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Economy Provides No Boost For Bush By / WaPo — Permalink The nation's economy is growing smartly, wages have begun to rise, and employers have added more than 1.4 million jobs to their payrolls in the past nine months. Yet voters continue to give President Bush poor ratings on his handling of the economy. | |
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Ruy Teixeira: But I couldn't resist calling attention to this well-researched front-page article, "Economy Provides No Boost to Bush", in The Washington Post. Oliver @LiquidList: Politics/Media: Weisman Wonders — Jonathan Weisman wonders, in today's Post, why the kick-ass economy is not helping... Oliver Willis: Economy Provides No Boost for Bush "It all goes back to Iraq," said Steven Valerga, 50, a Republican in Martinez,... |
Brad DeLong: The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman writes: "Jonathan Weisman Strikes Again: [George W. David Allan Pell: It has become clear (contrary to what things may have looked like during the primaries) that Iraq will be the major issue of the campaign. Hindrocket: Here's a Puzzle — Jonathan Weisman, in today's Washington Post, wonders why President Bush can't get any credit for the current strong economy. |
| Also: Aaron @LiquidList, Steve Soto, Hugh Hewitt | |
Two Are Said to Tell of Libyan Plot to Kill Saudi Ruler By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 9 — While the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was renouncing terrorism and negotiating the lifting of sanctions last year, his intelligence chiefs ordered a covert operation to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia and destabilize the oil-rich kingdom, according to statements by two participants in the conspiracy. | |
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H.D. Miller: Look's like Mighty Mo Qaddafi has been up to old tricks: [snipped quote] Time to send Qaddafi a video tape of Lindsey... Jan Haugland: Alleged Libyan plot to kill Saudi ruler — Libya's attempt to rejoin the world is endangered by the disclosure of an... Charles Johnson: Today the New York Times reports that Alamoudi was a very busy moderate Islamic leader indeed; in plea negotiations he... |
Steve M.: Those participants, Abdurahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader now in jail in Alexandria, Va., and Col. Mohamed... Jesse Taylor: Except that Qaddafi's government was coming up with a plan to assassinate the ruler of Saudi Arabia and destabilize the country even as he was negotiating with us. Tom Tomorrow: Well... "While the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was renouncing terrorism and negotiating the lifting of... |
| Also: Aaron @LiquidList, Captain Ed, Cori Dauber, David Allan Pell, David Adesnik | |
Research Shows Dogs Understand Language By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - As many a dog owner will attest, our furry friends are listening. Now, for the doubters, there is scientific proof they understand much of what they hear. German researchers have found a border collie named Rico who understands more than 200 words and can learn new ones as quickly as many children. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Anniversary interlude — Knew it. * Vanderleun: Mondo Bizarro — YaWoof! Cosmo: THIS IS NEWS? Dogs understand language. We also understand ham, by the way. |
Cori Dauber: But it's propaganda I tell you! Propaganda! If you suck up enough, people will believe anything. James Joyner: Dogs Understand Language — AP — Research Shows Dogs Understand Language [snipped quote] So, now we know that dogs can understand simple commands but aren't as smart as children. |
Once a rival, Edwards staying close to Kerry By / Boston Globe — Permalink WASHINGTON — He lost his presidential bid and decided against seeking reelection this fall, so the energetic operation that Senator John Edwards has set up in an office just five blocks from the White House is not, technically, a political campaign. | |
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Harley: John Edwards has set up an office five blocks from the White House to, well, cut down on moving costs. David Allan Pell: It's looking more and more like Edwards is angling to be the vice president of both of them. Taegan Goddard: Edwards Stays Close To Kerry — The "energetic operation that Sen, John Edwards has set up in an office just five blocks... |
Kos: Edwards working hard for the veep — Edwards is the hardest working veep hopeful. Liz Cox Barrett: Today, the Boston Globe's Glen Johnson puts Sen. John Edwards on the couch and renders a diagnosis. |
Gorby had the lead role, not Gipper By / Globe and Mail — Permalink Fiction has its place — especially at the time of one's passing. And so, the American airwaves glisten these days with tales about how it was Ronald Reagan who engineered the defeat of communism and the end of the Cold War. | |
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C. D. Harris: It also goes without saying that this guy doesn't like any of these notions. Tim Cavanaugh: I could never figure out how to make the conspiracy work, and it turns out I should have just turned to Lawrence Martin... |
Jeff Goldstein: Hockey and elk, remember? Leave the punditry to us. Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Ha! Hahaha! Canadian journalists. Such a scream. Richard Reeb: See this attempt to give Mikhail Gorbachev the credit for what will no doubt be part of a steady stream of anti-Reagan offerings. |
Heir Pollution By / TNR — Permalink Despite his decades on the national and global stage, it is impossible to think of Ronald Reagan or of his legacy without considering California. The two—the young man from a small town in Illinois and the state he adopted—grew up together. | |
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Matt Yglesias: Social Conservatism — Joel Kotkin argues that the Arnold is the Gipper's real heir, not George W. Bush. Dale Franks: Neolibertarianism Redux — Think-Tank denizen Joel Kotkin argues in The New Republic that Arnold Schwarzenegger, not George W. Bush, is the heir to Regan's political legacy. |
Gregory Djerejian: Reagan's Heir... ...is in Sacremento not Washington, says Joel Kotkin. Ramesh Ponnuru: Joel Kotkin defends the Schwarzenegger as the new Reagan thesis—to my mind unpersuasively, but you can judge for yourselves. |
Voters Shift in Favor of Kerry By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Widespread unease over the country's direction and doubts about President Bush's policies on Iraq and the economy helped propel Sen. John F. Kerry to a solid lead among voters nationwide, according to a new Times poll. | |
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Captain Ed: Consider The Source — Yes, I read all about how the Los Angeles Times shows Kerry leading by seven points in the national race. Robert Garcia Tagorda: For one thing, even though Bush could definitely use additional support from those outside his traditional base, he has... Hugh Hewitt: The Los Angeles Times says Kerry is building a lead. Right. They thought Gray Davis was in the hunt last fall as well. |
Chris Bowers: Strange New LA Times Poll — The LA Times released a strange new poll today. Kos: LA Times polls MO, OH, WI, Los Angeles Times poll. 6/5-8. MoE 4%. (No trend lines). Howard Kurtz: As for the current presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times has good news for Kerry, sort of: "Widespread unease... |
| Also: Steve Soto | |
Stem Cells An Unlikely Therapy for Alzheimer's By / WaPo — Permalink Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's disease Saturday has triggered an outpouring of support for human embryonic stem cell research. Building on comments made by Nancy Reagan last month, scores of senators on Monday called upon President Bush to loosen his restrictions on the controversial research, which requires the destruction of human embryos. | |
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Tom Maguire: Reagan, Alzheimer's Disease, And The Marketing of Science — The WaPo suggests that the proposed use of stem cells to... KJL: ALZHEIMER'S STEM-CELL HOPE HYPED — From the Washington Post this morning: "[T]he infrequently voiced reality, stem cell... John J. Miller: What they won't tell you is that stem-cell research isn't likely to yield many benefits for Alzheimer's patients, now or ever, according to the Washington Post. |
Tacitus: Toss in the truth unstated by those agitating in Reagan's name — that stem cell research is almost entirely irrelevant to Alzheimer's — and the case collapses. Betsy Newmark: Apparently, stem cell research would do little to help Alzheimer's. Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: Via the comments section, we have this report on the feasibility of stem cells. |
Higher-Ranking Officer Is Sought to Lead the Abu Ghraib Inquiry By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 9 — The commander of American forces in the Middle East asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this week to replace the general investigating suspected abuses by military intelligence soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison with a more senior... | |
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Kevin Drum: John Abizaid, the CENTCOM commander, is planning to appoint a 4-star general to head up the Army's investigation Cori Dauber: But I'm sure it's pure coincidence that on the day this story is published, we also get not one, not two, but three oped pieces on the scandal. |
Mark Kleiman: Two huge developments today: The New York Times reports that the two-star general in charge of the investigation,... |
REAGAN-LIKE LANDSLIDE EYED By / New York Post — Permalink NOW is a good time to look back at the landslide win that sent Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980, because lots of analysts think 2004 could turn out the same way — close for a long time and then suddenly breaking wide open. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Case in point, Deborah Orin's piece predicting a Bush landslide (that's one we haven't heard since Dean's ascendancy). Hugh Hewitt: As noted below, Deborah Orin in the New York Post is keeping her eye on the Iowa Political Futures market. You should as well. |
Steve M.: With Kerry up by 7 points over Bush in the latest L.A. Times poll (and up by 6 in a three-way race with Nader), Deborah... |
The Berkeley Intifada? By / TCS — Permalink Over the past two and a half years Berkeley, California has added radical Middle Eastern politics to its chic campus culture. The result isn't pretty. A city that prides itself on tolerance and diversity is fast-becoming an epicenter of hate. | |
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Charles Johnson: The Berkeley Intifada — Here's a great piece by Michael J. Totten, on a frequent LGF theme—the importation of... Edward Driscoll: THE BERKELEY INTIFADA: Michael J. Totten writes that "A city that prides itself on tolerance and diversity is fast-becoming an epicenter of hate". Roger L. Simon: Michael Totten Writes the Epitaph for Political Correctness — Everyone should read it. |
David Allan Pell: Michael Totten has written an interesting piece called The Berkeley Intifada? that tracks the rise in politically correct anti-semitism. Pejman Yousefzadeh: "THE BERKELEY INTIFADA" — Michael Totten's latest essay is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the culture and legacy of the PC movement. Michael Totten: New Column — My new Tech Central Station column is up: The Berkeley Intifada? |
Grammy winner Ray Charles dies AP — Permalink BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Ray Charles, the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as What'd I Say and ballads like Georgia on My Mind, died Thursday, a spokesman said. He was 73. | |
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Michael DeBow: Ray Charles, R.I.P. Here's the USA Today obit. (Via The Corner.) Dale Franks: Ray Charles has passed away. [snipped quote] Requiescat in Pace. |
KJL: RAY CHARLES HAS DIED |
GOP says N.Y. would be swell with Zell The Hill — Permalink Some Republicans are hoping that sharp-tongued Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia will appear at the GOP's national political convention this summer. "It would be great if he could be there," said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). "Zell Miller is a Harry Truman kind of Democrat. | |
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Shawn @LiquidList: The Hill reports that our wonderful neo-con buddy in the Democratic party might attend the Republican convention in New York. Jesse Taylor: Zell Watch — Republicans want Zell Miller to speak at the Republican National Convention. |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: DINOs and Pitfalls — According to this Hill article, many Republican leaders think that a Zell Miller appearance in the party's national convention would help George W. Bush. |
Saudi Cleared of Terror Charges in Idaho By / AP — Permalink BOISE, Idaho - Handing the government a stinging defeat in its war on terror, a jury acquitted a Saudi graduate student Thursday of charges he used his computer expertise to help Muslim terrorists raise money and recruit followers. | |
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Roger Ailes: The Associated Press needs to get some better writers. [snipped quote] That should be "war on civil liberties." Not war on terror. TChris: Hussayen Acquitted — In a resounding rejection of the government's ambitious use of the Patriot Act against a computer... |
Charles Johnson: Court Lets One Go — Criminal courts are failing us in the war against radical Islam, with help from (who else?) the ACLU: Saudi Cleared of Terror Charges in Idaho. |
Simi Tough By / American Spectator — Permalink According to a John Kerry campaign staffer, the candidate, who made much of his visit to the Reagan Library in Simi, California, on Tuesday afternoon, had to ask aides what behavior they felt would look appropriate. "It was like, 'Should I kneel? | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Lileks e-mailed me a link to Michael Moore's website that gives you a quick education on the DNC's new favorite film-maker. John Cole: Except that they don't. Or is that changing? [snipped quote] If this rumor is true, what is to be made of it? |
Betsy Newmark: Some people have an innate grace and savoir faire. And some have to ask their aides for help. |
Outsourcing Causes 9 Pct. of U.S. Layoffs - Govt. By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bulk of outsourced jobs never leave U.S. shores, the government said on Thursday in a new report suggesting concerns over American workers losing jobs to cheaper foreign labor may be exaggerated. | |
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Steve Antler: The spin starts here... The story: [snipped quote] The Reuters headline: Outsourcing Causes 9 Pct. of U.S. Layoffs - Govt. |
Daniel Drezner: UPDATE: Here's how Reuters plays the story: "The bulk of outsourced jobs never leave U.S. shores, the government said... |
A Tough Time for 'Neocons' By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — As U.S. tanks surrounded Baghdad 14 months ago, an ardent group of war supporters in Washington toasted the success of an invasion they had done much to inspire, as commentators spoke of their virtual takeover of the Bush administration's foreign policy. | |
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Jesse Taylor: No Elevators — Neoconservatives (they exist!) are going through some tough times, the L.A. Times reports. Robert Garcia Tagorda: Another answer involves cold, hard politics and is described in this Los Angeles Times report: the worse the war gets,... Kevin Drum: HARD TIMES AT THE NEOCON CORRAL....Paul Richter writes in the LA Times about tough times for neocons: [snipped quote] The worst president since Jimmy Carter? |
James Joyner: Paul Richter has proclaimed this A Tough Time for 'Neocons,' noting that the group is on its heels in the wake of setbacks in Iraq. Juan Cole: Political Obituary for the Neocons — Paul Richter of the Los Angeles Times has done another political obituary of the neoconservative movement, which has fallen on hard times. |
Keep Reagan's Record in Balance By / WaPo — Permalink The good that Ronald Reagan did is not being buried with his bones tomorrow, as Shakespeare's Mark Antony predicted of Caesar. Reagan's good is being disinterred and magnified. It is being raised to new and unrealistic heights that will live on, and hang heavily over his successors, in public expectations. | |
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Ramesh Ponnuru: He's trying to say that Reagan's record had its blemishes, as of course it did. Kevin Raybould: "Let Reagan Be Reagan" — A nice and timely column from Hoagland, reminding us of something important. David Adesnik: UPDATE II: Jim Hoagland is also trying to correct a lot of the misperceptions that are out there. |
Dale Franks: Let Reagan be Reagan — The Washington Post's Jim Hoagland seems a bit miffed that the coverage of Ronald Reagan's presidency is so elegiac. TChris: Reagan v. Bush — As Republicans attempt to cast George Bush as a clone of their great departed hero, Ronald Reagan, it... |
Both Great and Right By / Weekly Standard — Permalink "RONALD REAGAN was great because Ronald Reagan was right." So declared Gipper speechwriter Peter Robinson, author of How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life, on my radio program Monday. Robinson's right, too, of course. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: My WeeklyStandard.com column from today:"Both Great and Right." |
Jesse Taylor: You Sunk My Battleship... Hugh Hewitt: Democrats are attacking John Ashcroft over the Bush Administration's "Torture's... |
Pennies From Heaven By / American Prospect — Permalink My friend, I miss you and send you love. The week has been ... something. I watched it from where I am, in the place beyond. It's wonderful here. I'm working as a lifeguard again, and I love it. It's a little crowded, though, and an awful lot of people seem to want to talk to me, which I'll get to in a minute. | |
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Mark Kleiman: Ronald Reagan speaks — Charles P. Pierce has a message from Ronald Reagan in Heaven to one of his worshippers on earth. |
Atrios: Pierce — Channels the Nooner. |
Poll: Bush, Kerry Still Closely Matched By / AP — Permalink President Bush is seen as the candidate best suited to handle terrorism and national crises, while Democrat John Kerry (search) tops Bush on handling domestic issues such as health care and Social Security (search). | |
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Taegan Goddard: Poll Shows Very Tight Presidential Race — According to a new Fox News poll, Sen. John Kerry leads President Bush 45% to 43% in a one-on-one race. |
Clayton Cramer: Fox News is reporting that in a two-way race, Kerry gets 45%, and Bush gets 43%. |
Greatest maths problem 'solved' By / BBC — Permalink A mathematician at Perdue University in the US claims to have proved the Riemann hypothesis - called the greatest unsolved problem in maths. The hypothesis concerns prime numbers and has stumped the world's mathematicians for more than 150 years. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: RIEMANN, SCHMIEMANN — A very interesting report on a potential solution to the Riemann Hypothesis: [snipped quote] (Via Tyler Cowen, who also provides a link to the actual proof.) |
Tyler Cowen: Has the Riemann hypothesis been solved? Maybe. Of course there have been false alarms before. |
Detainees' Medical Files Shared WaPo — Permalink Military interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been given access to the medical records of individual prisoners, a breach of patient confidentiality that ethicists describe as a violation of international medical standards designed to protect captives from inhumane treatment. | |
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Digby: Today, the Washington Post reports that interrogators have been given access to detainee's medical files, presumably so... Cori Dauber: Well apparently this just has all kind of very fine people very upset. Are you kidding me? |
Adam Mordecai: Malpractice (It Can't Get Any Worse #357) Yet another Geneva Convention violation....sigh. [snipped quote] Picture it. |
Nap-Master Ronnie By / TNR — Permalink [This article was originally published in the January 9, 1989 issue of The New Republic.] President Reagan likes an off-color joke, but he's still pretty straight-laced when it comes to sex in movies. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: Here's a useful passage from a piece Fred wrote at the end of Reagan's presidency: "[H]is presidency would have been a... |
Ramesh Ponnuru: INTELLIGENT CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM OF REAGAN courtesy of Fred Barnes, here (it's a reprint of a 1989 article). |
Army Now Says G.I. Was Beaten in Role AP — Permalink LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 8 — Reversing itself, the Army said Tuesday that a G.I. was discharged partly because of a head injury he suffered while posing as an uncooperative detainee during a training exercise at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. | |
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Digby: Despite the fact that virtually eveyone (except for General Ripper) admits that there has been almost no good... Cori Dauber: But there's a breaking story that an American soldier is claiming that he was permanently disabled in a training exercise when he was playing the role of an uncooperative detainee. Josh Marshall: From the — Associated Press ... [snipped quote] What can you say about this stuff? |
TChris: Now the Army admits that the discharge was "partly" related to that injury. Mark Kleiman: Since the story broke in the press the Army has reversed itself. I don't want to downplay how hard this problem looked from the Army's viewpoint. |
Nukes May Look Greener Amid Hazy Power Options By / LAT — Permalink Mark A.R. Kleiman knew he was challenging liberal orthodoxy last week when he posted an item on his weblog headlined "Bring back the nukes!" The UCLA professor of public policy, an avowed liberal, braced himself for an onslaught of e-mail from a readership sure to be outraged at his call for an end to the nation's "anti-nuclear superstition." | |
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Matt Yglesias: Bring Back The Nukes! For the record, I got this ball rolling not the excellent and learned Mark Kleiman. |
Kevin Drum: BLOGS AND JOURNALISM...Here's the lead of Michael Hiltzik's column in the Los Angeles Times this morning:... |
Kennedy Seeks Ruling Against Pryor Judgeship AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Sen. Edward Kennedy (search) is trying to file a "friend of the court," or amicus, brief that argues that the recess appointment of Judge William Pryor Jr. (search) was unconstitutional, according to a new court document. | |
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Jonathan H. Adler: Most recently he has submitted a request to file an amicus brief with the court in a pending case to argue that Pryor's recess appointment was unconstitutional. |
Michael DeBow: Ted Kennedy v. Bill Pryor, round 132: According to Fox News, the Senator is seeking leave to file an untimely amicus brief in the case challenging the Judge's recess appointment. |
The Last Laugh? Wait for the History Books By / LAT — Permalink Listening to the endless encomiums to Ronald Reagan, many from people who once derided him, I couldn't help wonder whether some day George W. Bush would receive similar tributes from his current enemies. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Max Boot says that both Reagan and Bush both will get the last laugh in the history books. |
Roger Kimball: The journalist Max Boot has put together a little chrestomathy of bile—a few morsels of repugnance carved out of the... |
A Plunge From the Moral Heights By / WaPo — Permalink Come and sit with me for a moment. I am in a room, in a Middle Eastern country, and I am talking to a government official. He mentions the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the U.S.-run prison outside Baghdad, and what this has done to America's image in his region. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: "Richard Cohen also makes some good points this morning. FRED ON REAGAN: I've long admired Fred Barnes for his honesty as a reporter (and his general menschness as a human being). |
Dan Gillmor: Diminishing America's Meaning — Richard Cohen (Washington Post): A Plunge from the Moral Heights. |
Vice President's Remarks at President Reagan's Funeral White House — Permalink Washington, D.C. THE VICE PRESIDENT: Mrs. Reagan, members of the President's family, colleagues, distinguished guests, members of the diplomatic corps, fellow citizens: | |
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Michael DeBow: The Vice President's eulogy for President Reagan is available online here. |
Bill Hobbs: And Vice President Dick Cheney's eulogy was perfect. eulogy.JPG For decades, America had waged a Cold War, and few believed it could possibly end in our own lifetimes. |
Republicans Upset Over Bush Plan to Use Reagan Images, Speeches in Campaign Ads By / Capitol Hill Blue — Permalink As the nation prepares to bury former President Ronald Reagan, Republican insiders fight among themselves over plans by the political team of President George W. Bush to use images of and speeches by Reagan in new television ads aimed at jump-starting a faltering campaign. | |
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Billmon: War By Other Means — Capitol Hill Blue, an interesting little web site that covers politics and government in, and... |
Steve Soto: If you want to see open warfare between the Bush wing of the GOP and the Reagan true believers, aside from seeing Laura... |
A Day of Ritual and Remembrance By / WaPo — Permalink To the strains of solemn music and the slow beat of drums, the body of Ronald Wilson Reagan rode in a final parade through Washington yesterday to the Capitol Rotunda, where the 40th president of the United States will lie in state until his funeral tomorrow. | |
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James Joyner: Paying their Respects to Reagan (D.C. Edition) - Part 2 — WaPo - A Day of Ritual and Remembrance "To the strains of... |
Gregory Djerejian: Reagan at the Rotunda — I watched the moving state funeral last night in London. |
Showdown With The Linux Gang By / WaPo — Permalink LINDON, Utah — For a small but fervent cadre of computer enthusiasts, the most popular Internet parlor activity over the past year hasn't involved animated dungeons, dragons or warlords. | |
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Brad DeLong: Shoot Out at the SCO Corral — The Washington Post's Jonathan Krim writes about the bizarre story of the Santa Cruz... |
Dan Gillmor: SCO Versus the Linux World — Washington Post: Showdown With The Linux Gang. |
TIA now verifies flight of Saudis By / St. Petersburg Times — Permalink The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, better known as the 9/11 Commission, sent a list of questions to Tampa International Airport. It appears concerned with the handling of the Tampa flight. | |
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Tom Tomorrow: Well, looks like Snopes is due for another update: [snipped quote] ...a reader reminds me that Spinsanity has harped on this a time or two as well. Josh Marshall: From today's — Saint Petersburg Times ... [snipped quote] See the rest here. |
Steve Soto: After Denying It For Three Years, Bush Administration Quietly Admits Allowing Saudi Flight To Leave Country Post-9/11 —... |
Epitaph and Epigone By / NYT — Permalink Sometimes I feel as if I'm watching a nation mourn. And sometimes I feel as if I'm watching a paternity suit. At every opportunity, as the extraordinary procession solemnly wended its way from California to the Capitol, W. was peeping out from behind the majestic Reagan mantle, trying to claim the Gipper as his true political father. | |
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Tim Blair: Maureen Dowd declares: "Whether he is right or wrong, George W. Bush is a bummer." David Adesnik: REAGAN THE FANTASY LIBERAL: Just like Wes Clark, Maureen Dowd is trying to attack Bush by comparing him (unfavorably) to Reagan. |
John Cole: Check out her latest bile: [snipped quote] Under 70 words, and she manages to: A.) Lie about Bush's presence. |
U.N. experts find 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in Jordan scrapyards San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink (06-09) 20:30 PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in a Jordan scrapyard along with other equipment which could be used to make weapons of mass destruction, an official said Wednesday. | |
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Clayton Cramer: Not That Facts Much Matter To The Left — But this news story suggests that Hussein had not obeyed the UN resolutions: ... |
Jonah Goldberg: BANNED IRAQI MISSILE ENGINES FOUND — Interesting story: "U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned... |
D-Day in Iraq By / NYT — Permalink There's been some good political news out of Iraq in recent days. The newly installed — and now U.N.-blessed — Iraqi government is made up of some really decent people. There is hope. But it will not be realized if the sort of incident that happened last weekend keeps being repeated. | |
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James Joyner: D-Day in Iraq — Thomas Friedman [RSS] makes an odd segue to a valid point: "There's been some good political news out of Iraq in recent days. |
Hugh Hewitt: (For an example of turning good news into dreary news, read Thomas Friedman's column this morning.) Why are Bush's numbers down? |
The Gip and George W. By / Townhall.com — Permalink Dear President Bush: Please take comfort in the kind words being said about the late, great former President Ronald Wilson Reagan. President Reagan, like you, felt God's hand as he navigated through his presidency. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Larry Elder reminds us of how the media covered Reagan's presidency. |
Edward Driscoll: More here. UPDATE: And here. ANOTHER UPDATE: Tim Graham writes: [snipped quote] Graham adds, "We should welcome any... |
Kurds Win Round on Constitution By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 9 — Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Wednesday that his government would adhere to the interim constitution agreed to in March until elections are held next year, in an effort to defuse, at least temporarily, a looming crisis with the Kurdish leadership. | |
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Cori Dauber: And, what do you know, the threat works. The Times suggests that this just postpones the inevitable clash over the problem. |
Juan Cole: Kurdish Anger Rising — Update: Although the New York Times alleged Thursday morning that Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had... |
Facing Defeat? MSNBC — Permalink June 9 - Justice Department lawyers, fearing a crushing defeat before the U.S. Supreme Court in the next few weeks, are scrambling to develop a conventional criminal case against "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla that would charge him with providing "material support" to Al Qaeda, NEWSWEEK has learned. | |
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Von @ObsidianWings: A stunner in the case against Padilla, the U.S. Citizen who has been locked up for the last two years without judicial... Atrios: Hope — I'm not so optimistic. Besides, Bush will just declare the Supremos have no jurisdiction. |
Phillip Carter: DoJ initiates CONPLAN for SCOTUS defeats — Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have an amazing report in Newsweek... |
Poll shows dissatisfaction with Bush By / Financial Times — Permalink A growing number of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, underscoring dissatisfaction with the leadership of President George W. Bush, according to a poll published on Thursday. Fifty-eight per cent believe the nation is on the wrong track, up from 55 per cent in March. | |
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Gregory Djerejian: Still, why do 58% of the American people think the U.S. is on the wrong track? Because employment numbers are up? Taegan Goddard: Update: The Financial Times has more on the poll. Update II: Tom Bevan doesn't believe the poll can be accurate. |
Andrew Sullivan: Why not? What is he hiding? KERRY'S LEAD WIDENS: I don't think this has anything to do with Kerry. |
U.N. Experts Find 20 Engines Used in Banned Iraqi Missiles in Jordan Scrapyards By / AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in a Jordan scrapyard along with other equipment which could be used to make weapons of mass destruction, an official said Wednesday. | |
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Tom Smith: Don't Worry — Yes, there is more evidence that Saddam had WMD's, but, and this is the important point, there is no evidence that they were WMD's of the really bad sort. |
BC Imperial Torturer: So He Didn't..... Can't wait to hear what'll come oozing out of the Leftist Sewers over this little bit of information. |
We Won't Get O.J.-ed Again By / Slate — Permalink June 12 will mark the 10th anniversary of the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Predictably, the catch-us-up interviews and where-are-they-now roundups have begun, reminding us that the O.J. Simpson story—Ford Bronco, bloody gloves, Kato... | |
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James Joyner: O.J. Trial 10th Anniversary — Dahlia Lithwick notes that June 12th will mark the 10 year anniversary [!] of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. |
Cori Dauber: Well, I read this wonderful little piece on the general craziness surrounding the OJ obsession, and, oh, Lord, I want to believe. |
Engines Used in Missiles Found in Jordan By / AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.N. weapons experts have found 20 engines used in banned Iraqi missiles in a Jordan scrapyard along with other equipment that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction, an official said Wednesday. | |
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Jon Henke: I can't. [snipped quote] Bear in mind, this isn't exactly a clear administration coup. |
Bill Hobbs: Hey. Where'd Those Come From? Banned Iraqi missile parts found in Jordan. Huh. And in Denmark. Interesting. Must be a lie. |
U.S. General: Iraq Police Training a Flop By / AP — Permalink TAJI, Iraq - Misguided U.S. training of Iraqi police contributed to the country's instability and has delayed getting enough qualified Iraqis on the streets to ease the burden on American forces, the head of armed forces training said Wednesday. | |
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Steven Taylor: Training Woes in Iraq — Yahoo! |
Jeralyn Merritt: He's leaving next week, and says the mission has been a flop: [snipped quote] This will be a problem with our hand-over... |
Kerry Has Solid Lead Among Voters Nationwide By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON - Widespread unease over the country's direction and doubts about President Bush's policies on Iraq and the economy helped propel Sen. John F. Kerry to a solid lead among voters nationwide, according to a new Times Poll. | |
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Oliver Willis: Popular Wartime President — Voters Shift in Favor of Kerry More than one-third of those questioned in the nationwide... |
Taegan Goddard: Poll Shows Kerry With Solid Lead Nationwide — "Widespread unease over the country's direction and doubts about... |
Hatchet Man By / American Prospect — Permalink Born a few months after Reagan's inauguration, I have no personal recollection of the man, and this weekend's wall-to-wall coverage has been my first sustained exposure to his presidency. The tone of his rhetoric is striking. | |
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Tom Maguire: Matt Yglesias Versus Carl Hulse — Matt Yglesias tells us that Reagan buried conservatism; Carl Hulse tells us that Reagan buried the old-school Democrats. Matt Yglesias: How Reagan Killed Conservatism — Read all about it at TAP Online: [snipped quote] So there. |
John Cole: With that in mind, Matthew Yglesias has some stunning news for President Dukakis, President Gore, Speaker ofthe House... |
Reaganomics in Context By / TCS — Permalink "Let me talk, rather, of those presidents who I've known in my own lifetime. And there, there's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. | |
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Max B. Sawicky: HEY ARNOLD — A commenter points me to this interesting essay by Arnold Kling. On TechCentralStation, fortunately it's not about global warming. Betsy Newmark: Arnold Kling gives some more insight on Reagan's economic record. "I believe that President Reagan made a positive difference for the economy. |
Greg Ransom: Arnold Kling. Economics — Learning from Reagan. |
Zimbabwe Announces a New Plan to Seize Land By / NYT — Permalink JOHANNESBURG, June 8 - Zimbabwe's land minister said Tuesday that the government intended to nationalize all farmland that it had not already confiscated under a contentious program of land seizures begun four years ago. | |
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Jim Henley: Reported by Michael Wines in the New York Times (laexaminer/laexaminer), via The Marginal Revolution. McQ: The incredible and utter stupidity of Zimbabwe's rulers — Just when you think a situation can't get worse, some... |
Alex Tabarrok: Here's is a quote from land minister John Nkomo - sadly reminiscient of early twentieth century history. |
DAN & TOM: ENOUGH REAGAN New York Post — Permalink DAN Rather and Tom Brokaw work for dif ferent networks but agree one thing — coverage of Ronald Reagan's death has been excessive, they say. "Even though everybody is respectful and wants to pay homage to the president, life does go on," Rather told the Philadelphia Inquirer. | |
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Kim du Toit: President Reagan's State funeral hadn't even finished, when those Lefty churls Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings were bitching and moaning about "too much Reagan". John Hawkins: Rather & Brokaw Sick Of Talking About Reagan — This is just un.be.lievable... "DAN Rather and Tom Brokaw work for... Stefan Beck: But don't tell that to Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather, who feel that too many words have been spent on the man who smashed the greatest tyranny of the twentieth century. |
Emperor Darth Misha I: Four days of not being able to push their own anti-American agenda has been taking its toll on Gunga Dan Blather and... Jonathan Gewirtz: UPDATE: Such thoughtful fellows — So fair! So balanced! So measured and restrained! So devoted to the reporting of facts without sensationalizing anything! Steve Antler: Dan Rather is impatient with continual media coverage of Ronald Reagan's passing: "Once the herd starts moving in one... |
Unorthodox By / TNR — Permalink Conservatives have been elegizing Ronald Reagan for well over a decade, and his death this week, predictably, occasioned a climactic frenzy of adulation. The exaltations have grown so familiar by now that they have turned into a kind of mental reflex: It is as... | |
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Howard Kurtz: The New Republic's Jonathan Chait says no way: "What's most interesting about Reagan-worship is not so much that it... |
Nick Confessore: Jonathan Chait has an article here on Reagan's record, which, as I pointed out on Monday, is not quite what his acolytes... |
Chirac snubs Bush's Nato request BBC — Permalink French President Jacques Chirac has poured cold water on US calls to expand Nato's role in Iraq. President George W Bush said earlier that the Nato alliance should become more involved in Iraq after the 30 June handover of sovereignty. | |
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Donald Sensing: Chirac just vicariously told Kerry to take a hike when it comes to Iraq. Jeff Jarvis: F' vous : Chirac, in the words of the BBC, snubs Bush's suggestion that NATO should get involved in Iraq. |
Jan Haugland: The Beeb, France and Nato — Bush has indicated he'd like to see a role for Nato in Iraq, and not surprisingly France's Jacques Chirac is not positive to the plan. Roger L. Simon: And now we learn, just as the whole world is trying to pull together to help Iraq's move to democracy Chirac snubs Bush's Nato request. |
Calif. Guardsman Alleges Abuse in Iraq By / AP — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A California National Guardsman says three fellow soldiers brazenly abused detainees during interrogation sessions in an Iraqi police station, threatening them with guns, sticking lit cigarettes in their ears and choking them until they collapsed. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Guardsman Makes New Iraqi Abuse Allegations — Greg Ford, a California National Guardsman, makes some new Iraqi prisoner... |
Steve M.: JUST A FEW BAD APPLES — A California National Guardsman says three fellow soldiers brazenly abused detainees during... |
Security Council, in a 15-0 Vote, Backs Measure 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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David Adesnik: Yet the NYT reports Bush's alleged victory as if it were a fact rather than a boast, hence: "The 15-to-0 vote on the... |
Matthew Yglesias: So the president finally took liberals' advice and got himself a UN resolution to legitimize the situation in Ira. |
Bush Sees Possible NATO Role for Iraq, Not Chirac By / Reuters — Permalink SEA ISLAND, Ga. (Reuters) - President Bush proposed a NATO role for Iraq at the Group of Eight summit on Wednesday but the main opponent of the war, French President Jacques Chirac, said the alliance had no role there. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Apportez-moi mon cheval digne de confiance — Jacques Chirac, le cowboy français.* **** h/t Blackfive |
Blackfive: Here's some comments from Reuter's: Bush Sees Possible NATO Role for Iraq, Not Chirac We believe NATO ought to be... |
Scientists Say Dirty Bomb Would Be a Dud By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK - The "dirty bomb" allegedly planned by terror suspect Jose Padilla would have been a dud, not the radiological threat portrayed last week by federal authorities, scientists say. | |
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Mathew Gross: Idiots Holding Idiots — We set aside the consitution for this? [snipped quote] Ridiculous. |
Steve M.: Now AP tells us that scientists say Padilla's other alleged terror plot wouldn't have worked either: The "dirty bomb"... |
Blog-rolling for votes and dollars By / Salon — Permalink Most Americans probably don't know who Roy Blunt is, and they probably don't much care. As the House majority whip, he is the man responsible for getting Republican representatives to toe the party line — but his name doesn't inspire a whole lot of passion. | |
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Howard Kurtz: Online political ads are all the rage, reports Salon's Farhad Manjoo: "Jim Newberry, a Democrat who's trying to unseat... Atrios: Candidate Blogads — I think this Salon story gets it about right. |
Taegan Goddard: Blog-rolling for Votes and Dollars — "Political advertising on weblogs is booming, and some local candidates are raising big national money," Salon reports. |
U.S. Will Revise Data on Terror By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — The State Department is scrambling to revise its annual report on global terrorism to acknowledge that it understated the number of deadly attacks in 2003, amid charges that the document is inaccurate and was politically manipulated by the Bush administration. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: 2003 Terrorism Figures To Be Revised Upward — At the request of Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), the State... David Allan Pell: It turns out the terror numbers for 2003 originally released by the State Dept were way off the mark and made a pretty bleak picture look pretty impressive. Taegan Goddard: Revised Report May Show Terror at 20 Year High — The State Department "is scrambling to revise its annual report on... |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: According to the Los Angeles Times, Democratic congressman Henry Waxman has accused the Bush administration of skewing the numbers for political gain. Jesse Taylor: No Terror Here, No Sir — Via Political Wire, the State Department is revising its 2003 report on terror attacks. Dean Esmay: The Los Angeles times reports that previous positive estimates of worldwide terrorism going down may have been wrong, and Democrats are attacking the administration for that. |
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Author Ann Coulter Enters the No Spin Zone AP — Permalink This is a partial transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," May 27, 2004 that has been edited for clarity. Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor! BILL O'REILLY HOST: In the personal story segment tonight. | |
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John Cole: You Couldn't Pay Me — You couldn't pay me to read or watch this interview, and I am beginning to wonder if Jesse Taylor is a masochist. |
Jesse Taylor: Oh, Ann Coulter Said Something — Bill O'Reilly interviews Ann Coulter. Complete detachment from reality ensues. |
Text: Ashcroft Comments on Anti-Terror Policy WaPo — Permalink U.S. SENATOR ORRIN G. HATCH (R-UT) CHAIRMAN U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. GRASSLEY U.S. SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER | |
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Adam Mordecai: Senator Biden got so frustrated he started to lose his temper. The transcript does not do it justice. |
Billmon: Ashcroft — I spent Wednesday morning reading the transcript of the AG's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee,... |
The Road Map for A Sovereign Iraq By / Opinion Journal — Permalink After a suicide car bombing killed Iraqi Interim Governing Council President Izzedine Salim and eight others on May 17, one Iraqi put that act of terror into a larger perspective for those who wonder if democracy can work in Iraq. | |
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Jan Haugland: Wolfowitz quotes Iraqi bloggers — Paul Wolfowitz explains the plan for security and democracy in Iraq, and in the... Ed Cone: Paul Wolfowitz leads his WSJ opinion piece this morning by citing an Iraqi blogger. The media revolution is not over, but its outcome is not in doubt. Charles Johnson: The Road Map for A Sovereign Iraq — A terrific piece by Paul Wolfowitz (or as Al Gore pronounces the name,... |
Joe Katzman: Also take a look at The Khalifa and JFK from Omar, for a "buck-up" local perspective, and this WSJ article by Paul... Jeff Jarvis: Blogs read in the halls of power : For the second time (the first was in the NY Post, this is in the Wall Street Journal), Paul Wolfowitz is quoting Iraqi bloggers. Dale Franks: Our Plan for Iraq — Dep. Sec. of Defense Paul Wolfowitz provides us with a long and detailed article about the progress... |
| Also: QD @SouthernAppeal, Cori Dauber, Roger L. Simon, Robert Cox, Sadly @SadlyNo, Ted Belman, Josh Chafetz, Dean Esmay | |
Fewer Republicans Trust the News, Survey Finds By / WaPo — Permalink In a country increasingly divided into red and blue states, the media are taking on a more partisan coloration as well — at least in the eyes of those who read and watch. | |
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Cori Dauber: I think his piece reveals some interesting things about what he finds credible. James Joyner: Howard Kurtz comments on this research, as well: "While the percentage of people who rate CNN as highly credible has... Edward Driscoll: "Howie Kurtz has a rundown in today's Washington Post, including some crowing from various network/newspaper PR flacks about the results." |
David Allan Pell: Somehow, in the last several years, more and more Americans (especially Republicans) have become convinced that the media is made up of a bunch of liberals who can't be trusted. Joe Drymala: Media Credibility Gap — An interesting poll came out recently about Americans and how they view the media. Steve Lovelady: Howard Kurtz reports on the poll in this morning's Washington Post, highlighting this surprising finding: While 45... |
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News Audiences Increasingly Politicized Pew Research Center — Permalink I. Where Americans Go for News II. The Changing Online News Audience III. International News Audience Broader, Not Deeper | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Pew has a vast new report out on the news habits of Americans that concludes among other things that Americans are... James Joyner: Polarized Press — Pew Research — News Audiences Increasingly Politicized "Despite tumultuous events abroad, the... Steve Lovelady: Fact Check — Whom Do You Trust? No one, if a new poll by the Pew Research Center is any indication. |
Jeanne D'Arc: Trust fun media_pollOver at the Campaign Desk, Steve Lovelady takes a look at a recent Pew Research Center poll of how... Taegan Goddard: Fewer Republicans Trust the News — "Republicans have become more distrustful of virtually all major media outlets over... Will Collier: Coin Of The Realm — Expect to see a lot of chatter today and tomorrow over the just-released Pew study of news audience attitudes. |
| Also: Jesse Taylor, Greg Ransom, Jason Van Steenwyk, Edward Driscoll | |
Moon Over Washington By / Gadflyer — Permalink Should Americans be concerned that on March 23rd a bipartisan group of Congressmen attended a coronation at which a billionaire, pro-theocracy newspaper owner was declared to be the Messiah - with royal robes, a crown, the works? | |
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Atrios: Moon Over Washington — Just in case you missed it the first time - check out this article about Moon by Gorenfeld. H.D. Miller: Lunatic = Moonstruck — When a lunatic crowns himself emperor we generally ignore him, or if San Franciscans, humor him... |
Ezra Klein: Lucky for us, John Gorenfeld has done just that in an article explaining how Moon is consolidating his power and the ridiculous role our elected officials are playing to help him. Roger Ailes: Read This Article — A very important article from John Gorenfeld on the Moon psuedo-coronation in a United States Senate office building, this past March. |
Memo Draws Focus To Bush WaPo — Permalink The disclosure that the Justice Department advised the White House in 2002 that the torture of al Qaeda terrorist suspects might be legally defensible has focused new attention on the role President Bush played in setting the rules for interrogations in the war on terrorism. | |
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Digby: Froomkin concludes his review with this: "If anyone in the higher levels of government acted in reliance on this advice, those persons should be impeached. Matthew Yglesias: Nevertheless, it's time to come back to the present and focus on the major news of the week, namely the revelation that... Billmon: In the Washington Post's follow up to yesterday's story on the Justice Department's torture memo - the bureaucratic Big... |
Andrew Sullivan: CONDONING TORTURE: The lame responses by John Ashcroft to the evidence in leaked memos that the Bush administration... Aaron @LiquidList: Clearly, Ashcroft and Bush would ultimately end up in the eye of this storm, particularly in the wake of Abu Ghraib and other disclosures. Phillip Carter: More to follow... Update I: Before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft denied... |
Laura Bush Says Cannot Support Stem Cell Research By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Laura Bush, whose father died from Alzheimer's, said on Wednesday she admired Nancy Reagan's devotion to former President Ronald Reagan until his death but could not back her call for relaxation of stem cell research restrictions. | |
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Brian Crouch: Vilifying the First Lady — The Reuters headline reads: "Laura Bush Says Cannot Support Stem Cell Research" However,... Roger L. Simon: Two Steps Forwards, One Step Backwards... ... and this one really is backwards to me. (I'm with Nancy!) |
KJL: LAURA BUSH ON STEM CELLS Jesse Taylor: Not if Laura Bush is any indication. [snipped quote] I'm not even sure why the question was asked - Reagan's suffering in life didn't sway them, why would his death? |
Legalizing Torture WaPo — Permalink THE BUSH administration assures the country, and the world, that it is complying with U.S. and international laws banning torture and maltreatment of prisoners. | |
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Gregory Djerejian: Think of it in conjuction with this WaPo masthead. Tom Smith: This fulminating editorial from the Washington Post is an example. Dan Gillmor: Abusing Morality and Law — Washington Post: Legalizing Torture. |
David Adesnik: TORTURE: It is wrong for America, whether practiced at home or abroad. Dale Franks: It's Not Torture if You're Just Smacking Them Around a Little Bit — Both the Washington Post and the New York Times are... Atrios: Slumbering Giant Awakens — WaPo: "THE BUSH administration assures the country, and the world, that it is complying... |
Kurds Threaten to Walk Away From Iraqi State By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 8 — A crisis for the new Iraqi government loomed Tuesday as Kurdish leaders threatened to withdraw from the Iraqi state unless they received guarantees against Shiite plans to limit Kurdish self-rule. | |
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Oliver @LiquidList: Our tightest homies in Iraq (besides Ahmad Chalabi) are making some pretty grandiose gestures toward possible secession. James Joyner: Kurds Threaten To Walk Away From Iraqi State — NYT — Kurds Threaten To Walk Away From Iraqi State [RSS] |
Cori Dauber: After listening to the Shia go on for weeks about their intention to remove provisions in the Constitution guaranteeing... |
REAGAN TO THE RESCUE By / New York Post — Permalink IN 1976, I joined the U.S. Army as a private. Our military was broken. My first unit, in Germany, had trucks built in the 1940s, inadequate winter clothing, inept medical care and an atmosphere of pessimism. We were not "combat ready." | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: A SOLDIER REMEMBERS — Ralph Peters pays tribute to Ronald Reagan. I won;t even try to excerpt favorite parts. Just read it all. Stephen Green: Private Ralph Peters remembers: [snipped quote] How good did things get in the '80s? Read the whole thing to find out. |
Daniel Drezner: For an example, consider Ralph Peters' New York Post column (link via James Joyner). |
Prison Interrogators' Gloves Came Off Before Abu Ghraib By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — After American Taliban recruit John Walker Lindh was captured in Afghanistan, the office of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld instructed military intelligence officers to "take the gloves off" in interrogating him. | |
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Atrios: Arrest Rumsfeld — LA Times. Tom Tomorrow: A few bad apples — Their names are Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld: [snipped quote] Via Atrios. |
Kevin Raybould: Rumsfeld Authorized Lindh Abuse — This is not acceptable in a democracy: [snipped quote] By using ambiguous, though... |
Reagan's history with reporters By / Townhall.com — Permalink The greatest president of the 20th century has passed away. Everyone is assessing and re-assessing the giant legacy of this man, as well as the winning personality that helped create it. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Digging Til The Fingers Break Off — And following up my previous post, Brent Bozell decides that since he can't find... SLZoll: Brent Bozell The liberal media is saying nice things about the Reagan, and this makes Brent really mad, since it's NOT FAIR that he can't criticize them for maligning the dead. |
Betsy Newmark: Brent Bozell revisits how the media treated Reagan while he was president and after he left the presidency. Tbogg: One need not read any further than this from Brent Bozell's latest: The greatest president of the 20th century has passed away. |
Political cartoonist defends anti-Reagan Web tirade By / Washington Times — Permalink Political cartoonist Ted Rall's comment that the late President Ronald Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" provoked a reaction that crashed his Web site for at least 24 hours after the remark was posted on the Drudge Report. | |
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Tim Cavanaugh: Ted Rall, defending his latest outrage against the late President Reagan, drops an interesting political factoid: [snipped quote] Whole story here. John Cole: Quote of The Day — Who said the following: [quote] "Still, I'm not a knee-jerk left-wing guy," ******************** said.[end quote] |
Steve Bainbridge: Ted Rall — Despite his protestations, Ted Rall is an evil guy. It cannot be said often enough. |
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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Cori Dauber: GOOD NEWS WATCH — Well, a unanimous UN vote, and the New York Times is happy. You have to look at the online edition for a note of trouble. 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. |
Edward _: But while the US and other nations of the UN Security Council congratulate themseleves on their unanimous vote... Robert Garcia Tagorda: UPDATE: The resolution wins unanimous approval. |