Well, if you’re Jon Swift, it’s pretty much a pretext for jackassery, because obviously the trampling to death of the Wal-Mart worker on Long Island is the result of 8 years of failed Bush policies. What a funny, edgy guy.

Baader Meinhof: just as principled as the Weather Underground. NYT: White capitalists to blame for Wal-Mart trampling death Al Jazeera on Root Causes: While India awaits the outcome of the criminal investigation in the aftermath of the attacks, some analysts have speculated that a marked shift in Indian foreign policy over the last few years, namely a growing closeness to the US, could be a reason why the country was

Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a Bissel Compact Upright Vacuum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as “The Incredible Hulk” for $9.

Kim Zigfeld at PJM: Russia’s lies about what happened on the ground during the war give its game away, and its behavior after the war ended put the final nails in its coffin of deceit. When, for instance, a leading Russian professor of history published a newspaper article questioning whether the Kremlin provoked the Georgia war as part of an imperialistic design, not only the professor but the editor of

losing steam.  More. Sea turtles killed by cold snap.

by Shell Oil. (h/t Hot Air Headlines)

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