Overnight News Digest: Snow, violence, and an old satellite.
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesAs the DailyKos front page live threads will attest, President George W. Bush ran his mouth a lot in the final State...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Bombs, budgets...and HUD gets sued
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesGeorge W. Bush presented his soon-to-be ignored federal budget proposal, costing a record 3.1 trillion dollars. Some...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: US Operations inadequate, at best
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesCharges have finally been filed against six detainees and suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, and the prosecution...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: The dangers of bombs and cell phones
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesIn Afghanistan (the other country we invaded to fix), insurgent bombings have killed 140 in two days, the deadliest...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Optimism is for chumps
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesThe US Marine Corps is asking the Pentagon to investigate a two-year delay in blast-resistant vehicles, which the...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: March Madness
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoryThe US is sending troops to Pakistan...to train Pakistani soldiers to fight extremist groups. After weeks of...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Evidence is overrated, anyway
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesAfter "an exhaustive review of more than 600,000 documents," it seems that there is no evidence that the late Saddam...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Apocalypse? NOW?!?
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesSorry, Scooter. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's disgraced former chief of staff, was disbarred...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: George W. Bush is an idiot.
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesOur dear Decider has decided to leave troop levels the same, instead of continuing with his planned withdrawal of...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Nothing outlasts the Energizer
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesConflicting stories from Iraq: first, the "fight to the end" between Iraqi soldiers and al Sadr's militia has reached...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Casualties of war
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesFollowing the Decider's unshocking announcement that he would be ending troop withdrawals out of Iraq after July's...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Election? Fraud!
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesIn case you check the OND before the front page or the recommended diaries, there was a debate between Barack Obama...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: McCain rebukes Bush, but Congress won't
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesOur good friend General Petraeus has been nominated for the position of chief of US Central Command, a position which...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: "Reading First", Silver Star, both moot.
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesJust in case you haven't realized that John McCain likes war: Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Bribes, affairs...look, al Qaeda!
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesIraqi officials are reporting the capture of the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. He had been in...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: PTSD diagnoses too expensive for VA
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesAn internal memo by the VA suggested that it should diagnose fewer veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Deal, or no deal?
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesThe Senate passed the Iraq war funding bill, giving us war until six months into the next presidency, but also paying...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Brought to you by the letters O, I, and L.
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesAir Force Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, says he was denied a medal as punishment for...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: The fog has lifted...
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesUS and British officials investigating the political situation in Zimbabwe were chased by police and detained for...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Read the bottom stories first...
Welcome to the OND, Magnifico's series. All emphasis and tips are mine.Top StoriesAn Army General investigating prisoner abuse in Iraq has accused the Bush Administration of committing war crimes....
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