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Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday. Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra. | |
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Kevin Aylward: There's a major update to the story.WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to... Cori Dauber: I didn't notice ABC mention the plea, but it's on their web site, where they have an AP report, and the detail is missing there, too. Ed Driscoll: Well, He Was Caught Red-Panted — "Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified... |
Charles Johnson: Sandy Berger to Plead Guilty — Sandy Berger is going to plead guilty to illegally removing documents from the National Archive: Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials. Baldilocks: Berger Begs — Now this is what I've been waiting for. [snipped quote] Honest mistake, my behind. Bill Hobbs: Sandy Burglar 'Fess Up — Sandy Berger will plead guilty to stealing classified documents from the National Archives. |
| Also: Jeff Quinton | |
Clinton Adviser Berger Cops Plea CBS News — Permalink (AP) Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday. Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra. | |
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Captain Ed: Berger Cops To Misdemeanor — Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's former National Security Advisor, will plead guilty to a... Michelle Malkin: You are a liar. Rot in hell. xoxo Terrence T. McDonald" Oooo-kay. I stand corrected. Not his socks. Just his pants. |
Hindrocket: Another Successful Cover-Up — Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger got away with a criminal cover-up today... RCox: Sandy Berger pleads guilty calling it an "honest mistake" that he accidently shoved classified documents into his underwear. |
Sandy Berger to plead guilty on documents charge AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday. Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra. | |
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Vanderleun: [Note: In honor of the plea copped — Sandy Berger to plead guilty on documents charge — for stuffing secret documents... Cori Dauber: Pop Quiz — What little detail is missing from this CNN story on Sandy Berger's guilty plea on the "documents down the pants" case from last year? |
Michelle Malkin: SANDY BERGER: GUILTY — Sandy "Honestly, I had no idea how those papers got into my socks, jacket pocket, and portfolio"... Pejman Yousefzadeh: PANTS! We have a denouement: [snipped quote] Insert your own jokes in the comments section below. |
Terri Schiavo has died CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Terri Schiavo, the 41-year-old brain-damaged woman who became the centerpiece of a national right-to-die battle, died Thursday morning, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade. | |
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Michelle Malkin: AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION — May Terri Schindler-Schiavo rest in peace and God have mercy on us all. Lorie Byrd: I just saw that Terri has passed away without her family present. Steve Bainbridge: (CNN Story) One hopes that we can now give her death some meaning by having a serious national conservation about how we regulate the end of life. |
Brian Stelter: > The initial cable news net stories: CNN.com, MSNBC.com, FOXNews.com > The broadcast morning shows are updating their... James Joyner: See my Terri Schiavo Case archives for previous posts on this subject. NYT, CNN, and AP have obits as well. Zoe Kentucky: My Very Last Post... on Terri Schiavo. She's finally gone. May she and her family find peace. |
| Also: Steve M., Dan Gillmor, Kehaar | |
Faculty Committee Largely Clears Scholars By / New York Sun — Permalink Columbia University, after a months-long investigation, has determined that only a small fraction of complaints from Jewish students against anti-Israel professors constituted intimidation. | |
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The Big Trunk: Disinformation, Columbia-style — Deacon notes below the New York Sun story by Jacob Gershman on the Columbia University... Rachel Z. Friedman: (See also this article in the New York Sun.) According to CampusJ, the Times article was released before students were even permitted to read the committee report. Charles Johnson: New York Times in Cahoots with Columbia U — The New York Sun has a report on today's disgraceful whitewash from... |
Deacon: UPDATE: The New York Sun has more on the faculty panel report. The details in the Sun report, which the Times omitted, make the report look like a whitewash. Roger L. Simon: According to the NY Sun: In an effort to manage favorable coverage of its investigation into the complaints, the... Glenn Reynolds: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CLEARS SELF OF ANTISEMITISM: But this doesn't sound kosher: [snipped quote] That's not very impressive. |
Ex-National Security Adviser to Plead Guilty to Taking Classified Material AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser Sandy Berger (search) will plead guilty to taking classified documents from the National Archives, the Justice Department said Thursday. | |
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Spoons: It's not near enough, but it's better than I expected — Sandy Berger, who stole and destroyed classified docments so... Glenn Reynolds: A SANDY BERGER GUILTY PLEA: [snipped quote] (Via Joe's Dartblog). |
Orrin Judd: Ex-National Security Adviser to Plead Guilty to Taking Classified Material (Fox News, March 31, 2005) |
Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of Anti-Semitism By / NYT — Permalink An ad hoc faculty committee charged with investigating complaints that pro-Israel Jewish students were harassed by pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia University said it had found one instance in which a professor "exceeded commonly accepted bounds" of... | |
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The Big Trunk: Here is today's Times story by Karen Arneson on the Columbia report, with nary a comment from the students whose complaints triggered the investigation. Arnold P. California: A related New York Times article is here. Charles Johnson: Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of Anti-Semitism. |
David Bernstein: Columbia Report on Mealac: The Columbia report on the controversy over its Middle Eastern Studies Department is out. Deacon: Now, according to the New York Times, a Columbia University panel has found that one professor, Joseph Massad, did... Stanley Kurtz: COLUMBIA — I'm on the run today and so can't comment in detail on the big NYT's story on Middle East Studies at Columbia University. |
The Tax Plan To Kill K Street By / WaPo — Permalink The power to tax involves, as Chief Justice John Marshall said, the power to destroy. So does the power of tax reform, which is one reason why Rep. John Linder, a Georgia Republican, has a 133-page bill to replace 55,000 pages of tax rules. | |
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Mark Kleiman: Jane Galt gets flim-flammed — I understand how George Will could have been taken in by the "replace all federal taxation with a national sales tax" scam. James Joyner: George Will has an interesting column today arguing why a national sales tax would be preferable to the current income tax. Jonah Goldberg: IF K STREETERS WERE ANGELS — Matt Yglesias (I know, two mentions in one day: sigh), hates the consumption tax and says George Will should be ashamed of himself for hawking it. |
Kevin Drum: NATIONAL SALES TAX...REVISION 432...Spring is in the air and George Will is in love — with Georgia Rep. John Linder... Mattthew Yglesias: George Will really ought to be ashamed of himself for writing today's column pimping Rep. John Linder's insane plan to... PGL: George Will Supports a National Sales Tax as He Flunks Math — Will's latest Washington Post oped: [snipped quote] Will... |
| Also: Jane Galt | |
Terri Schiavo Dies at age 41 CNN — Permalink THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: We're watching the Schiavo case. Clearly a sad, sad moment for so many millions of people around the country. We're watching other news as well. | |
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Judith Weiss: Terri Sciavo refused to die for a very long time, long enough to enable protestors to work up an enormous amount of... Yuval Rubinstein: So sayeth the Colorado Cleric: [snipped quote] What's so comical is that Dobson and crew are irate that the Florida state... |
Atrios: SpongeDob Stickypants — Today on CNN: But the aspect of it that concerns us the most is that all the great moral... |
Schiavo Dies 13 Days After Tube Removed By / AP — Permalink PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman whose 15 years connected to a feeding tube sparked an epic legal battle that went all the way to the White House and Congress, died Thursday, 13 days after the tube was removed. She was 41. | |
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Ace: Terri Schiavo, Requiescat In Pacem — The amazing thing is that she lived as long as she did, without food or water. Robert Clayton Dean: Schiavo 4 - RIP — Terri Schiavo died this morning. I hope that her husband and family can find some peace, if not with each other, than at least within themselves. Yuval Rubinstein: Terri Schiavo, 1963-2005 — Rest in peace. |
Joe Gandelman: AP adds: "Schiavo, 41, died quietly in a Pinellas Park hospice 13 days after her feeding tube was removed despite... Captain Ed: Terri Schiavo, RIP — The AP reports that Terri Schiavo has died this morning after 13 days of court-ordered... |
DeLay Statement on Terri Schiavo U.S. Newswire — Permalink SUGAR LAND, Texas, March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today released the following statement mourning the passing of Terri Schiavo: "Mrs. Schiavo's death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. | |
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Steve Soto: As for Tom DeLay, who has tried to make himself a victim and wrap himself in the Schindlers' grief to deflect attention... |
Judd @ThinkProgress: DeLay Goes Off The Deep End — DeLay just released this statement: [snipped quote] Make no mistake about it: Tom DeLay,... |
The Blessed Sounds of Silence By / NRO — Permalink For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II failed to come to his window Easter Monday, unable to deliver even a silent blessing to the crowd in St. Peter's Square. The day before, he did appear with an Easter Sunday address in hand — but when he opened his mouth, he was unable to speak. | |
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Kevin Aylward: The pope is suffering from a high fever caused by a urinary tract infection, the Vatican confirmed earlier Thursday —... |
Michelle Malkin: Marc Thiessen's piece in NRO, "The Blessed Sounds of Silence," is a beautiful tribute. |
I Spy a Screw-Up By / NYT — Permalink Like the new Woody Allen movie, "Melinda and Melinda," it is possible to view today's big story on the tremendous intelligence failures before the Iraq war as either comedy or tragedy, depending on how you look at it. | |
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Jon Henke: Dowd doesn't care for WMD Report, makes up her own — Here's what I assume today's Maureen Dowd column looked like as a rough draft: "I went to see a Woody Allen movie. TChris: Her take: "That's hilarious." Laura Rozen: MoDo on the tragi-comedy of the WMD panel's findings: [snipped quote] Here's the .pdf of the WMD panel report. |
Edward _: Maureen Dowd suggests one reason: "The Times reported yesterday that administration officials were relieved that the... Rich Lowry: CASE CLOSED — Maureen Dowd writes today, "political pressure was the father of conveniently botched intelligence." |
Snohomish High School calls nickname derogatory; suspends teen for T-shirt By / Seattle Times — Permalink An item on the Snohomish School District's Web site refers to the football team's "SnoHo" traditions. And "Snoho Mojo" is both a headline in the school yearbook and the name of a local espresso stand. | |
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Kevin Aylward: The Power Of Google — Well for one thing it's excellent for debunking bulls**t stories like this from The Seattle... |
Michelle Malkin: Just to lighten things up a little... Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven't seen this ridiculous story... |
Schiavo Dies Nearly Two Weeks After Removal of Feeding Tube By / NYT — Permalink PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 31 - Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman who became the subject of an intense legal and political battle that drew responses from the White House to Congress to the Vatican, died today, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed on the order of a state court judge. | |
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Tom Maguire: Terri Schiavo, R.I.P. The NY Times obit. Saint Paul l: Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo, 1963 - 2005 — Rest in Peace. |
Fontana Labs: Noted without comment — George W. Bush, on the occassion of Terri Schiavo's death: "The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak." |
Through gritted teeth By / Guardian — Permalink When a chap's just a week away from his wedding you can expect him to get a bit snappy. But it wasn't arranging the flowers or the cake or the guest list that was absorbing the heir to the throne yesterday - just the impertinence of photographers and journalists. | |
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Gregory Djerejian: "Heh." |
Natasha @PacificViews: It's about some recent nastiness Prince Charles directed towards journalists when he didn't know the mikes were live... |
Mr. Wolfowitz and the Bank WaPo — Permalink THE WORLD Bank's board will meet today and will almost certainly confirm the nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as its new president. The initial expressions of shock from Europe have proved unserious and, in some cases, even hypocritical. | |
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Billmon: Performance Disclaimer — The Washington Host, I mean Post, ran a somewhat hallucinatory editorial today on the... Judd @ThinkProgress: Post Editorial Page Embarrasses Itself — A Washington Post editorial (taking a page from David Brooks) defends Paul Wolfowitz's candidacy to the World Bank. |
Brad DeLong: Contemptible. washingtonpost.com: Mr. Wolfowitz and the Bank: THE WORLD Bank's board will meet today and will almost... Betsy Newmark: The Washington Post gives qualified support to Wolfowitz for the World Bank. [snipped quote] It's funny. |
WMD Commission Releases Scathing Report By / AP — Permalink In a scathing report, a presidential commission said Thursday that America's spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war and that the United States knows "disturbingly little" about the threats posed by many of the nation's most dangerous adversaries. | |
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Jo Fish: Ol' Colin has to be feeling the sliminess of the santorum left on his asshole from the literal buttf**king the 1600 Crew... Barbara O'Brien: Breaking news: WMD Commission Releases Scathing Report; Panel Finds U.S. Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons Was 'Dead Wrong.' I haven't read it yet, but could be significant. |
Baldilocks: He thought he was dealing with on of the many Clinton-era intel security procedures for which present-day officials now taking the heat. |
Koppel to Leave ABC News By / WaPo — Permalink Ted Koppel said today he is leaving ABC News, ending a 42-year career and a quarter-century run as host of "Nightline," because he does not want to do a live hour-long program, as the network is planning. | |
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Brian Stelter: Koppel: In His Own Words > WP: "I really don't think there's anything else at ABC I would find as interesting or as... Garrett M. Graff: More Details on Koppel Departure — Howard Kurtz updates with a bunch of details about Koppel's departure:... |
Jim Romenesko: > Kurtz: Still unsettled is the fate of the award-winning "Nightline" (WP) |
Report Calls U.S. Intelligence 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq Weapons By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 31 - A scathing report made public this morning concludes that American intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" in almost all of their prewar assessments about the state of unconventional weapons in Iraq, and that on issues of this importance "we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude." | |
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Edward _: I was reminded of Ionesco when I read today's news accounts about the absurdly meaningless 618-page formality being... TChris: Report Criticizes Pre-War Assessment of WMD's — Another report — this one by a presidential commission led by Laurence... |
Zach Neumann: This morning, the NY Times reported that U.S. intelligence pertaining to WMD's in Iraq was patently incorrect. Armando @DailyKos: The Report on U.S. "Intelligence" on Iraqi WMD It's scathing: [snipped quote] Why did this failure happen? |
Bush Welcomes Results of WMD Report By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush today welcomed the "unvarnished" look at intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war produced by a special panel he appointed, asserting that "the central conclusion is one that I share: America's intelligence community needs fundamental change." | |
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Dean Esmay: The Washington Post's story is fairly well balanced, but others have been all over the map. |
Jeff Quinton: I did some searching and found the link (It's 618 pages) via a WaPo story. Dean also link's to an analysis of the report by Smash. |
War Torn By / Washington Monthly — Permalink Late in 2000, with one eye on the presidential campaign and the other on history, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger called a group of staffers into his office. He wanted to give a major speech laying out the essence of the Clinton administration's national security doctrine and the challenge of transformation that lay ahead. | |
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Garance Franke-Ruta: The new bloggers include my friend Michael Signer, a lawyer and political scientist who did work for Gen. Wesley K... Laura Rozen: Hurlburt, a former presidential speech writer, wrote the best article the Washington Monthly has seen a few years back,... |
Matthew Yglesias: On top of that, about 20 percent of my thinking about everything is directly stolen from this article Hurlburt wrote years ago. |
An Unlikely Meeting Of the Minds By / WaPo — Permalink Environmentalists aren't the only ones applauding the sales stumble of big SUVs and pickups in the face of high gas prices. Groups of conservative Republicans see an opportunity to step up a campaign to promote alternative-fuel vehicles and wean the nation from dependence on foreign oil. | |
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James Joyner: An Unlikely Meeting Of the Minds "Environmentalists aren't the only ones applauding the sales stumble of big SUVs and pickups in the face of high gas prices. Mark Krikorian: ODD BEDFELLOWS — The Post finally has reported on Set America Free, the right/left effort to liberate us from Arab oil. |
Arnold Kling: More Gas for Washington — The Washington Post reports, "A who's who of right-leaning military hawks — including former... Orrin Judd: CATS AND DOGS SLEEPING TOGETHER: An Unlikely Meeting Of the Minds: For Very Different Reasons, Groups Agree on Gas... |
Scientists warn of Earth's declining environmental health By / Knight Ridder — Permalink WASHINGTON - We are using the Earth to improve our lives, but our children and grandchildren will be forced to live in a worsening environment that endangers their existence, more than 1,300 scientists warn. | |
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Giblets: Giblets Is Legend — So a buncha pointy-headed sciencey types are all upset because we're "using up resources" and "destroying the world." |
Ezra Klein: [quote] So a buncha pointy-headed sciencey types are all upset because we're "using up resources" and "destroying the world."[end quote] |
Terri Schiavo Dies Fox News — Permalink Terri Schiavo (search) died Thursday morning around 10 a.m. EST after her parents had plead with her husband Michael Schiavo to allow them to be at their brain-damaged daughter's bedside in her final hours, a spokesman for the family said. | |
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Damian Penny: Terri Schiavo and our Brave New World — After 13 days without food or water, Terri Schiavo passed away this morning. |
Scott Sala: Schiavo Dead — Terry Schiavo has died. |
As Gambling Grows, States Depend on Their Cut By / NYT — Permalink DOVER, Del. - Gambling revenues, once a mere trickle, have become a critical stream of income in a number of states, in some cases surpassing traditional sources like the corporate income tax and helping states lower personal income or property taxes. | |
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Charles Kuffner: It's easy to see what the allure of gambling is for states that don't have the will or the wherewithal to deal with... John Cole: Gambling — West Virginia is get ready to vote on whether or not to allow table gaming, so this piece in the NY Times is timely: [snipped quote] Anyone have expertise in this area? |
Nathan Newman: Taxing the Wrong Casino — The dependence of state governments on taxing the gambling addiction of their citizens is just sad. |
'Nightline' Host Koppel to Leave ABC in December By / Reuters — Permalink NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran journalist Ted Koppel, the face of late-night news show "Nightline" for 25 years, will leave ABC when his contract expires in December, the network said on Thursday. | |
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Brian Stelter: > This Reuters story almost reads like an obituary... |
James Joyner: ABC News: 'Nightline' Host Koppel to Leave ABC in December (Reuters) [snipped quote] No word if he's retiring for good or going on to a job with another network. |
Schiavo Case a Precursor to Battles Ahead By / WaPo — Permalink The political passions stirred by the Terri Schiavo case over the past fortnight are but a hint of the feud likely to come this summer with an expected Supreme Court confirmation battle, partisans on both sides say. | |
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Ken Masugi: A liberal account of reactions to her death by Dana Milbank, Wash Post. |
David Allan Pell: Disturbing Trend — Gary Bauer offered this take Terri Schiavo's death: It is entirely possible that in her death Terri... |
America's Endless News Loop By / WaPo — Permalink Doesn't it seem like a hundred years ago that the Ashley Smith/"Purpose Driven Life" hurricane hit? Actually, that pre-Easter salvation epiphany of Brian Nichols in Smith's Atlanta apartment had us by the throat only a couple of weeks ago. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Example: Tina Brown can always be counted on to try and catch up to the real opinion-leaders of the left by filing a... Jim Romenesko: The media elite lost the fight because it wasn't elite enough — Washington Post "Mainstream media types spend a lot of... |
Garrett M. Graff: Tina Brown: Get More Elite tinabrown.jpg In her regular column today in the Style section, Tina Brown expands upon her... |
A national sales tax By / Townhall.com — Permalink WASHINGTON — The power to tax involves, as Chief Justice John Marshall said, the power to destroy. So does the power of tax reform, which is one reason why Rep. John Linder, a Georgia Republican, has a 133-page bill to replace 55,000 pages of tax rules. | |
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Jonah Goldberg: George Will's column only heightens my interest. |
Orrin Judd: + 27, - 16: A national sales tax (George Will, March 31, 2005, Townhall) [snipped quote] Mr. Will has put his finger on the key to this idea, that the 16th be repealed. |
Bush Names Cheney Kin to Legal Post By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 30 - President Bush has nominated the vice president's son-in-law, Philip J. Perry, as general counsel of the Homeland Security Department, where he would oversee 1,500 lawyers who work on legal matters like Coast Guard maritime laws and immigration. | |
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Jo Fish: Ahhh, Nepotism — Gotta love this...with thousands of actually qualified folks (which probably boils down to tens who... |
Dan Froomkin: Special to washingtonpost.com — The commission that President Bush appointed to determine how intelligence on Iraqi... |
Theresa Marie Schiavo NYT — Permalink One of the most astonishing things about the human experience is the realization that loved ones die. The first time it happens, we are invariably amazed that nearly everyone who has ever lived has weathered an experience so wrenching. | |
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K. J. Lopez: That's from the NYTimes editorial on Terri Schiavo's death. We simple folk, don't get basic facts (and somehow some non-religious fellow-travellers). |
Ezra Klein: The NY Times editorial page puts it particularly well and, hopefully, dredges some meaning and beauty out of this whole sordid affair. |
Stem cell wars By / Boston Globe — Permalink IT'S WAR, cultural war. Here in Massachusetts the war is currently defined as Kennedy vs. Romney. The politics of stem cell research, local and national, pulled the Bay State's top political gun, US Senator Edward M. Kennedy, into the battle over proposed legislation to legalize stem cell research in Massachusetts. | |
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Rickheller @Centerfield: The gay marriage issue was thrust upon him by the courts, but the battle over embryonic stem cell research seems more... |
K. J. Lopez: Columnist Joan Vennochi basically dismisses much of the Right on every hot "social" issue of the day. |
50 MOST LOATHSOME NEW YORKERS New York Press — Permalink The $250 million Yankee is so difficult to like, so impossible to root for, that he might be the only athlete in all of sports who would actually look better if it came out that he was a steroid user. | |
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Donald Luskin: GRAYDON CARTER IS NUMBER 8 (NOT QUADRILLION) on this list of the 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers. |
Scott Sala: 50 MOST LOATHSOME NEW YORKERS — The New York Press released its "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" list, trashing for the... |
De Gaulle's Tattered Legacy By / WaPo — Permalink Charles de Gaulle bequeathed the French two big ideas and the atomic bomb to see them through the sad national duty of surviving without him. The bomb is still there and probably always will be. The ideas may not be as resilient. They face severe challenge this spring. | |
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Deacon: Desperation time in France — Jim Hoagland has a nice piece on the latest problems facing the French elite — a massive... |
Orrin Judd: THE CREAM OF THE WORST GOVERNED NATION IN THE WEST: De Gaulle's Tattered Legacy (Jim Hoagland, March 31, 2005,... |
An American fatwa By / Boston Phoenix — Permalink IF THERE WAS an emblematic moment in the religious right's crusade against Michael Schiavo, it might be said to have taken place on March 21. It was a Monday, three days after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube had been removed. | |
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Captain Ed: Never one to leave a hysterical rant aside, Dan Kennedy today picked up Krugman's paranoia and predicted that... |
Jim Romenesko: Blame bad media if something happens to Michael Schiavo — Boston Phoenix | Washington Post Dan Kennedy says Michael... |
Hating the "Religious Right" By / Weekly Standard — Permalink THE TERRI SCHIAVO TRAGEDY has been seized on by long-time critics of the "religious right" to launch attack after attack on the legitimacy of political action on the basis of religious belief. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: An Outbreak of Religiousrightitis — My WeeklyStandard.com column, "Hating the Religious Right," is a reply to Senator... John Cole: Shorter Hugh Hewitt — As a service, I read Hugh Hewitt's rant ('Hating the Religious Right') in the Weekly Standard... |
Betsy Newmark: Hugh Hewitt makes a good point about why it is hypocritical for people like Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, or... |
States Debate Photo IDs at Polls By / AP — Permalink INDIANAPOLIS — Legislation that would require voters to show photo identification before casting ballots has touched off fierce debate in three states, with opponents complaining the measures represent a return to the days of poll taxes and Jim Crow. | |
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John Hawkins: Meanwhile, it's many of those very same people who bitterly complain that you can't trust election results, who then... |
Orrin Judd: THERE GOES PHILADELPHIA...: States Debate Photo IDs at Polls (DEANNA WRENN, March 31, 2005, Associated Press) [snipped quote] No sweat, just require a national photo i.d.. |
Clerics of 3 Faiths Protest Gay Festival Planned for Jerusalem NYT — Permalink International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions. | |
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Edward _: Well, They Agree on One Thing — By Edward It's a heartening photograph in these troubling times. Jeff Jarvis: Giving God a bad name : The front page of The New York Times today reports that religious leaders from Islam, Judaism,... Tim Dunlop: Ah, isn't that heartwarming: [snipped quote] antigayclergy.jpg I guess with nothing else to excercise their minds going... |
Jan Haugland: Unfortunately, what brings them together is opposition to the planned gay WorldPride festival in Jerusalem in August. Taegan Goddard: Yehuda Levin, of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, quoted by the New York Times in an article about Jerusalem WorldPride 2005, a gay festival to be held in Israel. Pudentilla: old guys in drag peeved at pride event in jerusalem — [snipped quote] funny, jesus, himself, didn't have an exception... |
| Also: Orrin Judd | |
Will the GOP need life support? By / Salon — Permalink The Terri Schiavo story is a tragedy in the truest sense. It is a case in which there are no happy endings and in which the mighty fall. One thing that has fallen is the notion of the Republican Party as a bastion of federalism and limited government. | |
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Chris Nolan: Not only that, he's willing to forecast the demise of the GOP. Oh, happy day! Huh? "Conservative"? Compared to whom? James Joyner: (An odd venue for a "conservative pundit.") The piece is entitled, "Will the GOP need life support?" [snipped quote] Indeed. John Cole: And don't miss this piece in Salon on judge bashing, written by none other than the Instapundit himself. |
Howard Kurtz: Instapundit Glenn Reynolds makes a rare (possibly unprecedented) appearance on liberal Salon to argue that "the entire... Ken Masugi: ; Republican-appointed judges criticizing Bush and Congress (have they never heard of Souter?); and the crisis of the... Bill Hobbs: Schiavo 7 — Glenn Reynolds's Salon essay on the political implications of the federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo... |
| Also: Richard TPD, Glenn Reynolds, Orrin Judd, Joe Gandelman, Greg Ransom, Ogged @Unfogged | |
Riding the Waves By / Opinion Journal — Permalink I have taken a few days off and gone to a place where there are beaches, palm trees, tan people, men in shorts and cotton-weave shirts, and women in sky-blue and pink and yellow dresses and broad-brimmed straw hats. It is nice here. The breeze is gentle and unstopping. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Brown's deep contempt for people of faith is not exceptional, just exceptionally candid, and underscores why Hillary is going to have a much harder time than Peggy Noonan thinks. Steve M.: By the way, do you think it's just a coincidence that — just as the Schindler family's last court challenges were... |
S.Z.: This week Peggy is reporting to us from Jamaica, Indonesia, the Betty Ford Center, or some place like that. |
Social Security, Growth and Stock Returns By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 30 - In barnstorming the country over Social Security, administration officials predict that American economic growth will slow to an anemic rate of 1.9 percent as baby boomers reach retirement. | |
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Brad DeLong: Ed Andrews Writes About Asset Returns and Economic Growth — Ed Andrews of the New York Times writes about "Asset... Tom Maguire: A few weeks back, we praised their cogent article on the Social Security Trust Fund; today, we praise their article on... Atrios: Hilarity — I think the SSA's chief actuary is pulling a fast one on the reporter here, claiming to be a good soldier... |
Dan Froomkin: A Word From the Economists Edmund L. Andrews writes in the New York Times: "In barnstorming the country over Social... Josh Marshall: And the Times devotes a whole article to the point in tomorrow's paper. There's nothing shocking or untoward about the sudden interest in this point. |
Wolfowitz set for World Bank nod CNN — Permalink BRUSSELS, Belgium — The World Bank board is expected to approve Paul Wolfowitz as its leader one day after the deputy defense secretary received the support of the European Union. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: NO CONTROVERSY AFTER ALL — So it appears that despite all the teeth-gnashing, Paul Wolfowitz will indeed be the President of the World Bank. |
Norm Geras: Wolf at the door — That didn't take long - or much: [quote] "There are no objections of EU countries" to Wolfowitz, Belgian...[end quote] |
Why tolerance is fading for zero tolerance in schools By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink HOUSTON - Unaware it had turned cool overnight, Eddie Evans's 12-year-old son bolted out of the house in shirt sleeves. He was on his way to the bus stop when his mother called him back for a jacket. | |
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Jan Haugland: 'Zero tolerance' in decline — CS Monitor has a good article about "zero-tolerance" in schools falling out of favour. Joanne Jacobs: Zero for common sense — Zero tolerance stupidities are creating pressure to modify rigid school rules, the Christian Science Monitor reports. |
Pudentilla: the great zero-tolerance campaign against 12 years olds meets resistance parents object when son sent to juvie for pocket knife in jacket pocket. |
Ex-prosecutor is in CNN's good Grace(s) NY Daily News — Permalink CNN's counting on its new Headline News star, tough-talking ex-prosecutor Nancy Grace, to help boost its ad bucks. A sudden surge in ratings at CNN's sister network, Headline News, has CNN's long beleaguered execs feeling better as they head into the crucial upfront selling period in June. | |
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Brian Stelter: HLN Prime: The Costs Of Success — In the NYDN, Phyllis Furman sums up Nancy Grace's HLN success: "Insiders note that... |
Jim Romenesko: Additional items for March 31, 2005 > Meyer: Journalism today operates under a kind of feudal system (USAT) > CNN is... |
Federal Judge Condemns Intervention in Schiavo Case NYT — Permalink PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 30 - A federal appeals court in Atlanta refused Wednesday to reconsider the case of Terri Schiavo, with one of the judges rebuking President Bush and Congress for acting "in a manner demonstrably at odds with our founding fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people." | |
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Howard Kurtz: "A federal appeals court in Atlanta refused Wednesday to reconsider the case of Terri Schiavo," reports the New York... |
Shawn @LiquidList: Today in the Times we learn that one of the Atlanta Federal Appeals Court Judges that heard the Schiavo case, a known... |
Another oil-for-food scandal Washington Times — Permalink In newspapers and on the Internet, stories with headlines like The Washington Post's "UN Panel Clears Annan" and the Boston Globe's "Report Clears UN chief of corruption allegations" have appeared, suggesting that the Independent Inquiry Committee headed by Paul Volcker somehow vindicated U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. | |
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Roger L. Simon: If You Build It, They Will Come - Oil-for-Food Division — The Washington Times concludes its editorial on the Volcker... |
Betsy Newmark: Innocent people don't act the way that Kofi Annan's chief of staff acted. |
New Order of Catholic Priests Is Forming to Fight Abortions By / LAT — Permalink AMARILLO, Texas — The Roman Catholic Church plans to establish its first religious society devoted exclusively to fighting euthanasia and abortion, church leaders said this week. | |
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Steve M.: I've been talking about Priests for Life lately, and I see from the L.A. Times that the head of the organization, Father... |
Pudentilla: if you liked the jesuits, wait till you meet these guys — [snipped quote] there will be no companion order of nuns... |
Study Faults Army Vehicle By / WaPo — Permalink The Army has deployed a new troop transport vehicle in Iraq with many defects, putting troops there at unexpected risk from rocket-propelled grenades and raising questions about the vehicle's development and $11 billion cost, according to a detailed critique in a classified Army study obtained by The Washington Post. | |
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Cori Dauber: Damned if They Do — There's a Post article about a new report slamming the Army's Stryker vehicle, and the Army's... |
Pudentilla: rummy's $11 billion toy endangers troops in iraq — [snipped quote] we hear they're having recruiting problems, too. |
Long queues as Zimbabweans vote BBC — Permalink Zimbabweans are voting in parliamentary elections which President Robert Mugabe hopes will strengthen his party's 25-year grip on power. Long queues formed at polling stations in the capital, Harare, with many holding umbrellas as light rain fell. | |
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Jan Haugland: Zimbabwe elections — Zimbabwe is going to the polls, but most observers fear the result is already determined by intimidation, fraud and the government's control of the media. |
Norm Geras: A nation goes to the polls — As Zimbabweans queue to vote, here's an interesting item from Stephanie Nolen in the Globe... |
Bush Is Keeping Cabinet Secretaries Close to Home By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours a week at the White House compound, a move top aides say eases coordination with government agencies but one seen by some analysts as fresh evidence of the White House's tightening grip over administration policy. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Michael Fletcher writes in the Washington Post that the White House is requiring President Bush's cabinet secretaries to spend several hours a week at the White House compound. The Big Trunk: Reconsider baby, part two — The Washington Post article of the day is further to Deacon's point last night about the... Orrin Judd: ALL ABOUT THE MBA: Bush Is Keeping Cabinet Secretaries Close to Home: Spending Time at White House Required (Michael... |
Noam Scheiber: GOOD POLICY MASQUERADING AS CONSPIRACY: I guess I don't take as sinister a view of the White House's new... Taegan Goddard: Bush Tightens Grip on Cabinet — "President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours a week at the White... |
Iraq war is blamed for starvation Guardian — Permalink Acute malnutrition among Iraqi children aged under five nearly doubled last year because of chaos caused by the US-led occupation, a United Nations expert said yesterday. | |
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Juan Cole: Shahristani Denounces ex-Baath Sunnis in Parliament — Child malnutrition has soared in Iraq under the Americans, according to a former Official. |
Pudentilla: if it's wrong for mrs. schiavo to starve to death shouldn't it be wrong that the rate of acute malnutrition among children in iraq has doubled in the last five year? |
A Silicon Valley Operator's Manual By / Opinion Journal — Permalink PALO ALTO, Calif.—Twenty years ago a friend and I started a Silicon Valley civic organization, the Churchill Club. We invited Robert Noyce to address our first event. Co-inventor of the semiconductor chip, founder of Intel, Noyce had put the "silicon" in the valley. | |
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Ed Driscoll: A Silicon Valley Operator's Manual — Via Steve Green, Rich Karlgaard explains what makes Silicon Valley politics tick. |
Stephen Green: Required Reading — "Incumbents are the bad guys." |
The neocon revolution By / Guardian — Permalink With any new political phenomenon, there is always a tendency to underestimate its novelty and treat it as some kind of short-term aberration. I vividly recall how long it took commentators and analysts, on the right and left, to recognise that Thatcherism was something quite new and here to stay. | |
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Scott Burgess: And ripe stuff it looks, too - being headlined The neocon revolution, and addressing the subject of US unilateralism. Deacon: Fairer Jacques — The piece by Martin Jacques in the Guardian that Trunk linked to below —"The Neocon Revolution" — is less objectionable than I expected. The Big Trunk: Tomorrow's Guardian, for example, publishes a column by Martin Jacques to this effect under the portentous heading "The neoconservative revolution." |
Natasha @PacificViews: There was this take on the neocon revolution at the Guardian, emphasis mine: [snipped quote] Yeah, small problem with that plan. Laura Rozen: The Guardian's Martin Jacques on the neocon revolution: "There was speculation last autumn that the second Bush term... |
Social Security Plan Meets Doubt in Iowa By / WaPo — Permalink CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 30 — Two key GOP lawmakers who joined President Bush on Wednesday as he pitched restructuring Social Security said that Bush has failed to sell the American people on his plan to change the 70-year-old federal retirement system. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Team Bush is still working the Bamboozlepalooza Tour. Yesterday, Bush said, [quote] "This issue is beginning to permeate.[end quote] Avedon Carol: A brief political junky's tour — I see Bush is making his own reality again: [snipped quote] I think this is supposed to... |
Talking Dog: The tag-line might relate to Congressman Jim Leach and Senator Charles Grassley, both Republicans of Iowa, who are... Josh Marshall: And after the president leaves, the big GOP pooh-bahs say it was a flop. So reports the Post. |
Children 'starving' in new Iraq BBC — Permalink Increasing numbers of children in Iraq do not have enough food to eat and more than a quarter are chronically undernourished, a UN report says. Malnutrition rates in children under five have almost doubled since the US-led invasion - to nearly 8% by the end of last year, it says. | |
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Captain Ed: It may not happen through maliciousness — it might be that they just don't know how to do simple math. |
Jason Van Steenwyk: The headline, "Iraq Child Malnutrition Rates Cut by Two Thirds" has been abducted from the masthead of the British... |
Bush Invites Critics to Join Him in Social Security Discussion By / LAT — Permalink CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Bush today sought to sell congressional skeptics on his approach to Social Security restructuring, and invited critics to join him "at the table" to negotiate a measure acceptable to all sides. | |
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Kevin Drum: THE ROADSHOW CONTINUES...We're at the midpoint of the George Bush Social Security Revival Tour: [snipped quote] There... |
Josh Marshall: An excellent post by Kevin Drum on Bamboozlepalooza and the president's cowardice, which is for the ages. |
In the Name of Politics By / NYT — Permalink St. Louis — BY a series of recent initiatives, Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians. The elements of this transformation have included advocacy of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, opposition... | |
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Ace: Sarcasm aside, however, John Danforth is a fairly solid conservative, and when he hits the panic button on Religious... Ramesh Ponnuru: DANFORTH — Here's what the man writes in today's Times: [snipped quote] Baloney. Dale Franks: What happened to the GOP? Former Republican senator and ambassador John Danforth is criticizing his party today, too. |
Shawn @LiquidList: Yesterday, there was the powerful editorial by John C. Danforth, fiercely (given who he is) critical of the G.O.P. Gregory Djerejian: And John Danforth is worried about the ramifications of the Schiavo affair for the Republican party. Gary Farber: Fascinating to see Reverend John C. Danforth, longtime doyen Republican Senator and leader, briefly Bush 43's Ambassador... |
| Also: EDM Staff, Brad DeLong, Skippy, Hugh Hewitt, Matthew Yglesias, Barbara O'Brien, Billmon, Avedon Carol, Kevin Aylward, Steve Clemons, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Chris Mooney | |
Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' Guardian — Permalink The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure. | |
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Acidman: more gloom and doom — Yeah, we're all gonna die! Again. I wonder if these "scientists" cited in this report are the same ones who signed onto the Kyoto Treaty. Jonah Goldberg: ROLL OVER MALTHUS — This (via Drudge) will launch a huge spike in the number of time Julian Simon's name comes up in Nexis and Google. Orrin Judd: MALTHUSIANS NEVER GIVE UP (via Rick Turley): Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' (Tim Radford, March 30, 2005, The Guardian) "The human race is living beyond its means. |
Paul @Wizbang: UpdateTwo-thirds of world's resources 'used up' The human race is living beyond its means. Betsy Newmark: Thomas Malthus, call your office. We're all doomed. "The human race is living beyond its means. |
A Party Inverted By / NYT — Permalink FIVE months after the presidential election Democrats are still pointing fingers at one another and trying to figure out why Republicans won. Was the problem the party's position on social issues or taxes or defense or what? Were there tactical errors made in the conduct of the campaign? | |
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Jonah Goldberg: CONSERVATIVE SUCCESSES, REPUBLICAN FAILURES — I think Matt Yglesias offers a pretty useful corrective here on the... Ezra Klein: Pyramids — Bill Bradley's op-ed today is so spot-on it brought a tear to my eye. Ann Althouse: On the NYT op-ed page, Former Senator Bill Bradley tries to figure out what the Democratic Party can do to rebuild itself. |
Gregory Djerejian: Bill Bradley, offering advice to the Democrats, explains why "charisma didn't translate into structure." Matthew Yglesias: On today's New York Times op-ed page, Bill Bradley offers up an account of history that's become increasingly popular in... Dale Franks: The VLWC — Bill Bradley, having studied the matter carefully, thinks he knows what's wrong with the Democratic Party. |
| Also: Gary Farber, Kevin Drum, EDM Staff, Kevin Aylward, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Todd Pearson | |
Earlham student hits pundit with pie AP — Permalink RICHMOND, Ind. — A pie in the face didn't silence conservative pundit William Kristol during a speech at Earlham College. A man who later was identified as a student at the private Quaker college jumped onto the stage and splattered Kristol with the pie Tuesday night about 30 minutes into a speech about U.S. foreign policy. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Usually conservative pundit Bill Kristol is left with EGG on his face, but this time...: [snipped quote] DISCLAIMER: We have to admit it. The Big Trunk: In which Bill Kristol sets an example — A student at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana hit Weekly Standard editor... Xan @Corrente: Since of course as Responsible Lefty Bloggers we condemn acts of violence, even ones of the harmless if not downright... |
Betsy Newmark: Sounds like this student really mastered the peace curriculum in his college. Ramesh Ponnuru: NASTY TACTICS — I hope it at least tasted good. Scott Sala: Whatever — How to get your pie and eat it too. Kristol rules. |
The disassembly of Tom DeLay By / MSNBC — Permalink WASHINGTON - A new drama of survival has begun here — political, not physical; legal, not spiritual. The central character isn't a woman in a hospital bed but a controversial Republican leader in the House of Representatives. | |
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Sam Rosenfeld: There's all sorts of interesting speculation about the ifs, whos, and hows of Tom DeLay's possible downfall, and they're all worth reading. Charles Kuffner: I think their fears can be summarized by the closing of this Howard Fineman article: "Inside the GOP leadership on the Hill, DeLay is not beloved. David Allan Pell: Life Support — Howard Fineman: A new drama of survival has begun here â" political, not physical; legal, not spiritual. |
Tom @Corrente: Atrios sends us over to this telling article about Tom DeLay by one of the more tiresome of the "conventional wisdom" pundits, Howard Fineman. Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: Great Minds Think Alike Department as Howard Fineman also sees DeLay as frantically clawing his way to maintain... Atrios: Fork Him — When Howard "The Weathervane" Fineman says DeLay's in trouble... |
Living will is the best revenge By / St. Petersburg Times — Permalink Like many of you, I have been compelled by recent events to prepare a more detailed advance directive dealing with end-of-life issues. Here's what mine says: * In the event I lapse into a persistent vegetative state, I want medical authorities to resort to extraordinary means to prolong my hellish semiexistence. | |
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Avedon Carol: Blogissimo — Living Wills: One from An Age Like This, and a bitterly smart one from Robert Friedman at The St. Petersburg Times (via). Jeralyn Merritt: Robert Friedman's column in the St. Petersburg Times has a persective that I suspect will be echoed frequently in coming days. [link via Atrios. Atrios: Bobby's Law — This is good. |
Brian Linse: John seems to think that Krug is a bit OTT, but I think he's spot on. Robert Freedman has come up with "Bobby's Law". Richard TPD: Savage wit — This is really good. The joys of living for 15 years in a persistent vegetative state. |
Doubts Raised On Schiavo Memo By / WaPo — Permalink Bloggers are swarming around a new target: the Terri Schiavo "talking points." Fresh from declaring victory over CBS News and its discredited National Guard memos about President Bush, some of the same bloggers are raising questions about a strategy memo,... | |
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La Shawn: He finally bites (reg. req.) . Michelle also does an excellent job calling out so-called journalists who have not retracted their stories about the "GOP memo." Hindrocket: The Washington Post's media critic, Howard Kurtz, has now taken up the case in an article titled "Doubts Raised On Schaivo Memo". Captain Ed: ABC, Washington Post Stand By Schiavo Memo ... Mostly — Howard Kurtz addresses the controversy over the memo released... |
RCox: If I don't do it now I am not going to get to it until next week so let me do a quick scan of the 100+ blogs in my RSS... Avedon Carol: And today we have Doubts Raised On Schiavo Memo: [quote] Bloggers are swarming around a new target: the Terri Schiavo "talking points."[end quote] James Joyner: Doubts Raised On Schiavo Memo — A week after the discussion began in the blogosphere, ace media critic Howie Kurtz... |
| Also: Michelle Malkin, Jim Romenesko, Oliver Willis, Betsy Newmark, Tim Graham, Dr. Steven Taylor | |
Medal of Honor to Be Awarded to Soldier Killed in Iraq, a First By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 29 - Sgt. First Class Paul R. Smith, killed nearly two years ago defending his vastly outnumbered Army unit in a fierce battle with elite Iraqi troops for control of Baghdad's airport, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, administration officials said Tuesday. | |
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Colt: IRAQ AND THE GULF An American soldier killed in Iraq two years ago will be awarded the Medal of Honor. Phillip Carter: White House announces Medal of Honor for soldier — Today, the New York Times follows up on a February report from the... Gary Farber: The first Medal of Honor awardee in Iraq. Of course, like over 1500 other American soldiers, and unlike a far huger number of serious casualties, he's dead. |
Dan Froomkin: Special to washingtonpost.com — It is flatly un-American for people to be hauled out of a public event with the... Smash: Extraordinary Heroism and Uncommon Valor — SGT. FIRST CLASS PAUL R. SMITH will be awarded the first Congressional Medal... Tom Maguire: Medal Of Honor To Be Awarded Monday — From Eric Schmitt of the NY Times: [snipped quote] This honor has been wending its way through the system for a while. |
| Also: James Joyner | |
Snow Baffled by Resistance to Private Accounts By / Reuters — Permalink BOZEMAN, Mont. (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Wednesday he was confused by resistance to the Bush administration's plans to overhaul the Social Security system, while protesters blasted the proposed private retirement accounts during his stop in Montana. | |
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Brad DeLong: John Snow Is Genuinely Embarrassing... Jesse Taylor of Pandagon watches Treasury Secretary John Snow embarrass himself,... Josh Marshall: According to Reuters, at the Bamboozlepalooza event today in Bozeman, Secretary Snow said the same thing ... "U.S... |
Jesse Taylor: An Internal Dialogue — John Snow can't figure out why America is opposed to the vague set of platitudes that he's paid to shill for. Kos @DailyKos: Help Snow out — Stupid or pretending to be stupid? [snipped quote] Cost free? No benefits cuts? Not one good reason? |
Diversity Mongers Target the Web By / NRO — Permalink Bad move, guys. The "diversity" mongers have just brought up the one thing that they should have stayed far far away from: the web. Newsweek's technology columnist Steven Levy has declared that the lack of "diversity" among the web's most popular blogs requires corrective action. | |
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Randall Parker: Heather Mac Donald Takes On Claim Of Blogging As Men's Club — Heather Mac Donald responds to charges that blogs are... PoliPundit: The "Diversity" Myth — Heather MacDonald on "diversity" in the blogosphere: [snipped quote] That last theory is, of course, ludicrous. |
John Hawkins: The "Diversity" Myth By Polipundit — Heather MacDonald on "diversity" in the blogosphere: Diversity grievances follow... Kevin Drum: VICTIMHOOD, LOVELY VICTIMHOOD...Conservative City Journal editor Heather Mac Donald writing in the conservative... |
Suit by Detainee on Transfer to Syria Finds Support in Jet's Log By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, March 29 - Maher Arar, a 35-year-old Canadian engineer, is suing the United States, saying American officials grabbed him in 2002 as he changed planes in New York and transported him to Syria where, he says, he was held for 10 months in a dank, tiny cell and brutally beaten with a metal cable. | |
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Avedon Carol: They're pretty sure they have now identified the plane used to kidnap Maher Arar so he could be taken to Syria and tortured for no good reason. Zach Neumann: The NY Times reports: [snipped quote] I understand that certain constitutional provisions have to be circumvented from time to time in the name of national security. Randy Paul: A Measure of Vindication for Maher Arar — There appears to be a small measure of vindication for Maher Arar:... |
John Quiggin: I happened to read the poll results on the same day as this NYT story about Maher Arar, whose 'extraordinary rendition' has been covered in detail at Obsidian Wings. Pudentilla: "rendition" - awol speak for kidnapping and outsourced torture recently reviewed federal aviation records support the... Gary Farber: WHAT MAHER ARAR? His story has now been corroborated in part. [snipped quote] Tail Number N379P is another. |
| Also: Tom Tomorrow | |
Schiavo Appeal Rejected Again in Atlanta By / AP — Permalink PINELLAS PARK, Fla. Mar 30, 2005 — With time running out for Terri Schiavo, a federal appeals court Wednesday rejected her parents' latest attempt to get the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reconnected. | |
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Judith Weiss: Human rights watch, cont. Previous Terri Schiavo entries here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. Captain Ed: In denying the Schindlers a final en banc appeal, the opinion for the denial includes a shot at Congress and the... |
Kevin Aylward: [WND] 15 hours ago the gave the family a glimmer of hope, this afternoon all hope is lost - Schiavo Appeal Rejected... James Joyner: Schiavo Appeal Rejected Again in Atlanta (AP) [snipped quote] As those who've followed my commentary on this case know, I agree one hundred percent. |
Red Dusk By / Opinion Journal — Permalink HOLLYWOOD—Considering how steeped in elitism last month's Academy Awards were—with "lesser" winners forced to stay back in their aisles or dutifully line up on stage, thus robbing them of a once-in-a-lifetime trip down the aisle—Hollywood sure has embraced communism with open arms. | |
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Damian Penny: The missing movies — Speaking of Hollywood, Bridget Johnson asks an excellent question in OpinionJournal: there are two... Betsy Newmark: Bridget Johnson has a very good piece in the Wall Street Journal about how Hollywood has decline to show the horrors of... Dean Esmay: Meanwhile, Bridget Johnson notes that it's has some serious suggestions for movies Hollywood should be making, but isn't. |
Arthur Chrenkoff: Kind of on the topic, don't miss Bridget Johnson's piece in today's "Opinion Journal" on the Hollywood's continuing... Ed Driscoll: Don't Hold Your Breath In the Wall Street Journal, Bridget Johnson has an essay titled "Red Dusk", in which she writes... PoliPundit: Hollywood and Communism — Hollywood's love affair with murderous Communist thugs continues: [snipped quote] For the... |
An unholy alliance By / CNN — Permalink SEBRING, Florida (CNN) — A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them — and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist group and al Qaeda. | |
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Colt: THE AMERICAS The unholy alliance: the Aryan Nation and al-Qaeda. Daniel Pipes asks, What Are Islamic Schools Teaching? Orrin Judd: An unholy alliance: Aryan Nation leader reaches out to al Qaeda (Henry Schuster, March 29, 2005, CNN) [snipped quote] Certainly sounds like a Realist. |
Charles Johnson: White Supremacists and Islamic Supremacists — The leader of the white supremacist group Aryan Nation recognizes kindred spirits in radical Islam: An unholy alliance. |
Cheney's Daughter Says She'll Write Memoir NYT — Permalink Mary Cheney, the daughter and campaign manager of Vice President Dick Cheney whose identity as a lesbian became an issue in the presidential campaign, has sold the rights to a memoir to Simon & Schuster for an advance of about $1 million, according to two people involved in the negotiations. | |
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S.Z.: I'm Holding Out for the Novelization of an MTV Movie About Being a Bush Twin Per the NY Times, Cheney's Daughter Says... Taegan Goddard: The New York Times has more on the deal. Link | Related News |
Gary Farber: AM I OUTING HER BY MENTIONING THIS? Mary Cheney is writing a memoir. [snipped quote] Could be interesting, could be anodyne. |
The Schiavo travesty, &c. NRO — Permalink Some of you — some readers — have asked me to comment on the Schiavo case. But I'm afraid I can't — not properly — because I'm so appalled by it. I am still adjusting to the fact that I'm living in a country that will gladly starve a helpless woman to death. | |
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Susan Madrak: 'WHO WOULD IT HURT? ' See what I mean about conservatives being, well, stupid? |
Tim Dunlop: They are desperate for her to die so that they can turn around and call those who disagree with them—70% of Americans,... |
Patrick Kennedy Will Not Run for Senate By / AP — Permalink PROVIDENCE, R.I. Mar 30, 2005 — Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said Wednesday he can better serve his state constituents by staying in the House of Representatives, so he will not run for Senate in 2006. | |
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Gary Farber: UPDATE: Patrick Kennedy is not running for the Senate. Taegan Goddard: Kennedy Will Not Run for Senate — Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) said [snipped quote] the AP reports. The Providence Journal has more. |
Alexander K. McClure: 2006 Rhode Island Senate Race — In what is getting to be a comedy, Representative Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island has decided not to run against incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee. |
Insuring Against the Inevitable By / TCS — Permalink Do you think Social Security gives you a raw deal? I do. Every two weeks my wages are docked by 12.4 percent — not chump change. If the Social Security system doesn't collapse under the weight of smug complacency, I can expect a modest Social Security retirement benefit that pays about half my current modest wages. | |
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Will Wilkinson: Anyway, the oversight is that I failed to mention my piece in TCS the other day, "Insuring Against the Inevitable" on... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: WILL WILKINSON ON SOCIAL SECURITY — Naturally, I think this makes excellent sense. |
First Lady Says She and President Have Living Wills By / NYT — Permalink Laura Bush said on Tuesday that she and her husband have living wills that would guide medical decisions if either of them became incapacitated like the Florida woman whose case has dominated public debate for weeks. | |
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Dan Froomkin: Living Wills Anne E. Kornblut writes in the New York Times: "Laura Bush said on Tuesday that she and her husband have... James Joyner: First Lady Says She and President Have Living Wills (NYT) [snipped quote] Their example should, as the Schiavo case makes clear, be followed by all Americans. |
Pudentilla: jerry falwell is stable but critical. awol and his wife, as well as their parents, have living wills. |
Records chronicle Craddick-PAC ties By / Dallas Morning News — Permalink AUSTIN - Rep. Tom Craddick and a pro-Republican group shared extensive phone calls, fundraisers, campaign checks and mutual promotion while the Midland lawmaker was pushing to become House speaker, a review of civil court records shows. | |
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Charles Kuffner: All that without even mentioning that there ought to be a continuing stream of news coming out of Texas, all with ties back to DeLay. |
Kos @DailyKos: And will indictments be issued? The case against both TAB and Craddick appear strong. |
Most of the EU cast miss Wolfowitz 'audition' By / Financial Times — Permalink Paul Wolfowitz, the US nominee to head the World Bank, on Wednesday gave what one minister described as "a positive signal" by making a flying visit to Brussels to help alleviate European concerns about his appointment. | |
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Pessimist @LeftCoaster: The Old World has spoken loudly about the selection of Paul Wolfowicz to head the World Bank: No, Non, Nein, Nyet, ... |
Robert Tagorda: Most of the EU Cast Miss Wolfowitz 'Audition' (FT) "Paul Wolfowitz, the US nominee to head the World Bank, on Wednesday... |
Bush Chides Lawmakers Over Social Security By / AP — Permalink CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - President Bush suggested Wednesday that lawmakers who oppose his proposal for a Social Security overhaul could face political problems as a result. "To answer the question of the skeptics, we do have a serious problem," Bush said in an interview aired on WMT AM radio here and on WHO NewsRadio in Des Moines. | |
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Yuval Rubinstein: As the Bamboozlepalooza tour continues to sputter along (sorta like the political equivalent of Bob Dylan's Neverending... |
Susan Madrak: THREATS — Is he just stupid, or stubborn? [snipped quote] Gee, ya think? |
Scout official guilty in porno case NY Daily News — Permalink FORT WORTH, Texas - A former high-ranking Boy Scouts of America official who ran a task force that worked to protect children from sexual abuse pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possession and distribution of child pornography. | |
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Mark Kleiman: Doesn't that make you feel safe? Footnote: To satisfy your prurient interest: Married, father of two. |
David Allan Pell: Scout's Dishonor — Let's keep the recent child-porn arrest of a Boy Scouts employee in perspective. |