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CLINTON DISAPPOINTMENT: LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST Drudge Report — Permalink Former President Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been left off the speakers list of Friday's Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was," a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. | |
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Oliver Willis: Classic Drudge — He floats a rumor (quite likely, as false as much of his "scoops" are) and the usual parties just eat it up (1, 2, 3 entries??!) Betsy Newmark: Drudge reports that Clinton is angry that he was left off the list of speakers at Reagan's funeral service. Kevin Raybould: Dems Left Off Funeral Speaker List — It's Drudge, so it might not be true, but if it is, the hypocrisy of Republicans knows no bounds. |
Baldilocks: But if Former President William J. Clinton really is miffed that he isn't on the speakers' list to eulogize Former President Ronald Reagan, then all I can say is "wow!" Dale Franks: It's All About Him — Drudge is reporting that President Clinton is miffed at not being invited to speak at President Reagan's funeral. Christopher Kanis: A UNIQUE TALENT — Only Bill Clinton could take the death of Ronald Reagan and somehow find a way to make it all about himself. |
| Also: Ezra Klein, John Cole, H.D. Miller, Mathew Gross, Will Collier, Jonathan Gewirtz | |
Reagan and Rights: Positive and Negative By / TCS — Permalink Ronald Reagan's passing has brought forth a host of commentary from both the left and right. One of the key questions being raised, of course, is how we should assess Reagan's legacy. Most observers would see a deep commitment to liberty as being a central theme of that legacy. | |
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Clayton Cramer: Anarchism and Property Rights — Professor Bainbridge discusses negative vs. positive rights here. Steve Bainbridge: My TCS Column on Reagan — In this column, I discuss Reagan's legacy as a defender of negative rights, and critique... Glenn Reynolds: STEPHEN BAINBRIDGE has thoughts on positive and negative rights. Meanwhile Megan McArdle has some related thoughts, in response to William Saletan. |
Eugene Volokh: Negative and positive rights: My friend and colleague Steve Bainbridge has a TechCentralStation essay that praises... Jonah Goldberg: REAGAN VS LIBERTY — Bainbridge versus Saletan. |
The Great Taxer By / NYT — Permalink Over the course of this week we'll be hearing a lot about Ronald Reagan, much of it false. A number of news sources have already proclaimed Mr. Reagan the most popular president of modern times. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Reagan's many tax hikes and other compromises seem to have been airbrushed out of the right's accounts of what happened. John Cole: That is why I am laughing every time I see a Liberal praising Reagan in order to attack George Bush- as in today's Krugman article, which I will save you the time of reading. Chris Bowers: He caused the Soviet Union to collapse He was the most popular President since FDR He was a great tax-cutter He... |
Libertarian: ROTTEN RONNIE I don't think Paul Krugman knows the first thing about economics, but his NYTimes column on "The Great... David Allan Pell: And he abandoned ideology for silly facts when he rolled back tax cuts (which means he raised taxes). Reagan started out as a Democrat. Jon Henke: It's in the way that you choose it... Paul Krugman today...(alt URL) "For many middle- and low-income families, this... |
| Also: Tom Maguire, Aaron @LiquidList, Josh Marshall, Jeralyn Merritt, Kos, Atrios | |
THERE THEY GO AGAIN New York Post — Permalink WRITING on Ronald Reagan's achievements in Newsweek, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. notes, "Reagan's admirers contend that his costly re-armament program caused the Soviet collapse. Maybe so; but surely the thing that did in the Russians was that time had proved communism an economic, political and moral disaster." | |
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Betsy Newmark: Dinesh D'Souza looks at how some historians are exercising a little selective memory. Eugene Volokh: (Thanks to Dinesh D'Souza for the quotes, to this site for more on the 1982 quote, and to Dan Gifford for passing along the pointer. Hugh Hewitt: Read Dinesh D'Souza's New York Post op-ed from this morning. |
Clayton Cramer: "Reagan Is An Idiot" (Part 2) Dinesh d'Souza has a marvelous collection of quotes from various American intellectuals... Tom Maguire: There They Go Again — Dinesh D'Souza reprises an article he wrote in 2000 on Reagan, his critics, and the "inevitable" collapse of the Soviets. Hindrocket: This morning Dinesh D'Souza punctures the left's retrospective conviction that Communism's fall was inevitable, and that... |
A Week That Could Bolster Bush By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Can Ronald Reagan's political magic work in one last election — this time for President Bush? Republican strategists acknowledged Monday that they hope the nation's week of mourning for Reagan, who died Saturday, will turn into a boost for Bush's reelection campaign. | |
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Kevin Drum: Of course, backlashes work in both directions, something that occurred to me as I read a story in the LA Times this... Billmon: Fantasyland — The GOP high command - assisted, as always, by such faithful servants as Doyle McManus of the LA Times... Hugh Hewitt: Articles by Dan Balz in the Washington Post and Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times debate the impact of the ceremonies and commentary on President Reagan on the 2004 election. |
Zachary Roth: The first impulse of most major outlets has been to deal with this problem by looking at how Reagan's death will affect... Aaron @LiquidList: But beyond the pundits, Bush's campaign also believes their man will benefit from Reagan's death. Howard Kurtz: Doyle McManus picks up the theme in the Los Angeles Times: "Can Ronald Reagan's political magic work in one last election — this time for President Bush? |
Special forces free Iraq hostages BBC — Permalink Three Italians kidnapped in Iraq almost two months ago have been rescued in a mission by military special forces. A Polish man abducted a week ago was also released. All four men are said to be in good health. | |
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Jan Haugland: Special forces free hostages in Iraq — Three Italians kidnapped by Iraqi extremists almost two months ago were rescued by special forces. Kevin Raybould: Yeah! Special forces free Iraq hostages. Tim Blair: Forza Azzurri! The Italian hostages in Iraq have been rescued. (Via Sullivan) UPDATE. Joy of Knitting: "The three Italian hostages have been liberated. |
Betsy Newmark: Congratulations to our Special Ops guys who freed four hostages in Iraq. Well done! Andrew Sullivan: THE ITALIANS ARE RESCUED: A great event in Iraq. Kinda like this one. You can barely find them in the papers. |
Memo Offered Justification for Use of Torture WaPo — Permalink In August 2002, the Justice Department advised the White House that torturing al Qaeda terrorists in captivity abroad "may be justified," and that international laws against torture "may be unconstitutional if applied to interrogations" conducted in President Bush's war on terrorism, according to a newly obtained memo. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: The New York Times picked up the story today, and the Washington Post added an earlier memo, this one from the Justice Department, which appears to be the basis of the DoD memo. Kevin Drum: August 2002: A Justice Department memo about torture says that "necessity and self-defense could provide justifications that would eliminate any criminal liability." Aaron @LiquidList: The Washington Post has obtained a Justice Department memorandum, requested by the CIA, providing a legalese justification for post-9/11 torture of detainees. |
David Allan Pell: Justifying Torture — A Justice Dept memo from 2002 seems to give the greenlight to torturing prisoners in the war on terror (and this wasn't the first such memo). Jason Van Steenwyk: But the Washington Post has a good article on the memo for free. Phillip Carter: Update II: The New York Times and Washington Post have follow-up articles in Tuesday's paper on this story. |
Crowds Wait Hours to View Reagan Casket By / AP — Permalink SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Waiting good-naturedly for as much as half a day in traffic jams and a parking lot, tens of thousands of people filed past Ronald Reagan's flag-draped casket in an outpouring that forced organizers to extend the viewing period Tuesday by four hours. | |
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Baldilocks: There's the death of an American president, the outpouring of love, vitriol and pointless complaining (registration... James Joyner: Paying Their Respects to Reagan (California Edition) Considering how long it has been since Ronald Reagan was in the... |
The Big Trunk: The AP reports: "Crowds wait hours to view Reagan casket." |
Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 7 — A team of administration lawyers concluded in a March 2003 legal memorandum that President Bush was not bound by either an international treaty prohibiting torture or by a federal antitorture law because he had the authority as commander in chief to approve any technique needed to protect the nation's security. | |
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Joe Drymala: Ashcroft Today — He appeared before a Senate committee today to defend the Bush administration against allegations of pro-torture advice from Bush's lawyers. Tom Smith: Torture permitted against Iraq detainees? Interesting story in the Times. Steve M.: The Times link doesn't do the photo justice — it's huge, more than eight inches by six inches; it dwarfs the paper's... |
Tacitus: Given that the Pentagon is apparently resolved to engage in stonewalling on this document — "not a legal analysis,"... Tim Dunlop: So what do we now know about the Bush administration's approach to the treatment of prisoners? Kieran Healy: She led the legal team that wrote the recently leaked memo arguing that there were no legal considerations, domestic or... |
| Also: Gary Farber, Phillip Carter | |
U.N. resolution on Iraq passes unanimously CNN — Permalink UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution on the June 30 transfer of power in Iraq. The U.S.- and British-backed resolution gives additional international support to the new interim Iraqi government and adds more international support for the U.S.-led coalition force. | |
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Captain Ed: Bush Wins At The UN — As I predicted yesterday, the Bush administration scored another foreign-policy victory in an... Kevin Drum: President Bush commented thusly: "There were some who said we'd never get one." Is this his new favorite phrase? |
Roger L. Simon: The UN passed the Iraq resolution unanimously , further legitimatizing the new democratic government so anathema to Al... |
U.N. Endorses Iraq Sovereignty Transfer By / AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council gave resounding approval Tuesday to a resolution endorsing the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq 's new government by the end of June. President Bush said the measure will set the stage for democracy in Iraq and be a "catalyst for change" in the Middle East. | |
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C. D. Harris: Unilateral Cowboy — The UN Security Council unanimously endorsed the US-British resolution on transferring sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government today. |
Steven Taylor: Resolution Passes 15-0 — U.N. Endorses Iraq Sovereignty Transfer "The U.N. Security Council gave a resounding 15-0... |
Iraq Claims Full Control of Oil Sector By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials declared Tuesday that the interim government has assumed full control of the country's oil industry ahead of the June 30 handover of sovereignty from the U.S.-led occupation administration. | |
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Cori Dauber: Given what Saddam was using the oil profits for, this is realistically the first time that the oil industry has been... Hindrocket: And Iraq's new government officially took charge of that country's oil industry today: [snipped quote] What I want to... |
Charles Johnson: And in other news, the idiots who continue to insist we went to Iraq to take control of Iraqi oil may now serve... |
Security Council Backs Resolution on Iraq Turnover By / NYT — Permalink UNITED NATIONS, June 8 — The Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday in favor of an American and British resolution to end the formal occupation of Iraq on June 30 and transfer "full sovereignty" to an interim Iraqi government. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: THE ENEMY: In the wake of the U.N. resolution backing the new government in Iraq, it's useful to remember that this will only intensify the violence against us. |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: UPDATE: The resolution wins unanimous approval. |
Kerry With Slight Lead in Presidential Race By / Gallup — Permalink PRINCETON, NJ — A new Gallup survey finds Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry enjoying a slight lead over President George W. Bush, while Bush's approval ratings remain relatively unchanged, but for the most part in negative territory. | |
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Billmon: And right now, he's still not doing too well at the box office. Shrub may yet win one for the Gipper. Atrios: Kerry 49-44 in Latest Gallup — Link. |
Steve Soto: A new Gallup Poll out yesterday showing a Kerry lead of 49%-44% over Bush among registered voters and 50%-44% among likely voters, after Kerry led by only 48%-46% late last month. Taegan Goddard: Gallup Has Kerry Ahead — A new Gallup poll finds Sen. John Kerry "enjoying a slight lead" over President Bush, "while... |
Love really is blind... Telegraph — Permalink Neuroscience can at last explain why we can't see faults in our partners or children. Raj Persaud reports Can science help us to understand love? Many argue that a Shakespearean Sonnet, Rachmaninov piano sonata or Jane Austen novel is much better at communicating insights into why we become irresistibly drawn to one person. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: A MANY SPLENDORED THING — The science of love is explained in fascinating detail in this article: "Scientists have a cold eyed view of the purpose of love. Jesse Walker: Loooooove ... Love Is Strange — Scientists take a look at love. Their conclusions: [snipped quote] [Via Lew Rockwell. ] |
Jeff Goldstein: Love, demystified: [snipped quote] Whatever. Just so long as I can have that funny feel from time to time. |
Monetary memorial? That's the $10 question By / USA Today — Permalink WASHINGTON — Former president Ronald Reagan's name has been enshrined on everything from an airport outside Washington to a turnpike in Florida to a mountain in New Hampshire. Now his most fervent fans have a new memorial in mind: the $10 bill. | |
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Tom Maguire: Keep The Change — Reagan on the $10 bill? My quick reaction is no, mainly because I am often a stuck in the mud conservative who doesn't readily embrace change. Jonathan Gewirtz: UPDATE2: Some people want to put Reagan's likeness on the ten-dollar bill. |
David Allan Pell: The Reagan enthusiasts are set to make a major push to get Alexander Hamilton removed from the ten dollar bill and replaced by the Gipper. |
Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo By / WaPo — Permalink Attorney General John D. Ashcroft told Congress today that he would not release to members a 2002 policy memo on the degree of pain and suffering legally permitted during enemy interrogations, but he said he knows of no presidential order that would allow torture for al Qaeda captives. | |
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TChris: Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo to Congress — In another affront to open government and Congressional... |
Oliver Willis: Ashcroft Refuses to Release Torture Memo Angry Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called on Ashcroft to... |
Kerry Seeks Columns From Iowa Governor By / AP — Permalink DES MOINES, Iowa - Aides to presidential candidate John Kerry have asked for hundreds of newspaper columns written by Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, one of the Democrats whose backgrounds are being checked as Kerry ponders a running mate. | |
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Steven Taylor: Interesting: Kerry Seeks Columns From Iowa Governor "Aides to presidential candidate John Kerry have asked for hundreds... |
Brian Montopoli: Echo Chamber — AP Brings Out the Leftovers It's a slow political news day, which perhaps explains why the Associated... |
Tiny Symbol, Huge Fuss LAT — Permalink Until last week, who besides the ACLU's lawyers and a handful of bureaucrats even knew that Los Angeles County's seal incorporates an itsy-bitsy cross, along with a Spanish galleon, a tuna, the Hollywood Bowl, oil derricks, a Roman goddess of fruit and more? | |
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Baldilocks: Then the ACLU is at it again, with its, ahem, crusade against all things Christian that may appear near anything... |
Xrlq: L.A. Times Sides With the ACLU While Pretending Not to Side With the ACLU — My father recently alerted me to an... |
Poll: Presidential race continues close as Bush's numbers remain low Detroit Free Press — Permalink LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President Bush and his Democratic rival, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, remain locked in a close race in Michigan, a new poll shows. Forty-seven percent of the 600 likely Michigan voters polled by Lansing-based EPIC/MRA said they'd vote for Kerry if the election was held today, while 45 percent backed Bush, with 8 percent undecided. | |
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Paleo: Michigan poll — Kerry 47% Bush 45% Kerry 45% Bush 43% Nader 3% EPIC/MRA poll. 600 likely voters. MOE 4%. |
Taegan Goddard: Race Remains Tight In Michigan — President Bush and Sen. John Kerry "remain locked in a close race in Michigan," according to a new EPIC/MRA poll. |
Foreign Hostages in Iraq Freed Fox News — Permalink ROME — Three Italian and one Polish hostages who have been held captive in Iraq were freed, officials or media in Italy and Poland reported Tuesday. Polish TVN24 television quoted Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek, the commander of Polish-led multinational forces, as saying that the four foreign hostages had been freed in a military action. | |
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Cori Dauber: No, MSNBC, not "released," but freed. (Reuters reporter in CENTCOM press briefing: do you have plans for any more operations of this kind? Susanna Cornett: And then there's this, from the first paragraph of an article on FoxNews: "Three Italian and one Polish hostages who... |
Jason Van Steenwyk: All of a sudden, a bunch of Americans bust into the room, subdue the terrorists and... Hey, wait a minute, is this a news story or a barstool joke? |
Security Council Is Expected to Vote Unanimously on Iraq By / NYT — Permalink UNITED NATIONS, June 8 — The Security Council was expected to vote unanimously late today in favor of an American-British resolution to end the formal occupation of Iraq on June 30 and transfer "full sovereignty" to an Iraqi interim government. | |
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Gregory Djerejian: You know, another (likely to be unanimously passed) U.N. resolution on Iraq. Clauses 8-12 are the key ones (security, security, security). |
John Cole: Another Diplomatic Failure — Can't wait to hear howJuan Cole and Josh Marshall are going to dismiss this as a failure: [snipped quote] All together now: "QQQQQQQQQQuagmire. |
The Simple Truth About Ronald Reagan By / Business Week — Permalink It was Christmas six years ago when Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday at the age of 93, became an unexpected addition to our family, thanks to my son, who was then 11. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: REAGAN REMEMBERED — Roger Franklin: [snipped quote] Read it all. |
Tim Blair: REAGAN CONVERSIONS — US-based Australian journalist Roger Franklin keeps a small bronze bust of Ronald Reagan next to his keyboard. |
American shot dead in Saudi Arabia MSNBC — Permalink RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Unidentified gunmen shot dead an American in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy said. "We can confirm that an American has been killed in Riyadh," a U.S. Embassy official said on condition of anonymity. | |
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Cori Dauber: AMERICAN KILLED ON THE STREETS IN SAUDI — Just gunned down in cold blood. We need to change our public tune on this. |
David Allan Pell: Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, an unidentified gunman killed an American contractor. Is it terror? Sounds like it. |
Germany, France Promise Support on Iraq By / AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS - The United States called for a vote Tuesday on a revised U.N. resolution defining the new Iraqi government's powers. The measure appeared to have overwhelming support after a last-minute compromise won the backing of the war's sharpest critics, France and Germany. | |
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Charles Johnson: A Victory for the US — The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to support President Bush's resolution defining... |
Hindrocket: The Bush administration's proposal for U.N. endorsement of the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq now has overwhelming support, as France and Germany have agreed to go along. |
Reagan knew why the EU won't work By / Telegraph — Permalink 'We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. "Of all the marvellous Ronald Reagan lines retailed over the weekend, that's my favourite. He said it in his inaugural address in 1981, and it encapsulates his legacy at home and abroad. | |
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Michael DeBow: Mark Steyn on Reagan and the EU, from Sunday's Telegraph. If that link doesn't work, you should try marksteyn.com (Thanks to JP for pointing this out.) |
Dale Franks: The EU's Problem — Mark Steyn writes in The Telegraph that the EU has a fundamental problem that Ronald Reagan would have recognized easily. |
Author of Disputed Columbia U. Study on Pregnancy and Prayer Pleads Guilty to Unrelated Fraud Charges By / Chronicle of Higher Education — Permalink Doctors were shocked in 2001 to read a study from Columbia University that found that praying for women seeking to become pregnant could double their chances of success using in vitro fertilization. | |
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Kieran Healy: This week, taking time off from his scholarly research, one of the authors pled guilty to federal charges of fraud. |
Julian Sanchez: The Chronicle of Higher Education has more. |
Saddam trial lacks 'smoking gun' evidence, witnesses: report AFP — Permalink LONDON (AFP) - Prosecutors are struggling to build a case against Saddam Hussein because they lack both witnesses and evidence to prove the ousted Iraqi dictator is guilty of atrocities. | |
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Headmistress SondraK: no justice? I can't possibly imagine the scenario. |
Hindrocket: Just An Innocent Bystander — AFP reports that the prosecution of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity has hit a... |
U.S.-Led Forces Rescue Italians, Pole Held in Iraq By / Reuters — Permalink BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces freed three Italians and a Pole held hostage in Iraq in a rescue Tuesday that Italy said involved no deal with their kidnappers. "They were freed about one and a half hours ago by coalition forces near Baghdad," Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on state television in Rome. | |
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Charles Johnson: Hostages Rescued — Three Italians and a Pole kidnapped by the mujahideen in Iraq have been rescued by US-led forces. |
Steven Taylor: Good Deal: Hostages Freed U.S. |
Italy, Belgium Police Arrest Bomb Suspects By / AP — Permalink ROME - Authorities have arrested three suspects in Italy and Belgium in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people, officials said Tuesday. A newspaper said one of the men picked up in Italy allegedly helped organize the attacks. | |
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David Allan Pell: In the last several hours, Italian and Belgian "police" have arrested 17 people (including, they think, the mastermind) connected with the Madrid bombing. |
Cori Dauber: Evidence of how great the need is comes with news today that there have been more arrests in the Madrid bombings — not in Spain, but in Italy, and in Belgium. |
Reagan the new face of the $10 bill? CNN — Permalink NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Ronald Reagan's face could one day adorn the $10 bill or half the dimes minted in the country, if fans of the late president get their way. | |
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Steve M.: CNN and Money magazine report that right-wingers are working to put Reagan's face on dimes, $10 bills, and $20 bills. |
Aaron @LiquidList: Politics/Culture: Reagan On Mount Rushmore — Just Say No! I don't want him on the $10 bill either, thank you. |
T to check packages, bags at random By / Boston Globe — Permalink Next month, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will become the first transit agency in the nation to institute a permanent policy of randomly inspecting passenger bags and packages on subway and commuter trains, MBTA police officials disclosed yesterday. | |
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TChris: The MBTA is the first transit agency to implement a policy of random searches of bags and briefcases. |
Mike Alissi: Now, they want to randomly search any passengers: "Next month, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority will... |
Taliban come to Los Angeles By / Townhall.com — Permalink As a graduate student at Columbia University's Russian Institute, my field of study was totalitarianism. I learned that a major characteristic of Soviet and other totalitarian regimes was their frequent rewriting of history. As a famous Soviet dissident joke put it: | |
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Dale Franks: A Job for Winston Smith — Dennis Prager is angry about the decision to remove the tiny cross from the LA County seal. |
Jesse Taylor: Rallyban For The Taliban — Although I don't agree with the ACLU's push to take the cross off of the L.A. County seal,... |
Racing to Ruin the C.I.A. By / NYT — Permalink COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — The ink is hardly dry on George Tenet's resignation and the 9/11 commission and Senate Intelligence Committee have yet to release their reports on intelligence failures, yet the demands to overhaul American intelligence are already in full cry. | |
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Matt Yglesias: Intelligence Reform — I don't understand this at all. The proposal he favors sounds almost identical to the one he's opposing. |
James Joyner: Robert Gates, [RSS] DCI under President George H.W. Bush, argues that we are "Racing To Ruin The C.I.A. if we create a separate intelligence czar. |
Rosy Outlook Hid Ugly Facts From Reagan By / WaPo — Permalink Ray Lamb's story was the kind that Ronald Reagan so winningly used to turn the policies of the world's most powerful nation. I met Lamb in 1988 in Alderson, W.Va., on a farm atop a mountain, a place where men like him who lived on Washington's heating grates could go for sanctuary. | |
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Gene @HarrysPlace: Reaganism's dark side — Writing in The Washington Post, Marc Fisher gets at why I could never warm up to Ronald Reagan. |
Aaron @LiquidList: Politics/Media: Hitting Reagan — These last few days, most in the media have allowed Reagan's legacy to be reworked, history rewritten. |
Suggestion of Anti-Semitism Colors House Primary in Virginia By / NYT — Permalink ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 7 - Voters in Northern Virginia have considerable acquaintance with Representative James P. Moran's controversial remarks and erratic behavior, but they have kept him in office since he first ran for the House in 1990. This year, that loyalty may be tested. | |
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Susanna Cornett: From this article, it sounds like he's someone I would definitely not like. However, it also sounds like he's not getting fair treatment. |
Ed Cone: Accepting an ad is not an endorsement — I'm not endorsing Jim Moran, the congressman advertising at right, for example... |
Italy Arrests Suspected Madrid Bombing 'Mastermind' Reuters — Permalink MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - Italy arrested an Egyptian man considered to be a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings in the first Europe-wide swoop on Islamic militants linked to the March attack, judicial sources said Tuesday. | |
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KJL: ITALY HAS ARRESTED alleged Madrid bombing mastermind. |
Steven Taylor: Madrid Bombing Suspect Arrested in Italy — Arrested Man Was Planning More Attacks-Italy Minister "One of three men... |
Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks at the International Institute for Strategic Studies DefenseLINK — Permalink Rumsfeld: Thank you very much, John. Ministers, parliamentarians, officials, guests. I see my predecessor Bill Cohen is here, and so many other friends. Thank you so much to the Institute for hosting this conference. | |
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Oliver Willis: Right Is Wrong, News At 11 — John Cole says that I intentionally didn't read Sr. Rummy's comments (read the full transcript) when I posted this story. Kevin Drum: And sure enough, the full transcript makes it pretty clear that he was actually saying the entire world lacks a coherent approach, not that he thinks the United States has failed. Robert Garcia Tagorda: Well, check out the entire exchange and judge for yourself (emphasis added): "Q: Thank you, John. |
Ezra Klein: The entire quote is: [snipped quote] I actually suggest reading the whole quote as it proves that Rumsfeld is quite aware of what needs to be done in the war on terror. Captain Ed: And you can read them yourself, verbatim, at DefenseLINK. Cori Dauber: Except that he didn't bring that up, he answered a question about it during the Q and A. And he certainly did express concerns. |
Friendship, His Way By / WaPo — Permalink When British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked President Bill Clinton three years ago for guidance on dealing with a successor, Clinton offered some succinct advice: "Be his friend." | |
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Nathan Hallford: In Light Of The G-8 Summit This Week, the WaPo looks at the relationship between President Bush and other foreign leaders. Tom Maguire: UPDATE: Geez, Bush is a one-man beer commercial: ...The budding romance between Fox and Bush died with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. |
Digby: Spoiled Jerk — [snipped quote] Jayzuz. I cringe every time I think of this silly little man making judgments based on his "gut" reaction. |
Memo said Bush could OK torture of prisoners NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — A team of administration lawyers concluded in a March 2003 legal memorandum that President Bush was not bound by either an international treaty prohibiting torture or by a federal anti-torture law because he has the authority as commander-in-chief to approve any technique needed to protect the nation's security. | |
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Jesse Walker: The Glorious Counterrevolution — Somehow we've neglected to blog the Bush administration's recently exposed torture memo. |
Mark Kleiman: (William Howard Taft IV, the General Counsel at the State Department, apparently objected but was overruled.) |
'Father of the computer' honoured BBC — Permalink The father of the modern computer is being honoured, 50 years after he died in tragic circumstances. Alan Turing was one of the pioneers of computer science, and his work helped make the modern PC a reality. | |
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Edward _: Via Andrew Sullivan "ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY: June 7 was the fiftieth anniversary of the suicide of Alan Turing, one of the... Kieran Healy: Alan Turing — It's fifty years since the death of mathematician, code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing. |
Andrew Sullivan: ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY: June 7 was the fiftieth anniversary of the suicide of Alan Turing, one of the forefathers of modern... |
Not Even a Hedgehog By / Slate — Permalink Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during "Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week" at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents was Dinesh D'Souza: He wasn't the only one who maintained that Reagan had been historically vindicated by the wreckage of the Soviet Union. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: Most of them I'll let fall by the wayside, because there's always more news to deal with, but two silences were frustrating me a lot yesterday. Howard Kurtz: For those tired of all the plaudits, Christopher Hitchens serves up some anti-Reagan red meat in Slate: "I only saw him... Mark Kleiman: Still, ugly outbursts such as Christopher Hitchens's are to be avoided at all costs, and even well-reasoned and... |
Nick Gillespie: Hitchens on Reagan — Over at Slate, Christopher Hitchens, who very graciously wrote an introduction for Choice: The... Jesse Taylor: The thing about Hitchens, though, is that for a very long time, he has fervently hated a lot of people, Ronald Reagan among them. John Hawkins: Their numbers include... Joe Davidson at MSNBC, Greg Palast, Christopher Hitchens at Slate, Ted Rall, Danny Glover,... |
| Also: Christopher Kanis, Robert Garcia Tagorda, John Cole, Gary Farber, Stefan Beck, Billmon, Steven Taylor, Steve Bainbridge, Kevin Raybould, Digby, David Allan Pell, Roger Ailes | |
U.S. May Cut Third of Troops In South Korea NYT — Permalink TOKYO, June 7 — The Bush administration has presented a detailed plan to South Korea for withdrawing one-third of its 37,000 troops on the divided peninsula by the end of next year as part of a wider effort to reposition American forces around the globe, officials in Seoul and Washington said Monday. | |
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Cori Dauber: This is an actual draw down, not a manipulation to get more troops into Iraq. 2. |
Arthur Chrenkoff: Yes, American soldiers do occasionally commit crimes (as opposed to young Korean males), but South Koreans might get their wish sooner than they think. |
Cuba lambasts says former President Ronald Reagan should ''never have been born'' AP — Permalink HAVANA - Cuba harshly criticized former President Ronald Reagan and his policies on Monday, saying he should ''never have been born.'' In the first reaction to Reagan's death from the communist government, Radio Reloj said: | |
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Jonah Goldberg: From the Associated Press: "HAVANA - Cuba harshly criticized former President Ronald Reagan and his policies on Monday,... |
Stefan Beck: Reagan's feet are anything but clay, and Hitchens's column has no more impact than a rant on Cuban state radio. |
Why There's No Liberal Ronald Reagan By / Gadflyer — Permalink We've been hearing a lot about "America's love affair with Ronald Reagan" since the 40th president passed away on Saturday. And even though the idea that Americans were united in their love for Reagan is a myth - his popularity ratings were rather mediocre -... | |
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Jon Henke: Name Calling — This Gadflyer column seemed reasonable until he got to the part about conservatives needing "heroes to... |
Ezra Klein: Paul Waldman asks why the left has no Ronald Reagan, chalking it up to our natural tendency towards criticism and the extremist's proclivity towards deification. |
The Reagan Restoration Opinion Journal — Permalink A striking fact about Ronald Reagan is that nearly a generation after he left the Presidency so many people still don't comprehend the reasons for his success. The eulogies over this past weekend have stressed his many personal virtues: his fundamental good... | |
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Donald Sensing: The WSJ wrote today, "When Mr. Reagan took office, the top marginal U.S. tax rate was 70%. |
Andrew Sullivan: RE-WRITING HISTORY: Here are a few odd sentences in the Wall Street Journal, dealing with Reagan's legacy of massive... |
Voice of a Superpower By / Foreign Policy — Permalink The 2004 U.S. presidential election may be the first in decades to center on the candidates' foreign-policy views. So what do most Americans really think about Iraq, terrorism, North Korea, and free trade? | |
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Oliver Willis: Unsurprisingly, Americans are... nuanced. Voice of a Superpower FP: So you think war was the wrong decision? |
The Poor Man: What America Thinks — Foreign Policy has an piece called "Voice of a Superpower", which condenses piles of poll data... |
Ronald Reagan NYT — Permalink Ronald Reagan, who died on Saturday after his long battle with Alzheimer's disease, projected an aura of optimism so radiant that it seemed almost a force of nature. Many people who disagreed with his ideology still liked him for his personality, and that was a source of frustration for his political opponents who knew how much the ideology mattered. | |
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Tom Maguire: Gray Is This Season's Black — Gregory Djerjian finds some unexpected fashion advice in the NY Times editorial obit for... Gregory Djerejian: But the Times all but shoehorns a Kerry endorsement into their obit masthead on Reagan (see last couple of lines). |
David Adesnik: OBITUARY WARS: An in-depth critique of the NYT and WaPo obituaries for President Reagan could fill a book, so I'll limit myself to a few observations. Steve Bainbridge: Gorbachev Says What the New York Times Would Not — In today's NY Times, President Ronald Reagan's editorial obituary... |
Satellite images 'show Atlantis' By / BBC — Permalink A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Then again, maybe the Spaniards can rest easy after all, with the news that scientists have discovered the remains of Atlantis is southern Spain. |
Gary Farber of Amygdala: The Sea People — Gary Farber's home blog is Amygdala. Atlantis found? We report, you decide. |
Kerry the Realist By / WaPo — Permalink This year's presidential election so far offers a choice in foreign policy, between a neo-Wilsonian who has made the promotion of democracy and human rights a central tenet and an old-school realist who believes it more sensible to focus on managing concrete threats to U.S. security. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: In today's Washington Post, Jackson Diehl laments the fact that George W. Bush is a terrible democracy-promoter while... |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: Yet, as Jackson Diehl points out in a related column, what presidents — and, by extension, presidential hopefuls — say... |
The Press and the War in Iraq By / TCS — Permalink The debate over media bias has reared its head yet again — this time regarding press coverage of the war in Iraq. Some argue that the media is not covering the good news that is occurring in Iraq, and could potentially bring about policy decisions that may be based on a false popular view of the state of the war. | |
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Henry Farrell: Dolchstolegende — Pejman Yousefzadeh has a Flack Central Station piece that is quite remarkably at odds with the facts, even by Yousefzadeh's usual standards. Matt Yglesias: Repealing Godwin's Law — May I just say that I find the charge that I'm making the astonishing charge of calling people Nazis to be rather astonishing. |
Jason Van Steenwyk: Invoking Godwin's Law in the Media Coverage Debate — Check out Pejman Yousefzadeh's column, The Press and the War in Iraq" in today's Tech Central Station. Pejman Yousefzadeh: MY TECH CENTRAL STATION COLUMN IS UP — The subject that will never die: The media and the occupation of Iraq. |
Alleged al-Qaida vow against airlines MSNBC — Permalink CAIRO, Egypt - A statement published on a Web site Monday and bearing the name of al-Qaida warned that Western airliners will be targeted for terrorist attacks. "All compounds, bases and means of transport, especially Western and American airlines, will be a direct target for our coming operations in the near future," said the statement. | |
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Jan Haugland: A statement on an Islamist web site that is thought to be linked to al-Qaeda is getting a surprising amount of attention... Stephen Green: Speculation — From the AP: [snipped quote] A few observations/questions. |
Cori Dauber: NEW AL QUEDA THREAT — And, bizarrely, I heard this story at least mentioned on two cable networks (MS and Fox. |
A Thumb on One Side of the Scale? By / WaPo — Permalink After a while in this job you know what stories are going to produce controversy and mail. Thus it was with mixed feelings that I read the story about presidential campaign advertising by Post staff writers Dana Milbank and Jim VandeHei on the front page May 31. | |
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Deacon: The Washington Post blows off its critics — Michael Getler is the Washington Post's ombudsman. |
S.L.: Distortion — Unprecedented Headline Good catch by Michael Getler, the ombudsman at The Washington Post, who chided his... |
Manhunt after attack on BBC crew BBC — Permalink Saudi security forces are hunting gunmen who attacked a BBC news team in a drive-by shooting in Riyadh. Cameraman Simon Cumbers was killed and security correspondent Frank Gardner is critically ill in hospital. | |
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Emperor Darth Misha I: One of their own gets whacked (presumably while trying to dig up material for a tearful story about the nobility of the... Charles Johnson: Terrorists Attack BBC — Well, now we know what it takes for the BBC to use the word "terrorist" without scare quotes: Manhunt after attack on BBC crew. |
The Ombudsgod: The difference between a militant and a terrorist at the BBC — Slit the throats of nine hostages and you're a militant. |
The First 100 Days TNR — Permalink We elect a president and then gang up on him. That process, I think, is under way now. Ronald Reagan's first 100 days is as good a time as any to set down some long-evolving thoughts about the presidency. Reagan has come to the task in a period of complexity, confusion, and danger hardly matched in modern times. | |
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Dale Franks: A Bleak Outlook — It's extremely worthwhile to read over this analysis, from the May 2, 1981 edition of The New Republic, of Ronald Reagan's first 100 days in office. |
Matt Yglesias: Even The Liberal... Jeez. TNR is reprinting some awfully harsh commentary on Ronald Reagan. |
The Liberator By / TCS — Permalink In 1917, with the advent of the communism in Russia, Vladimir Lenin and his coterie of thugs, gangsters and murderers could perhaps have been forgiven for having thought that no earthly power would deny victory to the ideology of Marxism-Leninism. | |
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Bill Hobbs: Reagan, The Liberator — Pejman Yousefzadeh's essay on Reagan, The Liberator, is not to be missed. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: ANOTHER TECH CENTRAL STATION COLUMN — A tribute to Ronald Reagan. |
The liberal terminology of abortion By / Boston Globe — Permalink A FEDERAL judge in San Francisco last week struck down as unconstitutional a recent federal law that bans partial-birth abortion. Or is that what it bans? Consider how the illegal procedure was identified in news accounts of last week's ruling: | |
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Ampersand @Amptoons: Eugene Volokh links to a Jeff Jacoby column about how reporters discuss parital-birth abortion. |
Eugene Volokh: Terminology and the media: Jeff Jacoby has a good column on the subject in the Boston Globe: [snipped quote] There are... |
Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror By / AP — Permalink SINGAPORE — The United States and its allies are winning some battles in the terrorism war but may be losing the broader struggle against Islamic extremism that is terrorism's source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saturday. | |
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Captain Ed: Media Hack Job On Rumsfeld — Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech to a security conference in Singapore yesterday which was... Cori Dauber: The AP covers it, with a headline of "Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror." John Cole: "Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists —..." |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: Please Read the Transcript — Matt Yglesias and Digby think that this report shows Donald Rumsfeld conceding the Bush administration's futility in the War on Terror. Jesse Taylor: My Way, Right Away — Much has been made already of Don Rumsfeld's admission that there is a such thing as a better... Oliver Willis: Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists —... |
| Also: Taegan Goddard, Matthew Yglesias, Tom Tomorrow, Pessimist, The Poor Man, Digby | |
Despite Agreement, Insurgents Rule Fallujah By / WaPo — Permalink FALLUJAH, Iraq — The travelers entered Fallujah first through a checkpoint operated by the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, a U.S.-trained paramilitary unit meant to add muscle to the American-led occupation. The men in black berets distractedly waved cars past, onto the city's main street. | |
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The Poor Man: Defeat In Fallujah — The Washinton Post reports that the "truce" in Fallujah has essentially handed the city over to... Gary Farber: I was saying that reporting in Iraq is dangerous? See if this story doesn't curl your hair. Read The Rest Scale: 4 out of 5. |
Wretchard: But the Fallujah Brigade has so far not made good on its promise to crack down on Jihadis, many of whom in all probability receive sustenance from Saudi Arabia. Kevin Raybould: Well, it does not seem to have worked very well [snipped quote] This was a defeat, make no mistake about it. |
Reagan Legacy Looming Large Over Campaign By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 6 — From the shores of Normandy to President Bush's campaign offices outside Washington, Mr. Bush and his political advisers embraced the legacy of Ronald Reagan on Sunday, suggesting that even in death, Mr. Reagan had one more campaign in him — this one at the side of Mr. Bush. | |
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Howard Kurtz: Adam Nagourney of the New York Times tries fitting W. for a suit of Reaganite threads: "From the shores of Normandy to... Ezra Klein: That may be happening, showing that cynicism isn't always misplaced. Arthur Chrenkoff: Spinning the corpse — I know that politics is politics, but it still seems to me somewhat unseemly: [snipped quote] At... |
Tom Maguire: Bush Is Not Reagan — The NY Times finds Republicans who are worried that Bush does not fully fill Reagan's shoes. Taegan Goddard: Reagan's Legacy Looms Over Campaign — "As a political matter, Ronald Reagan's legacy presents opportunities and risks... Betsy Newmark: The New York Times looks at the impact the death of Ronald Reagan will have on the campaign. |
| Also: KJL, Bo Cowgill, Hugh Hewitt, Digby | |
Freedom's Team Opinion Journal — Permalink Ronald Reagan died just one day after President Bush bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on Pope John Paul II for his heroic efforts to topple communism. Those two men, together with Margaret Thatcher, deserve much of the credit for the West's success in the Cold War. | |
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Jonah Goldberg: HOW REAGAN WON THE COLD WAR — Here's a fun item from John Fund's column fom yesterday: "A new book by former Air Force... Your Name: WSJ on RR — John Fund describes the covert effort to undermine the USSR, and the pipeline operation was only part of it. Wretchard: The Three Musketeers — John Fund argues that Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and John Paul II won the Cold War. |
Donald Sensing: I will not dwell on the fact that Reagan was the only president who believed that the Soviet Union could fall and would... James Joyner: John Fund — "Ronald Reagan died just one day after President Bush bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest... |
Thanks From a Grateful Country By / Opinion Journal — Permalink He was dying for years and the day came and somehow it came as a blow. Not a loss but a blow. How could this be? Maybe we were all of us more loyal to him, and to the meaning of his life, than we quite meant to be. And maybe it's more. This was a life with size. | |
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Roger Ailes: Today, she scrubs all traces of Jane, Maureen and Michael from the official history. Saints don't divorce. Steve Bainbridge: Noonan on Reagan — Peggy Noonan was Ronald Reagan's greatest speechwriter and one of his abelest biographers, so it... Your Name: Peggy Noonan on RR. To be young and working in his White House at that time in human history, was—well, we felt privileged to be there, with him. |
H.D. Miller: And although there's nothing I can add to the myriad tributes made to the man, I can simply note that he was the greatest American seen in my lifetime. Vanderleun: Grace Notes — The Eulogy THERE WILL BE A PLETHORA OF EULOGIES TODAY and in the coming weeks, but Peggy Noonan's is... Steven Taylor: Noonan on Reagan — Thanks From a Grateful Country "In his presidency he did this: He out-argued communism and refused... |
| Also: James Joyner, Greg Ransom | |
The prisoners' conscience By / Jerusalem Post — Permalink In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." | |
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Clayton Cramer: Natan Sharansky, one of the more prominent Soviet human rights activists, wrote a splendid column for the Jerusalem Post... Josh Chafetz: NATAN SHARANSKY WRITES IN THE J POST on the power of belligerent rhetoric. KJL: HE SPOKE TO THE OPPRESSED — Natan Sharansky in the In the Jerusalem Post: "In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: His words are worth reflecting on: [snipped quote] That's walking the walk. Jason Van Steenwyk: Link. It's worth the minute or two it takes to register. |
A President Who Listened By / NYT — Permalink MOSCOW — I have just sent to Nancy Reagan a letter of condolence for the passing of Ronald Reagan. The 40th president of the United States was an extraordinary man who in his long life saw moments of triumph, who had his ups and downs and experienced the happiness of true love. | |
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Steve Bainbridge: He was fortunate to have as his counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev, a Soviet leader ready to acknowledge his society's... Dale Franks: They Just Can't Help Themselves — So, when the President who is generally credited with winning the Cold War dies, who does the New York Times get to eulogize him? KJL: GORBACHEV ON REAGAN in the NYTimes: "I don't know whether we would have been able to agree and to insist on the... |
David Allan Pell: Gorby: "I think that the main lesson of those years is the need for dialogue, which must not be broken off whatever the challenges and complications we have to face. James Joyner: Mikhail Gorbachev: "I don't know whether we would have been able to agree and to insist on the implementation of our... |
Why Stalin loved Tarzan and wanted John Wayne shot Telegraph — Permalink The Soviet dictator was also a film buff who'd teach Eisenstein how to make movies. Simon Sebag Montefiore delves into the newly opened Politburo archives Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. | |
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Michael Totten: Now the Daily Telegraph tells us Stalin sent hit squads out to assasinate John Wayne, and Kruschev (softie that he was) rescinded the order. Nick Gillespie: This piece about Stalin's love affair with flicks—and his order that John Wayne be assassinated—is real-life black humor at its best (worst). |
Brian Doherty: The Dictatorship of the Cinema Buff — A lengthy and darkly comic look, from UK's Telegraph, at the topsy-turvy madness... Michael DeBow: Stalin's movie-watching habits are described in this article in The Telegraph. (Registration required, I think.) |
Reagan's Next Victory By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — The outpouring of respect and affection for Ronald Reagan — the principled president and principal Alzheimer's victim — may help resolve the impasse blocking greater federal support of the use of embryonic stem cells in biomedical research. | |
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Jan Haugland: How Reagan can save lives after his death — William Saffire speculates that all the outpouring of respect for Ronald... KJL: SAFIRE ON STEM CELLS — He hopes embyronic stem cell research will be Reagan's "next victory." |
Tom Maguire: And the specific issue that may vex President Bush will be stem cell research; if Nancy Reagan and William Safire are... |
Explosions Rock Kufa Mosque Compound By / AP — Permalink KUFA, Iraq - Explosions rocked the compound surrounding the Kufa mosque on Monday after ammunition used by fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr apparently caught fire, witnesses and Shiite militia members said. At least nine people were hurt. | |
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Emperor Darth Misha I: "Mosque" is, apparently, Arabic for "compound full of heavily armed loons with a tendency to blow up for no reason at... Captain Ed: The al-Mahdi army used a mosque in the "holy city" of Kufa to store ammunition which caught fire, causing an unknown... |
Charles Johnson: Mosques = Ammo Depots — Oh, the humiliation. The holy mosque in Kufa has blown up. |
Nothing stuck to 'Teflon' president By / USA Today — Permalink As a young congresswoman, I got the idea of calling President Reagan the "Teflon president" while fixing eggs for my kids. He had a Teflon coat like the pan. Why was Reagan so blame-free? The answer can be found in the label that did stick to him — "The Great Communicator." | |
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Deacon: Today, that ninny is at it again, using the sad occasion of Reagan's death to remind USA Today's readers of her little... |
James Joyner: Patricia Schroeder [quote] As a young congresswoman, I got the idea of calling President Reagan the "Teflon president" while fixing eggs for my kids.[end quote] |
FM in Cairo to discuss security in Gaza after pullout Haaretz — Permalink Israel and Egypt are "very close" to an agreement allowing Egypt to move more troops into the border region to stop smugglers moving weapons into the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said on Monday. | |
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Kevin Drum: Jim Henley thinks not: [snipped quote] Sadly, this is probably accurate. |
Jim Henley: Pull the Other One - Haaretz reports that — [snipped quote] The safest bet you could make is that nothing of the kind will happen. |
Ronald Reagan Telegraph — Permalink Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States who died on Saturday aged 93, turned to politics after a career in films, and proved in Washington - far more effectively than in Hollywood - that the best actors are those who appear to put in the least effort. | |
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Tom Smith: Telegraph obit for RR — Here's the UK Telegraph obit for RR. It's detailed,if not particularly sympathetic. |
Michael DeBow: (Registration required, I think.) The Telegraph obituary for President Reagan is here. |