documentary called “Buying the War” which should be mandatory viewing for hawks and doves alike. In it,...

AOL Gets Its Dead Reckoning…

AOL didn’t lose 846,000 subscribers. It never had them in the first place. -Ian. —– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid04&ncids8&e=6&u=/ washpost/20030724/tc_washpost/a32817_2003jul23 AOL Subscribers Down by 846,000...

A Bulletproof Mind..

A Bulletproof Mind November 10, 2002 By PETER MAASS Maj. Christopher Miller lay awake on a cot in a filthy room, no larger than a prison cell and cluttered with weapons and ammunition. He couldn’t sleep. It was a cold January night at the Special Forces base in...

New York is the Real Capital of America..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/magazine/06NYDC.html October 6, 2002 The De Facto Capital By FRANK RICH The New York Times They got it right the first time. New York was the capital of the nation at its birth. The first presidential inauguration, in 1789,...

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful…

Thanks to new FOIBer but old friend of Ian Bell for this piece. -Ian. ……. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020814/4358473s.htm Global warmth for U.S. after 9/11 turns to frost Wed Aug 14, 8:33 AM ET Ellen Hale USA TODAY OXFORD, England — On a...