Yoann - Instablogs
Nov 25 2009
Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday. Carter told the Washington Post that he was leaving for “personal and...
Nov 21 2009
representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of...
Nov 20 2009
President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. What’s taking so long? Obama wants his plan to include an exit strategy — or an “endgame” as he put it...
Nov 19 2009
The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about 1 percent of the $55.7 million it took to build in 1975. The Silverdome, an...
Nov 19 2009
Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On Christmas.” Paced by the heavy breathing and pearl-clutching of such luminaries as Bill...
Nov 14 2009
U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her...
Nov 7 2009
When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, observers wondered how the Obama Administration had won...
Nov 4 2009
Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead. The Nuba Mountains — once a key enclave of rebels battling the government in Khartoum...
Oct 28 2009
He’s crossed swords, over the years, with all the usual right-wing suspects, from car-makers to gun owners to Wall Street executives, health companies, and George W Bush. Now Michael Moore has picked a fight with a hero of the international...
Oct 20 2009
Officials from the Miss California pageant are sending a message to Carrie Prejean — three can play that game! The production company that runs the pageant is filing a cross complaint against Prejean, demanding, among other things, that Carrie...