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They are "the unwanted, doing the unforgivable, for the ungrateful," according to a tattoo adorning an American private security contractor--one of the tens of thousands of mercenaries who work alongside the understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with the mercs of Crescent Security Group--a ragged outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper...
...meeting the post-election smear campaign head-on, she may have silenced it. On Nov. 11, McCain appeared on the Tonight Show to announce he "couldn't be happier" with his former running mate, despite polls showing she may have cost their ticket more votes than she earned...
Sources: BBC; Washington Post; New York Times; CNN; New York Times; International Herald Tribune...
NICOLE KIDMAN to portray world's first post-op transsexual...
...there are dysfunctional families." To many pundits, both black and white, Obama's election to the White House signals the end of black America's unchallenged status as sore losers and complaint-mongers. "African Americans have just entered the no-excuses zone," Jonetta Rose Barras wrote in the Washington Post. Obama "won't tolerate ... the long-standing narrative of victimhood that has defined black America to itself and to the mainstream for more than a century." The writer John McWhorter, in New York magazine, went so far as to suggest that Obama will finally end the bullying of the black...