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Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft, Sources Say By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and the most prominent Hispanic in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft , sources close to the White House said Wednesday. | |
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John Hawkins: Misc Commentary For Nov 10, 2004 — "Alberto Gonzales looks to be W's chpice to replace John Ashcroft and personally, I think it's a great pick. Zoe Kentucky: Gonzales is the new Ashcroft, um, I mean Attorney General. Lorie Byrd: It looks like they are already getting something for their support, although I am sure this is a decision the President... |
Steve M.: He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and... Steve Bainbridge: Bush just went with the conventional wisdom pick: White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. No real surprise there. Jeralyn Merritt: Update: Looks like the choice is Alberto Gonzales. Now there will be a vacancy in the White House Counsel's office. |
| Also: James Joyner, Steve Soto, C. D. Harris | |
BROW-BEATER New York Post — Permalink November 10, 2004 — SEN. Zell Miller (D- Ga.) laced into New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd yesterday on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, saying, "The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on 'Meet the Press' and writes those col umns, the redder these states get. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Does anyone think that if we look over enough Senate floor transcripts, we'll find Zell Miller trying to play the penis game with Republican senators? Matt Stoller: It's Miller Time — Zell Miller [snipped quote] Let's break this down. Hecate: But I'd never call her a high brow hussy from New York City. |
Steve M.: However, please tell me I'm not reading too much into this: Miller also suggested "that red-headed woman at the New York... Ace: Despite the best efforts of six firefighting companies, Zell Miller continues to blaze out of control: [snipped quote] High-brow hussy? Josh Chafetz: From today's NY Post: [snipped quote] I think Dowd definitely got the better of that exchange. |
| Also: Radley Balko, KJL | |
Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75 CNN — Permalink PARIS, France (CNN) — Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris. | |
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Roger L. Simon: Of course nothing compares with the knowledge that hey, ho, the Wicked Witch is Dead! Gene @HarrysPlace: Arafat's billions — One of many reasons why the late Yasser Arafat was not worth Barbara Plett's tears— or anyone... |
David Allan Pell: Yasser Arafat is dead at 75. He dies with a long legacy of a life on the public stage. Three things will mark this, the week of his death. |
Bush Moves Quickly on Ashcroft Successor By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has emerged as the leading candidate for the job. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Bush has named him. White House officials say Alberto Gonazales most likely will be the next Attorney General. Christopher Kanis: GONZALES FOR A.G. This is great news. Gonzales as A.G. lilkely means that he won't be nominated for the Supreme Court anytime soon, as many had anticipated/feared. Jonah Goldberg: GONZALES — The next AG? |
Michelle Malkin: According to this article, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is the leading candidate to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Taegan Goddard: Gonzales Tapped for Attorney General — President Bush "is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General... |
Bush Nominates Gonzales for Attorney General By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush today nominated his White House counsel and trusted confidant, Alberto R. Gonzales, to be his new attorney general, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of John D. Ashcroft. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Bush's Choice For Attorney General: A Step In The Right Direction — Whether it's meant to be or not, President George... Zach N: The Washington Post reported today that Alberto R. Gonzales, White House Counsel and one time Texas Supreme Court... |
Captain Ed: Bush Picks Gonzalez — George Bush made the first Cabinet-level selection of his second term, nominating Alberto Gonzalez, Jr for Attorney General. James Joyner: Bush Nominates Gonzales for Attorney General (WaPo) "President Bush today nominated his White House counsel and trusted... |
Conspiracy Theories Abound After Bush Victory ABCNEWS — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2004 — There were minor voting irregularities on Election Day — long lines, voting machine breakdowns, shortages of provisional ballots — but some people are now leveling charges of voter fraud. | |
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Ace: ABCNews Debunks Paranoid Leftie Ravings About "Stolen Election of 2004" — Shocking, I know, but there's the evidence, right there in black-and-white. Juan Non-Volokh: ABC News reports that some see these problems as evidence of a conspiracy to "steal" the presidency. Pejman Yousefzadeh: Call for desperate measures: [snipped quote] I've seen plenty of weblogs that are now trying to foster conspiracy... |
Jeanne D'Arc: ABC, the Boston Globe, and Salon all investigate what the Globe calls the "Internet-fueled conspiracy theories" about voting irregularities. Clayton Cramer: Marks of Fanaticism — It's when you lose the election by 3.5 million votes, even prominent Democrats admit that they... Orrin Judd: FULL BLUE MOONERS: Conspiracy Theories Abound After Bush Victory: Web Sites, E-mails Conjure Phantom Voters, Invented... |
Who Is Alberto Gonzales? ABCNEWS — Permalink Nov. 10, 2004 — Alberto R. Gonzales, the second of eight children, grew up in a two-bedroom house in Houston, and rose to become one of President Bush's closest advisers, who has followed him from the Texas statehouse to the White House. | |
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Joe Gandelman: So what did Bush accomplish? He picked someone whose life narrative is truly inspirational. Pejman Yousefzadeh: GONZALES FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL — So much for my thoughts that Larry Thompson would succeed to the position of Attorney General. |
Dean Esmay: The new U.S. Attorney General will be Alberto Gonzalez. Gonzalez has several advantages. James Joyner: Who Is Alberto Gonzales? |
Yasser Arafat Dies in France By / WaPo — Permalink Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, 75, has died in a military hospital near Paris, 13 days after he left his shell-battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah for treatment of a still uncertain disorder, Palestinian officials reported. | |
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Charles Paul Freund: Allah Yeghama'lo — "May God bury him deeper," according to a bitter Levantine saying. Arafat is dead. |
David Adesnik: 50 YEARS TOO LATE: Arafat dead. |
Eyewitness: Defiance amid carnage BBC — Permalink As US forces battle insurgents in streets strewn with rubble and corpses, Iraqi sources question the claims that the US controls much of Falluja. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in the city who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic. | |
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Stirling Newberry: Fallujah — Eyewitness BBC account reports at least 6 US dead and 4 crippled tanks. |
Charles Johnson: UPDATE at 11/10/04 6:48:24 pm: Here's another report from Fadhil Badrani: Defiance amid carnage. |
Senators Accuse U.N. Leader of Blocking Their Fraud Inquiry By / NYT — Permalink Leaders of a United States Senate subcommittee investigating allegations of fraud in the oil-for-food program in Iraq have accused Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, of obstructing their inquiry. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: UNSCAM UPDATE: [snipped quote] (Via Tom Maguire). |
Tom Maguire: UNSCAM Update - A Bipartisan Request For Kofi — From the NY Times: [snipped quote] We note that Judith Miller has the... |
Liberal Christians Challenge 'Values Vote' By / WaPo — Permalink Liberal Christian leaders argued yesterday that the moral values held by most Americans are much broader than the handful of issues emphasized by religious conservatives in the 2004 presidential campaign. | |
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Steve Soto: As a confirmation to this survey, Zogby did a large sample survey for the Center for American Progress and two other... David Allan Pell: According to a recent poll by Zogby, those moral values included issues such as the Iraq war and poverty and economic justice. |
Nick Confessore: Here's an interesting Washington Post article about religious liberals and their plans going ahead. Atrios: Perhaps America thinks otherwise: Liberal Christian leaders argued yesterday that the moral values held by most... |
Was the election stolen? By / Salon — Permalink Election Day 2004, like all national elections, saw its share of glitches, ineptitude, fraud, and intimidation. The Election Incident Reporting System, a national database of election irregularities compiled by volunteers working with various voting-rights groups, lists 30,000 such incidents for 2004. | |
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Harley: In the interests of mental health, give it a read whenever the siren song of Stolen Election wafts across the waves. Mitch Berg: Attention, Moonbats: Christmas Cancelled — According to that right-wing tool Salon, rumors that the election was stolen... Tom Maguire: Some life - we criticize Krugman when he writes, we criticize him when he doesn't... UPDATE: Can't spell "No sale" without Salon; more debunking here. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE Farhad Manjoo also pours cold water on the voter fraud claims, as does this report. Glenn Reynolds: SALON is pouring cold water on the stolen-election claims emanating from the nuttier sectors of the left. |
U.S. Pressed Halliburton in Kuwaiti Deal By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait and other senior U.S. officials put pressure on Halliburton (NYSE:HAL - news) to award a contract to a Kuwaiti company suspected of overcharging to bring fuel into Iraq , according to State Department documents released on Wednesday. | |
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Susan Madrak: CROOKS — I guess it depends on what you mean by "values." |
Hecate: Pink is the navy blue of India. And Haliburton is the new Enron. Imagine if we had an Attorney General who believed in justice? |
Bush attorney general pick is Alberto Gonzales CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is President Bush's pick to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft. "His sharp intellect and sound judgment have helped shape our policies in the war on terror," Bush said Wednesday afternoon from the White House. | |
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Talking Dog: The ink wasn't even dry on John Ashcroft's long overdue resignation, before the President announced his choice to... |
The Poor Man: Making Friends — Bush has nominated Alberto Gonzales to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Yup, that Alberto Gonzales. |
Hostage 'Slaughterhouses' Found in Fallujah AP — Permalink NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq — Iraqi troops have found "hostage slaughterhouses" in Fallujah (search) where foreign captives were held and killed, the commander of Iraqi forces in the city said Wednesday. | |
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Captain Ed: Cleaning House In Fallujah — The AP reports that Iraqi armed forces have found the houses where terrorists led by Abu... Charles Johnson: The Holy City of Slaughterhouses — Hostage 'Slaughterhouses' Found in Fallujah. |
Jan Haugland: Fallujah house of horrors — US and Iraqi forces fighting in Fallujah have found a "slaughter house" with remains of hostages, film and equipment used by al-Zarqawi's butchers. |
Five Reality Checks For Democrats: Dump Kofi, Moore, Dopes By / New York Observer — Permalink Democrats of Manhattan, rise and shine! It's been over a week now. The American people have spoken, and what they said was: They don't want you. The vote is in, the map is more red than blue, that smirking jerk you love to hate is back for four more years. | |
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Orrin Judd: THE RULES: Five Reality Checks For Democrats: Dump Kofi, Moore, Dopes (Tish Durkin, 11/10/04, NY Observer)... |
Ace: I've been putting off reading this article all day, and now I regret doing so: "Democrats of Manhattan, rise and shine! |
FORTUNATE SON By / New York Post — Permalink FORGIVE Mindy Evnin if she's not up for cake and candles today. Even if she knows how important this birthday was for her son. On this day in a Philadelphia tavern, the Continental Congress gave birth to the Marine Corps almost a full year before the Declaration of Independence. | |
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Ace: The New York Post also celebrates the Marines' birthday. Thanks again to ScottK. Jack Fowler: Our good friend and NR's former Washington Bureau Chief Bill McGurn launches his new weekly New York Post column today... Paul Jaminet: GOD BLESS THEM IN FALLUJAH: Fortunate Son (William McGurn, NY Post, 11/10/2004; via PowerLine) "America still looks to the Marines to do the job no one else can. |
Blackfive: Happy Birthday, Marines! Go get 'em, Devil Dogs!!! Update: Jay B. sends this NYPost article about a Marine Corps Mom. The Big Trunk: In the New York Post William McGurn tells the exemplary story of one Marine, fallen in Iraq, and of his mother:... |
Internet buzz on vote fraud is dismissed By / Boston Globe — Permalink WASHINGTON — As they ricochet around the country on the Internet, the details seem aligned to raise the eyebrows of suspicious Democrats. President Bush recorded 4,258 votes to Senator John F. Kerry's 260 in one suburb of Columbus, Ohio — where only 638 ballots were cast. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Buzz on Vote Fraud Debunked — The Boston Globe investigates the various claims floating around the Internet that "have... |
James Frederick Dwight: The Globe's front page today has a treatment of the "internet buzz on vote fraud." |
Judiciary panel seen as tinderbox By / Washington Times — Permalink Republicans and Democrats are bracing for what they say could be the most bitter partisan fight in more than 25 years on the Senate Judiciary Committee, already the scene of some of the Senate's most acrimonious showdowns and stalemates. | |
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Eugene Oregon: I didn't - especially regarding judicial nominations [snipped quote] I also like the Washington Times' analysis of the issue of the filibuster [snipped quote] Several? Hugh Hewitt: Charles Hurt's Washington Times' piece this morning is a warning to conservatives that the Specter debate is playing right into Democratic hands. |
Michael DeBow: A Cornyn staffer's description of the short term future of the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
Rebel Fighters Who Fled Attack May Now Be Active Elsewhere NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 10 - Insurgent leaders in Falluja probably fled before the American-led offensive and may be coordinating attacks in Iraq that have left scores dead over the past few days, according to American military officials here. | |
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Kos: And regardless of whatever "gains" the US may be making in Falluja, we are still losing control in other parts of the country. Kevin Raybould: A Famous Victory — It seems that the leaders of the Fallujah resistance have left the city and are coordinating attacks... |
Kevin Hayden: A Criminal Disregard for Life — After vigorous faith-based invocations of God by military commanders trying to bolster... Cori Dauber: The final front page article provided by the Times really offers no new information, but seeks only to undermine the importance of the battle. |
Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train By / NYT — Permalink Based on the 32-page children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, the new animated feature "The Polar Express" has already received attention for the advanced technology employed to make the film and the heart-skipping amount of money reportedly spent to transpose the story from page to screen. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: Meet Scrooge: In the NY Times, unknown critic Manohla Dargis tries to show off in a most obnoxious way about a children's movie (my emphasis added): [snipped quote] Oh, come on. |
Ann Althouse: From Manohla Dargis's review of "Polar Express": "creepily unlifelike beings vacuum-sealed simulacrum of the world Hitler's Nuremberg rally entrances airborne scrotum" |
With 'Scramjet,' NASA Shoots for Mach 10 By / WaPo — Permalink HAMPTON, Va. — They call it a "scramjet," an engine so blindingly fast that it could carry an airplane from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., in about 20 minutes — or even quicker. So fast it could put satellites in space. | |
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Tom Smith: New hypersonic jet to be tested by NASA. Of course, there may be other very fast jets in the air already we don't know about. Jonah Goldberg: "DUDE, THIS IS COOL" — That's what lot's of boys (and I'm sure a quite few girls) said this morning when they saw this story in today's Washington Post about the scramjet. |
Vanderleun: Space Patrol — Pushing the Mach 10 Envelope With 'Scramjet,' NASA Shoots for Mach 10 [snipped quote] The Scramjet process explained @ How the Scramjet Works James Joyner: Scramjet: NASA Shoots for Mach 10 — With 'Scramjet,' NASA Shoots for Mach 10 (WaPo) [snipped quote] Very cool. |
Bush revives bid to legalize illegal aliens By / Washington Times — Permalink President Bush yesterday moved aggressively to resurrect his plan to relax rules against illegal immigration, a move bound to anger conservatives just days after they helped re-elect him. | |
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Orrin Judd: MORE: Bush revives bid to legalize illegal aliens (Bill Sammon, 11/10/04, THE WASHINGTON TIMES) "President Bush... Mark Krikorian: Well, today's papers are full of post-parade offal, in the form of the administration's new pledge to push for a guestworker/amnesty program. |
Christopher Kanis: Bush revives bid to legalize illegal aliens - The Washington Times: [snipped quote] I'd say I was having buyer's remorse... |
Kerry returns to Hill, Dems ponder strategy By / The Hill — Permalink Top Hill Democrats huddled yesterday to try to devise a strategy to combat President Bush's agenda despite their weakened ranks in Congress. "Fifty-four-plus million Americans voted for healthcare," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said yesterday in his first visit to the Hill since losing the presidential race. | |
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Kevin Drum: THE NUCLEAR OPTION....Senate Republicans have been muttering recently about invoking the "nuclear option" to stop Democratic filibusters of judges in the Judiciary Committee. |
Sam Rosenfeld: Last year, Trent Lott was one of the leading advocates for the "nuclear option" of changing parliamentary rules to... |
US find Fallujah 'slaughterhouses' Telegraph — Permalink Iraqi troops involved in the assault on Fallujah have found houses in Iraq where hostages had been held and killed by kidnappers. Major-General Abdul-Qader Jassim, the provincial military governor said: "We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Fallujah that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to identify themselves." | |
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Brian Micklethwait: Should we spell it Falluja or Falujah? |
Marcus @HarrysPlace: Presumably this sort of thing - evidence of which is coming to light after raids in Fallujah - is considered above board and defensible in Roy's world. |
How About a Little Country Twang? By / WaPo — Permalink Listen closely. That silence you hear is the sound of Democrats not recriminating. We are, to be sure, post-morteming like nobody's business. It could scarcely be otherwise after the most heartbreaking defeat just about any Democrat can recall. | |
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EDM Staff: Harold Meyerson Notes Continuing Democratic Unity — An excellent piece by Harold Meyerson in Wednesday's Washington... |
Orrin Judd: LIPSTICKING THE PIG: How About a Little Country Twang? |
Panel Says Census Move on Arab-Americans Recalls World War II Internments By / NYT — Permalink SUITLAND, Md., Nov. 9 - The Census Bureau's decision to give to the Department of Homeland Security data that identified populations of Arab-Americans was the modern-day equivalent of its pinpointing Japanese-American communities when internment camps were opened during World War II, members of an advisory board told the agency's top officials Tuesday. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Crying Wolf — A bad day for freedom: [quote] "This for the Arab-American community is 1942," said Barry Steinhardt, a civil...[end quote] |
Ken Masugi: The Census on Arab-Americans NY Times reports: "The Census Bureau's decision to give to the Department of Homeland... |
Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable WaPo — Permalink Congressional Democrats returned to Washington in a defiant mood yesterday, making no apologies for the campaign in which they lost congressional seats and the presidential race and vowing to hold President Bush accountable for his handling of the deficit, the Iraq war and other issues. | |
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Orrin Judd: CIRCLING THE REACTIONARY WAGONS: Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable (Charles Babington and Dan Balz, November 10,... |
Hugh Hewitt: Then read "Democrats Vow to Hold Bush Accountable," from this morning's Washington Post. |
Post-Election SGO By / American Spectator — Permalink There's no rest for the politically weary. We'll have to keep a weather eye on '06 and '08, but there's a lot to do long before they arrive. There will be no respite while Nurse Ratched builds her campaign for the White House, and there's enough SGO this week to keep us busy. | |
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Ace: Another Shot Into the Bowline: Skip the first two paragraphs, making a dumb James Bond/Spectre joke, and go to the third... |
Glenn Reynolds: OUCH: [snipped quote] Except that, actually, "legacy systems" tend to outlive their usefulness simply because replacing them is a lot of trouble. |
Worse Than It Looks Weekly Standard — Permalink TWO CONTRASTING CONCLUSIONS can be drawn by comparing the famous Red-Blue divide on the electoral maps of 2000 and 2004. One is that there has been very little change in electoral patterns, the other that there was change of significant proportions. | |
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Orrin Judd: NO TEA AND SYMPATHY? : Worse Than It Looks: The political landscape is not the same as it was in 2000. PoliPundit: However, beneath the surface, there are worrying signs for Democrats: "Perhaps the best way to appreciate this change,... |
Greg Ransom: THE ELECTORIAL DECLINE OF THE LEFT. (via PoliPundit). |
Why we're a divided nation Townhall.com — Permalink Recent elections pointed to deepening divisions among American people, but has anyone given serious thought to just why? I have part of the answer, which starts off with a simple example. Different Americans have different and intensive preferences for cars, food, clothing and entertainment. | |
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James Joyner: Why We're a Divided Nation — Walter E. Williams takes a stab at explaining "Why we're a divided nation." Betsy Newmark: Walter Williams know why politics is so ugly these days. [snipped quote] Government does way too much and that's why everyone fights over it control. |
Greg Ransom: Walter Williams has an explanation. Quotable: "Different Americans have different and intensive preferences for cars, food, clothing and entertainment. |
A Few Dark Clouds By / American Spectator — Permalink Thousands of words have been spent, at this point, giving advice to the Democrats in the wake their electoral defeat. How about some advice for Republicans? First and foremost, don't buy the "moral values" hype. | |
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Randy Barnett: Advice to Republicans: From John Tabin in the American Spectator: [snipped quote] Related Posts: Advice to Republicans: ... |
Glenn Reynolds: EVERYBODY'S GIVING ADVICE TO THE DEMOCRATS: Now John Tabin is offering advice to the Republicans. It's good advice, too. |
Why religion is a losing issue for today's Democrats By / USA Today — Permalink CNN's Lou Dobbs asked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the other night, "I'm just a simple fellow, secular as I can be. Are we going to hear every politician now, because of exit polls, start couching every issue in moral or religious terms?" | |
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Betsy Newmark: Jonah Goldberg looks at why Democrats seems so uncomfortable talking about religion. |
Jonah Goldberg: USAT BTW — I have a piece in USA Today, uh, today. |
Antiterror Campaign Made Ashcroft a Lightning Rod By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - John Ashcroft was flying in a Cessna jet over Detroit on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when he received word that the Twin Towers had been hit. Scribbling notes on the back of a speech that he was supposed to give that day, he turned to an aide and declared, "Our world has changed forever." | |
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David Allan Pell: Remembering Ashcroft — There is no doubt that the Ashcroft Attorney General legacy will be largely viewed through the prism of the war on terrorism. |
Howard Kurtz: "To his supporters," says the New York Times, "Mr. Ashcroft was an aggressive and unapologetic warrior against... |
Rossi ahead, names team for possible transition By / Seattle Times — Permalink OLYMPIA — Riding a wave of absentee votes largely from rural and Eastern Washington, Republican Dino Rossi yesterday surged ahead of Democratic Attorney General Christine Gregoire in Washington's nail-biter race for governor. | |
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Orrin Judd: AND REDDER...: Rossi ahead, names team for possible transition (Ralph Thomas, 11/10/04, Seattle Times) "Riding a wave... |
John J. Miller: Yesterday, Republican Dino Rossi moved into the lead, but there are a still a lot of ballots left to go and many of them come from Democratic areas. |
'Moral Values' Carried Bush, Rove Says By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, said Tuesday that opposition to gay marriage was one of the most powerful forces in American politics today and that politicians ignored it at their peril. | |
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Taegan Goddard: The Ultimate Issue — Karl Rove said that "opposition to gay marriage was one of the most powerful forces in American... |
Ann Althouse: The Rove fixation. Adam Nagourney has a little piece in today's NYT headlined "'Moral Values' Carried Bush, Rove Says." |
Falwell Plans for 'Evangelical Revolution' By / AP — Permalink RICHMOND, Va. - Seeking to take advantage of the momentum from an election where moral values proved important to voters, the Rev. Jerry Falwell announced Tuesday he has formed a new coalition to guide an "evangelical revolution." | |
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Taegan Goddard: The AP notes the group's mission will be to "lobby for anti-abortion conservatives to fill openings on the Supreme Court... |
SK Bubba: Swell — Just what we need. |
Blow to Belgium's far right By / BBC — Permalink Belgium's highest court has ruled that the country's Flemish nationalist party, the Vlaams Blok, is racist. The decision means that Europe's most successful far-right party will be forced to disband - and re-form under a new name. | |
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Steve Gilliard: Keep Flanders white not white, not all right Blow to Belgium's far right By Angus Roxburgh BBC News, Brussels |
Michelle Malkin: ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLITICAL PARTY BANNED IN BELGIUM — Belgium's top court has banned the Vlaams Blok. |
Dutch find the strength to take on their 'new Nazis' By / Telegraph — Permalink The assassination of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker whose funeral took place yesterday, is something new in Europe. There are, of course, antecedents. Fifteen years have passed since Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie: the first shot in the culture war between fundamentalist Islam and the West. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Holland's S11 — It seems that Holland is finally waking up: [snipped quote] (Hat tip: Tim Blair) Sadly, every country... Damian Penny: I haven't watched it yet, but plan to do so later today. (via Kathy Shaidle) Daniel Johnson, in the Daily Telegraph,... |
Jeff Goldstein: Krijg het rollen...? Has Operation Netherlandic Assclogging begun? Tim Blair: NEW HOLLAND — Theo van Gogh's murder has transformed the Dutch: [snipped quote] With you all the way, Dutchies. |
U.S. Forces Hold 70 Percent of Fallujah AP — Permalink A tank fires a round into a building in this TV image as U.S. troops, along with Iraqi forces, powered their way into the center of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, overwhelming small bands of guerrillas with massive force,... | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Second militant: "I cannot feel my legs." * |
Michelle Malkin: FALLUJAH — Enemy resistance in Fallujah is beginning to crumble. U.S. forces now control 70 percent of the city. |
Gettysburg: a lesson in division By / Newsday — Permalink After the election last week, my e-mail overflowed with Democratic angst. There was a fake cover of Time magazine with a photo of President George W. Bush framed by an unprintable headline. | |
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Michele Catalano: Papers like the Boston Herald and Newsday are letting their columnists entertain thoughts of civil war and secession. |
Ken Layne: Newsday says, "Shut up about this, the Civil War was a horrible thing." |
Ashcroft Quits Top Justice Post; Evans Going, Too By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - Attorney General John Ashcroft, one of the most prominent and polarizing members of the Bush cabinet, said Tuesday that he would resign, after a tumultuous tenure in which he was praised for his aggressive fight against terrorists but assailed by critics who said he sacrificed civil liberties in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. | |
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Taegan Goddard: The Cabinet Shuffle — The New York Times mentions a few possible changes for the second Bush term: Mercer Reynolds, a... Dan Gillmor: Ashcroft Leaves, Anti-Liberty Policies Remain — NY Times: Ashcroft Quits Top Justice Post; Evans Going, Too. |
Susan Madrak: DREAD — I'll contain my joy over Ashcroft's resignation until 1) I see who the replacement is and 2) if they instend to recycle him onto the Supreme Court. |
Ashcroft, Evans Resign from Bush Cabinet Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, a lightning rod of criticism by civil liberties groups for his anti-terror policies after the Sept. 11 attacks and who once even ordered the robing of two partially nude statues in his department, resigned on Tuesday. | |
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Bill @INDCJournal: Ashcroft's Retirement - Put the Breast to Rest — During the course of reporting Attorney General John Ashcroft's... Tbogg: Goodbye John, Hello boobs — Now that John Ashcroft's work is done and we are completely safe from crime or terror "I... |
Magpie @PacificViews: Bye-bye Ashcroft! US Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned. |
In Taking Falluja Mosque, Victory by the Inch By / NYT — Permalink FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 9 - After nearly 16 hours of fighting, the United States marines thought they had finally won their battle for the green-domed mosque, which insurgents had been using as a command center. Then a car drove up behind a group of the marines on Al Thurthar Street. | |
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Cori Dauber: Note the change in tone when, in another front page article, Filkins writes alone: (warning, fairly graphic description... |
Tim Blair: TO HELL THEY WILL GO — The battle for Fallujah continues, with significant progress reported: "After nearly 16 hours... |
The Big Eye Blinks By / TCS — Permalink Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg has written a diatribe bemoaning the performance of bloggers during the 2004 presidential election. It's an uncommonly terrible article, even by CBS standards. Less talk, more fisk. Shall we begin? | |
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Bill Hobbs: Rather Stupid — Doug Kern tapdances on Eric Engberg's head. Hard. Glenn Reynolds: DOUG KERN HAS A COLUMN responding to former CBS correspondent Eric Engberg's claims that blogs aren't up to CBS's standards of accuracy. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: "THE BIG EYE BLINKS" — Douglas Kern absolutely destroys Eric Engberg's ridiculous and ignorant piece on blogs and blogging. Ed Driscoll: Douglas Kern writes: [snipped quote] Needless to say, Kern fisks the daylights out of it. |
Ashcroft, Evans resign from Bush's Cabinet MSNBC — Permalink WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush's Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term. | |
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Avedon Carol: Ashcroft resigns: The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. Whew! Jim Treacher: He's gone now, but let's try to remember the good times — My favorite Ashcroft moment was when he covered up that statue's boobies. Joe Gandelman: Ashcroft and Evans Resign — Hey: there's an opening for Attorney General and they say a lady named Janet Reno is... |
C. D. Harris: Even Ashcroft Knows This — Reacting to John Ashcroft's letter of resignation from the Administration, Steve M. of No... Steve M.: Am I crazy to worry that John Ashcroft is quitting so he can run for president in '08? Mathew Gross: Changes — Ashcroft and Evans to leave, little Powell to stay. |
| Also: Jeralyn Merritt, Matt Welch, Jayson @PoliPundit, Kos, Jo Brooks, SK Bubba, Tully @Centerfield, Steve Soto | |
Tide runs against Specter By / The Hill — Permalink Conservative opposition to Sen. Arlen Specter's (R-Pa.) becoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee has mushroomed, to the dismay of Senate leaders who hoped it would fade, The Hill has learned. | |
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John Hawkins: Exactly! — I think we've essentially gotten to a point where the situation with Arlen Specter is win/win. James Joyner: Tide runs against Specter (The Hill) "Frist, Santorum and other Republicans reported that their telephones, fax... Steve Dillard: Tide runs against Specter—Uproar continues over comments on federal judges: Heh. Keep it up, folks. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: A SPECTER IS HAUNTING CAPITOL HILL — The campaign to prevent Arlen Specter from becoming the Chairman of the Senate... Steve M.: LITMUS TEST — This article in The Hill says that Arlen Specter really might not get the Judiciary Committee... Christopher Kanis: BUT THEN AGAIN... The Hill reports that the Tide runs against Specter. |
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Bush's Secularist Triumph By / Slate — Permalink Many are the cheap and easy laughs in which one could indulge at the extraordinary, pitiful hysteria of the defeated Democrats. "Kerry won," according to one e-mail I received from Greg Palast, to whom the Florida vote in 2000 is, and always will be, a combination of Gettysburg and Waterloo. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Losing my religion, 2 — Christopher Hitchens, Slate: [snipped quote] To which protein wisdom would only add (for the... Charles Johnson: Bush's Secularist Triumph — A good one from Christopher Hitchens: Bush's Secularist Triumph. Ogged @Unfogged: The Hitch — You can just smell something that's going to be linked a lot, and Hitchens' latest stinks plenty. |
Harry @HarrysPlace: Bush's Secularist Triumph — Hitchens lets rip in fine style at those who have tried to put Bush's victory down to the march of the religious fundamentalists. Randy Paul: Hitchens, the Fish Out of Water — Through Michael Totten I came across this Slate article by Christopher Hitchens that,... Macallan: Update [2004-11-9 16:1:57 by Macallan]: Hitchens picks up a shoe and tosses it at the left. |
| Also: Ramesh Ponnuru, Arthur Chrenkoff, Michael J. Totten, Glenn Reynolds, Joel Foreman, Orrin Judd, FrancoAlemán, Greg Ransom, Betsy Newmark, Jeanne D'Arc | |
Ashcroft, Evans Resign From Bush Cabinet By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - They served President Bush in different ways, but both will leave large, empty chairs in the Cabinet Room: Attorney General John Ashcroft , the face of the administration's tough tactics against terrorism, and Don Evans, the longtime friend who headed the Commerce Department , are leaving the president's team. | |
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Tim Graham: Consider the AP story on Ashcroft resigning, paragraphs 3 and 4: "The gospel-singing son of a minister, Ashcroft is a fierce conservative who doesn't drink, smoke or dance. Kenneth Quinnell: A Bit of Good News — John Ashcroft is not returning. Acidman: exorcism — Leftists can rejoice. Satan Himself has resigned from the Bush cabinet. Just in time, too. |
Tom Tomorrow: WTF? [snipped quote] Okay, then. Richard TPD: Good riddance — With so much bad news coming down the pike, I guess it was inevitable that a piece of good news would slip in. James Joyner: Ashcroft and Evans Resign from Cabinet — Ashcroft, Evans resign from Bush Cabinet (AP) [snipped quote] While much of the... |
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The War Cabinet NRO — Permalink President Bush needs to reshape his top structure. Of all the data emerging from the election, perhaps the most interesting is that most Americans are unhappy about the way the war in Iraq has been waged. | |
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David Allan Pell: But not a real job that, like, pays and all. Folks, feast your eyes on this: Zell Miller for Secretary of State. Radley Balko: Bully Diplomacy — Michael Ledeen nominates born diplomat Zell Miller for Secretary of State. Matt Welch: Zell Miller For Secretary of State? That's who Michael Ledeen nominates. |
Steve M.: (By the way, Michael Ledeen's suggestion that Miller would make a good Secretary of State isn't looking particularly astute.) Jesse Taylor: Zell Miller For EPA Director — It says something when Secretary of State Zell Miller isn't the dumbest idea you lay out in a column. Atrios: Secretary of State Zell Miller — You can't make this stuff up. |
| Also: Laura Rozen | |
Ashcroft, Evans resign from Cabinet CNN — Permalink (CNN) — Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans have resigned, the White House said Tuesday evening. Ashcroft's resignation will be effective upon confirmation of his successor, a Justice Department official said. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: Replacing Ashcroft — Rationally, I trust Jeralyn's judgement that Larry Thompson is the best of a lot of really bad choices to replace John Ashcroft. Oliver @LiquidList: Politics: From The Horse's Mouth — Um. [snipped quote] 4 years too late, asshole. 4 years too late. Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: Sing Glad Hosannas! Ashcroft has resigned! Calico cats everywhere will be relieved, statues can shed their robes, and... |
Captain Ed: Ashcroft Resigns, Presents Bush With Golden Opportunity — Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don... Hei Lun: Don Evans is gone too, but no one knows who he is and no one cares. So when is it Rumsfeld's turn? |
It's the Wealth, Stupid By / Village Voice — Permalink Amid the left's general dismay, a major anniversary just came and went without much notice. Thirty-five years ago last week Richard Nixon delivered his famous "Silent Majority" speech. | |
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Kevin Drum: THE BUSH DEMOGRAPHICS...Rick Perlstein turns to an expert to figure out what demographic group really helped Bush win... The Farmer: Rick Perlstein has more on this: [snipped quote] Go read the rest of It's the Wealth, Stupid It's all about the old "fusionist" mind-meld of course. Tim Dunlop: The most recent of these, and the most compelling, is this piece by Rick Perlstein, who draws on work by political scientist Phil Klinkner. |
Avedon Carol: Your must-read comes from Rick Pearlstein in The Village Voice: [snipped quote] So before anyone decides to jettison... Orrin Judd: OBJECTIVE VS. SUBJECTIVE: It's the Wealth, Stupid: Right-wing class warfare swung the 2004 election (Rick Perlstein,... Eugene Oregon: It's the Wealth, Stupid — Rick Perlstein has another typically good article in the Village Voice arguing that it wasn't... |
Stiffing the Base By / American Prospect — Permalink Less than a week after the election, the word has come down from Liberal Media High Command that the left needs to stop having a condescending attitude toward the faith-based white folk living out in the vast exurban and rural hinterland that, along with the... | |
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Yuval Rubinstein: Here's his latest nugget of wisdom: [snipped quote] During the past week, I've noticed some libs pointing out that Red... Digby: Linking to Matt Yglesias's piece today in which he elaborates on his red state "chump" thesis in which he points out... Matthew Yglesias: Condescension Time — A new column from yours truly makes the case for condescending toward social conservatives. |
Avedon Carol: Interestingly, Matt Yglesias is saying much the same thing over at The American Prospect, but not nearly as snarkily. Kevin Drum: First, talking about the "moral values" voters, he says this: [snipped quote] I agree. Ogged @Unfogged: MORE: Matt Yglesias writes, Interestingly, I never actually saw John Kerry or any other Democratic elected official condescend to these people. |
Kerry run in '08 called conceivable By / Boston Globe — Permalink While Senator John F. Kerry is "profoundly disappointed" with losing his presidential race last week, it is "conceivable" he will run again in four years, his brother and political confidant, Cameron F. Kerry, said yesterday. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The catalyst for this speculation is a Boston Globe story that reads in part: "While Senator John F. Kerry is... Kos: Kerry might not be done — It may be wishful thinking on Cameron Kerry's part, and hopefully it is: [snipped quote] Sorry, but Kerry had his chance. Chris Bowers: Kerry might not be done yet: [quote] While Sen. John Kerry is "profoundly disappointed" with losing the presidential race...[end quote] |
H.D. Miller: Kerry in 2008 — This story is ridiculous. [snipped quote] Good Lord, Cameron Kerry might be a good and loyal brother but he's a lousy political pundit. Glenn Reynolds: UPDATE: Of course, she'll have to beat a tanned, rested, and ready John Kerry! David Allan Pell: According to his brother, John Kerry plans to take a leadership role in the Senate and he has not ruled out another run for the White House. |
| Also: Jonah Goldberg, James Joyner, Taegan Goddard, Howard Kurtz, Hugh Hewitt | |
Moderates, Not Moralists By / WaPo — Permalink John Kerry was not defeated by the religious right. He was beaten by moderates who went — reluctantly in many cases — for President Bush. This will be hard for many Democrats to take. It's easier to salve those wounds by demonizing religious conservatives. | |
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Susanna Dilliplane: After complaining about "how far Democratic pundits are willing to go in order to demonstrate that Bush's victory has... David Adesnik: For once, I agree with E.J. Dionne: [snipped quote] Sure it is, but Democrats spent the entire election demonizing Bush &... Sam Rosenfeld: Columns from E.J. Dionne and Charlie Cook (subscription only) both inject some crucial complexity into the discussion of what happened a week ago. |
Michael J. Totten: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post: [snipped quote] Also, if you are a Democrat, please read Marc Cooper. Betsy Newmark: E.J. Dionne has calmed down a little and actually analyzed the exit polls beyond the one moral issues question. Ezra Klein: I forgot to link to it yesterday, but it's excellent. EJ Dionne's op-ed on how Kerry lost moderates. |
Did God Intervene? By / beliefnet — Permalink On the day after President Bush was re-elected, he gave much of the credit to his political adviser, Karl Rove, whom he called "the architect" of his campaign. But in evangelical churches, on Christian radio, and in voter precincts dominated by conservative Christians, the credit is going instead to someone a whole lot more powerful: God. | |
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Mary @LeftCoaster: Open Thread — Karl's spin about how the evangelical vote saved Bush has taken the next stage: God favored Bush. Laura Rozen: The headline du jour. Jeanne D'Arc: Meet Christopher Hitchens' new friends. God help us. |
Jeff Alworth: Did God Intervene? Submitted without comment (selections): "Did God Intervene? Andrew Sullivan: Paul Weyrich, Republican operative. Only one vote counted, apparently. And it was divine. |
Ashcroft, Evans Quit Cabinet Posts AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned today, the first members of President Bush's Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term. | |
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Orrin Judd: CLOSE COMMERCE DOWN: <a... Kevin Drum: THE PURGE BEGINS....Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans have resigned. |
Laura Rozen: Via Kevin Drum, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resign. |
Court rules Vlaams Blok is racist BBC — Permalink Belgium's highest court has ruled that the Flemish far-right Vlaams Blok party is racist. The ruling means the Blok will lose access to state funding and access to television which will, in effect, shut down the party. | |
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Perry de Havilland: Europe's very selective attachment to democracy — The Vlaams Blok is the largest political party in Flanders, the... John Derbyshire: RIGHT-WING PARTY DECLARED ILLEGAL IN BELGIUM — In a nasty little example of what the Left would like to do to anyone... |
Jeff Goldstein: The esteem agenda, cont. Via The Corner: [snipped quote] Sorry, Flanders. Your betters have spoken. |
Bush Cabinet Shakeup Begins CBS News — Permalink (CBS/AP) Attorney General John Ashcroft, a favorite of conservatives, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President Bush's closest friends, resigned Tuesday, the first members of the Cabinet to leave as Bush heads from re-election into his second term. | |
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Lambert @Corrente: Bush heaves Ashcroft, Evans over the side CBS. Well, they couldn't get anyone worse than Ashcroft. Right? Atrios: He's put an end to all crime and terrorism! WOW! The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. |
Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: "") And besides all that, Ashcroft told Bush, in his letter of resignation, that "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved." |
Text of Ashcroft's Letter to Bush AP — Permalink Text of the resignation letter, dated Nov. 2 and released Tuesday, from Attorney General John Ashcroft to President Bush : Dear Mr. President: Nothing in my life compares to the high honor of serving America as Attorney General in your administration. | |
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Steve M.: Be afraid. Be very afraid. ***** But back to Ashcroft: Have you seen his resignation letter? |
Jeralyn Merritt: "Update: Here is the text of Ashcroft's resignation letter, which was 5 pages, written in longhand." |
Driving the blues from Jesusland By / Washington Times — Permalink Oh, dear. This may be considerably more serious than we thought. Four years ago 36 days of uncertainty in Florida transformed the Gore-Lieberman team into the Sore-Loserman ticket, but the anger if not the rancor soon subsided. | |
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James Joyner: Driving the Blues from Jesusland — Washington Times managing editor Wes Pruden has an amusing take on the secessionist movement, "Driving the blues from Jesusland." Orrin Judd: YOU CAN GO, WE'LL KEEP THE LAND: Driving the blues from Jesusland (Wesley Pruden, 11/09/04, Washington Times)... |
Ken Layne: Secession News Alert Buddy — The editor-in-chief of the Moonie paper The Washington Times — the favorite newspaper of... |
Blue states buzz over secession By / Washington Times — Permalink Secession, which didn't work very well when it was tried once before, is suddenly red hot in the blue states. In certain precincts, anyway. One popular map circulating on the Internet shows the 19 blue states won by Sen. John Kerry — Washington, Oregon,... | |
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Acidman: Now some of the sore losers are talking about secession--- as if that's supposed to scare the s**t out of people in Jesusland. Michael DeBow: Finally, a link for, and a quotation of, Democratic mastermind Bob Beckel's day-after-Election-Day suggestion that the south secede from the Union once again. David Allan Pell: If at First You Don't Secede — The Washington Times is reporting a buzz among blue states where some folks are fantasizing about the idea of a secession of sorts. |
Ken Layne: Here's the Moonie paper reporting on this weekend's "The McLaughlin Group" political talk show, with quotes from other... Joe Gandelman: Get REAL — Mars_2 Here's an example of a story written by a journalist with too much time on his hands. REALLY. Howard Kurtz: And then there's this radical solution, according to the Washington Times: "Secession, which didn't work very well when... |
| Also: The Big Trunk, Betsy Newmark | |
American Forces Reach Center of Falluja Amid Fierce Fighting By / NYT — Permalink FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 9 - American forces reached the center of Falluja today and now appear to control one-third to one-half of a city that has been the epicenter of resistance, both real and symbolic, since the spring. | |
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Marc Schulman: This Ticks Me Off — Matthew Yglesias, a self-described "proud member of the reality-based community" had this to say earlier today: [snipped quote] Give me a break, Matthew. Matthew Yglesias: Shocking! American forces press into the heart of Falluja with mercifully few US casualties and discover |
Ann Althouse: The NYT reports from Fallujah: "Reports from inside the city said the insurgents were spreading the word that they were... |
Dupes and Dopes Of Campaign '04 By / WaPo — Permalink A phrase from a press release struck me: "In voting for George Bush, religious Americans were duped into voting against their best interests." The operative word is "duped," and it explains, almost by itself, why the Democratic Party is in the pits and John Kerry is not the next president of the United States. | |
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David Adesnik: But what if evangelicals, like African-Americans — and as Richard Cohen points out, American Jews — consistently vote... |
Betsy Newmark: Another liberal pundit who has sobered up a bit since the election and realized that the cliches of the left. |
Gov. Jeb Bush not eyeing presidential run Boston Globe — Permalink TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —Read his lips: Gov. Jeb Bush really, really isn't interested in succeeding his brother in the White House in 2008. Bush reiterated Tuesday that he is not going to run for the Senate when Florida has a seat up in 2006, and said he has no designs on the presidency four years from now. | |
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Jon Henke: JEB BUSH: "Gov. Jeb Bush really, really isn't interested in succeeding his brother in the White House in 2008. |
Taegan Goddard: Jeb Bush Says No to Senate, White House — Jeb Bush "reiterated Tuesday that he is not going to run for the Senate when... |
Kerry Advisers Point Fingers at Iraq and Social Issues By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - In a glum post-mortem to the presidential campaign, senior advisers to Senator John Kerry said Monday that Mr. Kerry lost because he had failed to turn the election into a referendum on the economy, a problem they attributed to a barrage of foreign policy news and the success of the White House in wielding cultural issues. | |
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Noam Scheiber: Here's the gist of Greenberg's post-game analysis, as it appears in today's Post: [quote] "In being successful in making the...[end quote] Glenn Reynolds: JAMES CARVILLE — member of the reality-based community: [snipped quote] I've been saying that for months. Hugh Hewitt: James Carville from the New York Times this morning: "I think we have to come to grips with the fact that we are an opposition party right now and not a particularly effective one. |
Steve Antler: So the news now is that everyone was deceived about the economy: "Voters were very concerned about the economy," Mr... Taegan Goddard: According to the New York Times, pollster Stan Greenberg said the Kerry campaign "saw evidence that its position was... |
CIA insider may face disciplinary action CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — The CIA is reviewing whether to take disciplinary action against a senior terrorism officer it says violated the agency's regulations on contacts with the media, a U.S. intelligence official said. | |
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James Joyner: Imperial Hubris Author May Face Disciplinary Action — CIA insider may face disciplinary action (CNN) |
Jeff Quinton: CNN "The CIA is reviewing whether to take disciplinary action against a senior terrorism officer it says violated the... |
Madonna calls for US troops to leave Iraq AFP — Permalink LONDON (AFP) - US pop star Madonna made a rare foray into politics, calling for her home country to withdraw its troops from Iraq during an interview with British radio. "I just don't want American troops to be in Iraq, period," she said on BBC Radio. | |
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Ann Althouse: "I don't think there's anything wrong with celebrities talking about politics ..." Chris (my son) said when I pointed out this story. Ace: Madonna Calls For US Withdrawal From Iraq, Then Pantomimes Masturbation With a Fungo Bat — Who cares what Madonna thinks? |
Baldilocks: They sneer at real military men and women but will actually fawn over the words of that great military strategist, the well-informed Madonna (or whatever name she's using). |
High court asked to weigh right-to-die law AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to block the nation's only law allowing doctors to help terminally ill patients die more quickly. | |
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Tbogg: Meanwhile Friar Ashcroft has left the Supreme Court with a going away present: The Bush administration asked the Supreme... |
Jack K.: The Indignity of Ashcroft ...one of the first manifestations of what was lost on Tuesday, Nov. 2, came into view today... |
Attorney General and Commerce Secretary Resign From Cabinet By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans are resigning in the first of a string of departures expected before President Bush is inaugurated for a second term. | |
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David Allan Pell: This Just In: We're Secure — John Ashcroft and Donald Evans are the first two cabinet members to bolt from the Bush administration. |
Taegan Goddard: Ashcroft and Evans Resign — Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans [snipped quote] the New York Times reports. |
French Troops Fire Into Ivory Coast Crowd By / AP — Permalink ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - French forces opened fire Tuesday as protesters massed between the Ivory Coast president's home and an evacuation post for foreigners. A hospital reported seven people were killed and more than 200 wounded. | |
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Baldilocks: In Ivory Coast. Eh, none of us filthy, imperialistic Americans were imposing democracy on anyone, so the world yawns. |
Jeff Quinton: French Troops Fire on Protesters — AP/Guardian: [snipped quote] Added to today's Beltway Traffic Jam. |
Top court brands Belgian far-right party racist AFP — Permalink Belgium's far-right Vlaams Blok was branded racist in a supreme court ruling that will force one of Europe's most successful anti-immigrant parties to relaunch itself. The supreme court upheld a verdict by a lower court in April that found the party to be guilty of "permanent incitement to segregation and racism". | |
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Charles Johnson: Belgian Court Kills Vlaams Blok — Belgium's supreme court has branded the very popular Vlaams Blok political party as... |
Vox Day: The new Democratic strategy for 2008 — [snipped quote] If you can't beat them, just make it illegal to vote for them. |
Sex disease cases soar in capital This Is London — Permalink The number of Londoners suffering sexually transmitted diseases has risen by more than a third, new figures reveal. They show that cases of infections soared between 1997 and last year, from 169,721 cases to 228,641. | |
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Clayton Cramer: But this problem is in London, sophisticated post-Christian place that it is: "The number of Londoners suffering... |
Orrin Judd: WHAT SOCCER AND DARWIN GETS YOU: Sex disease cases soar in capital (Jason Beattie And Rebecca Smith, 11/09/04, Evening... |
Take a Ride to Exurbia By / NYT — Permalink About six months ago I came out with a book on the booming exurbs - places like the I-4 corridor in central Florida and Henderson, Nev. These are the places where George Bush racked up the amazing vote totals that allowed him to retain the presidency. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: And on the train — the third train I take after a long drive — I read David Brooks' column, one of his good ones,... Laura Rozen: Brooks wonders how Rove managed to find ways to speak to the people of exurbia, as they have few institutions of... |
James Joyner: Exurbia Decided the Election — David Brooks urges readers to "Take a Ride to Exurbia" if they wish to understand the outcome of this election. Taegan Goddard: Finding the Keys to Victory in Exurbia — David Brooks looks to the message of his last book and notes the Republicans... |