Election08, Politics
5 October 2008 | 0 Comments
Via Talking Points Memo, I see that Joe McCain, John McCain’s brother, referred to two Northern Virginia counties as “communist country” at a campaign stop earlier today.
Joe McCain, speaking at an event in support of his brother, called two Democratic-leaning areas in Northern Virginia “communist country,” according to a report on The Washington Post’s Web [...]
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Economy, Society & World
5 October 2008 | 2 Comments
Things are not looking good for Iceland. Paul Krugman mentioned last week that the country’s government had performed its own bank bailout to the tune of $859 million (adjusted to the small population size, that is equivalent to $850 billion). The government asked for a 75% stake in the equity of that bank in return. [...]
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Military, Society & World
5 October 2008 | 0 Comments
Though the motive remains a mystery, charges have been filed in the deaths of two soldiers shot by a member of their own squad on an Army control base in Iraq. Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, 39, is accused of shooting down Army Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson, 24, and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, 26, during a meeting on [...]
Tagged in Darris Dawson, Joseph Bozicevich, Wesley Durbin
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