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From The Room: White House Announces Contest to Find More Specific Text for "Mission Accomplished" Banner

May 1, 2008 - Washington - On the fifth anniversary of President Bush's heroic landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln and speech before the 'Mission Accomplished' banner, the White House has admitted that the banner could have been "more specific." To mark the anniversary, spokesperson Dana...

From The Room: Bush to Sell Naming Rights to Iraq War

March 23, 2008 - President Bush commemorated the fifty anniversary of the Iraq War this week by winning the Only Person Who Still Thinks The Iraq War Was A Good Idea award. He shared the award with...

Baghdad: "Give us your tired, unemployed masses yearning to make some serious benjamins"

February 28, 2008 - Baghdad's fortified Green Zone has become a mecca for contractors seeking high paying jobs. While controversial companies like Blackwater get most of the attention, franchises...

News Odds for Wednesday, December 19, 2007

December 19, 2007 - Odds that... Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, tied with Mike Huckabee in the GOP race, is furiously making an ad with...

News Odds for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

November 14, 2007 - Odds that... When the premiers of North and South Korea meet today for reconciliation talks, all the North's leader Kim Jong-il can talk about is...

News Odds for Tuesday, October 30, 2007

October 30, 2007 - Odds that... When Pakistan's Supreme Court asks officials today why former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported hours after his return, they hem and haw, then insist Jason Bourne was behind it all: 3-1 During...

Blackwater Pro Shop: where "fore!" means "four dead"

October 5, 2007 - Pro shop. The term conjures up images of expensive golf paraphernalia and kindly blue-hairs receiving private putting lessons from a guy named Tad, while a Hawaiian-shirted Rodney Dangerfield launches zingers at the stuffy Membership Director, all within the bucolic environs of a WASPy coun...

Blackwater hires a PR giant to shoot its bad press dead on sight

October 4, 2007 - Blackwater USA, the private security contractor, has hired public relations giant Burson-Marsteller to counteract the barrage of negative publicity it's received over the last few weeks. The vaguely Orwellian PR firm lists among its current and former clients such companies as McDonalds, Dow Chemic...

Justice department limits Blackwater testimony: old Blackwater, keep on rollin'

October 2, 2007 - All House committees making progress in their investigation of the reckless shootings of Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security guards, take one step forward. Not so fast, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Erik Prince, chairman of Blackwater USA, testified today before a House commi...