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Troops search for missing soldiers
ecthompsonmd May 14, 2007

I would like for there just to be one once of good news from Iraq. Just once. I would like one piece of genuine good news. Not something made up by the Bush administration, either. Is that too much to ask? ———– From NYT: About 4,000 American ground troops, supported by surveillance aircraft, attack helicopters and spy satellites, swept towns and farmland south of Baghdad on Sunday, searching for three American soldiers who disappeared Saturday after their patrol was ambushed, military officials said. The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella insurgent group that includes Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, said it had

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Missing Molly Ivins
ecthompsonmd February 15, 2007

Paul Krugman wrote this in the NYT about 7 – 10 days ago: Molly Ivins, the Texas columnist, died of breast cancer on Wednesday. I first met her more than three years ago, when our book tours crossed. She was, as she wrote, ”a card-carrying member of The Great Liberal Backlash of 2003, one of the half-dozen or so writers now schlepping around the country promoting books that do not speak kindly of Our Leader’s record.” I can’t claim to have known her well. But I spent enough time with her, and paid enough attention to her work, to know that

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