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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs tore through a packed shopping area of a mainly Shi’ite district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 60 people in the worst attack since U.S. and Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in the city five days ago.

“Mission Accomplished!”

I was driving past a church in my neighborhood a week or two ago and I noticed their sign. I normally read the signs on churches, mostly because they can sometimes provide some comic relief. I have a few favorites from the years past, most notably a couple churches in West Virginia. One church had a bright red scrolling sign which read “Big Bang Theory: Yeah Right!”. Another had created an acronym for the word Bible which read: “Bible: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”. At least that one was clever. I’ve also seen a few bumper stickers worth mentioning: “Evolution is Science Fiction”, “Big Bang Theory: God said ‘Bang!’ and it happened”, and “Eternity: Smoking or Non-Smoking?”.

As impressed as I am with the seemingly overwhelming idiocy of this …read more »

The cover story for the Iraq war went through many changes before the final, very lofty story of liberation. Assuming this article is correct it would appear that it really didn’t matter …read more »

I guess W. is right; the Iraqi people want the same freedoms and privileges we enjoy here in the …read more »

I don’t watch the news too much; it either depresses me or pisses me off. Local news is boring and the national news, well, I can only hear about so many American soldiers dying in Iraq in one day. Between the suicide bombers, kidnappings, beheadings, and just plain killing in the name of Allah I’ve had my fill of the whole, messy thing. But, every so often, I hear a story that catches my attention, one that makes me smile even. There’s something about

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