Manning offers a guilty plea

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Thursday February 28, 2013 · 11:57 AM PST

2013/02/28 · 11:57

Well I thought this case deserves an update seeing how Manning is a 'cause célèbre' around here.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred highly classified U.S. materials later published by WikiLeaks
LA Times

Manning claimed his motivation for leaking was general 'angst' with the way the US was prosecuting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wanted the strategy to change and thought the public would rebel against if they knew all the details. Read More

UPDATEDObama goes 'faith-based'

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 7:54 AM PDT

2008/07/01 · 07:54

So lets have it out. Obama wants to take the 'faith-based', program started by Bush, to the next level. Obama Creates Faith Based Council

As Barack Obama has said many times, he believes that change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up, and few are closer to the people than our churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. And many of the challenges we face today—from saving our planet to ending poverty—are simply too big for government to solve alone. We need all hands on deck.

I don't know how I feel about this. In Bush's hands this program sounded really scary but I trust a Democrat to see that it is not a slippery slope. That fact is that the US already funds religion (through tax breaks) why not organize and get more of a benefit for our money.

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Wednesday June 22, 2005 · 7:45 AM PDT

2005/06/22 · 07:45

As an Illinioan I hate to say this but Durbin has single handedly killed the Guantánamo protest movement. The protest's power was the righteous outrage we felt over what was being done in our name. Durbin took the protest's leadership when he expressed that outrage on the floor of the Senate. The speech gathered attention because it was over the top but that is where our level of outrage and action had to be if something was to change.

Durbin has wavered then fully retreated in the face of the Republican spin machine. Making the righteous outrage he expressed originally seem more political then moral. He has painted all Guantánamo protesters with the same brush.

Durbin laid the flag of protest against the Guantánamo prision on the ground. There is no one left to pick it up.

Update [2005-6-23 14:48:58 by goObama]: Except the UN! CNN Story

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