Author: Patrick Lang

A Pardon for the Turkey

by Patrick Lang (bio below) “About 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, many of whom will run in the election on Dec. 15, signed a closing memorandum on Monday that “demands a withdrawal of foreign troops on a...

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Schoenbrun on “Intelligent design”

by Patrick Lang (bio below) Well, we’ve come a long way since Galileo was shown the instruments of torture. In the last few days the Vatican astronomer, a Jesuit of course, and the cardinal archbishop of Vienna (formerly a...

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The Burden of Proof – Cheney

by Patrick Lang (bio below) “Although our coalition has not found WMD stockpiles in Iraq, I repeat that we never had the burden of proof. Saddam Hussein did. We operated on the best available intelligence gathered over a...

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Cock-a-Doodle-Do

1st deferment: Cheney enrolled in Casper Community College in January 1963 — he turned 22 that month — and sought his first student deferment on March 20. 2nd deferment: (student), after transferring to the...

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Curveball the Eight Ball

by Patrick Lang (bio below) John Goetz has been working on the Curveball story for a long time now. It is published today in the Los Angeles Times. I am proud to say that I did what I could to help him and his partner Bob Drogin...

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