Day August 25, 2004

Judge rejects Central Park Rally permit This rejection should come as no surprise, no surprise at all A judge rejected a last-minute plea from anti-war activists who sued the city for a permit to hold a massive rally in Central…

RNC. On the ground From the Media Channel listserv The signs are up on my block — no parking, no standing, no stopping, (no breathing?) as a police enforced lockdown of New York begins to roll out. Madison Square Garden,…

State court ruling on Central Park rally due this afternoon A Manhattan judge is set to rule today on whether anti-war activists can hold a 250,000-person rally on Central Park’s Great Lawn. A Federal judge on Friday ruled against a…

Did Hell freeze over? Vice President Dick Cheney told voters in Davenport, Iowa, he doesn’t believe there should be an amendment against gay marriage. His lesbian daughter, who some have bashed for not being more politically active, I would assume,…

Abu Ghraib report faults Rumsfeld, top officials U.S. soldiers running the Abu Ghraib prison are mainly to blame for the inmate abuses there, but fault also lies with the Pentagon’s most senior civilian and military officials, according to a report…