John Kelly

                   

Open goal (for a quick-off-the-mark blogger)

samizdata.net
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The Sunday Times today reports that certain celebrity TV license fee refuseniks are not being harassed, on account of being too famous and too keen on getting the splurge of publicity that they would get if arrested, taken away...

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BBC shies from fight with licence rebels

timesonline.co.uk
15-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Public figures refusing to pay TV the fee are being let off to avoid making them heroes The BBC is failing to prosecute viewers who refuse to pay the television licence on principle amid claims that the corporation fears...

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Campbell challenged by Bloody Sunday relative: Belfast Telegraph - Sam Lister and Brendan McDaid

nuzhound.com
15-Nov-2008 8 related
        

By Sam Lister and Brendan McDaid The brother of a teenager killed on Bloody Sunday yesterday called on Gregory Campbell to support the families’ quest for justice after the DUP MP again criticised the cost of the inquiry. His...

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Atheists believe in the power of advertising

delawareonline.com
14-Nov-2008 3 related
        

WASHINGTON -- Atheists this week are bringing their own holiday message to Washington-area commuters, with advertisements on Metrobuses that read: "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake."

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Project X By The Book

idolator.com
14-Nov-2008
        

I admit it: I have a bias against literary novelists who write about music. It has to do with my appetite for immediacy. That’s what I like about pop, and pop writing, and it’s not a tendency always shared by literary fiction...

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Massapequa edges Hempstead, 30-22

newsday.com
14-Nov-2008
        

BY BOB HERZOG | bob.herzog@newsday.com All those days throwing the football around in Sunset Park as 10 year olds paid off big time for Rob VonBargen and Mike Mauri last night. VonBargen, the 6-8 quarterback, and Mauri, the 5-8...

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Armistice Day at Iraqi WW2 cemetery

mod.uk
13-Nov-2008
        

A newly renovated Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Iraq was the location for an Armistice Day ceremony attended by senior British, American and Iraqi officers and the British Ambassador to Iraq on Tuesday 11 November 2008.

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Anatomy of a Win & End of an Era

bluejersey.com
13-Nov-2008
        

For the first time since 1882, a Democrat will be sworn in as the next Congressman from New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District. The perfect political storm known as the 2008 election has broken a 126-year drought and turned an...

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Camp Fallujah Goes Back To Iraqis

offtopicz.com
13-Nov-2008 5 related
        

I can't believe it. I'm amazed that they can do this. When I left there in February of last year, we were still taking mortars 2-3 times a week. They even thought one had a chemical warhead (turns out it hit a chow hall trailer...

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No Sanctuary for Al-Qaida

aina.org
13-Nov-2008 57 related
        

Over the past five years foreign fighters for al-Qaida have poured into Iraq from their safe haven in Syria. In similar fashion, al-Qaida and its allies have used the porous Pakistani-Afghan order as a sanctuary.

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