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Eason Jordan Resigns CNN — Permalink THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): CNN executive Eason Jordan resigns over his remarks on U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. Was he too slow to apologize? | |
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Joe Gandelman: On Blogging: Jeff Jarvis Hits Home Run On CNN by Joe Gandelman Anyone who ever wondered why Jeff Jarvis often serves as... Jeff Jarvis: LATER: The trancript is up. If only Davos could say that.... : At Dean's site, Joe Gandelman excerpts the transcript. Greg Ransom: UPDATE: Read the transcript here: [snipped quote] Michelle Malkin — the MSM strikes back and CNN still in spin mode. |
Glenn Reynolds: Best Jeff quote: "Bloggers didn't fire Jordan. CNN fired Jordan." [LATER: Well, I was close. Transcript here. Michelle Malkin: Captain's Quarters liveblogged it. As Jarvis said: "The story's not over." Update: Transcript is here. |
Shiite Coalition Wins Largest Number of Votes WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 — A coalition dominated by Shiite Islamic parties and tacitly backed by the country's most influential religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, won the largest number of votes in results released Sunday from Iraq's landmark election, but fell short of a symbolically important majority that many of its leaders had projected. | |
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Norm Geras: The election results in Iraq (by Jeff Weintraub) On first impression, the latest news about the Iraqi election returns has confirmed my most optimistic hopes. Steve Soto: Shiite Factions, With Chalabi And Al-Sadr In Tow, Take Nearly 50% Of Iraqi Vote — The long awaited Iraqi election... Steven Taylor: Iraqi Election Results Today — However, at this point, there appears not to be any hard information WaPo/The AP has the... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS — First, read this article and pay particularly close attention to the following passages: "A... Steve M.: Washington Post today Turnout was also somewhat higher than previously estimated. —Instapundit today Robert Tagorda: Iraq Election Results — The final count is lower than the initial estimates, which is quite understandable given the... |
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The Correct Way to Fix Mistakes By / LAT — Permalink Has anyone ever said something about you that wasn't true? Something that, if people believed it, would significantly damage your reputation? How would you feel if you saw that falsehood printed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times? | |
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Kevin Roderick: Today it's Patterico's turn. William J. Dyer: Is there any principled argument against this proposal by my blogospheric friend Patterico in his very fine op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times? Kevin Aylward: The Correct Way To Fix Mistakes — Patrick Frey (Patterico's Pontifications) gets a chance to serve up a well thought... |
Leopold Stotch: Patterico on the Inside — Patrick Frey, better known as Patterico, has an "Outside the Tent" feature in today's Los Angeles Times. Caltechgirl: Outside the Tent — Fellow Bear-Flagger and LA Times watchdog Patterico subscribes to the ancient theory, "If you can't... Steve Bainbridge: Patterico in the Times — In a move that can only be explained by a sudden outbreak of masochism, the LA Times invited... |
| Also: Captain Ed, Spoons, Cori Dauber, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Glenn Reynolds, PoliPundit, Greg Ransom | |
Shiites Win Most Votes in Iraq Election, With Kurds Coming in Second; Turnout Around 60 Percent By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq Feb 13, 2005 — Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half the votes in the nation's Jan. 30 election, giving the long-oppressed group significant power but not enough to form a government on their own. | |
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Smash: Iraqi Election Results 8,456,266 Iraqis voted THE RESULTS of the Iraqi Election have been tabulated, AP reports. Jeff Goldstein: Anyway, as I was saying, 'Jeff Gannon' isn't even his real name...!" * |
Cori Dauber: Final Iraq Numbers — Total turnout just over 8 million, just over 60%, which as Instapundit notes will lead to some interesting political results. Glenn Reynolds: IRAQ ELECTION RESULTS: [snipped quote] This seems like good news. Turnout was also somewhat higher than previously estimated. |
No Mullah Left Behind By / NYT — Permalink The Wall Street Journal ran a very, very alarming article from Iran on its front page last Tuesday. The article explained how the mullahs in Tehran - who are now swimming in cash thanks to soaring oil prices - rather than begging foreign investors to come into Iran, are now shunning some of them. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: But a reader asks what I think about this column by Tom Friedman today. The Farmer: ~ Thomas L. Friedman / The New York Times - February 13, 2005. (no login required) Uh oh. Cori Dauber: I don't know about all of Tom Friedman's ideas, but I do have one question: if you're a big supporter of the GWOT, did... |
Judith Weiss: Iran's nukes, cont. In the debate about nukes in Iran I attended Tuesday, there was some discussion about whether economic sanctions would have any leverage with the mullahs. Paul @Wizbang: He wrote an article this week with his solution to the Iran problem. In his worldview, the solution is to place a 1 dollar per gallon tax on gasoline. |
Shiites Win Nearly Half of Iraqi Votes By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq 's majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half the votes in the nation's landmark Jan. 30 election, giving the long-oppressed group significant power but not enough to form a government on its own, according to results released Sunday. | |
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Juan Cole: The electoral commission said that the turnout was 58 percent. The Sunni Arabs (20 percent of the population and the former ruling group) mostly did not come out to vote. Chris Bowers: With the vote now counted but not certified, fundamentalist Muslims under Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani... |
Captain Ed: Iraq's Democracy Yields Shared Power — The elections held in Iraq last month have resulted in a parliament where no one... Joe Gandelman: Iraq Election Results: It'll Require A Coalition by Joe Gandelman The results of Iraq's milestone January 30 elections... |
Transcript for Feb. 13 MSNBC — Permalink PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS NBC TELEVISION PROGRAM TO "NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS." This is a rush transcript provided for the information and convenience of the press. Accuracy is not guaranteed. In case of doubt, please check with: | |
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Ann Althouse: Today, Sharansky appeared along with Pat Buchanan on "Meet the Press." Here's the transcript. It was a really lively debate. Josh Marshall: Rep. Charlie — Rangel (D) of New York: [snipped quote] From this morning's Meet The Press. |
Susan Madrak: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND — Via Crooks and Liars, Pat Buchanan versus Natan Sharansky on today's Meet The Press. |
Teresa Heinz drops 'Kerry' PittsburghLIVE.com — Permalink A campaign convenience is no more. According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee. | |
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Ed Driscoll: The Election Is Officially Over — Teresa Heinz drops "Kerry" from her last name. |
K. J. Lopez: THE ELECTION SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OVER — She is Teresa Heinz again. |
The Revolution That Wasn't By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — If the history of the Republican revolution were being written today, a single overarching question would have to be answered: Whatever happened to the promise of smaller government? | |
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Steve Bainbridge: A Fair Question — The NYT asks a fair question: [snipped quote] Regular readers know that I'm no fan of the libertarian dream of a night watchman state. Susan Madrak: The New York Times actually has a piece pointing out the Republicans haven't delivered on their biggest promise |
Greg Ransom: THE DEATH OF THE REPUBLICAN REAGAN REVOLUTION. Taegan Goddard: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R), quoted by the New York Times, on the Bush administration's fiscal policy and the lost promise of smaller government. |
U.S. Said to Pay Iraq Contractors in Cash By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - U.S. officials in postwar Iraq paid a contractor by stuffing $2 million worth of crisp bills into his gunnysack and routinely made cash payments around Baghdad from a pickup truck, a former official with the U.S. occupation government says. | |
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Dwight Meredith: It appears that the CPA in Iraq needed to have a talk with the Prince's accountant: "U.S. officials in postwar Iraq... |
Jeralyn Merritt: Senate Hearing Monday on Cash Payments in Iraq — The Senate will hear testimony Monday from a former Coalition... |
On culture front, we're losing war By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink Here are three small news items from around the world you might have missed: 1) An unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare benefits after refusing a job as a prostitute in a legalized brothel. | |
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Charles Johnson: Steyn: The Fetish of Tolerance — Mark Steyn asks, "Are there no grown-ups left in Rhode Island?" |
Greg Ransom: MARK STEYN — in the terrror war we're losing on the Western Front: "Here are three small news items from around the... |
Editorial: Try Khadr, or free him Toronto Star — Permalink Omar Khadr is one of 545 people from 40 countries being held as "enemy combatants" by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In that respect, he is nothing special. But he is the only known Canadian there. Now 18, Khadr was 15 when jailed. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: His family is certainly creepy: Omar's Egyptian-born father Ahmed Said Khadr was an Osama bin Laden confidante and... |
Jeralyn Merritt: This week the Toronto Star called for a trial by impartial tribunal or his release. |
Detainee Says He Was Tortured While in U.S. Custody By / NYT — Permalink SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 12 - Mamdouh Habib still has a bruise on his lower back. He says it is a sign of the beatings he endured in a prison in Egypt. Interrogators there put out cigarettes on his chest, he says, and he lifts his shirt to show the marks. | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: Andrew Sullivan and the Tortued Truth — The front page of this morning's New York Times has a chilling article by Ray... |
Lambert @Corrente: The kind of loose ends that, if anyone would tug them, would unravel the Emperor's clothes: "Detainee Says He Was... |
When Sexuality Undercuts A Family's Ties By / WaPo — Permalink M aya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she disagrees with him on "almost everything" political, she worked hard for his quixotic and losing campaign for the U.S. Senate. | |
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Max B. Sawicky: ALAN KEYES' FAMILY VALUES Our favorite Republican politician has disowned his daughter, Maya, throwing her out of the... |
Joe Gandelman: Alan Keyes Strikes Again by Joe Gandelman This time he has disowned his daughter. |
Shiites Win Most Votes in Iraq, Election Results Show NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 13 - New and nearly final tallies of the votes cast in the Jan. 30 Iraqi national election show Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims won almost half, or 48.2 percent, of the nearly 8.5 million votes cast, more than any other group but not enough to control the planned 275-member national assembly without the help of others. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: The Votes Are In — The ballots have been counted in Iraq and the Alliance seems to have gotten just 48 percent of the... |
John Cole: The election results are out, and it appears that the Shi'ite Coalition won the most votes, but not quite a majority:... |
Justice after Dedge Daytona Beach News-Journal — Permalink Florida took more than 20 years to offer compensation to Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, who spent 12 years on death row after being wrongfully accused. Wilton Dedge, released last year after spending 22 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, will not have to wait as long. | |
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John Cole: About Time — Talkleft reports on some long overdue reform in Florida- reform that should be enacted everywhere in the United States. |
Jeralyn Merritt: Florida is making moves to correct the problem, and the Daytona Beach News Journal endorses it. |
Shiites Dominate Iraq Election; Kurds 2nd By / AP — Permalink Feb. 13, 2005 - Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims won nearly half the votes in the nation's Jan. 30 election, giving the long-oppressed group significant power but not enough to form a government on their own. | |
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Judith Weiss: An excellent outcome for the Iraqi elections: A very respectable 60% turnout, with none of the three major groups... |
Juan Cole: Shiites, Kurds, win Big — Bush Loses Election in Iraq Some key election results are now being reported for Iraq. |
Pivot Lessons By / Newsweek — Permalink Feb. 11 - You can't walk past Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel's office on Capitol Hill without stopping to reflect on the lengthening line of posters propped up on easels outside his door. In chronological order, you see the faces of the fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with their age and where they're from. | |
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Chris Bowers: Unfortunately, the DCCC new chair, Rahm Emanuel, disagrees: "To those who see a parallel between the Clintons'... |
Taegan Goddard: Rahmbo — Eleanor Clift profiles Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the new head of the House Democratic campaign arm. |
Reservist with 11 children headed to Iraq AP — Permalink NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Johnnie Chennault has no regrets about joining the Navy Reserve, even though it means he's going to Iraq later this month. But he does worry about not being around to help take care of his house full of 11 kids. | |
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Radley Balko: Family Values — I'm still trying to figure out why conservatives are making a hero of this guy: [snipped quote] Chennault isn't honoring a military commitment he made long ago. |
Atrios: Oh, Jonah... 11 Children, off to Iraq: NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Johnnie Chennault has no regrets about joining the... |
Christo's Gates: A Little Creaky By / WaPo — Permalink NEW YORK, Feb. 12 — They're way, way better than the pandas, pigs, cows and other fiberglass tchotchkes that have "decorated" our cities over the past decade. But it's only a difference of quality, not kind. | |
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Ann Althouse: Blake Gopnik has an elaborate piece in The Washington Post. His main point is that "The Gates" has no depth of meaning that has to do with the time and place. |
Alex Tabarrok: Here is the Washington Post: [quote] Ho-Hum. They're way, way better than the pandas, pigs, cows and other fiberglass tchotchkes that have "decorated" our cities over the past decade.[end quote] |
Freedom, From Want By / NYT — Permalink Why does foreign aid have such a dismal reputation in the country that financed the Marshall Plan? Maybe it's the term itself (which may explain why it has been replaced by the studiously neutral ''official development assistance''). | |
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Tom Maguire: You Can't Be This Misinformed By Accident — James Traub, evidently a smart and well-informed chap, stokes the liberal... |
Daniel Drezner: UPDATE: The Radelet essay is particularly good in contrast to James Traub's effort in the New York Times Magazine. |
Shia parties win Iraqi election BBC — Permalink A Shia-dominated coalition won nearly half of the 8.5 million votes cast in Iraq's election, poll officials say. The Kurdish coalition came second with nearly 2.2 million votes, while the party of interim PM Iyad Allawi was third with nearly 1.2 million. | |
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Jan Haugland: Iraqi election results are in — To nobody's surprise, the broad Shia coalition assembled by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani... |
Kevin Drum: Sort of: Shia list: 48% Kurdish parties: 26% Iyad Allawi list: 14% Others: 12% The conventional interpretation of this... |
In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice By / WaPo — Permalink The blogosphere, with its lightning speed and rough-edged sense of justice, seems to be claiming more victims more quickly. Three dramatic departures in recent days have highlighted the one-strike-and-you're-out nature of trial by Internet. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The Wrath Of Blogs I, II, III by Joe Gandelman Howard Kurtz examines the cases of how blogs recently led to the... Betsy Newmark: Today, Kurtz has an article pairing the stories about Eason Jordan, Joe Gannon, and the staffer to Gov. Ehrlich of... Greg Ransom: HOWARD KURTZ — bloggers strike and journalists go down: "The blogosphere, with its lightning speed and rough-edged... |
Captain Ed: In his review of three blogosphere-related oustings over the past week, Kurtz again reports on Eason's Fables only in... Jeff Jarvis: Serfs at the news cathedral's gates : Howard Kurtz sums up the stories that were big in blogs and not big in big media this week: l'affaires Jordan, Gannon, and Steffen. Brian Stelter: "One Strike And You're Out" — "Three dramatic departures in recent days have highlighted the one-strike-and-you're-out ... |
A Former Exile Sees His Political Hopes Revive in Iraq By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 12 - Nine months ago, American soldiers pulled up to Ahmad Chalabi's compound here to help raid and ransack the place, marking a dramatic break between the Bush administration and the Iraqi exile who, more than anyone else outside the American government, helped make the case for the invasion of Iraq. | |
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Laura Rozen: Chalabi's run for the prime minister: "One Iraqi who may hold the key to Mr. Chalabi's future is Moktada al-Sadr, the... |
Steven Taylor: Meanwhile, the NYT has an interesting story on the fall and rise of Chalabi: A Former Exile Sees His Political Hopes... |
Can Dean Give 'Em A Winner? By / WaPo — Permalink Howard Dean, are you absolutely sure you want to be the Democratic Party's national chairman? In recent months, I've had conversations with just about every kind of Democrat, each as certain and as passionate as the next about what the party's top priorities should be. | |
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EDM Staff: So start with E. J. Dionne's thoughtful piece in the Washington Post Sunday Outlook "Can Dean Give 'Em A Winner?"... |
Jerome Armstrong: We have the march of progress — Can Dean Give 'Em A Winner? |
A Liberal in Damascus By / NYT — Permalink When I first met Ammar Abdulhamid in Washington in the fall, the 38-year-old Syrian novelist, poet and liberal dissident had Damascus on his mind. He had received word from his wife back in Syria that the political situation at home was becoming more precarious for rights activists like himself. | |
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Cliff May: A profile of him in today's New York Times magazine is worth reading. Pejman Yousefzadeh: The consequences are unsettling for said regime: [snipped quote] There is more. |
Michael Young: The Fate of a Syrian Liberal — Lee Smith has just published a very interesting portrait of Syrian liberal Ammar Abdulhamid in The New York Times Magazine. |
Senate's New Math May Aid Stalled Judicial Nominees By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - When the battle over judicial nominations resumes in the next few weeks, President Bush may have a good chance of winning confirmation for some of his previously blocked candidates, Democrats and Republicans said this week. | |
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TChris: Now, it seems, he's trying to assure the extremists of his trustworthiness by embarking on a plan to confirm the... Pejman Yousefzadeh: BOON — There is a value to having a larger presence in the Senate: [snipped quote] Of course, it should be noted that... Orrin Judd: HE ALWAYS WAS GOOD AT FINDING MAGIC BULLETS...: Senate's New Math May Aid Stalled Judicial Nominees (NEIL A. LEWIS,... |
Steve Dillard: The always delightful Neil A. Lewis has an article in tomorrow's edition of the NYT, in which he notes, inter alia,... Steven Taylor: Nominee Math — Via the NYT: Senate's New Math May Aid Stalled Judicial Nominees [snipped quote] The most interesting... |
Sclerosis Meets the Terminator By / WaPo — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria's gift to American politics and other entertainments, cannot be president because he is not a "natural born citizen," but that does not mean his political power is confined to California. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Kotkinism Spreads — To the odious George Will. The column merely exposes many of the problems with the Kotkin thesis. |
Greg Ransom: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER intends to rock the nation with his California Revolution says George Will |
Breaking the Warrior Code By / American Spectator — Permalink To his liberal blogger critics, he is a dangerous, cold-blooded "psychopath" who derives pleasure from sterile acts of killing. As such, he should be fired or demoted and stripped of his command. | |
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Betsy Newmark: John R. Guardiano had a wonderful tribute to General Mattis. [snipped quote] Read the rest. |
Orrin Judd: CONFOUNDING MODERNS (via Jim Siegel): Breaking the Warrior Code (John R. Guardiano, 2/11/2005, American Spectator) |
Blogosphere politics By / US News — Permalink Going into the 2004 election cycle, just about everyone said the Internet was going to change politics. But no one was sure how. Now we know. Browse through an archive of columns by Michael Barone. The first signs of change came from the Howard Dean campaign. | |
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Lambert @Corrente: "(Michael Barone Useless news" (It's so typical to the totalizing winger approach to politics that they want to control... Deacon: I'm just asking — Michael Barone has a terrific piece about how the blogosphere changed politics in 2004. Paul @Wizbang: Blogosphere Politics — For a member of the MSM, Michael Barone really "gets" the blogosphere: Blogosphere politics... |
Jeff Goldstein: In short, the left blogosphere has moved the Democrats off to the left, and the right blogosphere has undermined the credibility of the Republicans' adversaries in Old Media. Patrick Ruffini: The Democrats' Enemy Within — Michael Barone observes that the prominence of the left-liberal blogosphere is hurting... Pejman Yousefzadeh: "BLOGOSPHERE POLITICS" — Quoth Michael Barone: "So what hath the blogosphere wrought? |
| Also: Jan Haugland, PoliPundit, The Big Trunk, Greg Ransom, Oliver Willis, Betsy Newmark, Glenn Reynolds | |
Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future Reason — Permalink If you met the novelist Neal Stephenson a decade ago, you would have encountered a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction (1992's Snow Crash, in which computer viruses start invading hacker minds). | |
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Ed Cone: Reason mag interview with Neal Stephenson. Pejman Yousefzadeh: Neal Stephenson (Link via InstaPundit.) And no, I am not saying that non-libertarians or non-libertarian-conservat ives are akin to terrorists. Glenn Reynolds: I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS INTERVIEW OF NEAL STEPHENSON by Mike Godwin in Reason to go online, and now it has. |
Vox Day: The finest author writing today — An interview with Neal Stephenson: [snipped quote] I particularly liked how Stephenson... Jan Haugland: Teasing the libertarians — Mike Godwin interviews Neil Stephenson. Must read! |
Explicit Photos Fan U.N. Sex Scandal By / LAT — Permalink UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo. | |
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Charles Johnson: United Nations: A Network of Pedophiles — A French UN worker accused of child rape in Congo says there is an organized... McQ: UPDATE: Annan sent a letter to the Security Council in which he's outlined "strict measures" taken to stem this... Betsy Newmark: This is much more terrible than Abu Ghraib. I wonder if it will receive half the attention that Abu Ghraib did. |
Michelle Malkin: The L.A. Times followed up on Ross's report today: "A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by... Joe Gandelman: Another Scandal At The UN by Joe Gandelman Another scandal involving the United Nations has surfaced — but this... |
Ex-Detainee Says He Was Tortured By / NYT — Permalink SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 12 - Mamdouh Habib still has a bruise on his lower back. He says it is a sign of the beatings he endured in a prison in Egypt. Interrogators there put out cigarettes on his chest, he says, and he lifts his shirt to show the marks. | |
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Robert M. Jeffers: No, they don't hate us for our freedom... ...but because we do things like this: [snipped quote] Is it true? Is it verifiable? Jeralyn Merritt: Secret Rendition Plan: Outsourcing Torture — Great reads: Jane Mayer in the New Yorker on Outsourcing Torture, a... |
Andrew Sullivan: MORE TORTURE: Yet another harrowing account of a terror detainee tortured in a secret prison by Pakistani and American soldiers. |
Democrats Elect Howard Dean As Chairman By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Democrats elected Howard Dean chairman of their national party on Saturday, casting their lot with a skilled fund-raiser and organizer whose sometimes caustic, blunt comments can lead to controversy. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The Democrats Bite The Bullet by Joe Gandelman The Democrats gave a new national face to its party yesterday by electing... Hindrocket: ABC News reports: [snipped quote] I think I'm beginning to understand. Dean thinks the Democrats should call themselves "pro-choice" instead of "pro-abortion." |
Steve Cieslewicz: Got Dean — Since it is now official, I'd like to say congratulations to Howard Dean. Jeralyn Merritt: Howard Dean Elected to Chair DNC — It's official, Howard Dean is the new Chair of the DNC. [snipped quote] Congratulations, Dr. Dean. |
CNN Executive Resigns Post Over Remarks NYT — Permalink Eason Jordan, a senior executive at CNN who was responsible for coordinating the cable network's Iraq coverage, resigned abruptly last night, citing a journalistic tempest he touched off during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos,... | |
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Jon Henke: As near as I can tell, he appeared to allege that the US military was targetting journalists, and then he (immediately)... Cori Dauber: If you read the Times' coverage today, and that's all you've read to date, you will be absolutely mystified. Jeff Jarvis: I would have to think that this morning, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, CBS,... |
Ed Driscoll: Advantage: Ed! Well, Ed Morrissey, to be precise. Kevin Drum: At a private, off-the-record meeting at Davos he made an inflammatory accusation about the military killing journalists... Tom Maguire: Taking The Icy Plunge — The NY Times delivers a comedy classic as it attempts to explain to its readers that a... |
| Also: Jason Van Steenwyk, Lambert @Corrente, Greg Ransom, Richard Reeb, Brian Stelter, Lorie Byrd | |
'Gannon' Interview: No Plame Subpoena, No Tie to White House, He Says By / Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with E&P today, former White House reporter Jeff Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert, revealed that, contrary to many media reports, he has not been subpoenaed in the Valerie Plame/CIA case. | |
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SLZoll: A Tip From Jeff Gannon From the Editor and Publisher interview: Guckert first attended a presidential press conference... Ace: And speaks, in a lengthy interview with E&P. I haven't been this psyched since the sequel to Eddie and the Cruisers. |
Jason Van Steenwyk: Jeff Gannon — Well, it wouldn't be right for me, a media blogger, to ignore the Jeff Gannon story (although while... |
God and Evolution By / NYT — Permalink An "analysis" of Democrats and Republicans from the Ladies' Home Journal in 1962 concluded: "Republicans sleep in twin beds - some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats." That biological analysis turns out - surprise! - to have been superficial. | |
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Roger Ailes: Here's Pistof thinking deep thoughts: "There's still plenty of reason to be skeptical because Dr. Hamer's work hasn't been replicated, and much of his analysis is speculative. John Quiggin: The Garbage Gene — This piece by Nicholas Kristof encapsulates everything I don't like about 'evolutionary psychology', particularly in its pop mode. |
Peter Burnet: TODAY'S "JUST SO" STORIES — God and Evolution (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, February 12th, 2004) [snipped quote] It... Orrin Judd: NONSENSE FROM ANY PERSPECTIVE: God and Evolution (NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, 2/12/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] Here's a theory... |
We All Scream for Dean... But Maybe We Shouldn't By / TCS — Permalink Republicans are smiling and high-fiving at the prospect of Howard Dean being elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, which seems like a sure thing this Saturday. But as Oscar Wilde said, "When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." | |
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Sadly, No!: James Pinkerton, previously seen being a hack here, does it again: "Long before Dean became a short-lived presidential phenom, the Cato Institute had him pegged. |
Skippy: however, thanks to moggie12's dkos diary, we found this nifty piece by one of the few conservative writers we often agree with: newsday's james pinkerton. |
Less Reformation, more refraction By / LAT — Permalink Nelson Books: 226 pp. , $19.99 People who pick up the book "Blog" are likely to think that it's about blogs. For the most part, it's not about the Internet phenomenon of blogging, the term for individual or group Web-based chronicling and instant publishing. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: The Los Angeles Times Reviews Blog — Given my handling of the Times over the past few years, I fully expected that if... |
Greg Ransom: HUGH HEWITT'S book BLOG gets reviewed by a nobody in The LA "Yes We Know We Suck" Times. |
Kopel: Media uneven in Churchill rumpus Rocky Mountain News — Permalink Which Denver media noticed the Ward Churchill story first? The winner, by a wide margin, was Westword. In 2002, the magazine briefly reported on the publication of Churchill's now-famous essay Some People Push Back in an issue of Green Anarchy magazine. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Report on Biased Ward Churchill Coverage — I'm surprised at Dave Kopel's Rocky Mountain News column today on media coverage of the Ward Churchill controversy. Glenn Reynolds: DAVE KOPEL rounds up coverage of the Ward Churchill affair in the Colorado media. |
David Kopel: Colorado Media Coverage of Ward Churchill — My latest media column for the Rocky Mountain News examines Colorado media coverage of the Ward Churchill affair. |
Hastert Warns Not to Hurry Overhaul of Social Security By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, warning that "you can't jam change down the American people's throat," has become the latest and most prominent Congressional Republican to call for more public education and debate before Congress acts on transforming Social Security, President Bush's top legislative priority. | |
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Josh Marshall: The Times piece, by Robin Toner, focuses more on the public disagreement between the Speaker's office and Ken Mehlman at... Joe Gandelman: Meanwhile, the Democrats are probably cheered by the Speaker of the House in effect saying: "Not so faaaaast!" |
Steve Soto: House GOP Isn't So Gung-Ho To Push Ahead Full Speed With Privatization — Read this story in Saturday's NYT and you can... Taegan Goddard: Quote of the Day — [snipped quote] — Speaker Dennis Hastert, quoted by the New York Times, on President Bush's Social Security reform plan. |
CNN's Chief News Exec Quits By / LAT — Permalink NEW YORK — Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, who led much of the network's war coverage, resigned late Friday in the wake of contentious comments he recently made about journalists killed by U.S. troops in Iraq. | |
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Greg Ransom: The LA Times: "CNN drew scrutiny from on-air cable commentators, radio talk-show hosts and Internet petitioners, some of whom called for a release of Jordan's exact words. Charles Johnson: Call on the Clue Phone for LA Times — The Los Angeles Times article on Eason Jordan's resignation is a glaring example... |
Captain Ed: The LA Times Finally Covers Eason's Fables — The readers of the Los Angeles Times finally got informed of Eason's... Glenn Reynolds: The Los Angeles Times' story on Eason Jordan's resignation contains an error that suggests its writer wasn't very... |
The road to Howard Dean Economist — Permalink BACK in 2003, with Howard Dean way ahead of the pack in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the cover of the conservative National Review pleaded Please, nominate this man. The Democratic caucus-goers of Iowa were sensible enough to ignore this advice, consigning Mr Dean to third place. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Meanwhile, The Economist is right on target: "The Dean chairmanship shows how little Bill Clinton actually managed to change his party. |
Steve Bainbridge: So let's turn to a trained pundit: The Economist's Lexington: "This is an extraordinary turn of events, particularly for Bill Clinton and pragmatic New Democrats. |
UN imposes sex ban Herald Sun — Permalink NEW YORK — UN peacekeepers have been banned from all sex with the local population in Congo because of widespread, continuing abuse of women and girls. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan disclosed the new "non-fraternisation" regulations in a letter to the... | |
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Hindrocket: As we were reminded again by Tim Blair, who noted this Reuters story: [snipped quote] In most parts of the world, people do consider that line a fine one. |
Jan Haugland: Congo raped by the UN — Tim Blair notes this outragous statement reported by Reuters, related to the UN now banning all... |
Democrats Elect Dean as Committee Chairman By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - Howard Dean, once a grass-roots outsider, rode to an easy victory on Saturday to become the chairman of the Democratic National Committee with support from hundreds of party insiders and operatives he carefully cultivated during an uphill, two-month campaign. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Dean Elected to Lead Democrats — Howard Dean, "once a grass-roots outsider, rode to an easy victory Saturday to become... |
Josh Chafetz: SIGH. THIS WAS NOT a bright move. |
Goodbye, Terry, Sorry We Lost NRO — Permalink Democrats pay tribute to their losing chairman. Here's the dilemma Democrats faced as they staged the enormous and expensive "Tribute to Chairman Terry McAuliffe" at Washington's National Building Museum Thursday night: How do you pay tribute to a man whose main legacy was losing elections? | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: DENIAL — Did Terry McAuliffe's goodbye party really go like this? [snipped quote] What's the point of having a goodbye party if it is going to be such a downer? PoliPundit: McAuliffe — As the Democrats prepare to welcome Howard "The Scream" Dean as their new party chairman, they gave a... |
Orrin Judd: WE'LL MISS HIM (via David Hill, The Bronx): Goodbye, Terry, Sorry We Lost: Democrats pay tribute to their losing chairman. |
A View of Democracy, Forged in Totalitarian Prisons By / NYT — Permalink It is not every day a foreigner sees his book adopted by the greatest power on earth as its guiding philosophy in the conduct of global affairs. But that is what has happened to Natan Sharansky, an Israeli politician and a former Soviet dissident. | |
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Ann Althouse: Yesterday, I blogged about Roger Cohen's piece in the NYT about the influence Natan Sharansky's book "The Case for Democracy" has had on the Bush Administration. |
Lambert @Corrente: [quote]We cannot rest until every person living in a fear society has finally won their freedom." (via Times) [end quote] (This is in the... |
Howard Dean Chosen to Lead Democratic Party Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Howard Dean, whose high-flying presidential bid collapsed in disarray one year ago, won the post of Democratic chairman on Saturday and will take up the job of leading the party back from November's election losses. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Chairman Dean — Well, it's official. I have my doubts about the wisdom of this course of action, as previously expressed. |
Vince Leibowitz: So, since it's Saturday and I obviously don't have anything else to do until later, I'll pick up a little slack by... |
Mom-to-be kills alleged knife attacker AP — Permalink FT. MITCHELL, Ky. — A nine-months' pregnant woman fought off and killed a knife-wielding woman who may have been trying to steal the baby, police said Friday. Police said Sarah Brady, 26, acted in self-defense in killing Katherine Smith on Thursday. | |
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Christopher Kanis: TRAGEDY AVERTED — Chicago Tribune | Mom-to-be kills alleged knife attacker [snipped quote] This could have easily turned... |
Michelle Malkin: MOM OF THE DAY — We'll have to see if this story holds up, but it's amazing if true: Mom-to-be kills alleged knife... |
Brokerage Leaves Coalition By / WaPo — Permalink A large Midwest brokerage abruptly withdrew from a business coalition that backs President Bush's Social Security proposals after the AFL-CIO staged protests at two of the firm's offices and attacked it on the Internet. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Today's Washington Post, for example, reports that "A large Midwest brokerage abruptly withdrew from a business... |
Orrin Judd: Brokerage Leaves Coalition (Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, February 12, 2005, Washington Post) [snipped quote] It's Republicans... |
Silicon Insider: R.I.P. Microsoft? ABCNEWS — Permalink Business reporters — like, I suspect analysts and venture capitalists — develop over time a set of diagnostic tools for analyzing the relative health of companies we encounter. This bag of tricks is mostly subjective, some of it no doubt unconscious, and we constantly test it against experience, most of it bad. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: See this example of Scoble responding to someone who smells rot in the company. |
Orrin Judd: HOPELESS IN A FREE MARKET: R.I.P. Microsoft? : After Dominating the Technology Industry for Years, is Microsoft Poised to Collapse? |
CNN's Chief News Exec Resigns By / WaPo — Permalink Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a bubbling controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. | |
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The Big Trunk: Hugh Hewitt provides a review and recommendations here. Hugh Hewitt: Eason Jordan quits. The cover-up continues. Jeff Jarvis: The news judgment of the public : Howard Kurtz' Washington Post story is up. |
William J. Dyer: The announcement on the front page of today's WaPo — that CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan has resigned — prompted me to make good on that promise. Captain Ed: Kurtz Still Doesn't Cover The Whole Story — Not even the resignation of Eason Jordan will deter Howard Kurtz from... Joe Gandelman: CNN's News Chief Eason Jordan Quits — Whether he said the words that got him in trouble or not, CNN's Chief News... |
| Also: Paul @Wizbang, Jonah Goldberg, Glenn Reynolds | |
'01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 - A strategy document outlining proposals for eliminating the threat from Al Qaeda, given to Condoleezza Rice as she assumed the post of national security adviser in January 2001, warned that the terror network had cells in the United... | |
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Steven Taylor: Haven't We Been Down this Road Before? Via the NYT: '01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan. Roger Ailes: Read It And Weep — [snipped quote] (More here) |
Oliver Willis: '01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan [snipped quote] Rice said there was no advance warning of Al Qaed. |
CNN News Executive Jordan Quits Amidst a Furor Over Remarks About Journalists Killed in Iraq By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK Feb 11, 2005 — CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amid a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists killed by the U.S. military in Iraq. Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy. | |
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Dan Gillmor: Eason Jordan, 'Off the Record' and Crisis Management — A journalist called me up today to talk about the Eason Jordan... Greg Ransom: According to ABC News: [quote] Jordan said he was quitting to avoid CNN being "unfairly tarnished" by the controversy...[end quote] |
Jude Nagurney Camwell: "- Eason Jordan LINK-ABC News" I realize this topic has been covered (very well, by talking dog today at American Street), but I have some additional comments I wish to relay. |
CNN's Jordan Resigns Over Iraq Remarks By / WaPo — Permalink Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an effort to quell a bubbling controversy over his remarks about U.S. soldiers killing journalists in Iraq. | |
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Greg Ransom: This from WaPo's Howard Kurtz: "Jordan was being pounded hourly by bloggers, [leftists] as well as conservatives, who... |
Brian Stelter: Eason: Morning Newspaper Highlights > Washington Post: "Several CNN staffers say Jordan was eased out by top executives... |
How to Move Iraq Forward By / WaPo — Permalink The success of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq has created an exciting moment of opportunity. It matters greatly that Iraq's transition is a success. I am determined to make certain that the United Nations will play its full part in helping the Iraqi people achieve that end. | |
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Paul @Wizbang: Lesson Learned: How to Move Iraq Forward By Kofi A. Annan Saturday, February 12, 2005; Page A19 The success of the Jan... |
Orrin Judd: HEY, KOFI, GET THE DOOR: How to Move Iraq Forward (Kofi A. Annan, February 12, 2005, Washington Post) [snipped quote] The... |