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In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths By / NYT — Permalink Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him. The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. | |
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David Corn: And on the issue of tolerance and US attitudes toward Muslims, I doubt that pleasantries from Mrs. Bush will go further... Joe Gandelman: The American style of winning their hearts and minds and extracting information has not generally been perceived as... Barbara O'Brien: Dissing Our Troops — Steve M. of No More Mister Nice Blog wrote what I was going to write about the newly released details of Afghan inmates' deaths. |
Dr. Steven Taylor: On Prisoners and Abuses — Via the NYT: In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths [snipped quote] I... Richard TPD: They love us everywhere we go! And why shouldn't they? [snipped quote] Somehow it's un-American to report stuff like this. Chris Bowers: The War On Civilization — Army documents: Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. |
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Bush Vows to Veto Measure Easing Stem Cell Restriction By / NYT — Permalink President Bush said today he would veto a measure that would ease restrictions on federal financing of the embryonic stem cell research if it is approved by Congress. | |
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Riggsveda @Corrente: We have a president who agonizes over the destruction of a muticellular organism with no more potential for life than... Chris Bowers: With red states not content to watch their own scientists disappear, they also seek to clamp down on blue state science:... K. J. Lopez: ROCK OF LIFE — The president today said he'll veto the Castle stem-cell restriction-easing bill in the House if passed:... |
Matthew Yglesias: This is by no means an orginal point, but since stem cells are back in the news, it's always worth reiterating that... Glenn Reynolds: MORE WRONG NOTES ON STEM CELLS: "Setting up a showdown with Congress over the thorny issue of embryonic stem cell... Armando @DailyKos: President Dobson To Veto Bill Easing Restriction On Stem Cell Research — The post-nuclear option future today: [snipped quote] Maybe we should invade Soth Korea? |
Saddam to sue over prison photos BBC — Permalink Saddam Hussein plans to take legal action after a British newspaper published photos of him half-naked in his prison cell and doing his washing. "We will sue the newspaper and everyone who helped in showing these pictures," said Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer Ziad Al-Khasawneh, speaking from Jordan. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: The Y-front affronts — The Underpantsgate scandal continues to unfold, with Saddam now threatening through one of his... Charles Johnson: Ex-Dictator Threatens Lawsuit — Saddam to sue over prison photos. Michelle Malkin: Reports the Post's Gersh Kuntzman: [snipped quote] And now Saddam is going to sue?!?! Like Power Line sez: Cry me a river. |
Cernig: According to the BBC report, the Sun's source is quoted as saying "it's important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth." Joe Gandelman: NOTE TO THE SUN: Please don't run the photos of Sadaam on the toilet. UPDATE: Sadaam plans to sue. Cookie Jill: le beebs and what did our commander cookoo bananas have to say? |
Bush promises probe into Saddam underwear pictures Reuters — Permalink LONDON (Reuters) - Washington promised an investigation on Friday into how pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants were splashed across the front-page of Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Update update: "Bush Promises Probe Into Saddam Underwear Pictures." No word on a probe into the death of Dilawar the innocent taxi driver. Nick Gillespie: Update: President Bush and other US officials have condemned publication of the photos and have supposedly already... Zoe Kentucky: Headline of the Day — "Bush Promises Probe into Saddam Underwear Pictures" OK, yeah, so I watch too much South Park. |
Michael J. Totten: UPDATE: Yahoo news headline: Bush promises probe into Saddam underwear pictures. I would have written that another way myself. Attaturk: Snark Alert — The Headline from Reuters: Bush promises probe into Saddam underwear pictures I'd like it even better... Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Can Reuters Come Up With a Worse Headline? Bush promises probe into Saddam underwear pictures nuff said… |
Bush would veto House bill on stem cells By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Friday he would veto legislation that would loosen restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and expressed concern about human cloning research in South Korea. | |
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Cernig: But Hark nailed it, this is the brewing "perfect storm" as far as the Republican Party are concerned and today Bush came out for the luddites. Acidman: morality, my ass — I totally disagree with this stance by the President. And "stance" might be the wrong word. |
Nico @ThinkProgress: Bush Ratchets Up Fight Against Stem Cell Research — Today President Bush announced that he plans to veto any... John Cole: Stem Cells — I was going to write a big long post on Bush's threat to veto stem cell legislation and how although I had... |
U.S. Denounces Release of Candid Hussein Photographs By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 20 - The United States military and the White House expressed anger and dismay today over the unauthorized release of photographs of a jailed Saddam Hussein in his underwear and performing mundane activities. | |
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Garance Franke-Ruta: First shots of Saddam Hussein in his shorts were splashed across a British tabloid and picked up by Matt Drudge — and... Kieran Healy: When someone—presumably a soldier or other coalition official—leaks photos of Saddam in his underpants to the Sun, the... |
Nico @ThinkProgress: "[NYT, 5/20/05]" UPDATE: And here's an ironic note. Commissar: Photoshop Wanted — Of Saddam Hussein, in his underwear, being forced to flush a Koran, by a grinning female American soldier. |
The Best P.R.: Straight Talk By / NYT — Permalink The fact that the White House spokesman Scott McClellan spent part of his briefing on Tuesday excoriating Newsweek - and telling its editors that they had a responsibility to "help repair the damage" to America's standing in the Arab-Muslim world - while not... | |
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Praktike: Friedman, Jacoby, and Brooks — This trio of pundits has used l'affaire Newsweek to argue that the United States or the... Dale Franks: Straight Talk — Thomas Friedman writes we should be dealing with the Arab World with some straight talk. Cori Dauber: Make it a Temp Job — What the hell — if Karen Hughes won't take the job until her kid starts college, maybe Tom Friedman is interested in taking another leave from the Times. |
Jeff Jarvis: Where is the outrage? (continued) : Tom Friedman says we are not demanding outrage from Muslim leaders and the White House over Muslims murdering Muslims. Attaturk: Tommy Friedman, putting words into the mouth of Bush... "Newsweek may have violated journalistic rules..." Okay, first... Matthew Yglesias: Thomas Friedman: [snipped quote] Needless to say, while Afghanistan does contain many ethnic groups, there are no Arabs there. |
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Poll: Most Want Assertive Senate on Judges By / AP — Permalink (05-20) 20:25 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) — More than three-quarters of Americans say the Senate should aggressively examine federal judicial nominees and not just approve them because they are the president's choices. | |
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Gerry @DalyThoughts: AP-Ipsos Poll On Judge Battle — Link. Orrin Judd: MORE: Poll: Most Want Assertive Senate on Judges (WILL LESTER, May 20, 2005, The Associated Press) "More than... |
Jeralyn Merritt: Poll: 78% of Americans Oppose Rubber Stamping Judges — A new Associated Press poll shows that 78% of Americans believe... |
Bush: Ideology Motivates Iraq Insurgents By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON May 20, 2005 — President Bush said Friday that he did not think photos of imprisoned Saddam Hussein clad only in his underwear would incite further anti-American violence in Iraq. "I don't think a photo inspires murderers," Bush said. | |
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Arthur Silber: NEWSWEEK: KILLERS! NY POST: EH. May 20th, 2005 My, oh my. My, my, my. Ken Layne: [snipped quote] Choose your preferred reaction: One: How conveeeeeeenient! |
Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: Via The Light Of Reason, I see that Bush has changed his views on media responsibility for violence, and about whether the White House should tell journalists what to do. |
The Rise of Pajamas Media By / TCS — Permalink We've recently learned that Google News is seeking technology patents to rank stories on its news site "based on the quality of the news source." Naturally, this has caused concern among bloggers that their sites will be ranked lower — or perhaps not ranked... | |
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Roger L. Simon: It could do so easily enough on its website where a video now appears that could be described as highly-editorial in support of the article. Pejman Yousefzadeh: MY TECH CENTRAL STATION COLUMN IS UP — Break out your pajamas and give it a read. |
Ed Driscoll: (Incidentally, any man who's as great a writer as O'Rourke, and whose first initials are "P.J." definitely needs to be hooked up with Pajamas Media!) |
Cuban dissidents rally in Havana CNN — Permalink HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — In what organizers called an unprecedented event, dissidents from groups opposed to Fidel Castro's communist regime gathered publicly Friday and chanted "Down with Fidel." "Freedom! | |
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Glenn Reynolds: DEMOCRACY IN CUBA takes another small step: [snipped quote] More, including pictures, here, from Sardinian blogger... K. J. Lopez: "HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) — In what organizers called an unprecedented event, dissidents from groups opposed to Fidel... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: A NEW HOPE — More of this, please: "In what organizers called an unprecedented event, dissidents from groups opposed... |
Santorum Regrets Making Hitler Comment By / AP — Permalink (05-20) 08:53 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Rick Santorum says he "meant no offense" by referring to Adolf Hitler while defending the GOP's right to ban judicial filibusters as Senate leaders prepared to start a countdown Friday to a vote over whether to stop minority senators from blocking President Bush's judicial nominees. | |
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Jan Haugland: The filibuster nazis — Sen. Rick Santorum is the last idiot out violating Godwin's Law, comparing something comparatively trivial to Hitler. Betsy Newmark: Let's not debase the language by making false comparisons. UPDATE: At least he had the good grace to apologize quickly. |
Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: Santorum uninserts foot from mouth: [quote] Sen. Rick Santorum says he "meant no offense" by referring to Adolf Hitler...[end quote] John Cole: Santorum Backed Down — Santorum apologized, sort of, using a variation of the "I am sorry people misunderstood what I... |
Photos of Underwear-Clad Saddam Published By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq May 20, 2005 — British and American newspapers published photos Friday showing an imprisoned Saddam Hussein clad only in his underwear and washing his laundry, prompting an angry U.S. military to launch an investigation and the Red Cross to say the pictures may violate the Geneva Conventions. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: The Arab media - with the exception of Al-Arabiya - has been very squeamish about broadcasting the pictures: "Jihad... Jeff Goldstein: "Photos of Underwear-Clad Saddam Published" — From the AP: [snipped quote] Well, Newsweek is no doubt ecstatic about... |
John @PowerLine: The Associated Press reports: "Saddam's chief lawyer, Ziad al-Khasawneh, said his legal team would sue The Sun because... |
SADDAM'S LIFE IS A HARD CELL By / New York Post — Permalink Now Saddam is no longer the tyrant who oppressed millions of Iraqis and slaughtered thousands. He's an old man awaiting the Mother of All Trials in a dingy cell, washing his own socks and sleeping in his coat. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Murdoch Tabloids Splash Saddam Hussein Underwear Pics Around The Globe saddam_052005.jpg Rupert Murdoch's two tabloid... Michelle Malkin: SAGGY SADDAM IN BRIEFS — You've seen the photos of poor old Saddam in his skivvies, but there are some other... |
Scott Sala: And of course, the New York Post followed suit, posting this cover of Saddam Hussein on today's issue. Max B. Sawicky: UNDERGATE — The Saddam-in-Skivvies pix reflects one or more of the following: * An abysmal state of discipline among... |
Brand Hillary By / The Nation — Permalink Not long ago, Senator Hillary Clinton went on a 2006 re-election campaign swing through the North Country, that vast expanse of upstate New York that stretches from Albany to the Canadian border. | |
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Scott Sala: Technorati Tags: NY+Red+State New+York+Red+State — Even The Left Sees Through Hillary's Deception The far-Left magazine... Taegan Goddard: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), quoted by The Nation. Update: Josh Marshall takes the point further, arguing "this whole... |
McQ: Brand Clinton — Greg Sargent has an interesting article in "The Nation" in which he discusses the branding of Hillary Clinton. Vox Day: Translation: I'm still evil — From The Nation: [snipped quote] "I haven't given up." |
Shiites Stage Mass Anti-U.S. Protests By / AP — Permalink NAJAF, Iraq - Thousands of Shiites stomped on American flags painted on roads outside mosques in a show of anger over the U.S. presence in Iraq, while Sunni leaders called Friday for a closure of places of worship to protest the sectarian violence many fear may erupt into civil war. | |
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Justin Delabar: After American troops imprisoned 13 of his associates in a recent raid, Sadr called for massive demonstrations against... |
Cookie Jill: "- ap" |
Kabbalist Blesses Jones: Nows the Time to Find Holy Lost Ark Arutz Sheva — Permalink An unnamed Kabbalist has granted blessing to famed archeologist Dr. Vendyl Jones to uncover the Holy Ark of the Covenant. Jones plans to excavate the Lost Ark by the Tisha B'Av Fast this summer. | |
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Tom @ScaredMonkeys: In Search of the Ark of the Covenant — IndyjonesThis is an Intriguing Story, all we need are some scary looking Nazi's driving around the desert. |
Matt Welch: Friday Fun Link — Or maybe Friday Fascinating Link ... this Theodore Dalrymple mind-bender is best summarized in Doktor... |
As Dems shore up base, GOP goes 'raiding' By / USA Today — Permalink WASHINGTON — National party chairmen Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman have the same job titles but different jobs. One is on a mission to rebuild, the other to expand. National party chairmen Howard Dean, left, and Ken Mehlman are taking different paths in building their memberships. | |
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Captain Ed: Democrats Dissatisfied With Dean — USA Today picks up on a building realization in political circles that Howard Dean... Orrin Judd: THE PREVENT DEFENSE: As Dems shore up base, GOP goes 'raiding' (Jill Lawrence, 5/19/05, USA TODAY) [snipped quote] The... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: More evidence that thus far, Howard Dean is not a hit with his fellow Democrats: [snipped quote] Perhaps Dean and his... Taegan Goddard: A Tale of Two Parties — "National party chairmen Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman have the same job titles but different jobs," USA Today reports. |
Off We Go, Into the Christian Yonder By / LAT — Permalink Air Force Academy situation shows the real agenda of evangelicals. Conservatives have been arguing for years that the religious right is simply misunderstood. These vilified godly folks don't want to impose their beliefs on anybody else, we're told. | |
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Ken Masugi: "Theocracy" at the Air Force Academy — In his regular LA Times column, New Republic Senior Editor Jonathan Chait maintains that the U.S. Hugh Hewitt: The New Republic's Jonathan Chait urges on the inquisitors at the Air Force Academy: "As a number of newspapers have... |
Chris Lawrence: The spotlight, of course, is on DeBerry due to the Air Force Academy's apparent religious indoctrination problem, but... |
Movie Math By / Washington Times — Permalink While "Star Wars" buffs are counting on "Episode III, Revenge of the Sith" to redeem the reputation of the franchise, Hollywood teeth-gnashers are hoping it kick-starts a slumping movie market. | |
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Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Read this article by Scott Galupo in the Washington Times on how the film industry use accounting tricks to shortchange the actors and producers in Hollywood. Glenn Reynolds: SCOTT GALUPO looks at movie math and box-office hype. |
John Cole: Dead Wrong — Wrong: [snipped quote] If my friends and I are any indication, Mr. Wagner could not be more wrong. |
US anger at Saddam underwear shot BBC — Permalink The US military says it is investigating "aggressively" after a picture appeared in a British paper showing Saddam Hussein half naked. The Sun newspaper's front page image showed the former Iraqi president in a pair of white underpants. | |
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Cookie Jill: candid camera saddam didn't need to go on mtv to answer the question...boxers or briefs [snipped quote] hmmmm...they... Jan Haugland: Saddam Hussein in his underwear — The Sun:Saddam Hussein in his underpants The US military expresses anger that... |
Scott Sala: The US Military is denying it played a n organized role in the release of the photos, saying it is aggressively investigating who leaked the photos. Patrick Belton: THE SUN makes Saddam their page three girl. Circulation plummets. |
Red Cross Reported Koran Abuses By / NYT — Permalink The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that it had given the Pentagon "multiple" reports from detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that American personnel had mishandled the Koran. The committee said the complaints from detainees then ceased. | |
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Commissar: Red Cross Reported Hostage Neck Abuses from the NY Times: The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday... |
Andrew Sullivan: THE RED CROSS REPORTS: We now know that the International Red Cross compiled records of allegations of mistreatment of... |
Exploiting a Misconception By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush's meticulously stage-managed presentations on Social Security have slowly shifted into a new phase, in which White House aides find misinformed young people to share the stage with the president and assert that Social Security won't be there at all when they retire. | |
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Brad DeLong: (Yet Another Bush Social Security Edition) Daniel Froomkin watches the clown show that is the Bush administration on... |
Barbara O'Brien: Stooges — Be sure to read Dan Froomkin's column on how Bush is exploiting young people hand-picked for their obliviousness to destroy Social Security. |
How Bush Makes Sure They Agree By / LAT — Permalink MILWAUKEE — As President Bush resumes his cross-country campaign to promote his vision of Social Security restructuring, it's no secret that he is relying on outside organizations to help provide the supporting cast. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Froomkin also links to this Los Angeles Times story about how these poor little stooges are chosen. |
Plutonium Page: The LA Times tells us more about Bush's hand-picked audiences: "As President Bush resumes his cross-country campaign to... |
Senators Work on Filibuster Compromise By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Two of the Senate's senior statesmen, Republican John Warner and Democrat Robert Byrd, are stepping to the forefront of efforts to avert a showdown over whether an out-of-power party can use Senate filibusters to effectively thwart a president from reshaping the nation's courts to his liking. | |
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Dirty Harry: In this AP story, Democrat Robert Byrd from West Virginia said that one possible truce would be making the president... |
Captain Ed: Santorum Apologizes For Nazi Analogy — Senator Rick Santorum apologized for his remarks during the Senate debate... |
Transportation vote forces a showdown By / Indianapolis Star — Permalink WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly passed a transportation bill Tuesday that would plow billions into highway and transit projects through the end of the decade, but states say that isn't enough to keep pace with growing traffic congestion. | |
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Greg Saunders: Greg Saunders: All Bark, No Bite Dubya's been acting like a tough guy all week with promises to veto bills on highway... |
Greg @TheTalentShow: All Bark, No Bite — Dubya's been acting like a tough guy all week with promises to veto bills on highway spending... |
Countdown begins in Senate judicial showdown Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The clock began ticking in the Republican-led U.S. Senate on Friday toward "the nuclear option," a procedural bid to wipe out the power of Democrats to block input type="hidden" name="c1" value=" "/ President Bush's conservative judicial nominees. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Headline Reaction — Senate nears showdown on judges. And this would be a bad thing because? |
Jeralyn Merritt: Frist to Invoke Cloture This Morning — Bump and Update: As anticipated, Frist kicked off the nuclear option today by... |
U.S. Condemns Publication of Saddam Photos AP — Permalink LONDON (AP) - The U.S. military on Friday condemned a British newspaper's decision to print photographs of a captive Saddam Hussein, including one showing him in his underwear. A front-page picture in the tabloid Sun showed the former Iraqi dictator, clad only in white briefs, folding a pair of trousers. | |
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Steve M.: The U.S. military is shocked, shocked (even though The Sun claims the photo came from "U.S. military sources"). |
John Cole: Not sure how those pictures got out, but I really am not going to lose any sleep over it. |
GOP's current position mirrors Democrats' spot in 1993 By / Knight Ridder — Permalink WASHINGTON - Republicans are starting to find themselves in the same kind of political environment that Democrats faced in the summer of 1993 - the year before the Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Well, if these Tom DeLay quotes really represent his strategy for avoiding losses in the '06 midterms, then the Democrats really are in good shape. |
Kevin Drum: BACK TO THE FUTURE....Is it 1993 all over again? [snipped quote] Well, we can hope. And with that, I'm off to see Star Wars. |
The Chinese Connection By / NYT — Permalink Stories about the new Treasury report condemning China's currency policy probably had most readers going, "Huh?" Frankly, this is an issue that confuses professional economists, too. But let me try to explain what's going on. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times | |
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Orrin Judd: THEY MAKE SOCKS, WE MAKE STOCKS: The Chinese Connection (PAUL KRUGMAN, 5/20/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] We're not big... Ed Cone: In this morning's NYT, Krugman says: "In other words, we've developed an addiction to Chinese dollar purchases, and will... |
Richard TPD: But Krugman has a unique way of siumplifying things, and those who want to better understand the issues over the yuan and America's heated rhetoric should read his column today. |
Pictures show Iraq's Saddam in his underwear Reuters — Permalink "/ Saddam Hussein in his underpants splashed across the front-page of Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper on Friday prompted an outraged reaction from his lawyers. Other photographs showed Saddam, with short, dyed-black hair and a mustache, washing clothes by hand and asleep on his bed. | |
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Zoe Kentucky: First there's this, the story about a London tabloid publishing somewhat embarassing pictures of Saddam Hussein in his... Dr. Steven Taylor: Things I Don't Want to See — Pictures show Iraq's Saddam in his underwear On the one hand, it has a certain amusing... |
Joe Gandelman: Tabloid Runs Photos Of Sadaam In His Underwear — So now we have the answer to the world's most infrequently asked question about former Iraqi dictator Sadaam Hussein: briefs. |
Newsweek's Mistakes By / WaPo — Permalink The first reaction I saw to Newsweek's retraction of that now-famous item came from out of the blogosphere — someone attributing the mistake to the magazine's "antiwar reporting." | |
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Avedon Carol: But both he and the dreary Richard Cohen are still making the mistake of thinking that the Newsweek story itself was wrong. Jim Romenesko: Cohen: Antiwar bias wasn't behind Newsweek's mistake — Washington Post Richard Cohen doesn't see an antiwar slant in... |
Cori Dauber: Take a look, given that, at this column from the Post's Richard Cohen on Newsweek's mistakes today. |
Frist starts countdown to final vote on nominee By / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Permalink WASHINGTON — Rhetorical shots continued to fly yesterday as the Senate completed a second day of debate over Priscilla R. Owen, President Bush's controversial pick for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. | |
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Captain Ed: The Byrd Option Is About To Take Wing — Bill Frist will take another step towards invoking the Byrd Option of getting a... Gerry @DalyThoughts: Frist starts countdown to final vote on nominee — The Post-Gazette: "This morning, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist... Jeralyn Merritt: Original Post 6:30 am The next stage of the Nuclear Option begins this morning when Sen. Bill Frist will... |
Brendan Nyhan: Nuclear option clown show: Rick Santorum — Rick Santorum distinguishes himself once again: Santorum said the suggestion... Steve Soto: Update: Little Ricky says he meant no offense. Taegan Goddard: Santorum Clarifies Hitler Comment — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) issued a... |
Waiting for the noose By / The Sun — Permalink THE noose beckons for the world's most notorious prisoner as he whiles away his last days in an Iraqi jail. Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad, is today a broken man. But hanging will be seen by victims and their relatives as too good for him after his sadistic 30-year reign of terror. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Britain's biggest selling tabloid, "The Sun", has today's scoop. In the tradition of "Page 3 girls", comes "Page 1 dictator", semi-nude. |
Nick Gillespie: I See London, France, Saddam's.... underpants. Courtesy (?) of Drudge and The Sun. One question: What's he looking for in his trousers? |
Deal would allow vote on 5 Bush judicial picks CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — A bid to end the Senate standoff over President Bush's judicial picks would let five nominees advance to a final vote while preserving the right of a minority of senators to block two others. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: The latest from CNN confirms that five of seven would be confirmed. I'm still hearing only Myers and Saad would be rejected. |
Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Filibuster Deal Aborts 'Nuclear Option' by Scott Ott (2005-05-20) — Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, today announced that a... |
Saddam underwear photo angers US BBC — Permalink The US military says it is investigating "aggressively" after a picture appeared in a British paper showing Saddam Hussein half naked. The Sun newspaper's front page image showed the former Iraqi president in a pair of white underpants. | |
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Zoe Kentucky: But here's the kicker— the U.S. is "angry" and forcefully "condmens" this act and promises to "aggressively... |
Joe Gandelman: The BBC reports that the U.S. military is not guffawing: "The US said the photos appeared to breach Geneva Convention rules on the humane treatment of prisoners of war. |
Leader of the Band By / American Prospect — Permalink Back in January, not long after Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist committed his caucus to the nuclear option, Senator John Warner came as close as he has yet in taking a side on the filibuster debate now at a rolling boil in the Senate. | |
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Taegan Goddard: The American Prospect says Sen. John Warner (R-VA) may be the key to a compromise, and because he will retire after his... |
Armando @DailyKos: The American Prospect identifies Senator John Warner (R-VA) as the key to whether Frist's Nuclear Option succeeds or fails. |
Guilty or not, here she comes -- Nancy Grace brings mob justice to CNN By / San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink "How many boys claim or witnesses claim they saw Jackson's hands down some kid's pants? ... A number. A number. Can anybody give me a number? With all the porn, pajamas and Culkin-related distractions in the Michael Jackson case, it's easy to forget that his criminal trial is similar to thousands of others conducted every year. | |
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Brian Stelter: Nancy Grace's "Torch-Bearing Mob" — Nancy Grace — the CNN Headline News show, not the personality — "more closely... Jeralyn Merritt: Guilty or Not: Here She Comes — If you've ever wanted to throw the remote control through the front of your tv set when... |
Jim Romenesko: Grace's rants are more dangerous than O'Reilly's, says critic — San Francisco Chronicle Why? |
U.S. Moves to Reassert Itself in Iraq Affairs LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Facing an intensifying insurgency and a frail government in Baghdad, the Bush administration has reluctantly changed course to deepen its involvement in the process of running Iraq. | |
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Juan Cole: Meanwhile, the LA Times reports that the Americans have decided to get more involved in mediating Iraqi decision-making,... Praktike: Anything you can do, I can do better — So are Iran and the United States just going to keep sending high-level... |
Richard TPD: But there's just no denying it. When you can't get out no matter how hard you try, you're in a quagmire. Arthur Silber: NO PUPPETS HERE — May 20th, 2005 Story: [snipped quote] Much more commentary here. |
No riots for Hollywood By / Townhall.com — Permalink The riots caused by Newsweek's story claiming American interrogators were flushing the Koran caused many Americans to be amazed by the extreme reaction in the Islamic world. | |
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Roger Ailes: el-Brent's Cartoon Watch — In his latest column, L. Brent Bozell excoriates Michelle Malkin for publishing a book chock full o' falsehoods and reckless, unresearched smears. |
Jesse Taylor: Brent, they don't give you an "off" button in prison — Shorter Brent Bozell: Being tortured in an Afghani prison is... |
The Chamber Meets the Force By / WaPo — Permalink Senators love to talk about their chamber as the "world's greatest deliberative body." Yesterday morning, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) used the phrase. Yesterday afternoon, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) used it. | |
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Brendan Nyhan: "World's greatest deliberative body" — Dana Milbank joins me in mocking the nuclear option clown show: Senators love to... |
Scott Sala: Technorati Tags: caption+contest Hillary+honorary+degree Hillary+Agnes+college — Santorum Rick Santorum brought shame to Republicans yesterday by invoking Hitler. |
Red Cross Says It Told U.S. in 2002 About Alleged Mishandling of Koran By / WaPo — Permalink The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that it repeatedly expressed concern to the U.S. government in 2002 and early 2003 about a series of credible detainee allegations that military guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba had mishandled and shown disrespect to the Koran. | |
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Cori Dauber: We're Neutral — Unless We Can Pile On — All of a sudden the ICRC decides it can take its findings public. Why in this case? |
Zoe Kentucky: Why does the Red Cross want to hurt America by talking about the Koran being abused? [snipped quote] They're clearly lying! |
British tabloid publishes photos of detained Saddam CNN — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. military officials are condemning the release of photographs — published in a popular British tabloid — showing Saddam Hussein in prison, promising an aggressive investigation and steps to assure the breach never happens again. | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: In the current political climate, the top brass aren't happy - and are trying to pre-empt the inevitable media outcry... |
Jeralyn Merritt: Three to get you going: I see London, I see France, but spare me Saddam in his underpants. Ideas of how the London tabloid got the photos? |
Bipartisan Group Seeks Own Course On Nominees By / WaPo — Permalink At times they have appeared agonizingly close to a deal. At other times their cause has seemed hopeless. But what is most remarkable about the dozen or so senators working to avert a historic showdown over President Bush's judicial nominees is their potential... | |
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Taegan Goddard: The Washington Post notes that "what is most remarkable about the dozen or so senators working to avert a historic... Orrin Judd: Bipartisan Group Seeks Own Course On Nominees (Dan Balz, May 20, 2005, Washington Post) "At times they have appeared agonizingly close to a deal. K. J. Lopez: THE SPECTER — I'm obliged to point out: From the Washington Post, in a loving piece on "center" pols: "Judiciary... |
Betsy Newmark: The group of Republican and Democratic Senators are still working away furiously at a compromise to forestall any vote on doing away with the minority's judicial filibusters. Jeralyn Merritt: The Mechanics of the Senate Compromise — The Washington Post has a good explanation of the mechanics of the nuclear... |
Big-time bigotry By / Townhall.com — Permalink Maybe the non-stop denunciations of judicial nominees by Senate Democrats will seem relevant to some people but it is in fact wholly beside the point. Senators who don't like any particular judicial nominee — or any nominee for any other federal appointment — have a right to vote against that nominee for any reason or for no reason. | |
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Jesse Taylor: A guy who writes for a site that allows only arch-conservative commentators discusses ideological bigotry, entirely unironically. |
Betsy Newmark: Thomas Sowell puts his finger on a disturbing trend. |
Koreans Say They Cloned Embryos for Stem Cells By / WaPo — Permalink Scientists in South Korea reported making nearly a dozen cloned human embryos that are genetic twins of patients with various medical problems and have isolated from those embryos batches of stem cells with the potential to replace failing tissues in those patients. | |
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Avedon Carol: In other news, I never thought I'd see the day when South Korea was scientifically ahead of us, but then they don't have laws against stem cell research. K. J. Lopez: OK, SO...the Washington Post didn't get to anti-cloner Richard Doerflinger (apparently the only anti-cloning person... |
Chris Mooney: That seems to be the big question about the new therapeutic cloning news, which comes just as Congress prepares to take up the stem cell issue. |
Mass. lawmakers reaffirm bill for stem cell research By / Boston Globe — Permalink State lawmakers yesterday rebuffed Governor Mitt Romney's latest bid to bar scientists from cloning human cells and once again approved a measure that broadly endorses embryonic stem cell research. The Legislature also rejected three other changes the Republican governor proposed. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: MORE STEM CELL GOOD NEWS: [snipped quote] As I noted earlier, there's a lot at stake here. |
K. J. Lopez: THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE said no to Romney again on cloning/stem cells. Additionally, on the definition of human life. |
End to Boycott of Israeli Universities Is Urged By / NYT — Permalink LONDON, May 19 - Two university presidents, one a Palestinian and the other an Israeli, joined on Thursday to urge an end to an academic boycott of Israeli universities by Britain's leading higher education union. | |
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Sarah Wildman: I've been meaning to blog about the proposed boycott of Israeli academics since the the British Association of... Suzanne Nossel: Now, as President of the West Bank's al Quds University he has joined with Menachem Magidor, the President of Hebrew... |
Norm Geras: Professor Menachem Magidor, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as reported in today's New York Times:... |
East Antarctica puts on weight By / Nature — Permalink Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise. Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice. | |
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Christopher Kanis: Scientists now have incontrovertable proof that the global warming that is shrinking the polar ice caps and raising sea... |
Clayton Cramer: Global Warming & Antarctica — A reminder that this is a complex subject, and getting arrogant is not wise: ... |
Army: Soldiers did mock executions CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than 2,500 pages of documents just released by the Army reveal instances of detainee abuse, including mock executions, by U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The Army released the documents this week as part of a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU. | |
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Zoe Kentucky: There is no irony whatsoever that the other top stories today are the release of more reports and documentation of prisoner abuse in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Frederick Maryland: President Bush, Nov. 29, 2003 Today, CNN reported: [snipped quote] Since Yancey wasn't court-martialed, I guess it means... |
John Cole: Ah, F*** It All — Not sure where this ranks in the annals of grievous insults to the American image like screwing up a... |
Behind Scenes, Aides Take On Filibuster Fight By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 19 - Martin B. Gold was a young Congressional aide 26 years ago when Republicans, beleaguered and outflanked in a Democrat-controlled Senate, summoned him to their rescue. Martin B. Gold, a leading Republican strategist and former aide. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: The New York Times has an interesting look at the battle behind the battle to end the disfigured filibuster. |
Taegan Goddard: Planning a Senate Fight — "While public attention is focused on big-name politicians like Senators Frist and Reid, the... |
Judge Seen as Conservative, Fair By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Surely it was no accident that Republicans on Wednesday sent forth Priscilla R. Owen, a soft-spoken Texas Supreme Court justice, to open the Senate's political brawl over President Bush's judicial nominees. | |
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Patterico: My Letter to David Savage Here is my letter to The Times's David Savage regarding his article yesterday about... |
Gerry @DalyThoughts: Los Angeles Times On Owen — Link. Surprisingly positive. |
The woman at center of the Senate's fight By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink Priscilla Owen was first nominated by President Bush to a federal appeals-court post in May 2001 - four years ago. That's enough time to earn a college degree. So it's hard to believe that there is anything that isn't already known about the Texas Supreme Court justice. | |
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Dirty Harry: Like Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen. |
Orrin Judd: The woman at center of the Senate's fight: Priscilla Owen's nomination to the federal bench has been scrutinized by Democrats who have balked at some of her rulings in Texas. |
GOP senator compares Democrats to Hitler By / Raw Story — Permalink Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) compared Democrats' attempts to keep the filibuster to Hitler's moves in 1942 in a floor speech in the Senate Thursday afternoon, RAW STORY has learned. The following is a transcript of the particular section of the senator's floor speech, from the closed-captioned text taken by the Senate. | |
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Brad Plumer: Hitlers Everywhere! Hm, so both Sens. Robert Byrd and Rick Santorum have compared their opponents to Hitler. Eugene Volokh: Yeah, That's Right, Just Like Hitler: According to RawStory.com, here's what Sen. Rick Santorum said in a Senate... Joe Gandelman: And then there are the reprehensible comments of Senator Rick Santorum, who compared the Democrats to Adolph Hitler,... |
Jon Henke: Now, Senator Santorum steps up to the Stupid Plate... "I mean, imagine, the rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. Steve Soto: It should then come as no surprise that today Little Ricky compared Senate Democrats trying to protect the filibuster to Adolph Hitler. Jeffrey Dubner: Anybody want to bet against absolutely nothing? UPDATE: Full text here and video here. Also, a minor point: We didn't bomb Paris in 1942. |
| Also: Atrios, Betsy Newmark, Taegan Goddard, Chris Lawrence, Jeralyn Merritt, Judd @ThinkProgress, Dr. Steven Taylor | |
Guild Chief Under Fire for Comments About Attacks on Journalists in Iraq By / Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK Linda Foley, national president of The Newspaper Guild, drew strong criticism today from some conservative groups for comments she made last Friday about the killing of journalists in Iraq. | |
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Scott @PowerLine: JOHN adds: Linda Foley, head of the Newspaper Guild union, has picked up where Eason Jordan left off: "Journalists are not just being targeted verbally or politically. Bill Roggio: Editor and Publisher Magazine has some of the text of Ms. Foley's statements (the 'ahs' and 'ums' are cleaned up). La Shawn Barber: Bloggers: Andi's World, Donald Sensing, Wizbang, InTheBullpen, Euphoric Reality, The Blue State Conservatives, The Word... |
Blackfive: Let's start with this piece from Editor & Publisher (covering the "jouralism industry"): ...According to a video of the... Barbara O'Brien: The Natives Remain Restless — Having decorated their huts with Mark Whitaker's shrunken head, and having confined... Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Update: Editor and Publisher has a rebuttal, a lame one, but still a rebuttal from Linda Foley. |
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Why Islam is disrespected By / Boston Globe — Permalink IT WAS front-page news this week when Newsweek retracted a report claiming that a US interrogator in Guantanamo had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Everywhere it was noted that Newsweek's story had sparked widespread Muslim rioting, in which at least 17 people were killed. | |
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Charles Johnson: Why Islam is Disrespected — Jeff Jacoby gets it exactly right in this one: Why Islam is disrespected. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Ed Driscoll: Update: Jeff Jacoby's piece on "why Islam is disrespected" is also worthy of a just click. Dale Franks: Outrage, or the lack of it — Jeff Jacoby is outraged! Outraged, I tell you! "The Muslim riots should have been met by outrage and condemnation. |
Juan Cole: Why Jacoby is Wrong — Jeff Jacoby argues that there is something peculiar about the reaction of Muslims to the... Ted Belman: Why Islam is disrespected — By Jeff Jacoby, Globe IT WAS front-page news this week when Newsweek retracted a report... Glenn Reynolds: Still, with David Brooks, Jeff Jacoby and Tom Friedman all on the same page here, perhaps the press will begin to... |
| Also: La Shawn Barber, Kehaar, Cori Dauber, Brian Keegan, Forkum, James Joyner, Orrin Judd, John Cole, Marc @USSNeverdock | |
Prosecutor in probe of DeLay PAC raises funds for other side By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who denies partisan motives for his investigation of a political group founded by Republican leader Tom DeLay, was the featured speaker last week at a Democratic fund-raiser where he spoke directly about the congressman. | |
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John Hawkins: The speech raised money for local Democrats. Details: [snipped quote] That last line is very interesting. Charles Kuffner: Ronnie Earle speaks, and other DeLay news — I'm not going to claim it was a smart idea for Ronnie Earle to give a speech at a fundraiser for a brand-new Democratic PAC. Tom Maguire: Activate The "Auto-Discredit" Function — Via Matt Drudge, we get this laugher out of Texas: "Prosecutor in probe of... |
John Cole: Another Tin-Eared Pol — This time he is a Democrat: [snipped quote] Irony. Dead. I have no problem with politicians raising money, and, in fact, I hate CFR. Captain Ed: Perhaps it helps when the Democrats have their own in-house district attorney with apparently no concern over any appearance of conflict of interest. Glenn Smith: Michael Hedges of the Houston Chronicle wrote today that Ronnie Earle opened himself to criticism for delivering an... |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh, Orrin Judd | |
Say Good Night, Obi-Wan Slate — Permalink Bryan: Yo, Chris. We're here tonight because we've just emerged from the midnight screening of Star Wars—Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Also—and this may be slightly redundant—because we're big, fat Star Wars nerds. I mean, big. You, 30 years old. Me, 27. | |
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Gary Farber: NERD HEAVEN? "We're all nerds now" claims Adam Sternbergh in this New York piece. I don't think so. Tyler Cowen: 3. Obi-Wan told Luke scores of lies, including the big whopper that his dad was dead. 4. The Jedi can't even keep us safe. Pejman Yousefzadeh: STAR WARS NERDS — I have to party with these people. UPDATE: I guess that Tyler Cowen is coming to the party as well. |
Glenn Reynolds: UPDATE: I like this from Chris Suellentrop: "What's great about Star Wars—and one of the reasons I think it has greater... Nick Gillespie: For White Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Ewoks on Endor Ain't Enuff — This sort of thing is surely one of... |
NBC Airs New Quran Desecration Rumors NewsMax.com — Permalink NBC's "Today" show aired unsubstantiated claims on Tuesday that U.S. troops had desecrated the Quran on at least two occasions, in a report that echoed a now retracted Newsweek story that has inflamed the Muslim world and led to deadly riots. | |
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John Hawkins: Here's more: [quote] NBC's "Today" show aired unsubstantiated claims on Tuesday that U.S. troops had desecrated the Quran on...[end quote] Tom @ScaredMonkeys: According to Newsmax, ">NBC's "Today" show aired unsubstantiated claims on Tuesday that U.S. troops had desecrated the... |
Brian Stelter: "NBC's 'Today' show aired unsubstantiated claims on Tuesday that U.S. troops had desecrated the Quran on at least two occasions," NewsMax hypes. Ace: Won't Back Down: NBC Airs New Unsubstantiated Koran-Desecration Rumors — Circle the wagons, boys. |
Latest 'Star Wars' Movie Is Quickly Politicized By / NYT — Permalink LOS ANGELES, May 18 - For sheer lack of subtlety, the light-saber-wielding forces of good and evil in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies can't hold a candle to the blogging, advertising and boycotting forces of the right and left. (Or left and right.) | |
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RCox: Revenge of the Sith — I dont' care what anyone says, I liked Revenge of the Sith. Stanley Kurtz: Now check out this nonsensical assertion from today's New York Times: "As a rule, Hollywood studios go to great lengths... John Cole: Cease and Desist — Everyone stop politicizing this damned movie. Now. Stop it. |
Bridget Johnson: In today's New York Times article about the controversy surrounding the politics of the new Star Wars film, the last... Matthew Yglesias: With Me Or Against Me — Hm: [snipped quote] Okay, but it's not like Bush thought this up all on his own. Robert Schlesinger: Robert Schlesinger: Sith Wars: Episode Deux — I was wrong about the scope of the war over Star Wars. |
| Also: Armando @DailyKos, Kos @DailyKos | |
Bashing Newsweek By / NYT — Permalink Maybe it won't be so bad being cut off from the blogosphere. I look around the Web these days and find that Newsweek's retracted atrocity story has sent everybody into cloud-cuckoo-land. | |
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Von @ObsidianWings: Entirely Redundant, I am. Glenn Reynolds: That's certainly the tack that David Brooks is taking in today's New York Times (though if he thinks only right-wing... Medium Lobster: Stop Newsweek... Before It Kills Again! Newsweek must be destroyed - for the sake of national security! |
Richard TPD: Newsweek, the Koran and a voice of reason — Strange, that at a time when the right wing has gone into over-drive... John Cole: Some Sanity on Newsweek — David Brooks has a decent piece up on the over-reaction of EVERYONE regarding Newsweek:... Jeff Jarvis: David Brooks does well summarizing the ideological perspectives and pissing on the Newsweek affair. [snipped quote] Whining media bashers? |
| Also: Roger L. Simon, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Daniel Drezner, Jesse Taylor, Harry @HarrysPlace, RCox, Jim Romenesko, Steve M., FrancoAlemán, Rickheller @Centerfield, Orin Kerr, Attaturk | |
Generals Offer a Sober Outlook on Iraqi War NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 19 - American military commanders in Baghdad and Washington gave a sobering new assessment on Wednesday of the war in Iraq, adding to the mood of anxiety that prompted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to come to Baghdad last weekend to consult with the new government. | |
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Rep. John Conyers: Arianna posts an excellent blog on today's article in The New York Times that the leaking of information regarding the... Matthew Yglesias: But in light of the renewed skepticism from the officers' corps here in the United States about the military situation... Guest @ThinkProgress: Today in the New York Times, American commanders provide a reality-based perspective on Iraq: [snipped quote] - Max Bergmann |
Arianna Huffington: The major story that everyone should be talking about has the byline of John Burns and Eric Schmitt and is published in today's New York Times. Armando @DailyKos: Iraq Debacle — The NYTimes reports today that which is obvious to any who are willing to see: "American military... |
CBS MOONVES: 'GHOSTS SKEW BETTER THAN GOD' Drudge Report — Permalink CBS head Leslie Moonves declared this week: "I think talking to ghosts will skew younger than talking to God." Moonves made the starling comments during a breakfast with reporters where he announced his new fall schedule. | |
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Amanda Marcotte: The Entire Right: "What about kitties, you f**k?" Tbogg: Alert the off-handed comment police — More outrage (see below) XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU MAY 19, 2005 14:22:05 ET... |
Daniel Drezner: UPDATE: Yep — Drudge has the story. |
Report: Muslim World Largely Anti-American By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK — Anti-American feelings are widespread in the Muslim world and extend to U.S. consumer brands, according to a report released Wednesday. It suggested the U.S. burnish its image with a change in tone and by publicizing aid programs. | |
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Praktike: Oy Jeff Littlejohn points to an AP article about this CFR-sponsored study of attitudes toward the US in several Muslim countries. Charles Johnson: I hope you're sitting down, because the Associated Press and the Council on Foreign Relations have a disturbing revelation for us: Report: Muslim World Largely Anti-American. Mark Krikorian: THE SKY IS BLUE ... ...the Pope is Catholic, and "the Muslim world is largely anti-American." |
Red @ScaredMonkeys: Shouldn't they already understand and know that a majority of the Muslim World is anti-American? Cookie Jill: sometimes you really should read the polls, commander cookoo bananas and if you were such a business dude, wouldn't you... |
Unanswered questions about Newsweek's false story By / Townhall.com — Permalink Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff says no one "foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did." Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas says Muslim reaction "came as something of a surprise" to the magazine's editors. | |
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Red @ScaredMonkeys: More Unanswered questions about Newsweek's false story — Marvin Olasky from Town Hall has some great questions for Newsweek that still need to be answered. TheAnchoress: Marvin Olasky has ripe questions for Newsweek I'm sort of off this subject for today, but these questions by Marvin... |
Glenn Reynolds: UPDATE: Meanwhile, some unanswered questions remain. |
Dean vs. Russert: It'll be a scream By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink After Howard Dean last weekend declared Tom DeLay ought to be in jail, a longtime Democratic operative told me the party's national chairman had momentarily ripped off his muzzle but that it soon would be restored. My source erred, however, in believing that Dean ever had been muzzled. | |
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Ace: Howard Dean thinks Tom DeLay should go directly to jail: "...Dean declared: ''I think DeLay ought to go back to Houston... Taegan Goddard: Dean vs. Russert — Since being elected DNC Chairman last February, Howard Dean "has studiously avoided most national television exposure," Robert Novak writes. |
Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Dean on Russert: Will be Muzzled or will it be Scream II — DeanRobert Novak Sun Times article today discusses Howard Dean's upcoming appearance on Meet the Press. Orrin Judd: MEETING OF THE MINDS: Dean vs. Russert: It'll be a scream (ROBERT NOVAK, May 19, 2005, Chicago SUN-TIMES) |
South Koreans Streamline Cloning of Human Embryos By / NYT — Permalink In what scientists say is a stunning leap forward, a team of South Korean researchers has developed a highly efficient recipe for producing human embryos by cloning and then extracting their stem cells. | |
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Tom Maguire: And in South Korea, this sounds like breakthrough stuff in therapeutic stem-cell cloning. K. J. Lopez: I'M DEPRESSED, NYTIMES IS ETHUSED "In what scientists say is a stunning leap forward, a team of South Korean... |
Armando @DailyKos: South Korea Makes Significant Advance in Stem Cell Research — Apparently, while Bush fiddles with Dobson and the... |
When Richer Weds Poorer, Money Isn't the Only Difference By / NYT — Permalink NORTHFIELD, Mass. - When Dan Croteau met Cate Woolner six years ago, he was selling cars at the Keene, N.H. , Mitsubishi lot and she was pretending to be a customer, test driving a black Montero while she and her 11-year-old son, Jonah, waited for their car to be serviced. | |
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Amanda Marcotte: Today's installment is an examination of the stress on what you might call cross-class marriages. (Via Feministe's brand-new blogger Jill!) Amanda Butler: The series has continued with a comparison of health care and health habits that focuses on three... |
Ogged @Unfogged: Distinctions — This is a pretty good article by the Times about a "cross-class" marriage, but I think they miss an... |
POMP AND POLITICS IN GRAND RAPIDS: Bush visit brings controversy By / Detroit Free Press — Permalink Calvin College may be predominantly Republican, but a visit from President George W. Bush on Saturday is stirring up some discontent among students, faculty and alumni. | |
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John Cole: Bad Christians — Clearly, these people are going to hell: "Calvin College may be predominantly Republican, but a visit... David Bernstein: Says history professor Dale Van Kley, a 28 year veteran of Calvin College now teaching at Ohio State, "I can see that... |
Tim Dunlop: "Profoundly Academic Purposeful Renewal Spirited Community Promising Futures Remarkable Investment" George Bush, also... |
Red Cross raised Koran disrespect concerns By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison had reported U.S. officials mishandled the Koran, Red Cross and Pentagon officials said on Thursday. | |
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David Corn: And Reuters noted: The International Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison had... |
Tom Tomorrow: Tom Tomorrow: It must be tough to be a right wing blogger Every time you get your story straight, somebody comes along and screws up the narrative. |
Christopher Hitchens: Just what we need - a Baathist fused with a sectarian Muslim Independent — Permalink It's always impressive to see someone perform who is unembarrassable. George Galloway's testimony was disgraceful, but - in a way that some disgraceful and shameless performers are - it was impressive. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: Harry adds: Christopher Hitchens in a pay-per-view (as if we do) piece in the Independent: But he looks so much like... Oliver Kamm: Hitchens on Galloway — Christopher Hitchens gets the measure of George Galloway in today's Independent (link requires fee): [snipped quote] Uncanny. |
Praktike: Hitchen's riposte to Galloway — Those Brits sure are amusing: [H]e looks so much like what he is: a thug and a... Pejman Yousefzadeh: HITCHENS ON GALLOWAY — I can't access the full article, but the best paragraph may well be quoted here. |
The Age of Therapeutic Cloning Dawns By / TCS — Permalink "Humankind has now embarked into the 'Age of Therapeutic Cloning.' This is a scientific revolution of the first rank," asserts Bernard Siegel, executive director of pro-embryonic stem cell research Genetics Policy Institute in a press release. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: RON BAILEY looks at some promising new Korean research and says we've entered the age of therapeutic cloning. Sounds good to me. |
Julian Sanchez: Reason Writers Around Town — Ron Bailey, for one, welcomes our new Korean clone overlords over at TechCentralStation. |
Reid: Bush, GOP Seek to Reinvent Reality By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats injected racial politics into the struggle over President Bush's judicial nominees and the Senate's filibuster rules on Thursday, underscoring partisan differences while compromise-minded senators from both parties pursued an elusive agreement. | |
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Steve Soto: Latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll Spells Trouble For GOP Congress Next Year (Thanks to Snarky Shark for the tip)... |
John @PowerLine: Here's another one, which, as of this writing, has not been corrected: the Associated Press, in an article titled "Reid:... |
Parties court blacks in filibuster fight By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans and Democrats injected racial politics into the struggle over President Bush's judicial nominees and the Senate's filibuster rules on Thursday, underscoring partisan differences while centrists of both parties pursued an elusive compromise. | |
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John Cole: If you haven't, here they are again in all their glory: [quote] "It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942.'' He said...[end quote] |
Orrin Judd: A SIMPLE CIVICS TEST: Parties court blacks in filibuster fight (DAVID ESPO, May 19, 2005, AP) [snipped quote] Okay,... |
Netflix Takes Over Wal-Mart DVD Rentals AP — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning over its online DVD rental business to Netflix Inc., signaling that the world's largest retailer couldn't beat the Internet upstart at its own game. | |
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Tarek @LiquidList: And, oh yeah, it just beat Walmart. There aren't many folks who can say that. Nobody beats Walmart, most of the time. Tom Biro: Netflix takes on Wal-Mart's DVD rental business — In big news of the day, Wal-Mart's online DVD rental business has been taken over by Netflix, the Associated Press is reporting. |
James Joyner: Netflix Takes Over Wal-Mart DVD Rentals — Netflix Takes Over Wal-Mart DVD Rentals - New York Times (AP) [snipped quote] Quite amazing, really. |
Fight on Judges and Filibusters Continues in Senate By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 19 - The Senate today renewed its intense partisan struggle over the fate of stalled federal court nominees and the governance of the institution itself as the two parties locked in a debate over the right of the minority to prevent votes on a president's judicial candidates. | |
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Jon Henke: No Principle, only Power — This will end badly... "The Senate today renewed its intense partisan struggle over the fate... |
Ann Althouse: Yes, I'm following the filibuster fuss. The arguments have all been spelled out already, however, and all that's left is to wait and see how the standoff resolves. |
History's Higher Ground By / WaPo — Permalink When Yale awarded President John F. Kennedy an honorary degree, he said he had the ideal combination — a Yale degree and a Harvard education. Today he might rethink that, given the Harvard faculty's tantrum that caused President Lawrence Summers's cringing crawl away from his suggestion of possible gender differences of cognition. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Ah, George Will, taking to the pages of a major newspaper op-ed page to cast random allegations in the time-honored dispute of Harvard versus Yale. Ramesh Ponnuru: RARELY HAVE I SEEN a less persuasive George Will column. How does he propose to get from "was" to "ought"? |
Digby: Try Again — I appreciate George Will's ongoing attempt to distance himself from the Theocratic freak show, I really do. |
Abramoff, Tribes' Cash Spread Widely in U.S. Congress (Update2) Bloomberg — Permalink May 19 (Bloomberg) — Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of ethics questions involving House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, joined with his partner and Indian tribal clients to give money to a third of the members of the U.S. Congress, records show. | |
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Vance @BeggingToDiffer: THE JACK ABRAMOFF TOP 10 — According to this Bloomberg News research, the following politicians are the top ten... |
Matt Singer: The survey is not good for Montana's Junior Senator: [snipped quote] Burns doesn't know why he received more than twice as much money from these interests as any other US Senator? |
US held direct meeting with N. Korea: White House Reuters — Permalink MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - U.S. and North Korean officials held direct talks last Friday and the American side used the session to urge North Korea to return to six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the White House said on Thursday. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Since I have discussed a number of times my displeasure with the idea that there should be bilateral conversations... |
Praktike: I blame John Kerry — So manly: MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) - U.S. and North Korean officials held direct talks last... |