Hmmm…. From DoubleThink First this: Saddam not ‘caught’ by U.S. troops Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British…

Black helicopter alert? Via MetaFilter Saddam’s spiderhole photo was taken in August, or what? The fruit on the date palm behind the soldier is yellow. Date fruit grows from March-August (see ‘Iraq’ in table 23) and is harvested in early…

ANSWER LA food and toy distribution to strikers We at ANSWER LA distributed a pickup truck filled with food and toys directly to striking grocery workers at a Vons at 3rd and Vermont in Los Angeles on Saturday. Hey, when…

Winning their hearts and minds. Chapter 412 US “mistake” kills three Iraqi cops Iraqi police said US troops mistakenly shot dead three of their officers near the northern city of Kirkuk as Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of Spain paid…

They’re b-a-c-k… Backers of prop. 187 push for new initiative Proposed measure to deny services to illegal immigrants raises fears of divisive racial politics. “Fears”? I think not. No fear involved here. Just reality This new attempt at slapping down…

Bwa ha ha Ghostly image at Britain’s Hampton CourtSurveillance footage shows spooky figure shutting doors.

From Michael Moore A Specialist in the U.S. Army wrote to me this week about the capture of Saddam Hussein: “Wow, 130,000 troops on the ground, nearly 500 deaths and over a billion dollars a day, but they caught a…