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Chalabi Reportedly Told Iran That U.S. Had Code NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 1 — Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran's intelligence service, betraying one of Washington's most valuable sources of information about Iran, according to United States intelligence officials. | |
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Juan Cole: Chalabi Spy Case — James Risen and David Johnston have a story in the New York Times on Wednesday about the spying charges against Ahmad Chalabi. Smash: Chalabi Scrutinized — JAMES JOYNER has a good round-up of reactions to the news that Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi may have passed sensitive information to Iran. Steve M.: This is probably the most quoted passage of the day in Blogistan: The F.B.I. has opened an espionage investigation... |
David Adesnik: Anyhow, it now looks that Chalabi did exactly what everyone thinks he did — tell Iranian intelligence that we broke their codes. The Poor Man: The End of the VPC Model — Fortunately for us, it appears that Iranian intelligence is not possessed of super-human... Noam Scheiber: AHMAD CHALABI—AMERICAN STALWART, IRAQI PATRIOT: I haven't read Jane Mayer's New Yorker piece about Ahmad Chalabi yet,... |
| Also: Jeff Goldstein, Rich Lowry, Tom Tomorrow, Jeralyn Merritt, Joe Drymala, Clayton Cramer, Glenn Reynolds, Jesse Taylor, Atrios, Tarek @LiquidList, Matthew Yglesias, QD @SouthernAppeal, Cori Dauber, Steve Soto, John Holbo, Mark Kleiman, Gregory Djerejian, Billmon, Adam Mordecai, Brad DeLong, Josh Marshall, Mike Rappaport, Kevin Drum | |
Tip of the Iceberg? MSNBC — Permalink June 2 - The Iraqi exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi—formerly a key ally of the Bush administration—is suspected of leaking confidential information about U.S. war plans for Iraq to the government of Iran before last year's invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, government sources told NEWSWEEK. | |
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Joe Drymala: Tip of the Iceberg? That's the question that Newsweek asks. Kevin Drum: UPDATE: Via commenter Anthony, more about the Chalabi raid a couple of weeks ago: "One Bush administration official said... TChris: Newsweek reports that Chalabi "is suspected of leaking confidential information about U.S. war plans for Iraq to the... |
Digby: It's Showtime — "The Iraqi exile group headed by Ahmad Chalabi --- formerly a key ally of the Bush administration ---... Josh Marshall: Watch out! Shoes dropping! From Newsweek ... [snipped quote] Could get ugly. |
Bush Consults Lawyer in CIA Leak Case By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Bush Seeks Legal Advice over Plame Leak — President Bush has sought independent legal advice from Washington lawyer Jim... Harley: De Plame! De Plame! The Prez lawyers up. Simple question for the legal eagles in here. Why? Josh Marshall: More on the president's lawyering up in the Plame case. The lawyer in question is identified as Jim Sharp. |
Jesse Taylor: Damn Liberal Ashcroft Justice Department — Question: how long do you give your favorite conservative outlet outlet... Tom Tomorrow: Interesting — I wouldn't want to suggest that anyone who consults a lawyer is therefore guilty—but it is noteworthy... |
Facing Suit, County to Remove Seal's Cross By / LAT — Permalink Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday ended an emotional debate over the symbolism of the tiny gold cross on the county seal by deciding to remove it rather than defend it against a threatened ACLU lawsuit. | |
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Mike Rappaport: Removal of the Cross — Eugene notes that LA County has decided to remove the cross in response to the ACLU lawsuit,... Edward Driscoll: LOS ATHEISTS: Los Angeles County surrenders to ACLU; will remove the crosses on its seal. Ramesh Ponnuru: THE GODDESS POMONA SMILES — Los Angeles County has given in to the ACLU and agreed to remove the cross from its seal. |
Steve Bainbridge: Los Angeles Succumbs to ACLU War on Religion in the Public Square — The hyper do-gooders at the ALU have successfully... Pejman Yousefzadeh: NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON — It would appear that I left California just in time: "Los Angeles County supervisors on... Eugene Volokh: "Facing Suit, County to Remove Seal's Cross": So reports the L.A. Times (thanks to How Appealing for the pointer). |
Must do better Guardian — Permalink A lot of Democrats are nostalgic these days for the exuberance that Bill Clinton exhibited on the campaign trail and for the clarity of his message: "It's the economy, stupid." With John Kerry, the message so far seems to be: It's the war, sort of, and it's the economy, maybe. | |
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Dean Esmay: Howeling Moonbat — Man, dig this crazy spate of psychobabble from Howell Raines, the recently-fired editor of the New York Times. Hindrocket: Thus, this article in England's left-wing Guardian is illuminating. What is noteworthy, I think, is not just Raines' leftism, but also his bigotry. Jane Galt: I'm not too busy, however, to take notice of Howell Raines' piece in the Guardian. |
M Scott Eiland: Disgraced former New York Times Opinion Editor and Martha Burk groupie Howell Raines has discovered a cure for being... Jon Henke: Quick Hits — So much I want to blog about, but so little time.... *** I wanted to tear into this inexplicable Howell Raines piece, but life is short. Steve Lovelady: Howell Raines, the recently deposed executive editor of The New York Times today has his first in a series of dispatches for The (U.K.) |
| Also: Tom Maguire, Andrew Sullivan, C. D. Harris, Cori Dauber, Steve Antler, Glenn Reynolds, Captain Ed | |
Anti-Kerry veterans group protests ad CNN — Permalink (CNN) — A group of Vietnam veterans opposed to John Kerry's presidential campaign demanded Tuesday that he remove a photograph that appears in one of his television advertisements. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Eugene Volokh discusses the likelihood of Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry's (I know they're called something else, but... Eugene Volokh: CNN reports (thanks to InstaPundit for the pointer): [snipped quote] Would the objectors have a good legal case? Betsy Newmark: A group of Swift Boat Veterans who oppose Kerry's candidacy have asked for a cease and desist order for Kerry to use their photographs in his ad. |
Thorley Winston: The "Band of Brothers" Distance Themselves from John Kerry — Looks like Kerry's purported support amongst his "Band of... Glenn Reynolds: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IMPINGES ON THE CAMPAIGN: [snipped quote] Hmm. I don't think I like this. |
For Some Soldiers the War Never Ends By / NYT — Permalink CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Many Americans, feeling that we did not have enough troops in Iraq, were pleased when the Defense Department announced last month that 20,000 more soldiers were being sent to put down the insurgency and help rebuild the country. | |
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Hesiod: BUSH SCREWS OUR SOLDIERS — UPDATE: You da man, George! [snipped quote] Better watch your back, Captain Exum. James Joyner: Andrew Exum [RSS], a former Army captain, is angry about current military personnel policies: [snipped quote] I... Phillip Carter: That's how I feel about this New York Times op-ed and this National Review essay, both of which concern American soldiers and the war in Iraq. |
Steve Soto: Former Army Captain Andrew Exum, in a New York Times Op-Ed this morning, calls this stop-loss maneuver "shameful" and... Edward _: In today's New York Times, Andrew Exum, a former Army captain, writes: "[T]he military is now activating significant... |
Casualty Counts Count By / Gadflyer — Permalink Another Memorial Day has come and gone. But this year's was particularly unique, not only because there are soldiers fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan, but because huge crowds - including teary-eyed octogenarian veterans - descended upon the National Mall in Washington for the dedication of the new World War II Memorial. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: On a somewhat related note, Thomas Schaller of the Gadflyer analyzes the casualty data from Iraq and finds that Red... Tom Schaller: Counting casualties more closely — At the risk of raining on the Herseth parade (congrats Congresswoman!), and given... |
Ezra Klein: Morning Reads — Tom Schaller analyzes troop casualties in Iraq, finally figuring out whether this war is being fought by all NASCAR viewers or not. |
Abolish the Penny By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Because my staunch support of the war in Iraq has generated such overwhelming reader enthusiasm, it's time to re-establish my contrarian credentials. (Besides, I need a break.) Here's a crusade sure to infuriate the vast majority of penny-pinching traditionalists: | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Lord knows Bill Safire isn't my favorite columnist, but now that his latest column has been subjected to a left-right... Libertarian: SAFIRE CALLS FOR ABOLITION OF PENNY, OTHERS OUTRAGED William Safire has called for the abolition of the penny. Why? Jonah Goldberg: SAFIRE'S SCHTICK — William Safire calls for the abolition of the penny. He begins: [snipped quote] Now I don't care if he wants to get rid of the penny. |
Steve Bainbridge: Safire Calls for Abolishing the Penny — William Safire takes a break from warmongering to fire on a new target; namely,... Jesse Taylor: Get Rid Of This Goddamn Subject — Much like David Brooks' insistence yesterday that he had "modulated" views on Bush's... Kevin Drum: Because then I would never again have to read a columnist boldly suggesting for the millionth time that we should abolish the penny. |
The Education of Alexandra Polier By / New York Magazine — Permalink On the evening of Thursday, February 12, as John Kerry had just chalked up his twelfth state-primary win in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, I was at a dinner party in Nairobi, hosted by my friend Matthew Rosenberg, an Associated Press reporter based in East Africa. | |
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Tim Blair: APOLOGY — Doug Payton sets the record straight: [snipped quote] Well said, and the same goes for me. I was wrong, and I apologise. Hesiod: POLIER BARE: This is THE must-read article this week from Alex Polier. Here's an interesting excerpt: [snipped quote] Indeed. SK Bubba: Shocking revelations! By way of the Beanster, the Kerry "intern" tells all. I can't believe Drudge missed this exclusive. |
Tom Tomorrow: Another one the right got wrong — The story behind the story of Kerry's alleged affair. James Martin Capozzola: Smearing Alexandra Polier gives a first-hand account of how Republicans, with help from the media, will smear anyone,... Jan Haugland: Now Alex Polier (picture) is writing her own story, explaining what happened, of course what didn't happen, what lying... |
| Also: Jeralyn Merritt, Amanda Butler, Captain Ed, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Gary Farber, Ampersand @Amptoons, Daniel Drezner, Brian Montopoli, Taegan Goddard | |
Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Secretary Roche and General Jumper, General Rosa, Attorney General Ashcroft, Congresswoman Heather Wilson — Air Force Academy graduate 1982 — Academy staff and faculty, distinguished guests, officers, cadets, members of the graduating class, and your families: Thank you for the warm welcome. | |
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Charles Johnson: Echoes of Other Enemies — Read this terrific speech by President Bush; it went a long way toward persuading me that he... |
Deacon: Here is the full text of this excellent speech. |
Bush, Atty Powwow Over CIA Leak CBS News — Permalink (CBS/AP) President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Bush Hires Lawyer Over CIA Leak — President Bush "has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the... |
Kevin Drum: PLAME UPDATE....From CBS News: [snipped quote] Hmmm..... |
Friends, Friends With Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall By / NYT — Permalink Jesse wants to meet at Hooters. ''It's 40 minutes from where I live,'' he says, ''but trust me, it's worth the drive.'' Jesse is 15. Surprisingly, there is no age requirement to dine at Hooters. | |
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Matt Yglesias: Ah The Hook-ups — Via Ogged a thumbsucker from the New York Times Magazine asks what's wrong with kids today, looking at the much-rumored "hook-up" culture. |
Amy Phillips: Whether this trend is actually significant, it's clear that middle class, suburban parents are worried about the trend... |
The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal WorldNetDaily — Permalink The United Nations and Red Cross have been providing cover for terrorists - literally. And American taxpayers are footing some of the bill. Last week, an Israeli television station aired footage of armed Arab terrorists in southern Gaza using an ambulance owned and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. | |
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Ted Belman: The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal — Michelle Malkin in WND article "Palestinian gunmen used the UNRWA emergency... Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER U.N. SCANDAL: U.N. ambulances used by terrorists. [snipped quote] There's a link to the video. |
Fred Lapides: The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal — A hat tip to Instapundit for steering me to this timely article in wnd This... |
Bush May Hire Lawyer in Probe Over CIA Leak -CBS Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has sought a lawyer to represent him in the criminal probe into who was responsible for a leak that was seen as retaliation against a critic of the Iraq war, CBS Evening News reported on Wednesday. | |
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The Poor Man: Plame S**t, Different Day — Begin the frogmarch: [snipped quote] Obstruction of justice. He knew. |
Atrios: Plame Game — CBS News: Bush to hire outside counsel in Plame affair... and, more generally, tonight's CBS News... |
Stem Sell By / TNR — Permalink Last month, The Boston Globe published a science article, datelined from far away Brno, Czech Republic, that carried political implications for the Bush administration much closer to home. | |
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Harley: Stem Cells — Kevin Drum gets the ball rolling with a link to Michael Crowley's TNR piece re stem cell research. |
Kevin Drum: As TNR's Michael Crowley reports, even Republicans are not amused: [snipped quote] Bush's reasoning for his decision,... |
Remarks by Senator John Kerry Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Kerry for President Press Room — Permalink On a cold winter's day in January of 1896, fourteen year old Eddie McCarthy went ice skating on the frozen Connecticut River. As he raced around, he slipped and fell and broke his arm. He came to the then-new Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. | |
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Harley: George Bush here. John Kerry here. Well, if nothing else, the Prez is right about one thing. This is one of the most profound issues of our time. |
Kevin Drum: Perhaps they should all read this speech. |
Democrat wins Janklow's House seat AP — Permalink SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) — Stephanie Herseth, a lawyer who left the East Coast for a career in politics in her home state, narrowly defeated a Republican former lawmaker Tuesday in a special congressional election that was closely watched by national parties looking for momentum heading into November. | |
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Magpie @PacificViews: Democrat Stephanie Herseth has won election to the US House of Representatives from South Dakota. Mitch Berg: Omens — Stephanie Herseth beat Larry Diederich yesterday in the race for South Dakota's sole US House seat. Mark Kleiman: Two in a row — Herseth beats out Diederich by a couple of percentage points. |
Oliver @LiquidList: Politics: Ball Rolling — Congratulations to Stephanie Herseth for a great campaign and an important win in South Dakota yesterday. Captain Ed: Herseth's narrow margin, however, means the two will meet again in November: [snipped quote] Jay Reding live-blogged the... |
An Attack on Bush Backfires NRO — Permalink A criticism of Bush's "negativity" gets it positively wrong. Bush campaign officials say a front-page Washington Post story which claimed that the president's "ferocious assault" of negative campaigning has been "extraordinary, both for the volume of... | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Now comes Byron York with an article pointing out that in addition to other mistakes, Milbank's "facts" are horribly off. Deacon: Three strikes and Milbank is out — Byron York of National Review Online puts Dana Milbank's Washington Post story on the Bush campaign's "negativity" out of its agony. |
Bird Dog: Bryon York analyzed the hit piece (yes, this was a hit piece) and concluded, "But it appears that Bush officials are correct, and the Post wrong, on at least three major points." |
Former Oil-for-Food Director Criticizes Security Council NYT — Permalink The former head of the United Nations' oil-for-food program in Iraq says the Security Council prevented him from effectively administering the multibillion-dollar-a-year program that is now the focus of several inquiries into allegations of corruption and mismanagement. | |
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Roger L. Simon: (UPDATED) The astoundingly late-to-the-party New York Times on one of the most important issues of our time — the UN... |
Glenn Reynolds: UNSCAM UPDATE: The finger-pointing begins: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing. He also slams unnamed "pundits" for giving him a hard time. |
Recalling World War II, Bush Stresses Importance of Iraq By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 2 — Using language reminiscent of World War II and the post-war struggle with communism, President Bush told new Air Force officers today that the campaign in Iraq was worthy of America's mission in history and was central to defeating terrorism worldwide. | |
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David Allan Pell: One of These Things is Not Like the Other — In his latest Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Iraq speech, the... |
Steve M.: I haven't read Bush's entire Air Force Academy commencement speech, but judging from the excerpts that appear here, he... |
Was Australia complicit in U.S. war crimes at Abu Ghraib? By / Sydney Morning Herald — Permalink G'day. The latest Iraq scandal to engulf the government is bloody difficult to get your head around so I thought I'd set out my preliminary understanding and seek your input. Calling all legal experts on the Geneva Conventions and what our obligations are under them!!! | |
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Tim Dunlop: Reporter: You believe there is still a chance that huge stockpiles of WMD will be found in Iraq? |
Tim Blair: THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'S MARGO KINGSTON'S REPORT — "Is Australia's complicit in the US war crimes at Abu Ghraib?" asks Margo Kingston. |
E-Mail Boosts Calls to Probe Halliburton, Cheney By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly unearthed Pentagon e-mail about Halliburton contracts in Iraq prompted fresh calls on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for probes into whether Vice President Dick Cheney helped his old firm get the deals. | |
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Joe Drymala: A Legitimate Businessman — I know we don't talk about Dick Cheney much here on ChangeForAmerica.com, so let me remedy... |
Atrios: Not Nearly As Important as Whitewater — So, the VP's office was intimately involved in handing out contracts to Halliburton which should have been handed out competitively. |
Army Expanding Program to Keep Soldiers on Duty AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army will prevent soldiers in units set to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan from leaving the service at the end of their terms, a top general said Wednesday. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: The Associated Press reports that the Army is going to start relying even more heavily on so-called "stop loss" orders,... |
Phillip Carter: (Update: the AP reports that the Army is expanding its stop-loss policies.) |
U.S. Spells Out Dangers Posed by Plot Suspect By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 1 — Just weeks before the Supreme Court is to decide whether the Bush administration improperly declared Jose Padilla an enemy combatant, the Justice Department on Tuesday released newly declassified documents that it said showed the grave terrorist threat he posed to the United States. | |
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Cori Dauber: But if there's no new news besides the details, then it's all about the Justice Department playing games with the process all over again. Tarek @LiquidList: Isn't there a Navy Brig somewhere, next to the half-mad and willing to admit anything Jose Padilla where we can stick... |
Steve M.: Well, this makes me chuckle: [Jose Padilla] and an accomplice were to enter the United States from Mexico or Puerto... Mary InLosGatos: Ashcroft Declassifies Confessions from Padilla — In an unusual move, the Justice department declassified and released... |
The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal By / Townhall.com — Permalink The United Nations and Red Cross have been providing cover for terrorists — literally. And American taxpayers are footing some of the bill. Last week, an Israeli television station aired footage of armed Arab terrorists in southern Gaza using an ambulance owned and operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). | |
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Stefan Sharkansky: An archive of Michelle's columns is here. Start by reading today's column: "The ambulances-for-terrorists scandal". |
Deacon: The U.N. aids and abets terrorists, again — Michelle Malkin on the latest scandal involving the United Nations, the "ambulances-for-terrorists scandal." |
Bush Likens War Against Terrorism to WWII By / AP — Permalink AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - President Bush , preparing new Air Force officers for war, cast the fight against terrorism as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II and the Cold War. | |
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SK Bubba: A legend in his own mind — In a speech today Bush compared the War on Terror to WWII. Yeah, it's almost exactly the same. |
Steve Antler: UPDATE: Very much the same can be said of President Bush. |
Kerry Faces the World By / The Atlantic Online — Permalink I n early February I sat in a Starbucks in downtown Washington with Dan Feldman, who is helping to organize Senator John Kerry's foreign-policy team. We discussed Kerry's vision of America's role in the world, and the people who might play important roles in... | |
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Deacon: In this puff-piece, Joshua Micah Marshall predicts that, whatever his radical roots, John Kerry's foreign policy would... Jeff Goldstein: Is it just me, or does this opening from Josh Marshall's Atlantic Monthly piece tell you everything you need to know... |
David Allan Pell: Josh Marshall in The Atlantic: [snipped quote] — LinkTo or Email Post Josh Marshall: Here is a soon-to-be-released article I wrote on Kerry's foreign policy and foreign policy team. |
Parker beats Justice Brown in Supreme Court Place 1 race By / al.com — Permalink Former Chief Justice Roy Moore backed four candidates in the Alabama Republican primary, but only one scored an outright victory Tuesday night. That candidate was Tom Parker, a former Moore aide who campaigned against Supreme Court Justice Jean Brown's vote to remove Moore's Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building. | |
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Michael DeBow: More on the Alabama GOP primary results: * "Parker beats Justice Brown in Supreme Court place 1 race" by Tom Gordon in... |
Steven Taylor: The Most Visible Moorite Wins — Parker beats Justice Brown in Supreme Court Place 1 race [snipped quote] Parker was the... |
Enron Traders Caught On Tape CBS News — Permalink (CBS) When a forest fire shut down a major transmission line into California, cutting power supplies and raising prices, Enron energy traders celebrated, CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales reports. "Burn, baby, burn. That's a beautiful thing," a trader sang about the massive fire. | |
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Kos: Enron manufactured California power crisis — Bush and Arnold's buddies at Enron f**ked California. Their word, not mine. Tom Tomorrow: My, my, my — [snipped quote] Okay, John Kerry—that one has just been delivered to you gift wrapped with a lovely bow. Kevin Drum: ENRON AND CALIFORNIA...CBS News has obtained tapes of Enron traders gloating about how successfully they've gamed the... |
Magpie @PacificViews: The Snohomish County Public Utility District (located near Seattle, Washington) has obtained tapes of Enron energy... Mathew Gross: 'Barnacle Bill the Sailor' — From CBS News: [snipped quote] Ah, Ken Lay and the boys. Unbelievable. Gary Farber: HOW ENRON F**KED CALIFORNIA in their own words. What's far more devastating than to read these transcripts is to listen... |
Mole in Our Midst By / American Prospect — Permalink Surveying the vast wasteland that George W. Bush has made of American governance, even the most sophisticated observer is driven to ask, like the simple son at a Passover seder, what is all this? The most compelling hypothesis so far is that we have not one president but two. | |
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Atrios: Whose Side is Bush On? Big Media Matt makes a convincing case that Bush is actually an agent of the Iranian government. |
Matt Yglesias: Mole Man — At last one enterprising young journalist has the balls to ask whose side is George W. Bush on? |
Boom Test NRO — Permalink This time around, new jobs are backed by profits. What makes a boom different from a bubble? The answer is sustainability. Both booms and bubbles represent periods of rapid expansion: The difference between them is that a bubble is hollow and a boom is solid. | |
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PGL: National Review's profit support per new job — National Review's Jerry Bowyer has once again provided professors with another "lies, damn lies, and statistics" classic. |
Steve Antler: I'm confused... BuzzCharts has created a new statistical indicator purportedly measuring "sustainability" of new jobs... |
Democrats Starting to See Chance of Keeping Senate Seats in South By / NYT — Permalink CHARLOTTE, N.C. , May 29 — Not so long ago, the South provided a bleak landscape for Democrats. Struggling to recover from devastating defeats in the 2002 off-year elections, the party saw five of its incumbent senators announce their retirements — John B.... | |
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Nathan Hallford: That's what is implied by this New York Times article whose headline reads "Democrats Starting to See Chance of Keeping Senate Seats in South." |
Tom Maguire: Democrats Hope For Southern Senate Seats — The first step will be for the candidates to conceal the off-putting fact... |
Stop Talking By / TNR — Permalink Most of the time in war, diplomatic machinations don't create enduring realities—events on the battlefield do. After World War I, the defeated, but not humiliated, German army that surrendered in France and Belgium provided the origins for the "stab in the back" mythology that fueled Hitler's rise to power. | |
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Mike Hendrix: Can't find a lot to argue with here: [snipped quote] And as is usual with Hanson, I can't find much to add either. |
Glenn Reynolds: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON is writing in The New Republic: [snipped quote] He favors a more aggressive approach. |
Chalabi Accused of Aiding Iran Spies By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi exile who provided the Bush administration with faulty prewar intelligence on Iraqi weapons, recently told Iranian intelligence officials that U.S. eavesdroppers were monitoring top-secret communications by Tehran's chief spy service, U.S. officials said Tuesday. | |
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James Martin Capozzola: Snooping Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reports on Miller pal Ahmed Chalabi ("Chalabi Accused of Aiding Iran Spies,"... |
Joe Drymala: Chalabi the Liar — The L.A. Times breaks the story this morning about the allegations of Chalabi's Iran ties: "Ahmad... |
Management Style Shows Weaknesses By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush has long prided himself for focusing on big goals rather than on niggling details and delegating significant responsibility to his aides. But his belated attention to the brutality at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison has revealed vulnerabilities in a management style that had brought him personal and political success. | |
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James Joyner: Bush's Management Style — WaPo's Mike Allen has an "Analysis" piece called Management Style Shows Weaknesses —... Steve Soto: Bush: The Failed Delegator And Manager — In tomorrow's Washington Post, Mike Allen runs a great piece on one of Bush's... |
Taegan Goddard: Bush's Management Style Shows Weaknesses — It turns out America's first CEO president has problems with his management style, the Washington Post reports. |
The Tiananmen Victory By / NYT — Permalink On Friday, it will be 15 years since I stood at the northeast corner of Tiananmen Square and watched China go mad. The Communist Party was answering the demands of millions of protesters who had made Tiananmen Square the focus of their seven-week democracy movement. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: Bitter brew — The problem in the idea that capitalism will set the world free was never clearer to me than it was when... |
Jon Henke: A fatal case of Western Values — Nicholas Kristof hits it on the head today... [snipped quote] It's not a development... |
Democrat Wins in South Dakota Special Election By / AP — Permalink SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Stephanie Herseth, a lawyer who left the East Coast for a career in politics in her home state, narrowly defeated a Republican former lawmaker Tuesday in a special congressional election that was closely watched by national parties looking for momentum heading into November. | |
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Hesiod: HERSETH WINS: Awsome. Kos has more. |
Mathew Gross: Herseth — This makes us happy: "Her victory gave the Democrats two straight triumphs this year in special elections... |
Democrat Wins Election for Janklow's Seat By / AP — Permalink SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Democrats looking ahead to November got a bounce with the victory of Stephanie Herseth in a special election, marking the party's second straight congressional triumph and snatching a House seat in a heavily GOP-leaning state. | |
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Hindrocket: Democrat Wins in South Dakota — As expected, Democrat Stephanie Herseth defeated Republican Larry Diedrich in a special... |
Steven Taylor: Janklow's Seat Goes to a Democrat — Democrat Wins Election for Janklow's Seat "Democrats looking ahead to November got... |
Mea culpa, that's what we want By / Guardian — Permalink The only professional heads to roll in the whole Iraq imbroglio - Davies, Dyke, Gilligan, Morgan - tumbled into a basket marked "media". And the loud splashes currently being heard, of rats deserting a sinking ship, are of heavyweight newspaper columnists jumping overboard. | |
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Tim Blair: MOURN THE "PROFESSIONAL HEADS" — George Galloway seems to have forgotten a certain incident involving Nicholas Berg: [snipped quote] Timely image, pal. |
Harry @HarrysPlace: Little over a week before the European and local elections and the Guardian gives Galloway some space for an unpaid party advertisement and some more of his demagogic filth. |
Hopeful Omens in Iraq By / WaPo — Permalink In his prime-time speech last week, George W. Bush hit all his familiar themes — we must show resolve, stay the course, finish the job, etc. But it masked a very different reality. Over the past three weeks the Bush administration has reversed itself on nearly every major aspect of its Iraq policy. | |
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James Joyner: "Sometimes you win just by staying in the game — or fail by losing heart and leaving the table," Fareed Zakaria sees... |
Gregory Djerejian: Smart people (and frequent Administration critics) like Fareed Zakaria are happier too. |
President Bush Discusses the Iraqi Interim Government White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Today in Baghdad, U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, announced the members of Iraq's new interim government. | |
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Kevin Drum: President Bush, June 1, 2004: "Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. Tbogg: Nope. Don't know 'em. Ask my wife... President Out of the Loop speaks: Q Thank you, Mr. President. |
David Adesnik: Anyhow, talk about being set up for a fall: [snipped quote] The funny thing is, Bush didn't actually say anything terribly optimistic at yesterday's press conference. KJL: CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE — President Bush wound up giving a full-fledged press conference this morning in the Rose Garden |
Aussie crowned Miss Universe NEWS.com.au — Permalink MISS Australia Jennifer Hawkins, a statuesque 20-year-old from Sydney's beach suburb of Bondi, has been crowned Miss Universe at the competition final in Ecuador. She beat 14 other women in front of a crowd of 7500 in a convention centre the Ecaudorian capital Quito. | |
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Tim Blair: MEANWHILE, THE SYRIAN CONTESTANT HAS WON MISS UN — Norm Geras believes a US-Australian conspiracy may lie behind Aussie Jennifer Hawkins' Miss Universe victory. |
Arthur Chrenkoff: Another triumph for one of the Willing — The increasing prominence of Australians on the world stage continues: "Miss... |
Hamilton gets 21 as Pistons head for L.A. By / Detroit Free Press — Permalink They're going to L.A. for the NBA Finals. His nose blooded by a blow from defensive player of the year Ron Artest, Richard Hamilton delivered the knockout punch that sent the Pistons to their first Finals berth since 1990 and the Indiana Pacers home for the summer. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: AS A CHICAGO BULLS FAN, I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD SAY THIS . . . And yet, it must be said: Go Pistons! |
Kevin Drum: HOOP DREAMS....Note to Detroit residents: Welcome to your nightmare. |
President Bush: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief Center for American Progress — Permalink From the beginning, George W. Bush has made his own credibility a central issue. On 10/11/00, then Governor Bush said: "I think credibility is important. It is going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with foreign nations." | |
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Hesiod: THEY CALL HIM FLIPPER: George W. Bush — King of Flip Flops. Mitch Berg: To wit: Yesterday's piece, "President Bush - Flip-Flopper in Chief". Tim Dunlop: President Flubber — The latest Center for American Progress document keeping us up-to-date on Bush's flip-flopping on a range of policy issues is up and running. |
SK Bubba: Flip-Flopper-In-Chief — The Center for American Progress has updated their list of Bush flip-flops. Kevin Raybould: 20 Bush Reversals — Center for American Progress has twenty Bush reversals: "OPEC BUSH PROMISES TO FORCE OPEC TO LOWER... The Poor Man: [UPDATE: Not really thematically consistant, but the Center for American Progress has a feature keeping track of George... |
Padilla Targeted High-Rise Apartments By / WaPo — Permalink Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen arrested in 2002 as he returned to the United States from Pakistan and accused of plotting to blow up radioactive "dirty bombs," had been trained at an al Qaeda weapons camp in Afghanistan and had met repeatedly with top leaders of... | |
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Mike Hendrix: But it appears that a slight hitch in the giddyup of the Parade of Deeply Troubled Consciences has developed here Joe Drymala: So Put Him On Trial Like Everyone Else — The DoJ just went public with a laundry list of activities that Jose Padilla... Tarek @LiquidList: Politics: No Dirty Bomb, No Justification for Illegal Detention, No Nothing — The Justice Department released a big... |
Digby: Here we have an American who was trained to blow up apartment buildings and maybe set off dirty bombs, but the only way... Jeff Goldstein: Enemy Combatant, Redux — From the Washington Post: [snipped quote] It's times like these that I'm glad the PATRIOT ACT... Cori Dauber: Perhaps simply because of his value as an American the simple fact is he was getting personal attention from the very... |
What Can I Do? NRO — Permalink It's the West's soft power we need. Reacting to my article, "Feeling the Heat," a young congressional staff member on the Hill wrote to me asking the simple question: "What can I do to help Iran?" | |
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Joe Katzman: If you're interested, the entire article is available at NRO of all places. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: Following up on this excellent article, Ramin Parham discusses what can be done to help the people of Iran make a transition to a more democratic form of government. |
Statement by Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot Bush-Cheney 2004 News Room — Permalink ARLINGTON, VA — Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot issued the following statement regarding today's ruling on partial birth abortion: "Today's tragic ruling upholding partial birth abortion shows why America needs judges who will interpret the law and not legislate from the bench. | |
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Tbogg: Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot responds: "Today's tragic ruling upholding partial birth... |
KJL: "CLEAR CHOICE" — W. campaign on the partial-birth-abortion ruling. |
Judge: Bush Abortion Ban Unconstitutional By / AP — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - In a ruling with coast-to-coast effect, a federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Tuesday, saying it infringes on a woman's right to choose. | |
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Donald Sensing: Judge rules infanticide a Constitutional right — Looney-tune judge is at it again U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton... Steve Bainbridge: The partial birth abortion case — Before deciding whether the decision today striking down the ban on partial birth... Tgirsch: US Judge Finds Bush Abortion Ban Unconstitutional — This is good news for women's health, as well as for their rights:... |
Tbogg: Your Womb Belongs To Us law aborted — The Grinning Misogynists take a knee to their collective groin from a Federal Judge. Betsy Newmark: Now that a Clinton-appointed federal judge in San Francisco (!!) has struck down the law on partial birth abortion, look for that to become a campaign issue. Steven Taylor: Yeesh — Judge: Bush Abortion Ban Unconstitutional "A federal judge Tuesday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act... |
One State or Two, Israelis and Palestinians Share the Same Economy NYT — Permalink Mislam Alshwa, a butcher in Gaza City's central market, has seen his sales plunge by 90 percent since the intifada began in the fall of 2000. That's because, at a time of heightened tension, hardly anyone is being allowed to cross over into Israel to work. | |
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David Gerstman: Flunking Economics — On Friday, Andres Martinez contributed an Editorial Observer column "One State or Two, Israelis... |
Joseph Alexander Norland: Jack De Lowe responds to the NYT - and to Powell — From: Jack De Lowe To: NY Times Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 23:15... |
Q: What's wrong with this picture? By / Dallas Morning News — Permalink Are the news media giving Americans an accurate picture of what's really going on in Iraq? Not according to the American people, who say they've seen too many photos of Abu Ghraib prison abuses. | |
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Bill Hobbs: Rod Dreher makes that point rather well in his column in today's Dallas Morning News. [snipped quote] Indeed. Cori Dauber: To that end he tries to find some that have come across the wires: almost a goose egg. (via Memeorandum.) Rod Dreher: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? That's the question I ask in my Dallas Morning News piece this morning. |
Glenn Reynolds: ROD DREHER in the Dallas Morning News: [snipped quote] Jay Rosen is mentioned. Edward Driscoll: Meanwhile, Rod Dreher has a column on that very subject in the Dallas Morning News, and adds: [snipped quote] "And of... |
Amorous Swedes to Get Emergency Condom Deliveries Reuters — Permalink STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish aid organization will roll out a new line of defense to the country's emergency services next week — the condom ambulance. From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics. | |
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Roger Kimball: I can't, but perhaps your antennae for this sort of thing are more sensitive than mine. Check out the story here. |
Clayton Cramer: Sweden: This Takes Laziness To A New Level — Are they going to turn down the sheets as well? |
Church gives 23rd Psalm a makeover By / This Is London — Permalink They are, after the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments, possibly the most famous words in the Bible. But now the 23rd Psalm, undoubtedly the best-known and best-loved in the English language, has had a makeover. | |
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Damian Penny: And unfortunately, the Church in which I was raised is one of the worst offenders: But now the 23rd Psalm, undoubtedly... |
Tim Blair: Meet Psalm 23 version 2.0: [snipped quote] Readers are invited to submit their own rewritten Biblical verse, after the modern fashion. |
Judge Says Bryant Accuser Can't Be Called 'Victim' Reuters — Permalink DENVER (Reuters) - The woman who accuses Kobe Bryant of rape cannot be called a ''victim'' in court proceedings as the prosecution wants, the judge in the Los Angeles Lakers guard's sexual assault case ruled on Tuesday. | |
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Susanna Cornett: A rose by any other name... Here's a new wrinkle in the Kobe Bryant case: [snipped quote] My first reaction to this was that Kobe's defense team scored on this one. |
Jeralyn Merritt: The judge ruled the prosecution cannot refer to the accuser as a "victim.' This is the right decision. |
U.S.: Suspected 'dirty bomb' plot included plan to blow up apartments CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Jose Padilla — the American citizen held in a U.S. military prison without charges since his arrest two years ago — admitted to training at al Qaeda camps and to having dealings with al Qaeda members, according to documents declassified by the U.S. government Tuesday. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Jose Padilla Evidence Revealed...and Disputed — "Dirty Bomb" Suspect and Bush administration-labeled "enemy combatant"... |
Captain Ed: UPDATE: CNN carries his lawyer's response (not Johnny Cochran, BTW): "But Donna Newman, Padilla's defense attorney,... |
Sunni Is Chosen as President; Governing Council Disbands By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 1 — A new Iraqi government reflecting the diverse ethnic and religious landscape of the country took shape today, ending weeks of bruising negotiations between Iraqi leaders, American administrators and the United Nations envoy here. | |
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David Adesnik: The article that goes along with it is almost as upbeat as the headline. After all, is there anything that the NYT approves of more than diversity? Edward _: Full sovereignty: "In his first public statements after his appointment, Mr. Yawar said he wanted the United Nations... |
Billmon: Strings Attached — The big story this morning was obviously the carefully scripted conclusion to the hit comedy series... |
Documents: Padilla Planned to Blow Up Apartments AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Jose Padilla (search), a detainee held in U.S. custody, was training to blow up hotels and apartment buildings in the United States in addition to a possible attack with a "dirty bomb" radiological device, according to government documents. | |
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Emperor Darth Misha I: A bona fide choir boy, as this article sent to us by LC Mr. Minority proves. Or not. Cori Dauber: In any event the Justice Department is now saying much known about him is now being declassified, including the fact of... |
Clayton Cramer: Now it's news: [snipped quote] Pity Padilla's lawyer, who has to defend Padilla against allegations of terrorism, after Padilla talked about these plans to interrogators. |
Kerry 'Flips Off' Vietnam Vet NewsMax.com — Permalink Democratic senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned. | |
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Dean Esmay: John Kerry Disappoints Me — The very right-wing Newsmax reports that John Kerry recently flipped off a fellow Vietnam veteran. Libertarian: UPDATE: It's actually getting more difficult to tell which candidate is more ridiculous, Bush or Kerry? Captain Ed: The ever-reliable NewsMax (hah!) ran a story today that my friends on the right just can't resist — that John Kerry, in... |
Thomas Lang: Blog Report — A Bitchy Day in the 'Sphere Pandagon's Jesse Taylor is more than a little agitated today about Ted... Jesse Taylor: Deez Nuts — Nutso tabloid sez John Kerry did nutso thing to nusto political hack who's obsessed with Kerry. Oliver Willis: Witness this howler of a story claiming that Kerry flipped the bird at Sampley while attending Memorial Day services. |
| Also: Tom Maguire, Emperor Darth Misha I, Stefan Sharkansky, Charles Johnson | |
Iraq & Militant Islam NRO — Permalink Saddam's al Qaeda links were a worthy rationale for toppling his regime. "We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. | |
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Jon Henke: This story seems to be the New Big Thing for Iraq war proponents... [snipped quote] First things first: no, I don't have a definitive opinion on this, yet. Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: See also this story. Cori Dauber: So when you go through the evidence as it's been collected so far (and again, the 9/11 links is the weakest of all the... |
Steve M.: I wrote yesterday about the excerpt in The Weekly Standard from Stephen Hayes's book The Connection (subtitle: How al... Charles Johnson: Iraq & Militant Islam — In a long, detailed article, Andrew McCarthy lays out what we know to date about Saddam's possible connections to 9/11: Iraq & Militant Islam. Hindrocket: Today Andrew McCarthy, a former chief assistant U.S. attorney who headed the terrorism prosecution of Sheik Omar Abdel... |
| Also: Clayton Cramer, Mike Hendrix, Stuart Buck | |
Making Hay Out of Straw Men By / WaPo — Permalink For President Bush, this is the season of the straw man. It is an ancient debating technique: Caricature your opponent's argument, then knock down the straw man you created. In the 2004 campaign, Bush has been knocking down such phantoms on subjects from Iraq to free trade. | |
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Oliver Willis: Invisible Men — The right has tried its damndest to make Howard Dean and Al Gore seem "crazy" when they're just telling... The Poor Man: The War On Straw is joined. [snipped quote] Why does Dana Milbank hate Strawmerica? Matt Yglesias: Straw — Dana Milbank's got an excellent story in today's Post about the president's nasty habit of burning down... |
Ezra Klein: Check It. Yo. Tonight's must read: Dana Milbank on Bush's imaginary intellectual adversaries. Digby: Turkey In The Straw — I like this article by Dana Milbank about Bush's tendency to make straw man arguments. Kevin Raybould: In addition, Bush has been reduced to jousting with straw: "It is an ancient debating technique: Caricature your opponent's argument, then knock down the straw man you created. |
| Also: Tarek @LiquidList | |
In Democratic Strongholds in N.J., Voters Not Yet Sold on Kerry By / WaPo — Permalink EDGEWATER, N.J. — Eugene Bradley does not swing. At 50, Bradley, an operations manager for Synagro, a waste management company, has been devoted to the Democratic Party for as long as he has voted. | |
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Jan Haugland: Kerry struggling, even in NJ — Al Gore easily beat George Bush by 16 percentage points in New Jersey in 2000, but the... Dale Franks: So, if you see a Washington Post article like this about New Jersey, a traditionally Democratic State that Al Gore won in 2000 by 16%, will you feel good about your chances? Pejman Yousefzadeh: But this cannot be good: [snipped quote] Clearly, there is room for Kerry to make gains in New Jersey, but one cannot help but wonder why he has not done so already. |
Tom Maguire: Hard to believe? Well, folks who read the Washington Post quickly can find supportive eye-witness accounts. Captain Ed: Trouble Brewing In New Jersey For Kerry — The Washington Post's Evelyn Nieves analyzes John Kerry's poor polling in New... Tarek @LiquidList: Lest we forget the Post's more visible stripes of late, here's a magnificently awful piece by someone named Evelyn... |
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A Plea for Enlightened Moderation By / WaPo — Permalink The world has been going through a tumultuous period since the dawn of the 1990s, with no sign of relief in sight. The suffering of the innocents, particularly my brethren in faith — the Muslims — at the hands of militants, extremists and terrorists has made it all the more urgent to bring order to this troubled scene. | |
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Gregory Djerejian: Enlightened Authoritarianism Watch — Pervez Musharraf argues that the Muslim world must move towards what he calls... David Adesnik: President Musharraf of Pakistan has a column in today's WaPo that would be extremely persuasive if it weren't written by a corrupt dictator. Cori Dauber: For the most part it's a confused hash of ideas, but it has the kernel of something profoundly useful and important mixed up in there. |
Robi Sen: General Musharraf wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post outlining his strategy of 'enlightened moderation' which... David Allan Pell: Pervez Musharraf in the W Post:[snipped quote] (It almost sounds like he's channeling Tom Friedman.) LinkTo or Email Post |
History tells us that most conflicts end in chaos By / Telegraph — Permalink History is useful. That, at any rate, is the theme of Alan Bennett's new play, The History Boys. History gets you into a good university. History gets you a good job. History is a key to cracking the secret of life. Or is it? | |
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Judith Weiss: John Keegan: "Because we in the Atlantic region remember 1945 as the year of victory over our deadliest enemies, we... Dale Franks: Crisis? What Crisis? Famed military historian John Keegan wonders what all fuss over unrest in Iraq is all about. Betsy Newmark: Read John Keegan's column on why some wars end more cleanly than others. "History is useful. |
Deacon: A little history, boys — Historian John Keegan writing in the Daily Telegraph marvels that the chaos which, history... James Joyner: Keegan: War is Chaos — John Keegan, who has been sidelined the past few weeks recovering from major surgery, weighs in... Marcus @HarrysPlace: How Wars End — Historian John Keegan reminds us that not all wars are like the second world war and that certain... |
GOP Takes Off Gloves in Bout of Budget Infighting By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Eclipsed by the furor over foreign policy, Congress' debate over the federal budget has slipped quietly into an impasse that is no garden-variety partisan standoff. It is a battle among Republicans over what their party stands for, analysts say. | |
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Kevin Drum: TAX CUTS vs. SPENDING CUTS...Responding to an LA Times story about internal Republican battles between the tax cutters... Jonah Goldberg: Here's how the LA Times (reg req'd) describes the debate: [snipped quote] Me:I suspect the Times is being more than a bit sensational. |
Adam Mordecai: From the LA Times: "Eclipsed by the furor over foreign policy, Congress' debate over the federal budget has slipped... |
Grading the President By / NYT — Permalink A few weeks ago, The National Journal, the highly respected and highly expensive Washington policy magazine, asked a dozen distinguished and politically independent economists to grade the Bush administration's economic performance. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: BUSH'S ECONOMIC RECORD: Josh Marshall and Noam Scheiber both lay into David Brooks over Bush's economic record. Tbogg: The NY Times publishes this by David Brooks on the same day that it publishes this by Paul Krugman. |
Noam Scheiber: DAVID BROOKS GETS THE BUSH TAX CUT WRONG: Josh Marshall puts his finger on the problem with David Brooks's column today:... Josh Marshall: In Tuesday morning's — Times, David Brooks has a column summing up Bush administration fiscal policy. |
The Fallujah Brigade By / Opinion Journal — Permalink In Iraq, apparently no news is good news. Two months ago everyone was talking about Fallujah. Four American citizens had been brutally murdered, and then a raging mob dragged their bodies through the streets and strung them up from a bridge. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Brendan Miniter looks at how things are really going in Fallujah. Deacon: However, Brendan Miniter of the WSJ's Opinion Journal makes a plausbile case that our actions in pacifying Fallujah represent a success story. |
Ted Belman: Sharon is trying to create the same in Israel — The Fallujah Brigade How the Marines are pacifying an Iraqi hot spot. Cori Dauber: ("Patience, grasshopper," was the phrase that most sticks in my mind.) So — was Fallujah really a success? |
A broadside in the war on blubber By / Telegraph — Permalink Just for a change in the old columnar diet, I thought I'd weigh in on Britain's obesity epidemic. But, on closer inspection, the war on blubber seems to be the war on terror by other means. | |
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Clayton Cramer: His column is well worth reading, not just for the data content, but also for the wit with which he dispatches pseudo-intellectuals into outer darkness. Betsy Newmark: Mark Steyn shows the connection between the war on obesity and anti-Americanism. Tim Blair: UPDATE. Mark Steyn writes : "In January the municipality of Carquefou in north-western France held a competition. |
Stefan Beck: Nannytollahs and Cheesy Wotsits — Mark Steyn weighs in on the War on Blubber, and its, er, broader implications: ... Marcus @HarrysPlace: For his efforts the Daily Ablution earned an Instalanche (a rush of new visitors to the site via an Instapundit link)... |
Then & Now By / NRO — Permalink Six days before the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the A&E network, to publicize its Memorial Day movie Ike, ran a reproduction in the New York Times of the Times's front page for June 6, 1944. | |
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Edward Driscoll: THEN AND NOW: David Lewis Schaefer and Mark Levin each look at The New York Times 50 years ago and today, and find some interesting parallels—and not surprisingly, divergences. |
Jesse Taylor: A Debate For The Pandagon Community — Is it possible to break grasping conservatives of the delusion that we are in World War II all over again in Iraq? |
A conversation with the governor: 'There's still a lot to learn' By / Sacramento Bee — Permalink When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor a year ago, he was change personified, and Californians wanted change. In general, he also represented a call for smaller government, lower taxes, a friendlier stance toward business. | |
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Ezra Klein: This interview with him is worth reading to get a feel for this fence straddling and RINO ideology: [snipped quote] So... |
Taegan Goddard: Meanwhile, Daniel Weintraub has a very interesting interview with Schwarzenegger. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power Buy from Amazon.com for just $21.00 |
Army Investigates Wider Iraq Offenses By / WaPo — Permalink Over the past year and a half, the Army has opened investigations into at least 91 cases of possible misconduct by U.S. soldiers against detainees and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total not previously reported and one that points to a broader range of wrongful behavior than defense officials have acknowledged. | |
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TChris: Now we're learning more about the scope of the investigations. Jesse Taylor: Army Hates America; Is Asked To Stop Demoralizing The Troops — The Army revealed today that it is investigating 91... |
Tarek @LiquidList: Other important items chronicling the Post's shocking discovery of mendacity in the White House: Dana Milbank's... Billmon: Chapter and Verse — The Washington Post now counts at least 91 Army investigations into allegations of abuse against prisoners and/or civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. |