50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/bravery_outshines_public_humil.html

David Addington Pushed To Eliminate Job Of National Archivist Who Challenged Cheney

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/26/archives-cheney-addington/

Father Christmas does exist: Russian government

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Father_Christmas_does_exist_Russian_12272007.html


Russia's government has ridden to the rescue of children by banning a television ad that declares Father Christmas does not exist, the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta announced Thursday.

Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/

Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3054287.ece

READER COMMENT: Americans of Japanese ancestry were not guilty of any wrongdoing

http://magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/12/opinion/reader_comments/126579.txt

Award-winning sci-fiction and fantasy writer to give reading at library

"Brockmeier, a Little Rock author, wrote "The Brief History of the Dead," "The Truth about Celia" and "Things that Fall From the Sky;" two children's books "Groves: A Kind of Mystery," about a seventh-grader who receives messages when he rubs a Victorola needle in the ridges of his jeans, or on a certain brand of potato chips, and "City of Names," about a third grader who orders a book of pickle jokes and receives instead a map of his hometown that contains the real names of buildings."

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/121307/sty_1213070036.shtml

"Brockmeier gives a possible explanation for the idea of The City in the epigraph from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. The excerpt from Loewen's book tells about an African tribal belief in the sasha, "the recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people" still living, or the living-dead. One is not dead, or zamani, until the last person to remember them dies."

Dirk gets unkind cut

http://www.boiseguardian.com/2006/11/21/dirk_gets_unkind_cut.html

Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_busts_Gitmo_propaganda_team/

OLD NEGRO SPACE PROGRAM

Criticism of monument is a wake-up call

Letter to the editor in Today's Times-News:

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/10/opinion/letters/126466_15.txt

"In response to Byrd Golay's comments concerning the Minidoka Internment Camp monument:

Most of your talking points were about the hard treatment of our Gis in the Japanese prison camps and your objection to the Minidoka Internment Camp monument. I agree, the Japanese Imperialists were brutal in the war and we rightfully defeated them.

You stated that the Japanese-Americans in the Minidoka Camp were not treated like our GIs were in the overseas Japanese prison camps. Well, of course not. They were not prisoners of war; 62 percent were American citizens.

You can't seem to get your facts right. You stated they walked out with a $25,000 bonus. Bonus you say? Wrong. It was $20,000 and it was called reparations paid to the surviving internees. Also, they didn't walk out with it; it was not given to them until some 50 years had passed.

According to you, the monument is to honor all Japanese in the world. Wrong. It is to honor the Japanese-Americans that were interned during the war and were denied the freedoms that you and I enjoyed. Also, don't forget the Japanese-Americans that spilled their blood in Italy fighting the Germans for our way of life.

You stated in your article, "Come on, Magic Valley, voice your opinion. This is a moral issue, wake up." Well, you definitely woke me up. I have no problem with the monument, but I can clearly see you have a problem. Remember, if you read your history, the United States government acknowledged the reason for putting the Japanese-Americans in the internment camps was race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership."

JERRY WALLACE

Twin Falls

White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_press_secretary_admits_she_1210.html


"I came home and I asked my husband," she said on air. "I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.' "

Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/