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Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week arguing that President George W. Bush has damaged America's national security and should be defeated in November. | |
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Harley: Informed Opinion — Not mine, of course. Jesse Taylor: Actual Experts Against Bush — Unfortunately, since every single one of these guys is a partisan Democratic plant secretly working for Kerry, we can't trust them. Paradox: Proudly a 9-10 Citizen Here 26 former General Officers and Senior Diplomats, "several" appointed by Reagan and Bush I,... |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change — According to Ron Brownstein, a bipartisan group of twenty-six former... Patterico: The headline of the story is Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go. |
Red Cross ultimatum to US on Saddam Guardian — Permalink Saddam Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and the new Iraqi government are to conform to international law, the International Committee of the Red Cross said last night. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Red Cross to Bush: Charge Saddam or Release Him — The Red Cross has issued an ultimatum to President Bush on Saddam Hussein: Charge him by June 30 or release him. Atrios: A nation of laws? ...here it is: Saddam Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and... |
Charles Johnson: Red Cross: The Dictator's Friend — The International Committee of the Red Cross says ... Saddam Hussein should either be charged or freed. |
Nader Had Campaign Office at Charity By / WaPo — Permalink Since October, Ralph Nader has run his campaign for president out of the same downtown Washington offices that through April housed a public charity he created — an overlap that campaign finance specialists said could run afoul of federal laws. | |
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Jan Haugland: Nader campaign shared offices with charity — Ralph Nader has been running his presidential campaign from the same... Jesse Taylor: Nader's Folly — It looks like Ralph Nader may be steering the ship U.S.S. Bush's Election into dangerous waters:... QD @SouthernAppeal: According to the Washington Post, Ralph Nader's "campaign" is under scrutiny for having too close an assocation with his public charity "Citizen Works." |
Tim Graham: NADER SCOOP — The Washington Post reports on Page One today that the Ralph Nader campaign is sharing office space (and... Captain Ed: Maybe He Doesn't Know The Law — Ralph Nader, who gained fame as a consumer-advocate lawyer, appears to need a brush-up course on electoral and tax law. |
Like Thatcher, Americans grasped Reagan's worth By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink 'It's so American,'' Margaret Thatcher is said to have remarked, watching from Bill Frist's Senate office as Ronald Reagan's casket was brought to the Capitol and 21 jets flew overhead in missing-man formation. She's right. Serious nations have serious ritual, but each in its own way. | |
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Edward Driscoll: WHAT IS AN "INTELLIGENT" PERSON? Roger Kimball and Mark Steyn have some thoughts on the subject. Tom Smith: Mark Steyn on Reagan — Right as usual. BTW this is also why the media preferred GHWB's tribute to the PresidentBush 's. Tim Blair: REAGAN UNDER REVIEW — Mark Steyn on the anti-Reagan media: "If anything is laid to rest with him at the end of this... |
Michael DeBow: Mark Steyn on the events of the past week, here. "One day even the network anchors and Ivy League professors will get it." Roger Kimball: What is an ''intelligent'' person? It's an excellent question that Mark Steyn asks. Betsy Newmark: Mark Steyn looks at how Americans were much better at evaluating Reagan than the elites in the media were. |
| Also: Greg Ransom, Deacon | |
Interrogation abuses were 'approved at highest levels' By / Telegraph — Permalink New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House. | |
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DHinMI: They are the directives of high-ranking officials, and according to the Telegraph, this week we may know who in the Bush... Kevin Raybould: Torture "approved at highest levels" — This makes me sick: [snipped quote] One wonders if these were the same Pentagon... Mark Kleiman: More torture documents coming — Interrogation abuses were 'approved at highest levels' By Julian Coman in Washington... |
Kevin Drum: UPDATE: And this from the Telegraph: "The Telegraph understands that four confidential Red Cross documents implicating... Jack Balkin: A Few Bad Apples at the Top of the Barrel — According to this report from the London Telegraph (link via Mark Kleiman),... |
Bush Asked for Vatican's Help on Political Issues, Report Says By / NYT — Permalink On his recent trip to Rome, President Bush asked a top Vatican official to push American bishops to speak out more about political issues, including same-sex marriage, according to a report in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: John Allen is a great reporter so I doubt he's wrong that president Bush lobbied the Vatican to support the... Ezra Klein: Comforting — John Kerry's not a bad Catholic. JFK would take orders from the Pope. Combine the two and who do you get? Betsy Newmark: The headline in this New York Times story doesn't seem to fit the facts mentioned in the story. |
Digby: And Bob Jones Says Hello — Bush Asked for Vatican's Help on Political Issues, Report Says This is the reason for the separation of church and state in a pluralistic democracy. The Poor Man: The Catholic Strategy — It seems like the sudden fixation on whether John Kerry deserves to be given communion in light... Oliver Willis: Bush Asked for Vatican's Help on Political Issues, Report Says In a column posted Friday evening on the paper's Web... |
France 2-1 England BBC — Permalink Zinedine Zidane scored a majestic free-kick and a penalty in injury time to secure holders France a stunning victory over England in Group B. Frank Lampard had given England a first-half lead when he rose to head home David Beckham's free-kick. | |
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Damian Penny: In the meantime, what a downer to come home to this. A couple of quick notes: - I found out about Ray Charles's death in the Globe and Mail on Friday morning. |
Chris Bertram: Euro 2004 (England-France) They'll be dancing in the streets of Glasgow and Cardiff tonight after England's last minute collapse to France at Euro 2004. |
Meet Joe Blog Time — Permalink A few years ago, Mathew Gross, 32, was a free-lance writer living in tiny Moab, Utah. Rob Malda, 28, was an underperforming undergraduate at a small Christian college in Michigan. Denis Dutton, 60, was a professor of philosophy in faraway Christchurch, New Zealand. | |
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Mathew Gross: Meet Joe Blog — Time magazine runs a short piece on how blogs are changing the media landscape. Not conspicuously good-looking, however? |
Kevin Drum: MORE BLOGGINESS....Time magazine is the latest to promote the blogosphere as the Next Big Thing: "Blogs showcase some of the smartest, sharpest writing being published. |
Ex-President Bush Makes Birthday Skydive AP — Permalink COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday with a parachute jump from 13,000 feet over his presidential library. | |
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Edward Driscoll: BUSH 41 TURNS 80, SKYDIVES TO CELEBRATE: George H.W., the first President Bush, decided to celebrate his 80th birthday... |
James Joyner: (AP) NYT/AP — Ex-President Bush Plans Birthday Skydive "Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday... |
Commander Swift Objects By / NYT — Permalink Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift received his first lesson in the misuse of power in 1980, when he was a plebe at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Subjected to one indignation after another at the hands of upperclassmen, he came to realize that those... | |
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Cori Dauber: Well, it struck folks enough that it gets retold today in the form of a magazine piece. |
Michael Froomkin: Commander Swift Objects won't tell people who have been following the story closely much that's new, but it's well-told, and has a very sympathetic profile of Lt. Cmdr. |
Mural by Jewish child prisoners in WW2 desecrated in France Reuters — Permalink PARIS - Vandals have desecrated a mural painted by Jewish children during World War Two in a transit camp in southern France where they were held before deportation to Nazi Germany, police said Sunday. | |
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Betsy Newmark: How the French can claim that anti-semitism isn't on the rise in France is beyond me. |
Charles Johnson: French Antisemitism Watch — Mural by Jewish child prisoners in WW2 desecrated in France. (Hat tip: Goldie.) |
Group Seeks Change In Security Policy By / WaPo — Permalink Angered by President Bush's conduct of foreign policy and dismayed about America's diminished reputation abroad, more than two dozen former top diplomats and military leaders will release a statement this week calling for a change in U.S. national security policy. | |
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Patterico: So far only one has stated he's a Republican — sort of. Bill Harrop firmly states: "I really am essentially a Republican." |
Kash: Well, today's Washington Post is reporting that a group of grownup Republicans and Democrats will be speaking out this... |
President Reagan, Champion Budget-Cutter By / American Enterprise Institute — Permalink Everyone talks about the Reagan tax cuts, yet there is more to President Reagan's legacy than tax cuts. There is also his courageous and largely unappreciated willingness to fight for reductions in domestic spending. | |
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Robert Garcia Tagorda: Reagan and Bureaucracy — Tyler Cowen highlights this American Enterprise Institute study, which applauds Ronald... |
Tyler Cowen: Here are the underlying data. |
Bush rival joins Latham attack By / Sydney Morning Herald — Permalink The campaign of the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, John Kerry, has for the first time rejected Mark Latham's plan to recall Australian troops from Iraq by Christmas, leaving the Labor leader without support for the policy in America's political mainstream. | |
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Tim Blair: Now the Caged Massachusetts Hamster (grrrr! grrrr!) is joining Bush's conservative conspiracy: "The campaign of the... |
Tim Dunlop: UPDATE: A John Kerry spokesman joins the Lathamfest. No word on what they think about the Netherland's plans. |
Probing 'Liberal' Bias By / Editor and Publisher — Permalink How "liberal" are the nation's newsrooms? What does "liberal" mean, anyway? Should editors embark on an ideological affirmative action program? All of these questions, and more, grow out of the recent Pew survey that seemed to sustain arguments that newsrooms tilt left, in composition if not coverage. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: Greg Mitchell, Editor of Editor and Publisher, is promising to look further into the numbers behind the Pew survey which... |
Cori Dauber: RAMPANT QUESTION BEGGING — With the smugness we have come to expect from him, the editor of Editor and Publisher... |
John Howard: Man of tradition who reshaped history The Australian — Permalink I WAS wrong about Ronald Reagan. Back in 1980 when the Republican primaries were being held I wanted George Bush (who later became 41st president) to win. My view reflected much of the conventional wisdom at the time. Reagan was a movie star. | |
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Tim Blair: Yay for learning. UPDATE. John Howard admits that he, too, got Reagan wrong: "I was wrong about Ronald Reagan. |
Tim Dunlop: MEANWHILE in the LAND OF BROWNNOSE: John Howard gets down on his hands and knees and offers contrition to those who must be obeyed. |
Hiding a bad guy named triple X By / US News — Permalink The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, issued a classified order last November directing military guards to hide a prisoner, later dubbed "Triple X" by soldiers, from Red Cross inspectors and keep his name off official rosters. | |
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DHinMI: In at least one case, according to documents obtained by U.S. News, Sanchez ordered a prisoner be hid from Red Cross inspectors and his name kept off official rosters of detainees. Jesse Taylor: Who was "Triple X"? [snipped quote] As we all know, this story isn't going anywhere, as it was just six independent soldiers...or, uh, seven. Jeralyn Merritt: Report: Lt. Gen. Sanchez Ordered Prisoner Hidden from Red Cross — US News and World Report says there is now evidence... |
Kevin Drum: And there's this from U.S. News & World Report: "The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, issued a... Mark Kleiman: Just asking — What was being done to "Prisoner XXX" that Gen. Sanchez didn't want the Red Cross to know about? |
Labor accuses US of interference The Australian — Permalink THE president of the Labor Party today accused Washington of meddling in upcoming elections by criticising the party's pledge to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq. | |
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Tim Blair: VAST CONSPIRACY BECOMES VASTER — Demonic BusHitler conservatives are conspiring to re-elect John Howard, claims Labor... |
Arthur Chrenkoff: Lawrence out of Arabia by Christmas — The president of the Australian Labor Party, Carmen Lawrence, accused the US... |
Iraqis Start to Exercise Power Even Before Date for Turnover By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 12 — With less than three weeks to go before sovereignty returns to Iraq, American and Iraqi officials are saying that much of the transfer has already happened. | |
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Robert Garcia Tagorda: Not only did the resolution pass unanimously, but the president called for additional NATO involvement, and the UN... |
Gregory Djerejian: Rainesian Encroachements — Tucked into a Jeffrey Gettleman New York Times article today, the U.S. Embassy is described... |
Errors Are Seen in Early Attacks on Iraqi Leaders NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 12 — The United States launched many more failed airstrikes on a far broader array of senior Iraqi leaders during the early days of the war last year than has previously been acknowledged, and some caused significant civilian casualties, according to senior military and intelligence officials. | |
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Matt Yglesias: Easy Solution — Bad airstrikes; poor tactical intelligence; higher-than-reported civilian casualties? Jason Van Steenwyk: The New York Times Blows it Again. Big Time. I'm trying to contain myself reading this abominable piece of tripe from the New York Times. |
Cori Dauber: Not a word in this article about prior bombing campaigns, not even prior campaigns in Iraq, only that it now turns out... Oliver @LiquidList: NYT: "United States launched many more failed airstrikes on a far broader array of senior Iraqi leaders during the... |
General Granted Latitude At Prison WaPo — Permalink Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed heavily from a list of high-pressure interrogation tactics used at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and approved letting senior officials at a Baghdad jail use... | |
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DHinMI: Sanchez Approved Torture; White House May Be Linked to Decision — There is more proof that the torture at Abu Ghraib... Andrew Sullivan: Surely Rumsfeld was aware of the new relaxed interrogation methods. |
Kevin Drum: First, from the Washington Post: "Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, borrowed... |
Iraq Tactics Have Long History With U.S. Interrogators By / WaPo — Permalink A CIA handbook on coercive interrogation methods, produced 40 years ago during the Vietnam War, shows that techniques such as those used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a long history with U.S. intelligence and were based on research and field experience. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: CIA Has Long Torture History — The Washington Post reports that the torture history of the C.I.A. goes back 40 years. |
Billmon: Wiliam L. Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 1960 |
Kerry Behind the Scenes: Restless, Multisyllabic By / NYT — Permalink BOSTON, June 12 — Like a caged hamster, Senator John Kerry is restless on the road. He pokes at the perimeter of the campaign bubble that envelops him, constantly trying to break out for a walk around the block, a restaurant dinner, the latest movie. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Tomorrow's New York Times does John Kerry no favors with a portrait that should unnerve even his most faithful supporters. Jesse Taylor: The Problem Isn't Media Bias — The problem is dumbass articles like this. [snipped quote] Guess what? DHinMI: Personal Profiles: The Rice Cakes and Celery of Political Journalism — If the press is going to insist on force feeding... |
Tim Blair: THE ONLY HAMSTER TO SERVE IN VIETNAM — The New York Times coins a metaphor for the ages: [snipped quote] Or some fresh sawdust. John Cole: Cease and Desist — I am hereby calling on the media to cease and desist all inane stories such as this idiotic Wilgorne piece. |
Iran Rejects Restraint on Nuclear Program By / AP — Permalink TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Toughening its stance in advance of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran on Saturday said it would reject international restrictions on its nuclear program and challenged the world to accept Tehran as a member of the "nuclear club." | |
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Stephen Green: Plan B — From the AP: "Toughening its stance in advance of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, Iran on... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: WARMING THE COCKELS OF OUR HEARTS — This ought to brighten everyone's weekend: [snipped quote] Some of these claims could, of course, constitute bluffing. |
Brahimi quits post as UN envoy in Iraq By / Haaretz — Permalink NEW YORK - Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations special envoy to Iraq, announced his resignation from the post at a meeting yesterday of the Security Council and in the presence of Secretary General Kofi Annan. | |
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DemFromCT: Update [2004-6-13 10:18:32 by DemFromCT]: Since Ha'aretz says Brahimi has resigned (or, in diplomatese,... |
Oliver @LiquidList: Politics: Bye Bye Brahimi — Lakhdar's out. |
UN to hold first-ever conference on anti-Semitism By / Jerusalem Post — Permalink As the force behind the United Nations' first-ever conference on anti-Semitism, UN undersecretary-general for communications and public information Shashi Tharoor is inviting a dozen speakers to UN headquarters on June 21 to tackle one of humanity's longest-enduring hatreds. | |
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Emperor Darth Misha I: UN Trying to Whitewash Themselves — This should be interesting: "Jun. 12, 2004 22:21 | Updated Jun. 12, 2004 23:22 UN... |
Joseph Alexander Norland: In addition to Janet Lehr's e-mail below, note the JPost article on the same topic. |
Israel Says Children Enlist Children as Suicide Bombers By / NYT — Permalink NABLUS, West Bank - When teenage suicide bombers began emerging from Nablus last fall, Israeli and Palestinian leaders expressed concern that Palestinian factions were cynically exploiting the youths. | |
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Fred Lapides: This one from New York Times "When teenage suicide bombers began emerging from Nablus last fall, Israeli and... |
Charles Johnson: Children Corrupting Children — The New York Times headline attempts to cast doubt on this story ("Israel Says..."), but... |
Palestinian gunmen raid UNRWA offices in Jenin By / Jerusalem Post — Permalink The United Nations decided over the weekend to suspend its construction project in the Jenin refugee camp after Palestinian gunmen threatened crews rebuilding houses destroyed during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. | |
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Emperor Darth Misha I: Meanwhile, in Jenin...clashes break out between two long-time allies, the UNRWA and paleswinian terrorists: "The... Charles Johnson: The entitlement mentality meshes with the death cult: Palestinian gunmen raid UNRWA offices in Jenin. |
Judith Weiss: File this one under "killing your parents and then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court because you're an... |
A Nation Divided? Who Says? By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — If you've been following the election coverage, you know how angry you're supposed to be. This has been called the Armageddon election in the 50-50 nation, a civil war between the Blue and the Red states, a clash between churchgoers and secularists hopelessly separated by a values chasm and a culture gap. | |
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Jesse Walker: Here's a pair of pieces to chew on while I'm away: John Tierney has a sharp column today on the extent to which the... Steven Taylor: Partisanship in America and Some Historical Perspective — Robert Tagorda, James Joyner and Kevin Drum all comment on a... Robert Garcia Tagorda: The Polarization Debate Revived — Kevin Drum questions whether the nation is as polarized as people think, citing this... |
James Joyner: Not Divided After All? NYT — A Nation Divided? Who Says? [snipped quote] It's certainly true that we're reaching consensus on previously divisive issues. Roger L. Simon: But John Tierney says no in today's NYT Week in Review... and he's got people, scholars with studies anyway, backing him up. Kevin Drum: LE ROUGE ET LE BLEU...The New York Times has an article today about a subject that, coincidentally, I was discussing at... |
Al-Qaida Claims U.S. Slaying and Hostage AP — Permalink RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A purported al-Qaida statement Saturday claimed the terror group had kidnapped one American man in the Saudi capital and killed another American. It threatened to treat the captive as U.S. troops treated Iraqi prisoners. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Al-Qaida Takes An American Hostage — This is not good news: [snipped quote] Update: Authorities are searching for Mr. Johnson, who works for Lockheed Martin. |
Charles Johnson: Religion of Kidnapping and Murder — The tiny minority of Islamic extremists has kidnapped another American in Saudi Arabia: Al-Qaida Claims U.S. Slaying and Hostage. |
White House Briefing WaPo — Permalink Given several opportunities at yesterday's press conference to express his opposition to torture, President Bush responded repeatedly with a legalistic answer that leaves him vulnerable to continued speculation about the role he and his top advisers played in setting interrogation rules in the war on terror. | |
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Dan Gillmor: All the Way to the Top? Washington Post: A Tortured Non-Denial. Brad DeLong: Yes, It Was U.S. Policy to Torture Detainees — George Bush acknowledges that it was U.S. policy to torture... |
The Poor Man: A Few Bad Apples — [snipped quote] Well, goodie. I think I found something that pisses my off more than Plame. |
Big-selling war games may carry bigger cost By / USA Today — Permalink "RPG! They've got an RPG!" hollers the team leader of a four-man U.S. Army infantry squad hiding behind a beat-up car on this battle-ridden street. Ultrarealistic: Full Spectrum Warrior, which takes place in the Middle East, is based on an actual Army training simulation. | |
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Edward Driscoll: VIDEOTARIANS: Mudville Gazette looks at an unusually idiotic USA Today article on the eeeeeevils of military-themed videogames. |
Greyhawk: I don't usually read too much after the requisite "Abu Ghraib" paragraph in any news story, but you can go read the whole thing if you'd like. |
Limbaugh announces end of 10-year marriage By / AP — Permalink WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he and his wife, Marta, were divorcing. The Limbaughs "mutually decided to end their marriage of 10 years" and have "separated pending an amicable resolution," according to a statement released by Limbaugh's publicist. | |
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Nathan Newman: Rush Divorces — So Rush just dumped wife number three. Steven Taylor: A Shame — Given a combo of past marital history and the drug situation, not suprising: Limbaugh announces end of... Kos: Republican family values — They love to talk abut "family values", but none bother practicing them. |
Jeralyn Merritt: Rush and wife number 3 are getting a divorce. [link via Atrios} Joe Gandelman: News Flash! (Joe Gandelman) Rush Limbaugh is getting a divorce. Hillary was behind this somehow.... Atrios: Rush — Divorce number 3... I blame gay marriage. |
In Solidarity By / Opinion Journal — Permalink GDANSK, Poland—When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century, until communism fell in 1989. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: Lech Walesa on Reagan — [snipped quote] Read the whole thing here. Tom Maguire: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys — NO, that's not Willie Nelson, that's Lech Walesa: I have often been asked in the... Pejman Yousefzadeh: Former President Lech Walesa He came to office with great hopes for America, and more than hopes — like the President... |
The Poor Man: Walesa On Reagan — None of this "on the one hand, on the other" crap for Lech Walesa: "GDANSK, Poland—When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. Jan Haugland: Lech Walesa remembers Ronald Reagan — If you only read one more article about Ronald Reagan in your life, and at this... Michael DeBow: Lech Walesa's tribute to Reagan on OpinionJournal today begins this way: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing. |
| Also: Dale Franks, Clayton Cramer, Edward Driscoll, Steve Bainbridge, Steven Taylor | |
UN's 'shameful silence' over the evils of Saddam By / Telegraph — Permalink During his years at the United Nations, monitoring sanctions imposed on Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf war, critics called Michael Soussan a baby killer. One said the oil-for-food programme administered by the UN amounted to "overseeing genocide". | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: This article suggests so: [snipped quote] Of course, none of the basic outlines of this story should come as any... Roger L. Simon: Kafka at the UN — The immortal Czech was invoked in an interview with former UN Oil-for-Food employee Michael Soussan... |
Jan Haugland: The UN's "shameful silence" — Danish ex-UN worker Michael Soussan has testified about the moral relativism of his... Captain Ed: Michael Soussan: UNSCAM "Deal With The Devil" — Today's London Telegraph runs a fascinating interview with Michael... |
What Ronald Reagan Understood By / Weekly Standard — Permalink FOLLOWING the long-ago apocalypse of World War I, the world seemed like a shellshocked battle-casualty remolded by surgeons into something new and terrible. For generations afterward, into the Second World War and out the other side, most people were afraid to look; nearly everyone was scared to act. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: MYSTIC NATIONALISM: I found this David Gelernter essay in the Weekly Standard to be really insightful. The Big Trunk: The keynote of the brilliant pieces included in the issue is Professor David Gelernter's "What Ronald Reagan Understood." |
Greg Ransom: We can hit where and when we please .. ". MORE - "What Ronald Reagan Understood". |
Iraqis Put Contempt For Troops On Display By / WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, June 11 — A pair of AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships thumped back and forth overhead, scouring residential streets for insurgents. Dun-colored Bradley Fighting Vehicles snorted and wheeled around, their tracks gouging holes in the tarmac. | |
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Mary InLosGatos: Majority of Iraqis Want US Troops Out — Juan Cole points to a story in the WaPo of the contempt many Iraqis have for the US troops. Juan Cole: Meanwhile, Edward Cody of the Washington Post reports that 80% of Iraqis now have a negative view of American troops. |
Cori Dauber: THE CLAIM AND THEEVIDENCE — Here's an article from the WaPo that claims that Iraqis have just completely lost all patience with Americans. |
The View from the Gulag Weekly Standard — Permalink Do you remember the first time you heard the name Ronald Reagan? I was already a longtime prisoner when Ronald Reagan was elected. I didn't know much about him, and I can't say I remember having heard much about him. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Check out this interview with Sharansky, and see what he thinks of Ronald Reagan's legacy. |
The Big Trunk: The perfect companion to Professor Gelernter's essay is Tom Rose's interview of Natan Sharansky, also included in the issue: "The view from the Gulag." |
Kerry Keeps Recruiting, McCain Keeps Resisting By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — John F. Kerry had more than half a dozen conversations with Sen. John McCain about the prospect of him joining the Democratic presidential ticket, but the Arizona Republican repeatedly told his longtime friend that he was not interested, according to an associate close to McCain. | |
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Kevin Drum: KERRY-McCAIN...The LA Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times all have stories about a possible Kerry-McCain... |
Taegan Goddard: Update: The Los Angeles Times has more, noting Kerry "broached the idea with McCain at least seven times, first raising it about 2 1/2 months ago." |
Limbaugh, third wife getting divorce By / Palm Beach Post — Permalink WEST PALM BEACH — Rush Limbaugh, the Palm Beach-based conservative talk radio icon, announced Friday that he is getting another divorce. It was the third marriage for both Limbaugh, 53, and his 44-year-old wife, Marta, a native of Jacksonville. | |
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James Joyner: Limbaugh Getting Third Divorce — I heard this on the car radio last night but forgot about it: Palm Beach Post —... Roger Ailes: Internet Predator Alert Level: RED — Female internet users are being warned not to respond to instant messages from a... |
SLZoll: You Knew It Was Coming Limbaugh, third wife getting divorce WEST PALM BEACH — Rush Limbaugh, the Palm Beach-based... |
Rush Limbaugh announces end of his third marriage AP — Permalink WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh announced Friday that he and his wife, Marta, are divorcing. The Limbaughs "mutually decided to end their marriage of 10 years" and have "separated pending an amicable resolution," according to a statement released by Limbaugh's publicist. | |
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Jack K.: Today we learn that, adding to this incongruity, he and his wife of 10 years, Marta, are going to divorce, ending the... |
Tbogg: I guess I can now change the ongoing series to: I Don't Like the Drugs and Marta Doesn't Love Me. Maybe she doesn't like him sober... |
McCain Reportedly Rejected Kerry Offer of VP Spot By / AP — Permalink Republican Sen. John McCain has personally rejected Sen. John F. Kerry's overtures to join the Democratic presidential ticket and forge a bipartisan alliance against President Bush, The Associated Press has learned. | |
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Betsy Newmark: The Democrats just can't let go of the idea of McCain as Vice President. David Ignatius details some of the problems there would be in a Kerry-McCain administration. David Allan Pell: OK. Maybe it's time to accept it. John McCain has once again reportedly said no to the idea of being Kerry's veep. Jeralyn Merritt: McCain Says 'No Thanks' to Kerry — The AP is reporting that John McCain has personally told John Kerry that he would... |
QD @SouthernAppeal: McCain - Nix-nay on the Vee-Pay: According to this Washington Post article, Kerry has "informally" offered the VP slot... Captain Ed: Jim VandeHei and Dan Balz make the ridiculous argument that all of this foreplay on Kerry's behalf actually helps the... |
AP: McCain Rejects Kerry's VP Overture By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain has personally rejected John Kerry 's overtures to join the Democratic presidential ticket and forge a bipartisan alliance against President Bush , The Associated Press has learned. | |
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Noam Scheiber: Mickey Kaus says this AP story undermines the suggestion in David Ignatius's Washington Post column that, under the... Captain Ed: No Means No, Even For Senators (Sometimes) John Kerry continues to embarrass himself by making passes at John McCain,... |
Taegan Goddard: McCain Rejects Veep Offer — Sen. John McCain "personally rejected John Kerry's overtures to join the Democratic... Blackfive: AP is reporting that Kerry did, in fact, ask John McCain to be his Vice Presidential running mate. Of course, McCain said "no". |
Reagan should be on a $3 bill By / New York Newsday — Permalink I offered my small prayer for Ronald Reagan when he was shot by this Hinckley. I said another prayer for him when I read this graceful note that he issued about his Alzheimer's. Having said this, I now strongly endorse a suitable memorial for him. | |
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John Derbyshire: Jimmy Breslin must surely be up there: "He [i.e. Ronald Reagan] proudly hurt the boroughs of this city [i.e. |
Joe Gandelman: Breslin's Bile....(Joe Gandelman) Jimmy Breslin, in one of his not-nice moods, on Ronald Reagan. |
Full text: Thatcher eulogy to Reagan BBC — Permalink "We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend. "In his lifetime Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy to forget what daunting historic tasks he set himself. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Baroness Margaret Thatcher When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Greg Ransom: Thatcher on Reagan — Transcript 6/11/04. "We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man. KJL: BARONESS THATCHER'S EULOGY |
Iain Murray: The Anglosphere Remembers Ronnie — Lady Thatcher's moving and heartfelt tribute to President Reagan is here. Michael DeBow: A transcript of Lady Thatcher's eulogy is available via CNN and the BBC. |
President Bush's Eulogy at Funeral Service for President Reagan White House — Permalink Washington, D.C. THE PRESIDENT: Mrs. Reagan, Patti, Michael, and Ron; members of the Reagan family; distinguished guests, including our Presidents and First Ladies; Reverend Danforth; fellow citizens: We lost Ronald Reagan only days ago, but we have missed him for a long time. | |
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David Adesnik: EULOGY: For President Reagan, courtesy of President Bush: "He believed that people were basically good, and had the right to be free. KJL: PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S EULOGY |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: President George W. Bush I've made a concerted effort to ignore most of the anti-Reagan carping from the press and the far Left over the last week. |
Text of George H.W. Bush's remarks Boston Herald — Permalink A text of former President George H.W. Bush's remarks at former President Ronald Reagan's funeral, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks Inc.: When Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, the New York Times wrote, ''Men will thank God 100 years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.'' | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Former President George Herbert Walker Bush Presidents and prime ministers everywhere sometimes wonder how history will deal with them. KJL: GEORGE H.W. BUSH'S EULOGY |
Andrew Sullivan: BUSH THE ELDER: I should have added yesterday that I thought the best performance of the Reagan funeral service was president George Herbert Walker Bush. |
Iraq cleric 'calls for new start' BBC — Permalink Radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has reportedly backed for the first time US moves to gradually hand powers over to an interim Iraqi government. The change of heart came in a sermon at Friday prayers in the town of Kufa, two weeks after the government was formed. | |
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Jan Haugland: Moqtada Sadr cries uncle — Extremist Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has made a conciliatory sermon in Kufa, urging his followers to stop attacking Iraqi security forces. Josh Marshall: The BBC reports that Muqtada al-Sadr delivered a conciliatory sermon on Friday: "Mr Sadr called upon the interim... |
Captain Ed: Moqtada al-Sadr surprised followers and opponents alike today when he used his Friday sermon to endorse the American... H.D. Miller: Do Over! Looks like someone has finally realized he's been whupped. |
How bad is it for Blair? By / BBC — Permalink Tony Blair will search long and hard to find any real comfort to ease his party's humiliation in the local elections. As deputy prime minister John Prescott confessed, Labour was given a serious kicking by voters who delivered it the worst election result in living memory. | |
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Andrew Stuttaford: BLAIR BASHED — Dismal regional election results for Tony Blair over in the UK, in part, undoubtedly, because of his... Chris Bertram: Generally, the local elections look like a disaster for Tony Blair (I ended up voting LD in the Euros) and I imagine that nervous backbenchers are sharpening their knives already. |
Kevin Drum: In the last year and a half, Bush bashing has proven to be electoral magic in Germany, South Korea, and Spain, and... |
Text of Mulroney's Tribute to Reagan AP — Permalink A text of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's tribute to President Ronald Reagan: In the spring of 1987 President Reagan and I were driven into a large hangar at the Ottawa Airport, to await the arrival of Mrs. Reagan and my wife, Mila, prior to departure ceremonies for their return to Washington. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Ronald Reagan carried the American people with him in his great endeavours because there was perfect sympathy between them. KJL: BRIAN MULRONEY'S TEXT |
Joe Gandelman: Text of Mulroney's tribute. —Text of President Bush's tribute. —Former President and former Vice President George Bush remembers Reagan. |
McCain rejects Kerry's veep overture AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain has personally rejected John Kerry's overtures to join the Democratic presidential ticket and forge a bipartisan alliance against President Bush, The Associated Press has learned. | |
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The Poor Man: McCain For VP Watch, Day 3,000 — The AP is reporting that John McCain has refused to consider being John Kerry's running mate. |
Steven Taylor: More on Kerry-McCain — CNN now has details from the AP—McCain rejects Kerry's veep overture: "Kerry has asked McCain... |
Web Feeding Need for News About Reagan By / Reuters — Permalink LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw have wondered aloud whether the media has overdone its Ronald Reagan (news) coverage. They needn't worry, because if the Internet is an accurate guide for what's on the minds of Americans — and... | |
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Edward Driscoll: THEY ARE LARGE, THEY CONTAIN MULTITUDES: Stephen Green notes a self-contradictory article in The Hollywood Reporter on... |
Stephen Green: Mo' Press Bias — The Hollywood Reporter looks at all the Reagan coverage, and decides that Brokow and Jennings were... |