The Rehabilitation Of Joseph McCarthy? Texas Textbooks Process Grinds On
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 18th, 2010 5:50 am by HL
The Rehabilitation Of Joseph McCarthy? Texas Textbooks Process Grinds On
In the home stretch of a process that will set Texas’ nationally influential history textbook standards, a liberal watchdog group is worried that the State Board of Education will try to push through changes to claim that communist-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy has been vindicated by history.
U.S. Embassy Guards Now Being Recruited On Craigslist
In what has got to be some kind of milestone in the privatization of government security functions, an Ohio firm has turned to online classifieds service Craigslist to recruit guards for the U.S. embassy in Brazil.
Contractors’ Attorney: Blackwater Is Scapegoating My Clients In Kabul Murder Case
A lawyer for the Blackwater contractors charged last week with killing two men in Kabul says his clients were thrown under the bus by a company desperate to preserve its standing with the Afghan government, after another shooting case in Iraq led to a crackdown on its operations in that country.