"The battle is over," an unoffficial source in the Lebanese army said. "The Lebanese army has seized the last positions of Fatah Islam in the camp."

First, there was this piece in the (otherwise highly unreliable) Debka file website: ------- DEBKAfile: USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group takes up position opposite Lebanese coast amid trepidation over September presidential election Our military sources report that aboard the Kearsarge group’s vessels are members of the 22nds Marine special operations-capable Expeditionary Unit, ready to execute landings on Lebanese beaches. Wednesday, Aug. 29, Adm. William Fallon, chief of US Central...

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for today: Will Grigg and Wayne White. Listen live here 11am-1pm Texas time. MP3 here.

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Folks, this is what's being done on Linux these days. My desktop is very similar to this. I don't have all of these features enabled because I don't currently have a powerful CPU, but this is a lot closer to mine than anything else I could find on Youtube. The window manager is called Beryl, and it is what is causing these effects, including the 3D cube (Skydome) effect and all of the neat things done with the windows. For all the hype about Vista's "Aero" desktop, Microsoft could only do...

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for today: 1st hour: Patrick Cockburn. 2nd hour: Gareth Porter. Listen here 12-1 Eastern.

Nelson Linder, head of the Austin NAACP discusses Ron Paul's message of liberty and the local cops' policy of murdering unarmed black folks when they feel like it.

I've been reading Philip Norman's book "Shout", a history of the Beatles. A substantial portion of the book is about their manager Brian Epstein. "Eppy" died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills 40 years ago on August 27, 1967. The Beatles, as we think of them, is the work of Brian Epstein -- it's a simple as that. Yes, the music was written by John and Paul, for the most part, but consider this: * Brian fought for the group to get their first recording contract, and introduced them to...