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AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - President Clinton 's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after admitting he removed highly classified terrorism documents from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press has learned. | |
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Wretchard: Los Alamos on the Potomac — Your not in Kansas any more when things like this happen. (Hat tip: Instapundit). Christopher Kanis: Okay, maybe not, but Christ.... More reactions from Instapundit and Captain Ed, who asks, "Is it possible to have a Watergate in an administration after it leaves office?" Michelle Malkin: SANDY BERG(L)ER? Whoa. Well.., It's. Not. Like. It's. Anything. New. Stefan notes the Kerry connection. |
Josh Marshall: I just noticed this late story off the AP wire that Sandy Berger, Clinton's National Security Advisor, is the focus, in... Blackfive: All Princess Bride jokes aside...well, except for the fact that this guy is a Rodent Of Unusual Size: AP: Clinton... Captain Ed: Clinton NSA Stole Notes, Documents From 9/11 Commission — The AP reports that the FBI has been investigating former... |
| Also: The Big Trunk, Betsy Newmark, Glenn Reynolds, Charles Johnson, Hugh Hewitt | |
Sixteen Truthful Words By / NYT — Permalink "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." — George W. Bush, State of the Union address, Jan. | |
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Wretchard: Following on the recent revelations that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson lied to discredit the Bush administrations... Tom Maguire: Geez, Matt, People Make Mistakes — The always interesting Matt Yglesias goes off on the latest William Safire column:... Matthew Yglesias: WAS, WAS NOT, WHATEVER. What is Bill Safire talking about? [snipped quote] This business about Joe Wilson is a red herring. |
Susanna Cornett: "I'll let William Safire, in a column in The New York Times on July 19, tell you the bad news about just how much honesty..." Stefan Beck: Thank you, Mr. Safire, for putting that one to bed: [snipped quote] Pejman has linked to a few other intriguing bits on the matter. Steven Taylor: Things that are Annoying me Today (the WMD/16 Words Edition) The Wilson/Plame/Yellowcake story (as well-discussed by... |
| Also: Holden, Glenn Reynolds, James Joyner, Tim Blair, Betsy Newmark, Laura Rozen, KJL, Hugh Hewitt, Gregory Djerejian | |
Vegas Casino Boots Singer Linda Ronstadt AP — Permalink LAS VEGAS - Singer Linda Ronstadt (news) not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino. | |
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Tim Blair: Seventies musical identity and former gubernatorial love toy Linda Ronstadt wows 'em in Vegas: "Singer Linda Ronstadt... Roger L. Simon: On the surface (and probably below the surface too) the brouhaha over Linda Ronstadt getting the boot is about as trivial, given the affairs of our day, as it gets. The Big Trunk: You're no good — The AP reports today's feel-good story, an inspirational application of Laura Ingraham's "shut up and... |
Christopher Kanis: IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE GOING TO LAS VEGAS — Try and stay at The Aladdin. Captain Ed: Ronstadt misjudged her Las Vegas audience and tried to inject politics into her act during an encore, but the audience... Jonah Goldberg: From the AP "LAS VEGAS - Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael... |
| Also: Charles Johnson, Joe Gandelman | |
Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks By / Las Vegas Sun — Permalink Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards to escort pop diva Linda Ronstadt off the property following a concert Saturday night during which she expressed support for controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: The Las Vegas Sun reports she got equal amounts of cheers and jeers. Damian Penny: And Linda Rondstadt was booed off stage in Vegas for saying how much she loved Fahrenheit 9/11. Betsy Newmark: This is such a funny story. The Aladdin in Las Vegas escorted Linda Ronstadt out of the hotel and put her on the bus... |
James Joyner: Las Vegas Sun - Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks "Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards... Smash: "The Most Exciting Part of the Show" — LINDA RONSTADT held her last performance at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas last night, and lucky Jerry Fink of the Las Vegas Sun was there. Charles Johnson: UPDATE: More details at the Las Vegas Sun: Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks. |
The 'Bush Lied' folks can't be taken seriously By / Townhall.com — Permalink Official reports issued the last two weeks have conclusively refuted those who have been arguing that "BUSH LIED" about the dangers from Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction programs. The first report was that of the Senate Intelligence Committee. | |
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Norbizness: Savant Who Can Recite 5-Digit Prime Numbers, But Can't Tie His Own Shoes: Bush can never lie so long as I believe that he believes all that s**t. Dale Franks: Bush Lied? Michael Barone writes that the Bush Lied crowd has lost all credibility. The last few weeks haven't been very good for the "Bush Lied" crowd. James Joyner: Michael Barone is more to the point with his piece, "The 'Bush Lied' folks can't be taken seriously." |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: WHO'S LYING NOW? Michael Barone calls out the real fabulists in our body politic. Glenn Reynolds: Michael Barone has more on the collapse of the "Bush Lied" argument: "So much for the wild charges that Bush manipulated intelligence and lied about weapons of mass destruction. The Big Trunk: His column is "The Bush lied folks can't be taken seriously." |
| Also: Betsy Newmark | |
Kerry Details Strategy to Fight Terror By / Kerry for President Press Room — Permalink In the first of a series of foreign policy speeches, the Democrat highlights need to rebuild alliances and to reduce the reliance on foreign oil. Democratic presidential hopeful John F. Kerry on Thursday began outlining his strategy for protecting the... | |
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James Joyner: Sandy Berger Probed in Terror Memos — AP - Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [snipped quote] I have no reason... |
Glenn Reynolds: (Via TLM — and via the TLM comments you can see this item from Kerry's website in which Berger serves as a spokesman). |
Bloggers Are the Sizzle, Not the Steak By / LAT — Permalink The Democrats and the Republicans are inviting a limited number of bloggers — those witty, candid, irreverent, passionate, shrewd and outrageous Internet chroniclers — to their 2004 conventions. | |
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David Adesnik: KEEPING UP WITH JONES: Joe Gandelman has posted a very thoughtful response to Alex Jones' anti-blog temper tantrum in the LA Times. Daniel Drezner: Good — this is exactly the kind of story that merits further inquiry by "real" journalists — you know, as opposed to... Pejman Yousefzadeh: THE POWER OF THE BLOGOSPHERE — While Alex Jones moves Heaven and Earth to try to deride blogs as "the sizzle, not the... |
Rickheller @Centerfield: (Note to Alex S. Jones - I haven't been paid to promote this documentary. All I got was iced tea and a slice of apple pie.) Jay Rosen: Alex S. Jones, of Harvard's Kennedy School, a former reporter for the New York Times, and a biographer of newspaper... James Joyner: Alex Jones' LA Times op-ed "Bloggers Are the Sizzle, Not the Steak" set off a firestorm last evening, with several blogs commenting on it. |
| Also: Robert Cox, David Allan Pell, Jeralyn Merritt, Clayton Cramer, Jeff Goldstein, Patrick Belton, Jeff Jarvis, Jon Henke, Jonah Goldberg, Captain Ed, Joe Gandelman, Matt Welch, Glenn Reynolds, Timothy Wheeler | |
Taking Power By / Opinion Journal — Permalink Another fortnight in Iraq, another fortnight's worth of news about terrorism, hostages, military and civilian casualties, faulty intelligence in the run-up to war, and the problems of reconstruction, as our mainstream media continue to focus overwhelmingly on bad news from the Mesopotamian quagmire. | |
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Dale Franks: Good News from Iraq — Arthur Cherenkoff rounds up a collection of positive signs from the newly sovereign (legally, at least) Iraq. Tim Blair: NEWS SO NICE WE'LL RUN IT TWICE — Arthur Chrenkoff's excellent Good News from Iraq makes it to the Wall Street Journal! Sadly @SadlyNo: The latest good news about electricity (believe this is now the good news, if you can) is this: "Regarding electricity,... |
Smash: Finally, the Good News — ARTHUR CHERENKOFF has a comprehensive round-up of good news from Iraq, in today's Wall Street... Betsy Newmark: Arthur Chrenkoff has a column in the Wall Street Journal about overlooked good news from Iraq. Dean Esmay: [quote]* Art Chrenkoff, who does the regular "Good News From Iraq" on his weblog, has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal![end quote] |
| Also: Arthur Chrenkoff, Andrew Olmsted | |
NEW DETAILS SURFACE By / New Yorker — Permalink Vice President Dick Cheney cursed at Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, in a confrontation on the Senate floor while members were having their annual group picture taken earlier this week. | |
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Joe Gandelman: And now, boys and girls, here are the details you've been WAITING FOR: the New Yorker's truly scintillating details on... Ezra Klein: Unethical For Certain/Crude Oil Spurtin' — Wow, who knew the New Yorker was this cool? (Via Atrios). James Joyner: Cheney-Leahy Exchange — Paul Simms, writing in The New Yorker, presents, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story on the infamous exchange: [snipped quote] Heh. |
Holden: Paul Simms tells us what really happened when Cheney and Leahy squared off in the Senate. C. D. Harris: Patrick Leahy Is An Unlikely Combination Of A Common Sex Act And A Body Part Associated With Cognition And Sensory Input... |
PM admits graves claim 'untrue' Observer — Permalink Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: MASS GRAVES IN IRAQ — We are told in this piece—which uses the traditional British journalistic method of relying... Kevin Drum: MASS GRAVES...Does this matter? [snipped quote] I suppose the politically correct stance is that murder is murder, and... Tim Dunlop: Why then would Tony Blair feel the need to lie about it and increase the number by a factor of eighty? |
Jonah Goldberg: MASS GRAVES NOT SO MASSIVE — Kevin Drum points to story which says the mass graves in Iraq don't have nearly as many corpses as we've been told. Chris Bowers: Iraqi Mass Graves — Ever since I ran into this Guardian article yesterday, I have been grappling over how to blog it, or even whether I should. Holden: Today it appears that we have been lied to about Saddam's mass graves: [snipped quote] Personally, I'm disgusted by a... |
50G FOR '03 SLAY CLUES By / New York Post — Permalink The father of a young man gunned down in front of his college buddy's Lower East Side apartment nearly two years ago has launched a Web site and upped the reward for finding his son's killer. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Help Wanted — Help blogger Mark O'Brien find his son's killer. You can read his story here, in the New York Post. Michelle Malkin: Burke's story will be the subject of tomorrow's episode of NYPD 24/7. Michele is asking other bloggers to spread the word. |
Joe Gandelman: An item on her site points to to a New York Post story today that says: [snipped quote] You can also find extensive info on this case on O'Brien's special site by clicking here. Bill @INDCJournal: Blogosphere APB — A father searches for his son's killer: The father of a young man gunned down in front of his college... |
Go Ahead, Call Us Cowboys Opinion Journal — Permalink Everywhere, Americans are called "cowboys." On foreign tongues, the reference to America's Western rural laborers is an insult. Cowboys, we are told, plundered the earth, arrogantly rode roughshod over neighbors, and were addicted to mindless violence. | |
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Tom Smith: Read this very nice essay by a Ninth Circuit Judge — Yep. He's nailed it alright. Canada, America, cowboys, the frontier, thumos. Jonah Goldberg: CONTINENTAL DIVIDE — Canada Vs. America up North. By the way, the authors are very cool people. They're friends of my in-laws. Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER UPDATE: I guess it goes with the mindset differences displayed by these two towns, one American, the other Canadian: [snipped quote] Heh. |
Greg Ransom: MORE — "Go Ahead, Call Us Cowboys". Thomas Krannawitter: When I read about Stewart, I was reminded of one of my favorite Ben Franklin quips, that [snipped quote] Andrew and... Steve Antler: Yo, cowboy! Vivid essay on two frontier border towns — one US, one Canadian. |
Schwarzenegger Calls Budget Opponents 'Girlie Men' By / NYT — Permalink LOS ANGELES, July 18 - With his frustration mounting this weekend over his inability to muscle a budget through the Legislature, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called his Democratic opponents "girlie men" and vowed to work to unseat them in November. | |
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Tom Smith: I haven't been able to stop crying — I'm so upset. How could he say that? Josh Chafetz: "Schwarzenegger Calls Budget Opponents 'Girlie Men'". (For the record, I disapprove of ad hominem attacks in politics. James Joyner: Update (1200): NYT - Schwarzenegger Calls Budget Opponents 'Girlie Men' [quote] "I call them girlie men," Mr. Schwarzenegger...[end quote] |
C. D. Harris: Don't Everyone Raise Their Hands All At Once, Now — So, apparently the Governator jokingly called the Democrat leaders... Jacob Sullum: Life Imitating Parody — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says state legislators are "girlie men" because they refuse to stand up to special interests by curbing spending. |
U.N. OIL $$ LINKED TO IRAQI TERRORISTS By / New York Post — Permalink WASHINGTON — American officials believe that millions of dollars Saddam Hussein skimmed from the scandal-plagued U.N. oil-for-food program are now being used to help fund the bloody rebel campaign against U.S. forces and the new Iraqi government, The Post has learned. | |
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Susanna Cornett: This from the July 19th New York Post: "American officials believe that millions of dollars Saddam Hussein skimmed from... Glenn Reynolds: UNSCAM UPDATE: Claudia Rosett was right — it's not just an oil-for-food scandal, but an oil-for-terror scandal: [snipped quote] We should send Kofi a bill. The Big Trunk: The Post story is "U.N. oil $$ linked to Iraqi terrorists." |
Charles Johnson: UN Oil Dollars Linked to Iraqi Terrorists — According to the NY Post, the money that Saddam and his henchmen skimmed... James Joyner: UN Program Funded Terrorists — NY Post - U.N. OIL $$ LINKED TO IRAQI TERRORISTS [snipped quote] Lovely. Betsy Newmark: Investigators looking into the Oil-for-Food scandal think that the millions scammed from that program are now being used... |
Ronstadt Praises 'Fahrenheit,' Gets Booed AP — Permalink LAS VEGAS — Singer Linda Ronstadt (search) not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" (search) during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino. | |
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James Joyner: Vegas Casino Boots Linda Ronstadt — YahooNews (AP) - Vegas Casino Boots Singer Linda Ronstadt Fox News (AP) - Ronstadt... Hugh Hewitt: Linda Rondstadt praises Moore and gets booed off the stage and right out of the Alladin Casino in Vegas. Maybe she can play Caracas. |
Dale Franks: Shut up and Sing — Linda Rondstadt will no longer be welcome as a performer at the Aladdin in Las Vegas. |
The Immigrant Gang Plague By / City Journal — Permalink Before immigration optimists issue another rosy prognosis for America's multicultural future, they might visit Belmont High School in Los Angeles's overwhelmingly Hispanic, gang-ridden Rampart district. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Read "The Immigrant Gang Plague" here. An excerpt: [snipped quote] More Mac Donald: The Burden of Bad Ideas Are Cops Racist? Tom Smith: Hispanic gang culture — This is a disturbing article. In the City Journal via RCP. |
Greg Ransom: MORE Heather Mac Donald "The Immigrant Gang Plague". Dale Franks: Open Borders — Heather MacDonald's article on illegal immigration in the current issue of City Journal concludes: [snipped quote] Assimilation. |
Chirac tells Sharon he is not welcome in France: TV AFP — Permalink French President Jacques Chirac informed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon he is not welcome in Paris after he urged all French Jews to leave the country immediately, Israeli television reported. | |
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James Joyner: Chirac Tells Sharon He's Not Welcome in France — Chirac tells Sharon he is not welcome in France: TV [snipped quote] One... Glenn Reynolds: THE TRUTH HURTS: "French President Jacques Chirac informed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon he is not welcome in... |
KJL: SHARON IS NOT WELCOME IN FRANCE — I'm guessing that isn't breaking his heart. |
Cleland Attacks Bush NRO — Permalink The former senator goes ballistic. Former Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, a close friend and supporter of presidential candidate John Kerry, today launched into a blistering attack against President Bush. | |
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C. D. Harris: Two Peas In A Pod — I, for one, am entirely unsurprised to see Max Cleland coming on to replace Joe Wilson as the Kerry campaign's replacement "Bush Lied!" attack dog. Steve Dillard: Cleland Attacks Bush—The former senator goes ballistic: This kind of nonsense—and not some ad Saxby ran—is why Maxy Cleland lost his senate seat. |
Captain Ed: UPDATE: Byron York files a report from the White House on Cleland's comments, noting that Cleland really missed this... |
The Discovery of Iran NRO — Permalink Are you sitting down? Iran is a terrorist state. The organizers of the Council on Foreign Relations special task force to promote the appeasement of Iran must be cursing their uncommonly bad luck. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: Michael Ledeen summed up the way the Bushies have responded to serious evidence of Iranian malice over the years: "You... Glenn Reynolds: But Michael Ledeen has a piece out today, and he's not gloating as much as, well, I might have. Well, maybe he is: "What a surprise! |
Laura Rozen: [Meanwhile, Michael Ledeen's take on the media's reaction to the 9/11 commission's allegation Iran gave safe passage to... |
Schwarzenegger Calls Dems 'Girlie Men' By / AP — Permalink LOS ANGELES (AP) - A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday that the governor would not apologize for calling lawmakers "girlie men," despite criticisms from Democrats that the remark was sexist and homophobic. | |
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H.D. Miller: I literally laughed out loud when I heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger had called California Democrats "girlie men". James Joyner: Schwarzenegger Calls Dems 'Girlie Men' — AP - Schwarzenegger Calls Dems 'Girlie Men' "A spokesman for Gov. Arnold... |
Thorley Winston: B'rer Arnold versus the Girlie-Men — More silliness in the State of California: "Schwarzenegger dished out the insult... KJL: ARHNULD GETS POUNDED FOR "GIRLIE MEN" COMMENT |
Las Vegas casino boots singer Linda Ronstadt after performance San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink (07-19) 11:24 PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11 during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: The Associated Press only reports that Ronstadt got jeered. The Las Vegas Sun reports she got equal amounts of cheers and jeers. |
David Allan Pell: Linda Ronstadt was booed of stage after she praised Michael Moore as a "great American patriot." |
FBI Probes Clinton Advisor Berger CBS News — Permalink (AP) President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press has learned. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: Sandy Berger Caught Stealing Classified Documents — [snipped quote] Link. There's no excuse for this, if true. |
Stefan Sharkansky: This Associated Press headline is interesting enough: "FBI Probes Clinton Advisor Berger" "President Clinton's national... |
The double binds of George W. Bush By / Townhall.com — Permalink Sometimes a political figure becomes so hated that he can't do anything right in the eyes of his enemies. President Bush has achieved this rare and exalted status. His critics are so blinded by animus that the internal consistency of their attacks on him no longer matters. | |
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Norbizness: Latest Owner of Velvet 12-Sided Dice Pouch: President Bush is screwed no matter what he does, and it's all [sniff] the fault of you who pay attention to what he does. |
Betsy Newmark: Rich Lowry has a spot on column about how the Left hates Bush so much that he's in a double bind and they'll despise him... |
Democrats Scramble in Crowded Ga. Primary By / AP — Permalink Democrats seeking to replace retiring Georgia Sen. Zell Miller are looking for anything to lift themselves out of the obscurity of the eight-person race, even if it means resorting to personal attacks on their rivals ahead of Tuesday's primary. | |
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Betsy Newmark: The Georgia Democratic candidates for Zell Miller's Senate seat are competing to see if they can match the fun and games in Illinois' race. |
Captain Ed: Democrats Self-Destruct In Georgia — The Republicans who hope to take over retiring Senator Zell Miller's Georgia seat... |
Democrats give Nader ultimatum By / AP — Permalink LANSING — The Michigan Democratic Party said Friday it would file federal election complaints against Ralph Nader over what it calls illegal and excessive contributions unless Nader withdraws from the Michigan ballot as an independent candidate. | |
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Captain Ed: Democrats Try A Little Extortion On Nader In Michigan — Michigan Democrats have issued an ultimatum to the Ralph Nader... Taegan Goddard: "But Michigan Republican Party officials handed in 43,000 petition signatures on Thursday — far more than the 30,000... |
Ezra Klein: And in the end, how can your campaign retain any sense of dignity when you're just the unwilling dirty trick of the GOP? |
Kerry aide: Bush 'flat-out lied' on Iraq AFP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Democrats stepped up attacks on George W. Bush's anti-terror policies when an official of White House candidate John Kerry 's campaign said the president "flat-out lied" over the Iraq war. | |
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Steve Soto: As Blair Loses Trust Of Britons, Cleland Says Bush "Flat Out Lied" — In a sign that the Kerry campaign is finally going... |
Captain Ed: Cleland Says President "Flat-Out Lied" About Iraq — Add Max Cleland to the list of lunatic conspiracy theorists. |
Europe Fears Converts May Aid Extremism By / NYT — Permalink ST.-PIERRE-EN-FAUCIGNY, France — The Courtailler brothers grew up in this medieval Alpine town, children of a butcher who went broke, who divorced his wife and moved to a job in a meatpacking plant far away. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: ONE FACT: Every now and again, you're reading the paper, and a sentence obscures the rest of your day. Hugh Hewitt: They hadn't read Craig Smith's "Europe Fears Islamic Converts May Give Cover for Extremism" in the New York Times, but the fear is the same. |
James Joyner: Europe Fears Islamic Converts — NYT - Europe Fears Islamic Converts May Give Cover for Extremism "The Courtailler... |
Intifada Turns on Arafat Christian Science Monitor — Permalink Israel has already given up on him as a potential peacemaker. So has President Bush. Now, 10 years after becoming the first president of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat last weekend saw how his own people are willing to turn against him. | |
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Christopher Kanis: OFF THE WALL PREDICTION — Arafat, dead within 6 weeks. (But don't quote me). |
Daniel Drezner: As the Christian Science Monitor put it in an editorial: "Israel has already given up on him as a potential peacemaker. |
Rooked By / American Spectator — Permalink A couple of months ago I reviewed the new book Bobby Fischer Goes to War for the Spectator. The book is about Fischer's chaotic but ultimately triumphant 1972 world championship match against Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky. Its title, however, might well apply to Fischer's life since 1972. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: CHECKMATING BOBBY FISCHER — Colby Cosh has a very interesting article on Fischer's recent capture, as well as the... Tyler Cowen: Here is the most detailed scoop I have managed to find. |
Jesse Walker: Free Bobby — In The American Spectator, Colby Cosh reviews the case of Bobby Fisher: a socially inept bigot who, in... |
The high cost of malpractice By / Townhall.com — Permalink CHARLESTON, S.C. - Inside the Beltway, the insider debate is whether a Southern drawl will be enough to charm Southern voters to change their colors from red to blue. Here in the Low Country, where politics is local but rarely low, you hear more talk about health care and how much it costs. | |
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Norbizness: Insane Stage Mother Reliving Her Own High School Drama Career: Believe it or not, insurance companies have nothing to do with malpractice premiums. Betsy Newmark: Suzanne Fields looks at the real costs of trial lawyers like John Edwards. |
Jesse Taylor: It simply is. I bring this up because of Suzanne Fields' column today, which is a sterling example of this. |
Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights By / NYT — Permalink Mindful of the election problems in Florida four years ago, aides to Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, say his campaign is putting together a far more intricate set of legal safeguards than any presidential candidate before him to monitor the election. | |
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Kevin Raybould: Not Getting Over It — The Kerry campaign is taking voter rights protection seriously "Aides to Mr. Kerry say the... Taegan Goddard: Kerry Readies Legal Team To Monitor Vote — The Kerry campaign is setting up a "far more intricate set of legal... Hugh Hewitt: The New York Times reports that Kerry is building a lawyers' corps to do for 2004 what Al Gore did for 2000. |
James Joyner: Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights — NYT - Kerry Building Legal Network for Vote Fights [snipped quote] The... Armed Liberal: I'll modestly look down and burnish my nails on my chest, now - here's Monday's New York Times: [snipped quote] read the... |
Meat hook dangling craze mystifies police Reuters — Permalink MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) — Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar. | |
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Vanderleun: American Studies — Hooked Up Americans With Way Too Much Angst on their Hands I USED TO BE DISGUSTED BUT NOW I'M JUST... Jan Haugland: I think a brain modification is urgently needed — Hanging from meat hooks is apparently the new craze among 'body modification' fans in Florida. |
Edward _: CNN is reporting on a new fad getting some attention: Meat hook dangling craze mystifies police "Law enforcement... |
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work We Go By / TCS — Permalink The sluggish heart of Europe is suddenly beating a little bit faster. In what amounts to a small revolution for a continent that has enjoyed the benefits of long holidays and shorter working weeks for nearly 30 years, people are being asked to put in longer hours on the job, often for no increase in pay. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: PULLING OVERTIME WITH THE EUROPEANS — The more they hate us, the more they are becoming like us. The irony is delicious to consider. |
Greg Ransom: WITH 'WE WON'T WORK' EURO-BOOMERS headed for the retirement home, a new generation of Europeans goes back to work. |
Clinton reopens book on Iraqi bid to buy uranium in Africa Guardian — Permalink Tony Blair's ally and former US president Bill Clinton yesterday reopened the sensitive issue of Saddam Hussein's attempts to buy uranium in Africa. Speaking on BBC1's Breakfast with Frost, Mr Clinton, who is promoting his memoirs, said there was "no evidence" the CIA had ever told George Bush about the claim. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Today's Guardian, however, reports that the Brits were working off information from France (via Laura Rozen) which, in turn, was working off forgeries. |
Laura Rozen: The Guardian is reporting that Britain is pointing fingers at France as the original source of its Niger uranium intelligence. |
Transcript for July 18 MSNBC — Permalink PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS NBC TELEVISION PROGRAM TO "NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS." Guests: Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Author, "Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency", Rep. Chris Cox, R-Calif., Chmn. | |
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Daniel Drezner: And then there's this excerpt of the book quoted in yesterday's Meet the Press: "From water and food supplies;... |
Pessimist: The Eagle Byrd Soars — Ancient warrior Robert Byrd donned his buckler and shield and rode forth to do battle with the... |
U.S. exploring possible Iran-9/11 link AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — President Bush said Monday the United States is exploring whether Iran had any role in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a scenario discounted by the CIA. "We're digging into the facts to see if there was one," Bush said in an Oval Office photo opportunity. | |
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Steve Soto: Bush is already trying to obscure his war of choice by talking up Iran suddenly, as if we had adequate intelligence to wage any preemptive war ever again with this crew in office. |
Tena Hollingsworth: Now what? link. President Bush said Monday that the U.S. is studying whether Iran had any role in 9/11. |
Bomb Kills Senior Hizbollah Member in Beirut By / Reuters — Permalink BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb killed a senior member of Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday in an attack the group blamed on Israel. Witnesses said the wreckage of a Mercedes car lay in the road, its glass shattered. | |
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Charles Johnson: Hizballah Terrorist Terminated — There's no way to know whether Ghalib Awali was killed by one of his murderous... Fred Lapides: Of Interest — Officer seriously hurt in W. Bank gunfight with Palestinian militants Bomb Kills Senior Hizbollah Member... |
Steven Taylor: Hizbollah Leader Killed — Bomb Kills Senior Hizbollah Member in Beirut [snipped quote] Given that negotiation has been a... |
US media kills story that Iraqi PM executed 6 prisoners By / Pakistan Daily Times — Permalink WASHINGTON: The US media has surprisingly failed to pick up the shocking disclosure by Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's leading newspaper, that the Irqai Prime Minister Iyad Allawi personally executed six suspected insurgents in a Baghdad police station. | |
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Holden: UPDATE: Questions begin to be raised about why the US media is ignoring the story. Tim Blair: Pakistan's Daily Times wonders why: "The US media has surprisingly failed to pick up the shocking disclosure by Sydney... |
Dave Johnson: This is so serious that media in other countries are asking why US media is ignoring this story. |
Campaign Ads Flood Key Battleground States By / WaPo — Permalink Political strategists and analysts agree there are perhaps 17 battleground states in the presidential race, but Democrat John F. Kerry's spending on TV ads suggest he is especially keen on two, Ohio and Missouri. | |
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Steve Soto: According to the story by Post writer Charles Babbington, these are the top states where Bush is advertising: Iowa... |
Hugh Hewitt: I like my eggs over easy. The Washington Post's story on ad buys sums up the entire campaign to this point. |
The Faisal Gill Affair By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink Readers of this e-zine may recall a troubling warning issued on these pages last November by David Horowitz and me (an editorial entitled "Why We Are Publishing This Article" that accompanied a long essay entitled "A Troubling Influence"). | |
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Joseph Alexander Norland: Enough to curdle one's blood: Frank Gaffney's article in today's Front Page Mag, "The Faisal Gill Affair". |
Michelle Malkin: PART 3 Frank Gaffney has the latest on the troubling appointment by the Bush administration of Faisal Gill, "policy... |
Edwards little help in his home state By / Raleigh News & Observer — Permalink North Carolina voters still lean toward the re-election of President Bush, despite the addition of Sen. John Edwards as the Democratic candidate for vice president. | |
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Kos: NC-Pres: Another poll shows close race — Research 2000. 7/10-14. MoE 4%. |
Taegan Goddard: Here are the latest state polls in the presidential race: Minnesota: Kerry 45%, Bush 44%, Nader 2% (Minnesota Public... |
At Riggs Bank, a Tangled Path Led to Scandal NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, July 18 — Riggs Bank, which for years billed itself as "the most important bank in the most important city in the world," now finds itself the most scrutinized bank in the most unforgiving city in the world. | |
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Holden: Writing with Blinders On at the Times — How can Timothy O'Brien write a lengthy piece in today's NYTimes about Riggs... |
Susan Madrak: PRETEND HIS NAME IS CLINTON — I've been waiting for even one of the major newspapers covering the Riggs bank scandal to... |
Political blogs catching on By / Chicago Tribune — Permalink WASHINGTON — Jeff Seemann, a 35-year-old Ohio Democrat and former disc jockey, is little-known in his community and has not received much support from his party, yet he has raised at least $25,000 online and hired a dozen staffers for his congressional campaign. | |
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Ezra Klein: The Chicago Tribune stupidly says: [snipped quote] And Instapundit answers: [snipped quote] I'm not sure if the correct... Christopher Kanis: "The Liberal Instapundit.com" — Heh. |
James Joyner: Meanwhile, a story in yesterday's Chicago Tribune by Anastasia Ustinova is headlined "Political blogs catching." Glenn Reynolds: MORE ON BLOGS AND POLITICS: [snipped quote] Indeed. UPDATE: Some readers are amused at seeing InstaPundit called "liberal," when so many journalists have called it "conservative." |
Sounding board By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink Unless the upcoming national political conventions create some kind of climate I totally don't anticipate at the moment, I'm thinking this year's presidential campaigns are virtually going to be matters of glittering busywork and mostly for grins. | |
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Charles Kuffner: I've got to agree with Byron - this Chron column by CP Houston is on the short list of dumbest things anyone at that paper has ever written. |
Byron L: True, re-elections are about incumbents, but still, this Houston Chronicle column by C.P. Houston has to be among the dumbest columns I've ever read. |
A Drive-Through Lane to the Next Time Zone By / NYT — Permalink PULL off Interstate 55 near Cape Girardeau, Mo., and into the drive-through lane of a McDonald's next to the highway and you'll get fast, friendly service, even though the person taking your order is not in the restaurant - or even in Missouri. | |
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James Joyner: McDonald's Outsourcing Drive-Throughs — NYT - A Drive-Through Lane to the Next Time Zone [snipped quote] Fascinating. Greg Ransom: YOUR JOB AT MCDONALDS — outsourced. |
Alex Tabarrok: That's the way it's done at a Cape Giradeau, MO restaurant and at some dozen others which send their orders to a call center in Colorado. |
When One Is Enough NYT — Permalink I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. | |
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Unf @Unfogged: This article has been getting a lot of play in the right half of the interweb thingy, but not so much in the left half. Steve Bainbridge: The Pro-Choice Position taken to its Logical Extreme — An astonishingly callous essay in the NYT:I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician. Steve Dillard: What a proabort culture of death hath wrought: God have mercy on this woman's soul: "Now I'm 34. |
Tom Smith: A touching tale — A colleague brought this touching tale of modern maternity to my attention. Bill @INDCJournal: Ok, I thought that this piece in the NYT was chilling and in horrible taste (the comments about Costco are a... Moe Lane: I just finished reading this: When One is Enough. My older sister recently attempted for the second time to have a baby. |
| Also: Michele Catalano, James Joyner, Vanderleun, Christopher Kanis, Steven Taylor, Michelle Malkin, Allah, Rod Dreher | |
Cheney Family Values Newsweek — Permalink July 26 issue - Around Bush-Cheney headquarters, they are known, respectfully but also with a certain amount of eye-rolling, as The Family. Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, and daughters Liz and Mary can be intense, insular and prickly as they protect their man, his reputation and his place on the GOP ticket. | |
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Steve M.: Well, the obvious lesson to be learned from this Newsweek article about the Cheneys is that there are an awful lot of... Howard Kurtz: Asked about the incident by NEWSWEEK, Mary Matalin, the former White House aide who acts as an informal media and... |
Roger Ailes: Cheney to Scully: F**k You — That's Lynne Cheney. [snipped quote] Hey, Steve, I hear Tim Russert can give you tips on kneeling. Betsy Newmark: Newsweek never fails to aggravate. Now, they have a hit piece on Dick Cheney and his family. |
At the Pentagon, Class Dismissed WaPo — Permalink Ever since a hijacked jetliner crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, parents whose children attend day care there have been assured their kids were safe. But last week, Defense Department officials told them the center would close in the fall because they could no longer ensure the children's safety. | |
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Mitch Berg: From the Duh Files — I wasn't nearly as surprised to hear that the Department of Defense has shut down the Pentagon... Tim Dunlop: DoD daycare — The Pentagon is closing down its childcare centre. Why? Because America is much safer now, obviously. |
Kevin Drum: SAFER?...President Bush, in remarks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on July 12: [snipped quote] The Pentagon, July 15:... |
Gov. Criticizes Legislators as 'Girlie Men' By / LAT — Permalink Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger mocked his opponents in the California Legislature on Saturday as "girlie men," and called upon voters to "terminate" them at the polls in November if they don't pass his $103-billion budget. | |
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James Joyner: Referring to the LA Times account, he also provides some amusing background on the parties involved. Hugh Hewitt: The Lost Angeles Times' account of Arnold's speech yesterday is unintentionally hilarious and also illustrative of the... |
Howard Kurtz: Here's some manly rhetoric, as reported by the Los Angeles Times: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger mocked his opponents in... Steve Bainbridge: Girlie Men in Sacramento Offended — Our beloved Governor Schwarzenegger, who combines decent policy instincts with high... |
White House Letter: Presidential campaign ruins Bush's vacation By / IHT — Permalink WASHINGTON George W. Bush has spent the last three Augusts at his ranch in the scorched flatlands of Crawford, Texas, where he has cleared brush, gone for runs in scorching heat and summoned sweaty cabinet members to eat fried jalapeño peppers at the only restaurant in town. | |
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Kevin Raybould: The Problem of Vacation — IHT: White House Letter: Presidential campaign ruins Bush's vacation, poor guy: [snipped quote] You know, I kinda feel sorry for him. |
Holden: Presidential Campaign Ruins Bush's Vacation — Poor George, he has to cut his usual August vacation down in order to run a losing campaign against John Kerry. |
Interview With King Abdullah of Jordan; Interview With Joseph Wilson; Interview With Carmen bin Ladin CNN — Permalink THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: It's noon in Washington; 9 a.m. in Los Angeles; 7 p.m. in Amman, Jordan; 8 p.m. in Baghdad. | |
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Tom Maguire: I Can Recommend A Book To Joe Wilson — Joe Wilson told Wolf Blitzer on CNN Late Edition that Walter Pincus of the... Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER UPDATE: A transcript of Wilson's appearance is now up, and Tom Maguire has further observations on Wilson's... |
KJL: CALL OFF THE SEARCH PARTY — Joe Wilson made a CNN appearance Sunday. |
Reports bolster Bush Iraq-uranium claim AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - It was one of the first signs that the intelligence used to go to war in Iraq was wrong: White House repudiation of 16 words in last year's State of the Union speech that had suggested Saddam Hussein tried to buy uranium in Africa. | |
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Tom Maguire: Book Blurbs From Joe Wilson — We let "The Politics of Truth" by Joseph Wilson flop open to page 1, and we find this... Edward _: This seems to be the unasked philosophical question behind the media's reports on how Bush's State of the Union Address... |
Joe Gandelman: British Report: Bush Claim On Uranium "Well Founded" — President George Bush has finally gotten some good news on the... |
Where are Democrats and the media -- now that Bush may have been right? USA Today — Permalink WASHINGTON — Lost in the cheering over the John Edwards pick and the cacophony following President Bush's refusal to speak at the NAACP convention this past week were reports that Bush might have been right after all when he said that Iraq had sought uranium for nuclear weapons. | |
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KJL: WHAT IF BUSH DIDN'T LIE AND NEAR NO ONE TOOK NOTICE — A good Richard Benedetto piece: "Lost in the cheering over the... Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: Contra the Times, USA Today appears to be on the ball when it comes to the Wilson story: "But now that the... |
Josh Marshall: In a bandwagon-type column out today in USA Today, Richard Benedetto quotes the Report thusly ... [snipped quote] As... |
"A Little Literary Flair" By / Weekly Standard — Permalink ONE DAY LAST OCTOBER, Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie in tow, traveled to the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C., for lunch. It was a big day for Wilson. He was the guest of honor at a banquet thrown by the Nation Institute, which publishes the Nation, the venerable lefty weekly. | |
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David Adesnik: It's also important to point out, as Matthew Continetti does in The Weekly Standard, that the problem is not Wilson's... Tom Maguire: Since the book is written with "a little literary flair", I am sure he will be able to sustain his interest all the way... Pejman Yousefzadeh: ANOTHER UPDATE: "A little literary flair"? Is that any excuse for Wilson's lies? |
Susanna Cornett: And an article in the July 26th issue of the conservative political magazine The Weekly Standard includes this quote... Jonah Goldberg: WILSON'S LITERARY FLAIR — Matthew Continetti has a very nice, very thorough debunking of Wilson. Glenn Reynolds: "A LITTLE LITERARY FLAIR:" Here's more on Joe Wilson's credibility problems. UPDATE: Joe Wilson was just on CNN. |
| Also: Roger L. Simon | |
Iraqi minister to investigate Allawi execution claims By / ABC News — Permalink Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin says he will investigate allegations that Iraq's interim Prime Minister personally executed suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station last month. | |
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Holden: Investigating Allawi — Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin is opening an investigation into allegations that... Tim Dunlop: UPDATE: "Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin says he will investigate allegations that Iraq's interim Prime... |
Dave Johnson: Iraq's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin is investigating. In the UK former foreign secretaryRobin Cook is also calling for an investigation. |
Obscenity charges to be dropped in sex-toy case By / Dallas Morning News — Permalink Obscenity charges will be dropped against a Burleson woman arrested last fall for selling sex toys to undercover police officers, her attorney said Saturday. BeAnn Sisemore, the lawyer for Joanne Webb, was notified Friday that Johnson County was abandoning the case, which has brought national attention to the rural county south of Fort Worth. | |
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Digby: Dirty Texans — Via Talk Left: [snipped quote] I hear they're going to outlaw hands and lips next session. |
TChris: Stupid Prosecution of the Week — Prosecutors in Johnson County, Texas are apparently regaining their sanity, as... |
No. 2 Is Making His Contribution by Talking Up the No. 1 By / NYT — Permalink LOS ANGELES, July 17 - As John Kerry has sought to reintroduce himself to America in the days before the Democratic National Convention, he has found a powerful new pitchman: Senator John Edwards, his vice-presidential running mate. | |
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David Adesnik: Although written in a light-hearted tone, this John Edwards profile in today's NYT resorts to simplistic stereotypes... |
Matthew Yglesias: The New York Times describes the way John Edwards is making hard-core Democrats actually like John Kerry, instead of supporting him on ABB grounds. |
Harry Potter, Market Wiz By / NYT — Permalink The success of the Harry Potter series has provoked a lively discussion among French literary theorists about the novels' underlying message and the structure of Harry's school, Poudlard (Hogwarts). | |
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Greg @BeggingToDiffer: Thankfully, Dan Drezner points us to this editorial by French literary critic Ilias Yocaris, translated and reprinted in yesterday's New York Times. Josh Chafetz: STEEV SACHS LAYS THE SMACK DOWN on today's ridiculous NYT op-ed on Harry Potter. |
Glenn Reynolds: But, silly me, I forgot to consult important French literary theorists, or I would have realized that the answer was... Daniel Drezner: Now the New York Times translates it for today's op-ed page. The highlights: "On the face of it, the world of Harry Potter has nothing in common with our own. |
The Wilson-Plame Affair (Cont'd) By / WaPo — Permalink There was no ambiguity in the conclusion of the massive report released by the Senate's bipartisan Select Committee on Intelligence on July 9. "Most of the major key judgments" made by the intelligence community about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were "either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting. | |
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David Adesnik: On another front, Josh takes issue WaPo ombudsman Michael Getler's response to Josh's critique of Susan Schmidt's embarrassment of Wilson in the Post last week. Gregory Djerejian: Oh, don't miss the WaPo ombudsman reining in TPM too: [snipped quote] MORE: Bill Safire, writing about "16 Truthful Words" Tom Maguire: UPDATE: The Washington Post ombudsman replies. But of course, they wrote a real story... |
Josh Marshall: Michael Getler, ombudsman of the Washington Post, has a short piece today responding to my Advertisement criticism of Susan Schmidt's article which appeared on July 10th. Roger L. Simon: Meanwhile, the Washington Post's ombudsman seems more level-headed in his response to a letter from Wilson to that paper... |
Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises By / NYT — Permalink The amount of money workers receive in their paychecks is failing to keep up with inflation. Though wages should recover if businesses continue to hire, three years of job losses have left a large worker surplus. | |
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Steve M.: Let's look at the lead story in yesterday's Times (the issue in which Stein's article appeared): The amount of money... Steve Soto: Will you please stop ignoring the data that workers are losing ground to inflation, that corporations are amassing... James Joyner: Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises — NYT - Hourly Pay in U.S. Not Keeping Pace With Price Rises "The... |
Kevin Drum: WORKING CLASS WOES — PART 1....The New York Times reports that the working class isn't doing too well these days: [snipped quote] Supply and demand. Lambert @Corrente: If incomes continue to lag behind the increase in prices, it may hinder the ability of ordinary workers to spend money... MB Williams: Above the fold... Well, at least on the online version, that is. [snipped quote] Despite my keen interest in pocketbook economics, I'm not a professional. |
| Also: Ruy Teixeira, Greg Ransom, Philip Greenspun, Steve Antler | |
How the Left Lost Its Heart LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than 30 years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this movement has largely been brought about by working-class voters whose lives have been materially worsened by the conservative policies they have supported is less commented upon. | |
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Kevin Drum: WORKING CLASS WOES — PART 2...Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter With Kansas?, writes in the LA Times today... Soccerdad: How the Left Lost its Heart — The title comes from an editorial appearing in today's LA Times written by Thomas Frank. |
Jason Van Steenwyk: Confronting a Meme—and a Question for Conservatives — Here's Thomas Frank, author of "What's The Matter With Kansas," purveying a common lefty meme for the Los Angeles Times. Lambert @Corrente: Thomas Frank, author of "What's the matter with Kansas," makes the excellent point that working class Red State voters... |
New Reports Again Question Whether Iraq Sought Uranium in Niger NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, July 17 — Were those infamous 16 words correct after all? It has been a year and a half since President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, in which he suggested in a single sentence that Iraq might have been trying to acquire uranium in Africa for its nuclear weapons program. | |
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Noam Scheiber: NO VINDICATION FOR THE WHITE HOUSE ON NIGER: The New York Times reported yesterday that the White House is claiming a... Andrew Olmsted: WMD HUNT The controversy that won't die lurches from the grave again: new evidence suggests that President Bush's... Kevin Drum: FITZGERALD NEARLY FINISHED?....Buried at the bottom of a New York Times article about Joe Wilson and uranium from Niger: [snipped quote] Tick tick tick.... |
Tom Maguire: The Times addressed his question - why are Admin defenders more animated on this point than the Admin itself? - yesterday, BTW. Pejman Yousefzadeh: WELL, AT LEAST IT'S SOME OF THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT — The New York Times finally appears (remarkably) to be... Matthew Yglesias: Richard Stevenson and David Johnston need to pay closer attention: [snipped quote] Now if I were writing this story, I... |
| Also: Roger L. Simon, Glenn Reynolds, Ace, Betsy Newmark | |
What's Fair About a Draft? By / WaPo — Permalink The country's main reaction to the need for more troops in Iraq is that we should get other countries to help us out. In other words, draft foreigners. But events in Iraq have revived rumors and predictions that the real draft is coming back, and they have provided one of the periodic opportunities for advocates of a draft to make their case. | |
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James Joyner: What's Fair About a Draft? Michael Kinsley asks, "What's Fair About a Draft?" in a column in today's WaPo. Susan Madrak: DRAFTY — Michael Kinsley asks: What's fair about a draft? [quote] During Vietnam, the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote, "Draft old men's money, not young men's bodies."[end quote] |
Jon Henke: I'll tell you what's fair.... In a WaPo column today, Michael Kinsley abuses one of the most used, misused, and destructive words in political discourse: "Fair". |
The Key to Discreet Gossiping By / WaPo — Permalink Yes, children, we did used to have blogs. We called them diaries, and they got us into almost as much trouble as yours will get you. The impulse to record one's every thought, feeling, opinion and experience long predates the home computer. | |
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Will Baude: A blogger reads some Sunday papers 1: Miss Manners discusses blogs today ("Yes, children, we did used to have blogs. Betsy Newmark: Miss Manners warns bloggers who use their blogs to talk about their personal lives. |
James Martin Capozzola: Martin, who is at home today in the Washington Post ("The Key to Discreet Gossiping"), begins her essay,... |
Never Give In By / Opinion Journal — Permalink The first duty of any government is to the security of its people. So it is only natural that when we are confronted with the harrowing images of hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, governments wish to do everything possible to save their citizens. | |
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Andrew Olmsted: THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE Australia's Foreign Minister speaks out on the dangers of appeasement in the wake of the... Michelle Malkin: And Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, published a strong rebuke of the flaccid Filipinos in the Wall Street Journal - a must-read. |
Arthur Chrenkoff: From the southern end of the Coalition — The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer has a nice piece in last... |
Cain Makes Inroads in Ga. Senate Bid By / WaPo — Permalink THOMASVILLE, Ga. — Herman Cain, fast-food millionaire turned U.S. Senate candidate, fixed his gaze on the semicircle crowding around him at the local political hangout and grinned. It was showtime. | |
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Betsy Newmark: The Washington Post profiles Herman Cain, running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Georgia. John J. Miller: Here's a Wash Post story on the race. |
Steve Dillard: Cain Makes Inroads in Ga. Senate Bid: WaPo has this excellent profile on Herman Cain. NRO's John Miller states the obvious. |
Reporter alleges sodomy at Abu Ghraib Washington Times — Permalink Baghdad, Iraq, Jul. 17 (UPI) — American journalist Seymour Hersh has said there are videotapes of American soldiers sodomizing young Iraqi boys at Abu Ghraib prison. | |
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Thomas Leavitt: And probably not intentionally and not in print, at that (it appears via the UPI breaking news section). |
Ed Cone: Washington Times/UPI: [snipped quote] — Incorrect. Hersh does not say the attacks are by American soldiers, and he does not specify the age of the boys. |
The Tories must confront Islam instead of kowtowing to it By / Telegraph — Permalink Marcel Proust wrote that "other people, as we get to know them, are like strips of metal dipped in acid: they gradually lose all their qualities - and their defects too, at times." Politicians, of course, only lose their qualities. | |
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Andrew Stuttaford: MULTICULTURALISM WATCH — Here's a thought-provoking, and, in its conclusions, undeniably troubling, article by Will... |
Stephen Pollard: Dealing with the militant Islam threat — Interesting piece by Will Cummins on the mainstream parties' craven courting of the 'Muslim vote'. |
Minn. GOP Asks Activists to Report on Neighbors' Politics By / WaPo — Permalink All politics is local. But this year, it is getting downright neighborly. Take Minnesota. The state Republican Party has developed a Web site that allows its activists to tap into a database of voters whose political allegiances and concerns it would like to know. | |
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Lambert @Corrente: Howdy howdy, friends and neighbors! The Republicans are easing Americans into the idea that it's OK to report their neighbors political beliefs to a central authority. |
Steve Gilliard: And in other Orwellian news : Minn. GOP Asks Activists to Report on Neighbors' Politics By Brian Faler Special to The... |
Palestinian Authority Offices Burned Down By / AP — Permalink GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gunmen angry over Yasser Arafat 's overhaul of his security forces burned down Palestinian Authority offices in Gaza on Sunday. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Arafat met with his prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, to discuss the... | |
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Joe Gandelman: That's what we expect Yassir Arafat to say in this case of true poetic justice: [snipped quote] Should blogs start a fund to help him rebuild? |
Charles Johnson: Anarchy in the PA — The vicious terrorist society nurtured by Arafat and his Arab cronies is beginning to fall apart in... |
Arafat's Offices Burned Down Amid Shakeup AP — Permalink GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip July 18, 2004 — Gunmen burned down offices of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in Gaza Sunday, as anger spread over the Palestinian leader's overhaul of his security forces that many saw as falling short of genuine reform. | |
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Deacon: And this report by ABC News tells of gunmen burning down the PA office in Gaza. |
Glenn Reynolds: THIS SEEMS LIKE A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT: [snipped quote] Some people are speculating that this is a good time to get rid of Arafat. |