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Police capture Atlanta slayings suspect By / AP — Permalink DULUTH, GA. - A rape suspect accused of shooting a judge and two others at a courthouse was captured Saturday after a day on the lam in which he allegedly killed an immigration agent, stole his truck and took a woman hostage, officials said. | |
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Jeff Quinton: Saturday Nichols Manhunt Updates nichols-capture.jpg 6:00: AJC.com reports Nichols was moved from City Hall East to the... Kevin Aylward: Jeff Quinton, who's been live blogging the story, links to the initial AP report and notes that Nichols is a suspect in another murder early this morning. |
Acidman: they got him — This didn't take long, just as I predicted. But I was wrong about the cowardly sack 'o s**t being taken alive. Jeralyn Merritt: Atlanta's Brian Nichols Captured in Georgia — Update: How he was caught: [snipped quote] Original Post |
News or Public Relations? For Bush It's a Blur By / NYT — Permalink It is the kind of TV news coverage every president covets. "Thank you, Bush. Thank you, U.S.A.," a jubilant Iraqi-American told a camera crew in Kansas City for a segment about reaction to the fall of Baghdad. | |
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Bibble @DailyKos: The New York Times has just posted a very long, detailed expose of the pervasive use by the Bush administration of... Ellen Dana Nagler: Ah, So This is Journalism — [snipped quote] Gee, Mr. Gee. Just what are your journalistic standards? Do you have any? |
Josh Marshall: NYT: "Under "the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public... |
The GOP's Lesson on Abortion By / WaPo — Permalink Why are George W. Bush and his party so skillful in dealing with the abortion issue, and why are Democrats so clumsy? It turns out that Democrats willing to grapple seriously with these questions risk getting seriously trashed. | |
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Avedon Carol: Meanwhile, in The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne has had a Kool-Aid day, and claims the GOP has something to teach Democrats about abortion. Max B. Sawicky: WOMEN ON THE VERGE — E.J. Dionne ventilates a pet peeve of mine in re: liberal women's organizations and the Democratic Party. |
Atrios: What the hell. E.J. Dionne writes about "Why are George W. Bush and his party so skillful in dealing with the abortion issue, and why are Democrats so clumsy?" |
Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant Times of London — Permalink ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to halt the Iranian nuclear programme. The inner cabinet of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave "initial authorisation" for an attack at a private meeting last month on his ranch in the Negev desert. | |
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Roger L. Simon: What We Read in the Papers — What always interests me about stories like this one in the London Timesonline, detailing... |
Orrin Judd: MEET THE BAD COP: Revealed: Israel plans strike on Iranian nuclear plant (Uzi Mahnaimi, 3/13/05, Sunday Times of London)... |
Italy to stop paying ransoms Times of London — Permalink THE Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has promised President George W Bush that he will not pay more ransoms to free hostages in Iraq. The Italian government has denied newspaper reports that $6m (£3.1m) was paid for the release of Giuliana Sgrena, who worked for the Communist daily Il Manifesto. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Check this out from The Sunday Times-World: "March 13, 2005 Italy to stop paying ransoms John Follain, Rome THE Italian... |
Orrin Judd: THEY'RE SO MAD AT US THEY'RE APOLOGIZING: Italy to stop paying ransoms (John Follain, 3/13/05, Times of London) [snipped quote] A quick surrender even for the Italians. |
'I Have a Nightmare' By / NYT — Permalink When environmentalists are writing tracts like "The Death of Environmentalism," you know the movement is in deep trouble. That essay by two young environmentalists has been whirling around the Internet since last fall, provoking a civil war among... | |
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Avedon Carol: Everybody's talkin' — Nicholas Kristof has a nightmare, and it's that the public is no longer interested in... Juan Non-Volokh: Kristof's Nighmare: Nicholas Kristof believes the environmental movement is in "deep trouble." |
Dave Johnson: Fighting Back: Narrow Issues vs Core Values — In 'I Have a Nightmare', Nicholas Kristoff writes about the essay "The... |
North Korea Denounces US Pro-Democracy Act By / KoreaTimes — Permalink North Korea on Monday criticized the United States' ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2005 for its ''illegal'' and ''immoral'' attempt to interfere in the North's domestic affairs. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: I hope no one can argue with that notion. Or to put it another way: If North Korea doesn't like it, it must be good. |
Orrin Judd: AT LEAST THEY KNOW WHAT THE DISPUTE IS OVER: North Korea Denounces US Pro-Democracy Act (Park Song-wu, 3/07/05, Korea Times) [snipped quote] Quick on the uptake, eh? |
Welcome to Canada By / Weekly Standard — Permalink If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. WHENEVER I THINK OF CANADA . . . strike that. I'm an American, therefore I tend not to think of Canada. | |
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Ed Driscoll: Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard vists our neighbor to the north and dubs it "The Great White Waste of Time". Jonah Goldberg: CANADA BASHING — As a close student — and sometime practitioner — of the genre, I must say Matt Labash has introduced a new standard of excellence. |
Orrin Judd: IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT FRANK WAS AMERICAN (via H. Koenig): Welcome to Canada: The Great White Waste of Time (Matt... |
Regents balk at Churchill deal Denver Post — Permalink Settlement negotiations between the University of Colorado and professor Ward Churchill stalled Friday because of renewed opposition by groups that want to see him fired even if it takes a court fight to make him go away. | |
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Ken Masugi: Churchilleans Versus Ward Churchill — John Andrews, head of the new Claremont Institute Colorado office, wants to run... |
Glenn Reynolds: There's much more in the article. And there's more coverage in the Denver Post. (Via Cliopatria.) |
L.A. re-inked votes L.A. Daily News — Permalink Without informing mayoral challengers, Los Angeles City Clerk Frank Martinez ordered election workers Tuesday night to use blue highlighter pens to re-ink thousands of voters' ballots that had "bubbles" partially or faintly filled in, the Daily News learned Friday. | |
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Kevin Roderick: Los Angeles City Clerk Frank Martinez, a recent appointee, had election workers use blue ink to color in ballot... |
Michelle Malkin: BALLOT COUNTING, L.A. STYLE — Creative art meets ballot counting in Los Angeles: "Without informing mayoral... |
Prof accused of plagiarism By / Rocky Mountain News — Permalink University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work. Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Prof. Ward Churchill: On The Verge Of "Buh Bye!" by Joe Gandelman Did you ever get the feeling that University of... Glenn Reynolds: MORE TROUBLE FOR WARD CHURCHILL: "University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill... |
Dr. Steven Taylor: Churchill Accussed of Plagiarism — Via the Rocky Mountain News: Prof accused of plagiarism [snipped quote] I really... |
Senator Sarbanes, Maryland Democrat, Will Retire in '06 By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 11 - Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, said on Friday that he would not seek re-election in 2006, becoming the second Democratic senator to announce his retirement after this term. | |
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Avedon Carol: I'm too tired to say anything about the impending retirement of my Senator, except that I couldn't help thinking, "Hey, maybe Alan Keyes will run for his seat!" Dr. Steven Taylor: Sarbanes to Retire — Via the NYT: Senator Sarbanes, Maryland Democrat, Will Retire in '06 [snipped quote] Intriguing. |
Orrin Judd: THEY RETIRE BECAUSE—WHY STAY? (via Robert Schwartz): Senator Sarbanes, Maryland Democrat, Will Retire in '06 (DAVID D... |
Hitler was great; I can't say more By / Times of London — Permalink "ADOLF HITLER was a great German statesman," the bête noire of the German Establishment said as he sat in a room darkened by bombproof shutters. "If you can call Churchill a great Briton, if you can make a hero out of Alexander the Great, then you... | |
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Charles Johnson: Looks like Germany's getting itchy to take over the world again. "Hitler was great; I can't say more." |
Damian Penny: The mask slips — The leader of Germany's extreme-right NPD, which has a disturbingly large following in the former East... |
Kopel: CU's academic culture ignored Rocky Mountain News — Permalink For all the ink devoted to the Ward Churchill case, the Denver dailies have done virtually nothing to investigate the dysfunctional campus academic culture which led to the Churchill fiasco. | |
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David Kopel: CU's Academic Culture Ignored: That's the title of my latest mediacolumn for the Rocky Mountain News. |
Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER UPDATE: Dave Kopel writes: "For all the ink devoted to the Ward Churchill case, the Denver dailies have done... |
Suspect's car found in downtown Atlanta CNN — Permalink ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Investigators expect photos taken by security cameras inside a parking garage will give them their next break in the search from a man wanted for killing a judge, a court reporter and a deputy as he fled his rape trial Friday morning. | |
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Michele Catalano: ATF has confirmed it. As far as I can tell, that hostage situation was with Nichols. More here. Jeff Quinton has updates. Ellen Dana Nagler: The Brian Nichols story has dominated since the Atlanta shootings yesterday morning, even to the suspension of commercial breaks. |
Joe Gandelman: Atlanta Courthouse Shooter Is Captured by Joe Gandelman After a massive manhunt, police captured Brian Nichols, the... Scott Boone: Manhunt Update — From CNN: "...The manhunt for the suspect in Friday's courthouse shooting in Atlanta shifted focus... |
Social Security in Your Mailbox NRO — Permalink Companies considering new product launches often try out different beta versions of their products on focus groups. The practice is a sound one. No matter how attractive a concept may be, there is no telling whether you have a winner until it takes the form that the customer will see. | |
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Lorie Byrd: Share This With Everyone You Know Who Isn't Currently In Favor Of Private Savings Accounts — Who wouldn't want to receive a statement like this one in the mail? |
Betsy Newmark: Kevin Hassett (my daughter's boss) and Maya MacGuineas look at what the Social Security statement that we all receive annually might look if we had personal savings accounts. |
Italian Was Killed at Iraq Checkpoint Set Up for U.S. Ambassador's Trip By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 11 - A storm forced Ambassador John D. Negroponte to travel in a convoy instead of flying to a dinner appointment with the top American commander in Iraq last week, leading to the creation of a temporary security checkpoint involved in the shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer, an embassy official said Friday. | |
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Cori Dauber: Yesterday's Hidden Paragraph; Today's Stand Alone Story — With more details, the fact that the checkpoint where the Italians were shot at was set up for the protection of Amb. |
Roger L. Simon: Let's be glad he's lost his job. Meanwhile, more facts of the Sgrena case continue to emerge. |
Saturday Night Lite By / NYT — Permalink Let me tell you a story to illustrate that we are living in a pusillanimous age. I was in New Orleans last Saturday night, dining with a wonderful group of people at a culinary landmark called Antoine's. Our host had arranged for a remorseless avalanche of delicious food, served in prodigious 19th-century style. | |
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Brad Plumer: Guest: Brad Plumer — HAVE WE ALL BECOME BIG PANSIES?...Apparently fresh out of ideas for a column, David Brooks... |
Peter Burnet: FROM THE "WE'RE ALL GOING INSANE" FILES — Saturday Night Lite (David Brooks, New York Times, March 12th, 2005) "Let me... |
Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector By / Telegraph — Permalink Saddam Hussein's regime offered a $2 million (£1.4 million) bribe to the United Nations' chief weapons inspector to doctor his reports on the search for weapons of mass destruction. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: "THE GUY I'M REALLY LOOKING FOR *WINK* IS MR. BRIBE *WINK, WINK*" I know that the issue of weapons of mass destruction... Captain Ed: Saddam's Bribery — The London Telegraph reports that former UN weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus received and turned down a $2 million bribe offer from Saddam Hussein in the mid-1990s. Orrin Judd: HOW MUCH TO IGNORE THE YELLOWCAKE: Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector (Francis Harris, 12/03/2005, Daily Telegraph)... |
McQ: And you wonder why we thought there were WMDs in Iraq — Interesting news surfacing about a little attempted bribery by... Lorie Byrd: Syria May Indeed Hold The Answer — Betsy Newmark asks a very good question about why Saddam would find it necessary to bribe a weapons inspector if he had nothing to hide. James Joyner: Saddam's $2m offer to WMD inspector [snipped quote] And not everyone involved was from Sweden. |
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2008 run, abortion engage her politically By / Washington Times — Permalink Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday pointedly declined to rule out running for president in 2008, and gave her most detailed explanation of a "mildly pro-choice" stance on abortion. | |
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Steve M.: 2008 GOP PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST: CONDI RICE DROPS OUT — That's not what this story says, but that's what it really says:... Captain Ed: However, the Republican base may have second thoughts about Rice at the top of a ticket after hearing her center-right... James Joyner: Bill Sammon has a feature on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in today's Washington Times indicating that she "pointedly declined to rule out running for president in 2008." |
Joe Gandelman: President Condoleezza Rice by Joe Gandelman Egads, the day has come when we have to write about one of Dick Morris's... Jan Haugland: Religious Rice says she is mildly pro-choice — Anticipating Cindi Rice to run for the presidency in '08, the press is starting to ask her questions about domestic issues. Greg Ransom: "SHOPPING IS FUN" — Condi Rice already has my wife's vote in her race against Hillary for the Presidency. (ht Roth Report). |
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Apple Wins Trade Secrets Legal Dispute By / AP — Permalink (03-11) 18:32 PST San Jose, Calif. (AP) — A California judge on Friday ruled that three independent online reporters may have to divulge confidential sources in a lawsuit brought by Apple Computer Inc., ruling that there are no legal protections for those who publish a company's trade secrets. | |
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Michelle Malkin: APPLE WINS — Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled that three bloggers have to divulge... |
Paul @Wizbang: California Court Upholds Property Rights — A California court has ruled that if someone receives stolen property they must tell the owner of the property who they got it from. |
Mall bunnies hunt for neutral names AP — Permalink The Easter Bunny is a vanishing breed. Not that there's a shortage of 6-foot white rabbits carrying baskets of colored eggs. It's just that Mr. Shopping Mall Bunny is becoming more politically correct. | |
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S.Z.: The rest of the story is lifted from this Palm Beach Post story about how, in an effort to be more religiously... |
Michelle Malkin: THE EASTER BUNNY: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES? With the War on Christmas behind us, it's time for the War on Easter to begin. |
Blogs Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues By / Gallup — Permalink PRINCETON, NJ — Whether they are seeking immortality or just letting off steam, Web bloggers are multiplying in number and are seemingly affecting American media and political insiders, at the very least. But whether bloggers are directly influencing the broader public is questionable. | |
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Jan Haugland: Gallup doesn't like blogs — Gallup spins the result of their blog poll to say blogs aren't big players. Mickey Kaus: Plus—NPR caves to MOMA — Mystery Pollster was skeptical of blogger triumphalism—until Gallup's poll purporting to... Tom Biro: Americans, blogs, and information dissemination — The Gallup News Service published the results of a recent poll about... |
Daniel Drezner: What to read on the blogosphere — In honor of my trip to New Orleans to talk about blogs at the Public Choice Society... Cori Dauber: From the Gallup poll: Whether they are seeking immortality or just letting off steam, Web bloggers are multiplying in... Terry Heaton: Blogs are (apparently) no big deal — I'm troubled by this new Gallup Poll, Blogs Not Yet in the Media Big Leagues. |
| Also: Kevin Drum, Steve Antler, Deacon, Andrew Sullivan, Avedon Carol | |
Prof accused of plagiarism By / MSNBC — Permalink University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote. | |
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Murray @SilentRunning: Ok lets play who are we talking about... "...documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work..." Hmmm, plagiarized eh? Charles Johnson: Churchill Accused of Plagiarism, Buyout Near — We have two pieces of news today about University of Colorado wacademic... Ace: Ward Churchill Accused of Plagiarism — For crying out loud, if you're going to do shabby work, can't you at least do your own shabby work? |
Clayton Cramer: In the midst of this article about even more evidence of academic misconduct by Professor Ward Churchill—plagiaris m, in... McQ: Churchill formally accused of plagiarism — Now this, if true, is more than enough to get Ward Churchill fired, and... Betsy Newmark: Today there emerges even more evidence that the guy has committed academic fraud by plagiarizing an article and then threatening the woman he plagiarized if she complained. |
| Also: K. J. Lopez | |
Churchill buyout near By / Denver Post — Permalink FRIDAY UPDATE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS & 9NEWS: An attorney for Ward Churchill, the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader, said today he expects to reach a settlement with the University of Colorado "within the next day or so" on the embattled professor's future. | |
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Joe Gandelman: (2)But it all may be moot because it sounds as if the university is talking $$$ with Churchill as a way to get him off... Charles Johnson: And the University of Colorado is getting ready to hand Churchill a few hundred grand to get him to leave: Churchill buyout near. Jeralyn Merritt: CU and Ward Churchill Reach Money Deal — Ward Churchill's lawyer has confirmed that there will be a final buyout... |
Dr. Steven Taylor: More Churchill: Buyout on the Horizon — Meanwhile, the Denver Post reports: Churchill buyout near [snipped quote] Well,... Betsy Newmark: The Denver Post reports that the University of Colorado is close to a buyout deal for Ward Churchill. |
Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee By / TCS — Permalink In September of 2000, less than two years before the passage of McCain-Feingold, the liberal magazine The American Prospect put out a special issue devoted to campaign-finance reform. It was called, "Checkbook Democracy." | |
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Captain Ed: Ryan Sager Follows The Money — Ryan Sager writes a powerful column in today's Tech Central Station that exposes the big money behind campaign-finance reform and the BCRA. Kevin Aylward: Ryan Sager's Tech Central Station piece, Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee captures much of the hypocrisy of the current state of campaign finance reform. Glenn Reynolds: FREE SPEECH FOR ME, but not for thee. A look at federal election law. |
Jeff Goldstein: Speeching truth to power — From Ryan Sager's "Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee": [snipped quote] For about eight... Michelle Malkin: McCain and Feingold: "There is no reason to think the FEC should or intends to regulate blogs" Volokh on optional free... Ramesh Ponnuru: CAMPAIGN FINANCE "REFORM" and its special interests. |
Confirming judges: The constitutional option San Diego Union-Tribune — Permalink Politicians have notoriously short memories. With Democrats still retaining enough votes to filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees, many Republicans seek to weaken or eliminate the ability of senators to mount judicial filibusters. | |
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Randy Barnett: In an entirely different vein, Mike Rappaport summarizes his latest op-ed with John McGinnis in Amending the Filibuster... Deacon: The constitutional option — Law professors Michael B. Rappaport and John C. McGinnis explain why the Senate majority's... Glenn Reynolds: LAW PROFESSOR MIKE RAPPAPORT has thoughts on filibusters. |
Mike Rappaport: Amending the Filibuster Rule: The Constitutional Option — My op ed piece, written with John McGinnis, on the filibustering of judicial nominees has now been published. Ramesh Ponnuru: MORE FILIBUSTER STUFF from outside the Corner. (Via therightcoast.) |
Democrats Are Divided, as Some Back G.O.P. Bills By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 10 - Rapid-fire victories by Republicans on business-friendly legislation are exposing fissures among Democrats who are upset by their party's response to bills that sailed through in the early days of the Congressional session, with the latest example being the bankruptcy measure approved on Thursday. | |
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Steve Soto: Hell, even the NYT says that the GOP was surprised at how many Democrats sold out yesterday, and is portraying a divided Democratic caucus. Tom Maguire: The NY Times salutes George Bush for his ability to reach across the aisle and achieve broad bipartisan support for his agenda. Lambert @Corrente: Ben "Dover" Nelson — Beautiful! [snipped quote] Um, remember Max Cleland? The instant he showed signs of weakness, the wolves were on him. |
Orrin Judd: FANNING PARTISAN FLAMES: Democrats Are Divided, as Some Back G.O.P. Bills (CARL HULSE, 3/11/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] Is this really what we've come to? Rich Lowry: Here's the Times on the latest: "As the bankruptcy bill emerged, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts,... |
President Participates in Social Security Conversation in Alabama White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. I'm honored to be here on the campus of Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama, what a great place. (Applause.) And I want to thank Guin Nance and all the good folks for helping to set up this trip. | |
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Dan Froomkin: Here are the transcripts from Bush's events in Louisville and Montgomery yesterday. Today, Bush has events in Memphis and Shreveport. Kos @DailyKos: An "oops" moment — Stolen from Think Progress: "There was a remarkable exchange during President Bush's meticulously choreographed townhall meeting in Alabama yesterday. Chris Bowers: Republican Honesty — Even the highly scripted moments of Bush propaganda are open to revealing insights: [snipped quote] Good lord. |
Judd @ThinkProgress: The Fix Isn't In — Speaking in Alabama yesterday, President Bush repeated a familiar claim: "We're fixing the deficit." Atrios: Bamboozlepalooza Follies — Think Progress misses the most interesting part of this exchange: THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you something about the Thrift Savings Plan. |
Falling Tree Injures Accused Mississippi Klansman By / Reuters — Permalink PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (Reuters) - A suspected Ku Klux Klansman who faces trial on murder charges next month for the notorious 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers is in serious condition in a Mississippi hospital after a falling tree crushed both his legs, officials said on Friday. | |
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Jan Haugland: Falling tree breaks klansman's legs — This almost makes me believe in God (or, maybe, start worshiping trees): A... Riggsveda @Corrente: A Good Walk Spoiled — Will God forgive me for not only not caring about this old man's pain, but actually enjoying it? Orrin Judd: NATURE ABHORS A KLANSMAN: Falling Tree Injures Accused Mississippi Klansman (Kenneth Billings, 3/11/05, Reuters) [snipped quote] Who called 911? |
Chris Lawrence: Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy — Edgar Ray Killen, accused of involvement in the 1964 "Philadelphia Three"... Tom Maguire: If A Tree Falls In The Woods... If a tree fell on a Klansmen in the woods and there was no one around to hear it, would it make a sound? |
Personnel Announcement White House — Permalink President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate one individual to serve in his Administration: The President intends to nominate Michael D. Griffin, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. | |
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James Joyner: New NASA Chief: Rocket Scientist — Michael D. Griffin, whom President Bush yesterday nominated to head NASA, has a fair... Shannen Coffin: PAUL CLEMENT — The President has nominated Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement to be the next Solicitor General. |
Gary Farber: The new appointment: [snipped quote] I demand to know why the President is nominating such an ill-educated man!?! |
Frank Rich to Resume Column in Op-Ed Section NYT — Permalink The New York Times announced yesterday that Frank Rich, the front-page columnist in its Arts & Leisure section, would move next month to a redesigned Op-Ed package that will be expanded to two pages in the Week in Review section, following the editorials. | |
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Tbogg: Good news for people who love good writing — In an attempt to make up for putting David "Bobo" Brooks on their editorial pages, the NY Times brings back Frank Rich to the Op-Eds. Avedon Carol: Meanwhile, Frank Rich, who was shuffled off to the Arts & Leisure section a few years back, is now returning to the Op-Eds. |
Orrin Judd: AT LAST, YOU CAN WRAP THOSE BIGGER FISH (via Robert Schwartz): Frank Rich to Resume Column in Op-Ed Section (NY Times,... Rich Lowry: FRANK RICH... ...back to the Op-Ed page. |
U.S. Only Partially Informed About Italian By / AP — Permalink ROME - U.S. forces in Iraq were only partially informed about last week's Italian intelligence mission to release a hostage, which ended with a shooting on the road to Baghdad airport and the death of secret service agent Nicola Calipari, Italian newspapers said Friday. | |
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McQ: No Coordination by Italians in Sgrena shooting — More information is coming to the fore about the Sgrena affair. Cori Dauber: Here are the reports in two major Italian papers today: Both newspapers cited a report by Gen. Mario Marioli, an Italian who is the coalition forces' second-in-command. |
Captain Ed: Two Italian newspapers now say that the general in charge of the Sgrena operation did not inform the US that Calipari's... Orrin Judd: U.S. Only Partially Informed About Italian (ALESSANDRA RIZZO, 3/11/05, Associated Press) [snipped quote] There's a reason we keep things hidden from friends: shame. |
The End of Poverty By / Time — Permalink It is still midmorning in Malawi when we arrive at a small village, Nthandire, about an hour outside of Lilongwe, the capital. We have come over dirt roads, passing women and children walking barefoot with water jugs, wood for fuel, and other bundles. | |
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Daniel Drezner: Should Jeffrey Sachs get $150 billion per year? Time's cover story this week (alas, subscribers only — Aha! |
Gary Farber: HEY, EVERYBODY, I'VE GOT A BARN! So let's end poverty now! |
Under my keyboard the desk shakes. The bloggers are on the march By / Times of London — Permalink SINCE THE DAYS of Caxton the tools of my trade have been familiar. Whatever I write is somehow transformed into letters incised in relief. This miracle — the printing craft was called "the mystery" — has not changed in essence since the Middle Ages. | |
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Jan Haugland: Simon Jenkins of the London Times proudly recalls when he was totally wrong about the development of that passing fad we... Scott Burgess: I only ask because that's the behaviour that the Times' Simon Jenkins ascribes to bloggers, a group that he lazily... Norm Geras: I miss Simon Jenkins's 'quake' and 'rant' about blogging. Since others have already amply covered it, I shall hold off and even desist. |
Harry @HarrysPlace: Quacks and Cranks — Simon Jenkins in The Times, like most people who it seems only read the lunatic fringe of the American blogosphere, is not impressed by blogs. Avedon Carol: Bloggers are apparently on the march but not yet in the big leagues. |
Off Track By / Washington Monthly — Permalink There is a moment in the lifespan of every cool new gadget—two years after Bill Gates buys one, a year and a half after the popular press gets wind of it—that its price drops enough to show up in significant numbers on the shelves at Best Buy, the electronic superstore. | |
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Avedon Carol: And also in response to that post, Phil Palmer has recommend two articles, the first of which is Off Track by Benjamin... |
Steve Verdon: Wrong First Step — Kevin points to an article that argues that there were a great many things the government did that helped the economy. |
U.S. and European Allies Agree on Steps in Iran Dispute NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 10 - Europe and the United States have agreed on a joint approach to negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program after months of dispute, with the Bush administration agreeing to offer modest economic incentives and the Europeans agreeing... | |
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Jeremy Reff: Iran, redux — Hate to jump above Will, but the WaPo and Times jump on the amen corner (see below). Matthew Yglesias: The Bush administration gets smart and flip-flops on Iran, maintaining a fig leaf of non-participation in the European... |
Dan Froomkin: Special to washingtonpost.com — In the three years since Karen Hughes left the White House and her job as counselor to... |
Sarbanes to Forgo Another Senate Term WaPo — Permalink Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes will announce today that he will not seek another term in the Senate, a Senate Democratic official confirmed, ending a 34-year congressional career in which the liberal Maryland Democrat played a role in crises ranging from the Watergate impeachment proceedings to the corporate accounting scandals earlier this decade. | |
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Patrick Ruffini: Mfume v. Steele? The Post's Hsu and Wagner have a roundup on Sen. Paul Sarbanes' decision to retire from the Senate. Taegan Goddard: Sarbanes Will Retire — Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) "will announce today that he will not seek another term in the Senate," the Washington Post reports. |
Fng: Washington Post has this: Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes plans to announce this afternoon that he will not seek another term,... |
Six (or Fewer) Degrees of Separation NRO — Permalink News gets around. More than most cities, Washington operates like a three-dimensional Venn diagram with interlocking circles of furiously-chattering associates: Floating circles of media types overlap foreign-policy wonks, who overlap evangelicals, who in... | |
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S.Z.: Trying for the Global Title Yes, it seems that Meghan wasn't leading us on when she alluded to her "delicate condition" two weeks ago — TBogg has the whole story. |
Tbogg: Just like Desperate Housewives except you don't want to hump any of them — It's bombshell day at America's Worst... |
$55 Oil Won't Last NRO — Permalink More production and less speculation will mean lower barrel prices ahead. When I put a $55 barrel of oil on the table and look at it from all angles, there's no way the current price can be justified. As a free-market disciple, I am compelled to accept the market's verdict: $55 a barrel. | |
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Steve Antler: UPDATE: Here's a more mainstream interpretation. |
Larry Kudlow: New NRO Column — Check out my new column: $55 Oil Won't Last More production and less speculation will mean lower barrel prices ahead. |
Rendering Al Qaeda Opinion Journal — Permalink It's hard to recall now, but in the wake of September 11 prominent liberals mused publicly about the possible need to torture al Qaeda captives. Only three years later they're devoting their time to assailing U.S. officials responsible for prying information out of terrorists. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Today, Review & Outlook (the place they stick editorials they can't fathom putting under someone's name, as far as I can... |
Orrin Judd: Rendering Al Qaeda: So how is the CIA suppose to squeeze terrorists? |
A Fine Rendition By / NYT — Permalink AS Congress and the news media wail about the Central Intelligence Agency's "rendition" program - its practice of turning suspected terrorists over for detainment and questioning in third countries - it is time to focus on the real issue at hand. | |
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James Joyner: In Defense of Rendition — I learned yesterday from former colleague Christina Davidson that Imperial Hubris author... Orrin Judd: A Fine Rendition (MICHAEL SCHEUER, 3/11/05, NY Times) "AS Congress and the news media wail about the Central... |
Rich Lowry: But I think his bottom line in this piece about how CIA operatives tend to get scapegoated when the political climate... |
Hughes Is Set to Rejoin White House Team By / WaPo — Permalink Karen P. Hughes, the longtime adviser to President Bush often described as the most powerful woman ever to work in the White House, plans to return to Washington soon to rejoin the president's team as he sets forth on an ambitious second-term agenda, according to White House officials and outside Republican advisers. | |
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Josh Marshall: In his piece breaking the story today, Peter Baker notes sources who "said Hughes will not be a formal member of the... Orrin Judd: BIG MAMA'S HOUSE: Hughes Is Set to Rejoin White House Team (Peter Baker, March 11, 2005, Washington Post) |
Taegan Goddard: She's Back — Karen Hughes, "the longtime adviser to President Bush often described as the most powerful woman ever to... Michelle Malkin: KAREN HUGHES RETURNS — According to the Washington Post, [snipped quote] More: [snipped quote] Stay tuned. |
Poll shows Romney bid for president faces hurdles By / Boston Globe — Permalink A majority of Massachusetts adults said Governor Mitt Romney should not run for president in 2008, according to a Boston Globe poll that also indicated Romney would face a tough battle if he seeks reelection to a second term as governor in 2006. | |
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Shawn @LiquidList: In today's Boston Globe, this is evidenced loud and clear: "A majority of Massachusetts adults said Governor Mitt... Taegan Goddard: Romney Has Trouble at Home — "A majority of Massachusetts adults said Governor Mitt Romney should not run for president... |
Alexander K. McClure: A new poll indicates that he is popular and the state's voters approve of the job he is doing. 50% of Massachusetts... K. J. Lopez: The main hook is a poll finds Massachusetts doesn't want Romney to run for president, but they didn't want Kerry too, either, as it turns out. |
GOP phone jammer sentenced By / Union Leader — Permalink CONCORD — Even a leniency plea from a former foe could not keep the state Republican Party's former executive director out of jail for masterminding a scheme to jam opponents' get-out-the-vote phone banks on Election Day 2002. | |
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Josh Marshall: You've probably seen already that former New Hampshire Republican party Executive Director, Chuck McGee was sentenced to... Taegan Goddard: GOP Operative Gets Prison For Phone-Jamming — Despite "a leniency plea from a former political foe," a federal judge... |
Jay Tea: Crank calls and flat tires — A rather tawdry chapter in New Hampshire politics came to a close yesterday, as the former... |
Abu Ghraib, Whitewashed Again NYT — Permalink It was good to learn yesterday that the military commander in Iraq has issued definitive rules about how to treat captives in American prison camps. Unfortunately, that was about the only good news in the newest Pentagon report on prisoner abuse, actually a... | |
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Christy @ThinkProgress: According to the New York Times, "Vice Admiral Albert Church III, now director of the Navy staff, admitted…that, well, he had not actually read them." |
Norbizness: I don't care what you say, I'll drop an Admiral Akbar hip-hop CD cover on you morning, noon, and night if you don't... |
Chile's Privatized SS Plan CBS News — Permalink (CBS) In the heart of the Andes Mountains is an example of a fully-privatized social security system. Hector Espinoza, 48, is one of the 3.6 million Chileans with a private retirement account. The biggest benefit, he says, is "the chance to control my retirement." | |
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Nathan Newman: Politics of Chile's "Private" Pensions — CBS News tries to put a happy face on Chile's privatized pension sytem,... |
Josh Marshall: But this report on privatization in Chile from last night sure does make it seem that way. |
Bush Finds Some Republicans Need Wooing By / NYT — Permalink MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 10 - When President Bush began barnstorming on behalf of his Social Security plan last month, his goal at many stops was to convince Congressional Democrats that backing his call for individual investment accounts would be good politics. | |
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Dan Froomkin: Richard W. Stevenson writes in the New York Times: "When President Bush began barnstorming on behalf of his Social... |
Skippy: reuters: [snipped quote] people disagreeing with awol in the same room? we bet brett bursey would have been proud... |
Yarnold to Leave 'San Jose Mercury News' for Enviro Group Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK David Yarnold, editor of the San Jose Mercury News, is leaving the paper to head Environmental Defense, a non-profit group headquartered in New York, according to a memo he sent to staff Wednesday. | |
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David Hogberg: From Editor and Publisher: "David Yarnold, editor of the San Jose Mercury News, is leaving the paper to head... |
Michelle Malkin: Another good catch: David Hogberg of Oh, That Liberal Media reports on departing San Jose Mercury News editor David... |
Judge, 2 others killed at Atlanta courthouse MSNBC — Permalink ATLANTA - A judge, a court reporter and at least one sheriff's deputy were killed at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Friday. Authorities were hunting for the suspect, a man who had been before the judge facing rape charges. | |
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Joe Gandelman: MSNBC adds this: "The arrest was made after Nichols was cornered at the complex, said another officer who spoke on condition of anonymity. |
Jeff Jarvis: Then came breaking news in Atlanta: a shooting in the courthouse (killing a judge and a court reporter). |
Party of Hell NRO — Permalink Barbara Newman on "the most dangerous terrorist group in the world." "Until the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001, the self-described 'Party of God' had killed more U.S. citizens than any other radical Islamist group and, for the most part, they had... | |
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Deacon: A CONTRARY VIEW: NRO features an interview with Barbara Newman, co-author of Lightening Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil. |
Betsy Newmark: If you think that perhaps the UN and the US should lighten up on Hezbollah and accept them as the power to control a... |
FIXING SOCIAL SECURITY: TINKER TROUBLE By / New York Post — Permalink PRESIDENT Bush wants to save Social Security from demographic disaster: Within two decades, too few workers will be working to support too many retirees. But the centerpiece of Bush's plan would also protect workers from a subtler threat: As the Baby... | |
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Mickey Kaus: Nicole Gelinas makes the interesting argument that able-bodied 67-year olds who retire on Social Security—in an era... |
James Joyner: Geezer Envy — Nicole Gelinas makes an interesting argument about the Social Security reform movement: "As the Baby... |
Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture Strategy By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — The war in Iraq is forcing top Pentagon planners to rethink several key assumptions about the use of military power and has called into question the vision set out nearly four years ago that the armed forces can win wars and keep the peace with small numbers of fast-moving, lightly armed troops. | |
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James Joyner: Iraq War Compels Pentagon To Rethink Big-Picture Strategy (Mark Mazzetti, LAT, p.1) "The war in Iraq is forcing top... Orrin Judd: SHOULD HAVE HANDED THE COUNTRY TO CHALABI AND SISTANI 18 MONTHS AGO: Iraq War Compels Pentagon to Rethink Big-Picture... |
Wretchard: The first, by Mark Mazzetti of the Los Angeles Times, depicts a military establishment that has been hijacked by... |
Plan to Reimburse Cost of Combat Gear Has Fallen Behind By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 9 - The Pentagon has not developed guidelines for allowing soldiers, their families and charities to be reimbursed for the cost of some combat equipment they bought for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite a new law that called for such a plan by February. | |
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Norbizness: (2) Nearing the two-year anniversary of Operation: Enduring Clusterf**k, and civilians and soldiers buying combat equipment have not yet been reimbursed. |
Tbogg: We're busy running a war here... The Pentagon has been too busy fulfilling the neocons dream of empire not winning and... |
U.S. to Join Europe in Strategy With Iran By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON Mar 11, 2005 — In a policy shift, the Bush administration will go along with European efforts to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon by using diplomatic carrots now, with the threat of U.N. sticks later. | |
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Jan Haugland: The new Iran policy Roger L. Simon links to an article summing up the Bush administration's new and revised Iran policy. |
Roger L. Simon: The New Iran Strategy ...Well, not so new, since it's been floated and floated for the last couples of weeks... in which... |
They're Back, and Still Unworthy NYT — Permalink The Senate is preparing for a major showdown over the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block a handful of President Bush's judicial nominees. When the arguments about procedures are over, the key question will remain: Has Mr. Bush put up men and women who deserve lifetime appointments to the federal bench? | |
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Dwight Meredith: Another Update: The New York Times notices that Griffith was practicing without a license. |
Armando @DailyKos: The NYTimes Ed Board gets it right: "The Senate is preparing for a major showdown over the Democrats' use of the... |