'Men Who Stare at Goats' has fuzzy vision
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney s The Men Who Stare at Goats, and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: More of this is true than what you might imagine. This wry comment serves as a nod and ...
 3.9K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 60.0 Gunman: 'Allahu Akbar!'
FORT HOOD, Texas Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted Allahu Akbar! an Arabic phrase for God is great! before opening fire, the base commander said Friday. U.S. A...
9.0K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 140.0 Army post shooting rampage leaves 13 dead, 30 hurt
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Tex...
7.3K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 121.0 We need jobs not health care
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about the fierce urgency of now ? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education you name...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 60.0 Exxon, Shell win Iraq oil field deal
BAGHDAD A consortium grouping U.S. and European oil giants Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC today signed a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq s most prized oil fields, as the OPEC nation looks to revamp its battered energy sec...
4.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 556.0 Hate-crimes ploy undermines free speech
What does a hate-crimes bill have to do with money for U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq? Nothing, except the National Defense Authorization Act, which will soon win final passage in Congress, also contains the Matthew Shepard and James By...
3.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 60.0 President honors fallen soldier
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Delaware Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of their nation sleeps in peace. In a midnight dash to ...
4.6K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 60.0 Veteran talks about stress disorder
I didn t have issues. There were just stupid people around me doing stupid things, Eddie Black told about 50 people at Southwestern Oregon Community College on Tuesday night. That s how Black felt when he returned home from serving in Baghdad, Iraq,...
3.0K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 60.0 8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month
KABUL (AP) Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since it began in 2001. The eight deaths occurred during multiple, complex bomb s...
2.4K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 60.0 Baghdad blasts kill 155
BAGHDAD (AP) Iraqi security forces blocked streets around the capital today and conducted intense searches at checkpoints as authorities investigated the massive security failure that allowed two truck bombs to strike what was supposed to be one of...
4.1K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 121.0 Vets pedal for peace
They used to ride into town in Humvees, packing M-4 assault rifles. On Monday, with nothing to shield them but the conviction of compassion, two Iraq War veterans will ride into Coos Bay on bicycles. Their message will be one of peace. Twenty-one-yea...
2.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 363.0 Vets pedal for peace
They used to ride into town in Humvees, packing M-4 assault rifles. On Monday, with nothing to shield them but the conviction of compassion, two Iraq War veterans will ride into Coos Bay on bicycles. Their message will be one of peace. Twenty-one-yea...
1.8K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 363.0 Vets pedal for peace
They used to ride into town in Humvees, packing M-4 assault rifles. On Monday, with nothing to shield them but the conviction of compassion, two Iraq War veterans will ride into Coos Bay on bicycles. Their message will be one of peace. Twenty-one-yea...
1.8K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 363.0 Current strategy is a loser
More and more, it looks as though President Barack Obama is going to adopt a split the difference policy on Afghanistan that will basically continue current strategy and likely lead to catastrophe. Obama told congressional leaders he does not int...
3.2K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 95.0 Combat vet discusses stress disorder
Southwestern Oregon Community College is hosting a free post-traumatic stress disorder presentation. Eddie Black will be giving the presentation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Oregon Coast Culinary Institute building on the Coos Bay campus. The d...
1.2K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 60.0 Bombs kill 6 around Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) Car bombs and planted explosives killed six people, mostly police, today in different areas of Iraq, as a low level insurgency continues to target the country s struggling security forces. A car packed with explosives blew up at a gas ...
2.1K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 312.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 60.0 Searchers find debris in Atlantic
CHARLESTON, S.C. Debris and an oil slick were spotted in the Atlantic off the South Carolina coast as the search expanded Friday for an F-16 fighter pilot whose jet collided with another during night training exercises. We did have a report of an o...
4.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 60.0 Bush is gone; media forget caskets
Remember the controversy over the Pentagon policy of not allowing the press to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets of American war dead as they arrived in the United States? Critics accused President George W. Bush of trying to hide the terrible...
4.2K - Oct. 15, 2009; scored 60.0 Afghanistan corruption worries McChrystal
WASHINGTON (AP) The top military commander in Afghanistan is asking for up to 80,000 more American troops even as he warns that rampant government corruption there may prevent victory against the Taliban and al-Qaida, according to U.S. officials br...
4.7K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 60.0 | 
