Terror in the Post Bush Era: A More Civil War
More reminders that the “terror bust” is a changing political art.
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Kalid Sheik Muhammed has a New Photo Out. (Lock Down the Ports!)
With al-Qaeda playing a much weaker hand these days, can a photograph have that kind of power -- more so, say, than the power of the neocons to invest that much fear in one?
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Ready – Aim, Debate
There is more troubling anti-Obama, anti-health care reform imagery in the visual media this week.
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.38 More Ways to Counter the Teabaggers?
After several incidents last week in which right wing radicals showed up at health care meetings wearing guns, we now have this example of a pro-reform demonstrator appearing at a tea party protest this weekend packing heat.
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Obama, Old Faithful and the Real Animals
Two weeks ago, when I saw this photo-op of the Obamas in front of Old Faithful, I took it as mostly nostalgic.Today, however, with the radicals not just appropriating the health care issue but GOP politics, I see something more pressing.
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Let's Play Hardball
Chris Matthews provides William Kostnic his 15 minutes of fame for bringing a 9mm pistol to Obama's health care rally in Portsmouth, N.H.
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Horrors of a Different Color
Even if history dramatically tempers emotion and memory, one can't overestimate how traumatized Americans were on and immediately after 9/11.
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Holding So Far
It's the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. And, as of yesterday, it holds Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Gitmo prisoner to be transferred to the United States to stand trail on federal charges.
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Your Turn: Scott Roeder, Closed Circuit
Scott Roeder's video hearing after murdering abortion provider George Tiller.
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Just A Typical Monday In Front Of The (Now Dead) Abortionist’s Office
I was going to ask, 'what sick mind would actually park this thing across from George Tiller's office the day after his murder?', but this kind of sickness knows no bounds.
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Given recent intimations by Congressional Republicans and Democrats that these detainees are too lethal for even America's supermax prisons to handle, I'm wondering how that effects the way we look at these images?
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Tiller and the Silencers
In their sanctimony and instigation of hate, I believe these Operation Rescue protests -- with the tape over the mouth as the symbolic silencing of the unborn -- will come to be associated with the snuffing out of Tiller's life.
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Pink skivvies: Whitewashing The Afghan Campaign
So this May 11 image of Spc. Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, fighting the Taliban in his pink "I love NY" boxer shorts has "gone iconic." ...How Norman Rockwell.
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Fear Factor
It's a clever image on the newswire, showing FBI Director Meuller testifying before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday.
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Torture At Bagram: What Difference Would Photos Make?
Over the past two days, there has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of releasing photo documentation of the Bush Administration's torture regime. My thought was to consider the issue in the context of a specific example.
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Yes Mr. President, No Pictures!
Yes, I think it's a wonderful idea for Obama/Gates/Petraeus to stonewall the release of the detainee photos.
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Long Lost View
Before you click through for an explanation of this image taken by Getty's fine photographer Chris Hondros, I can tell you it does involve 9/11 and that is Lower Manhattan.
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Buzzing Manhattan
I don't know what kind of photos the Pentagon was looking for, or what they got, but this image -- taken yesterday by one Jason McLane on his cell phone -- seems to have emerged, as I look around the web, as the signature shot of yesterday's aerial misunderstanding...
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