BREAKING: Israel arrests members of Hamas Leadership

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 7:26 PM PDT

2006/06/28 · 19:26

UPDATES AT BOTTOM Just saw this on Yahoo News! and Ha-aretz:
Israel has arrested about thirty members of the Hamas-led Palestinian authority, according to various news sources.

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At least we can handle the Russians....

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Friday May 05, 2006 · 4:39 AM PDT

2006/05/05 · 04:39

Or so we thought. In a story from Reuters (linked through Yahoo below), we learn that a recent speech Cheney delivered in Vilnius is being compared to Churchill's 1946 speech defining the "iron curtain." Though I'm sure Cheney's speech did not possess one-tenth the gravitas of any of Churchill's utterings.

So, we (not me, but the collective 'we' of Americans) chose an incompetent president, VP and cabinet. That's old news, and is the source of about 10 million diaries a day throughout the blogosphere. But at the very least, we thought we were getting the benefit of a Condi Rice Sovietologist. Sure, we didn't need one...as Clinton departed and Yeltsin yielded to Putin, everything was hunky dory. Hell, Russia was practically a U.S. state, albeit one with lots of vodka and pretty rough winters (try to imagine Spring Break in Prudhoe Bay).

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Refusal Pharmacists - Is a National Registry a Good Idea?

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 7:55 AM PDT

2006/04/10 · 07:55

Last Saturday I posted a diary entitled Refusal Pharmacists - a National Registry? (See Diary: http://www.dailykos.com/...). There was a good deal of positive feedback, and I wanted to follow-up with my current thoughts surrounding this matter. First of all, I agree with those posters who said that the issue runs much deeper than just logging which pharmacists are refusing service for certain meds (specifically, birth control).

The intent with such a registry isn't to resolve the underlying issues that have allowed us to reach this impasse. Frankly, the primary intent isn't even to assist the market in redressing the issue, though that may (hopefully) happen. "Market redress" is a wonderful concept when contemplating the ease of use or ugly color of an MP3 player, but on social issues such as women's rights to contraception....change needs to occur through legislative means.

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Refusal Pharmacists - a national registry?

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Saturday April 08, 2006 · 7:51 AM PDT

2006/04/08 · 07:51

This is my first diary, so I would ask - right off the bat - that everyone forgive any formating or contextual issues. I have sat and watched (read) Kos for the last year or so, sucking at the teat of rationality like many others. And, like many others, I have perhaps viewed this as a spectator sport...posting a few comments here and there, and launching diatribes at my wife and family regarding many of the critical issues touched upon here. But something showed up in the mail a few days ago that got me thinking.It was from an organization called POPULATION CONNECTION, and the focus of the mailout was to request help for a "Petition Regarding Access to Birth Control."

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