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Schiavo Autopsy Shows Massive Brain Damage By / AP — Permalink LARGO, Fla. - The autopsy released Wednesday on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as well. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Despite strong organ health her higher brain function (especially her sight) was damaged beyond repair. La Shawn Barber: Related posts and links: See the entire Schiavo category for background, Damnum Absque Injuria, Blogs for Terri,... Jan Haugland: Schiavo autopsy shows severe, irreversible brain damage — Terri Schiavo's autopsy report has been made public today,... |
Vanderleun: Bad Americans — Weasel Lead of the Year, But the Year Is Young IN THE WASHINGTON POST'S REPORT,Schiavo Autopsy Shows... Joe Gandelman: Husband Vindicated: Schiavo Autopsy Shows Massive Brain Damage NO Abuse Signs — It's now official and documented: by... Judith Weiss: However, the diagnosis reflects the limits of our knowledge of the brain: [quote] The brain examination was "consistent with a...[end quote] |
| Also: John Cole, Jo Fish, Dr. Steven Taylor, Jeffrey Dubner, Julian Sanchez, Andrew Sullivan, Bill @INDCJournal, Jayson @PoliPundit | |
House Votes to Limit Patriot Act Rules By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - In a slap at President Bush, lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips. | |
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Norbizness: But the latest indignity goes too far... stripping the most beloved of all unread, Constitution-shredding legislation,... James Joyner: House Votes to Limit Patriot Act — House Votes to Limit Patriot Act Rules (AP) [snipped quote] While I find many of the... Gerry @DalyThoughts: House Votes to Limit Patriot Act Rules — The Associated Press: [snipped quote] Good. |
John @PowerLine: Another Victory for Civil Liberties — This week's silliest Congressional action was the House's vote, 238-187, to amend... Jeralyn Merritt: House Votes to Restrict Patriot Act Use — In a rebuke to President Bush, with a nod to the First and Fourth Amendments,... Jesse Walker: House Defies Bush — This just in: [snipped quote] After years of complaining that Bush never vetoes a bill, I suddenly... |
The End of Europe By / WaPo — Permalink Europe as we know it is slowly going out of business. Since French and Dutch voters rejected the proposed constitution of the European Union, we've heard countless theories as to why: the unreality of trying to forge 25 E.U. countries into a United States of... | |
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Jan Haugland: Rumours of the death of Europe are greatly exaggerated — Europe has been repeatedly declared, if not dead, at least... Larry Kudlow: His conclusion? It's slowly dying, economically and in terms of population growth. Read the whole thing here. Tom Smith: The end of Europe — Robert Samuelson on the decline of Yerp. |
Eugene Volokh: Careful with That Long-Term Planning: Robert Samuelson writes, in the Washington Post: "Europe as we know it is slowly going out of business. Will Collier: Read the whole thing. UPDATE: Wow. Charles Paul Freund: "History's Has-been" — Columnist Robert J. Samuelson picks up on the graying-of-Europe meme: "Europe as we know it," he writes, "is slowly going out of business." |
| Also: Orrin Judd, Glenn Reynolds, Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
Schiavo's Brain Was Severely Deteriorated, Autopsy Says AP — Permalink LARGO, Fla. (AP) — An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. | |
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Jan Haugland: The hospital settled, so that is a moot point anyway. PS: More details in this AP piece in the NYT. Tim Dunlop: Verdict upheld — Worth noting that the autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the woman whose life and death conservatives tried to... Lindsay Beyerstein: "Schiavo's Brain Was Severely Deteriorated, Autopsy Says By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 12:32 p.m. ET LARGO, Fla... |
Judith Weiss: The autopsy was released today, and the spin machine has gone into action. First straw man: "See? She was in a persistant vegetative state! Kevin Drum: I JUST PLAY ONE IN THE SENATE....Yes, Terri Schiavo really was in a persistent vegetative state. No, she never would have recovered. |
Schiavo Autopsy Finds No Sign of Trauma By / AP — Permalink LARGO, Fla. - An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. | |
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LeanLeft: Schaivo Autopsy Results — Filed under: Politics Legal Issues Health — tgirsch I can't wait to see the social... Steve Soto: Terri Schiavo Autopsy Shreds Any Remaining Credibility For Frist, Others On Right — The long-awaited autopsy on Terri... Zoe Kentucky: Schiavo's Epilogue — Terri Schiavo's autopsy report reveals quite a few sad medical facts. |
John Cole: The Sad Tale of Terri Schiavo — The autposy reports have been finished for Terri Schiavo, so the entire nation will have to revist this case again. RJ Eskow: from cnn: "an autopsy on terri schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state,... Kos @DailyKos: More on the autopsy: "An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent... |
| Also: Justin @SouthernAppeal | |
Studies Rebut Earlier Report on Pledges of Virginity By / NYT — Permalink Challenging earlier findings, two studies from the Heritage Foundation reported yesterday that young people who took virginity pledges had lower rates of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases and engaged in fewer risky sexual behaviors. | |
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Chris Lawrence: He said, she said journalism — Not having analyzed the data (a big caveat for a social scientist, mind you) I'll agree... Zoe Kentucky: But it appears that the Heritage's CDC-funded papers are more than just new studies contradicting previous ones, they... Jesse Taylor: The Heritage Foundation will make it say something else. |
Arianna Huffington: Arianna Huffington: Virginity Vows... They're Not Just for Sex Anymore — The White House is obsessed with abstinence —... Matthew Yglesias: Why would The New York Times report that two new studies "rebut" earlier peer-reviewed work on the effectiveness of... |
Let's Talk About Iraq By / NYT — Permalink Ever since Iraq's remarkable election, the country has been descending deeper and deeper into violence. But no one in Washington wants to talk about it. Conservatives don't want to talk about it because, with a few exceptions, they think their job is just to applaud whatever the Bush team does. | |
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Avedon Carol: Before I went out, I was being aggravated by this annoying article from none other than Tom Friedman, who started off saying: [snipped quote] This is so, so wrong. Brad: Tom Friedman lets us know that our whole problem in Iraq is that we're just not thinking seriously enough about it. Jesse Taylor: Hey, hey guys? We need to sit down and talk about Iraq, because Tom Friedman figured us out - we say nothing about it. |
Cernig: Then check out Thomas Friedman's column in today's New York Times. Jon Henke: On Iraq — Thomas Friedman—one of the few pundits willing to admit that he doesn't already know how the Iraq war... Scott @PowerLine: It would have been nice if Tom Friedman had given Professor Owens a call before unloading another clueless column today: "Let's talk about Iraq." |
| Also: Cori Dauber, James Joyner, Attaturk, Oldman @BOPNews, Matthew Yglesias, Praktike, Billmon, Ed Cone, Atrios | |
Schiavo autopsy shows irreversible brain damage AP — Permalink LARGO, Fla. - An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. | |
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Lindsay Beyerstein: Since Schiavo's autopsy results became public, various media reports have stressed that the autopsy showed no proof of an eating disorder. Arnold P. California: My last word on this sad subject (I hope) is this: If anyone forgets a few years from now (or in November 2006) how... |
Amanda Marcotte: More bad news for the anti-choicers — There's really no pleasant way to address the entire Terri Schiavo mess. |
New Memos Detail Early Plans for Invading Iraq By / LAT — Permalink LONDON — In March 2002, the Bush administration had just begun to publicly raise the possibility of confronting Iraq. But behind the scenes, officials already were deeply engaged in seeking ways to justify an invasion, newly revealed British memos indicate. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: John Daniszewski writes in the Los Angeles Times: "In March 2002, the Bush administration had just begun to publicly raise the possibility of confronting Iraq. Steve Soto: Maybe he can even read the Los Angeles Times while he is on the plane. Pudentilla: plus que ca change, plus que c'est la meme chose — [snipped quote] for this they needed a memo? |
Nellie B: In fact, figuring that where there's one memo to leak, there must be more, The Los Angeles Times has borrowed the full... Stirling Newberry: [Update: The LA Times agrees, these memos constitute a decision to justify going to war. ] |
Illinois Senator losing his mind? American Thinker — Permalink Senator Dick Durbin's remarks from the Senate floor last night will lead one to conclude that the man is crazy. Durbin was on the floor to debate a portion of the Energy Bill and then went off on this tangent about prisoner abuse at Gitmo: | |
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John Hawkins: Just look at this mind-blowing quote from Democratic Senator Dick Durbin about the conditions Al-Qaeda terrorists face... Michelle Malkin: And neither can Rep. Dick Durbin (via Laura Ingraham). (More here and here and at LGF.) |
Charles Johnson: UPDATE at 6/15/05 12:33:32 pm: More on this craziness at The American Thinker, where they have a quote from Durbin... |
McCain May Be Bush's Ticket By / WaPo — Permalink McCain-Bush in 2008? That would be John and Jeb, the most logical Republican ticket if the party remains in the polling doldrums. If President Bush and his political maestro, Karl Rove, decide that the only way to create a political legacy is to nod toward the Arizona senator with whom they have battled and feuded, they will go for the guy who can win. | |
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Tom Maguire: MORE: EJ Dionne foresees a McCain-Bush fusion ticket, in a complicated and unlikely (but interesting) scenario. Taegan Goddard: E.J. Dionne makes the case for a John McCain-Jeb Bush Republican ticket in the 2008 presidential election. |
Ezra Klein: 08 Fantasies — EJ Dionne's column today strikes me as pretty silly. Orrin Judd: 50-0 — McCain May Be Bush's Ticket (E. J. Dionne Jr., June 14, 2005, Washington Post) [snipped quote] Only the most stubborn of folk still insist Senator McCain isn't running. |
Scrutinized Investment Made Senator $822,000 By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) made $822,000 last year from the sale of a controversial real estate investment with an Anchorage developer who had obtained a huge federal contract with his help, records show. In 1997, Stevens invested $50,000 with developer Jonathan B. Rubini. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: That's One Sweet Return on Investment — Via the LAT: Scrutinized Investment Made Senator $822,000Sen. Kevin Drum: GOLD RUSH...The LA Times reports on the investing prowess of Senator Ted Stevens (R-Gold Country): [snipped quote] Now,... Taegan Goddard: Stevens Investment Questioned — Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) [snipped quote] the Los Angeles Times reports. Link | Related News |
Josh Marshall: Many of you will already have noticed the story in the LA Times about the bonanza Sen. Stevens (R) pulled off in his own real estate deal. Kos @DailyKos: More GOP stench — Damn, those dudes are corrupt. [snipped quote] Par for the course. |
Former Bush Aide Who Edited Reports Is Hired by Exxon By / NYT — Permalink Philip A. Cooney, the former White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming, will go to work for Exxon Mobil this fall, the oil company said yesterday. | |
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Arianna Huffington: For starters, it would spare us the unseemly sight of watching global warming doc rewriter Phil Cooney turning around and getting his hot and heavy payback from Exxon Mobil. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Philip Cooney Stays in the Fold — The news today is that Philip Cooney has gone to work for Exxon Mobil. John Cole: Me neither: [snipped quote] I understand that he was an oil industry lawyer before he went to the Administration, so it... |
Kevin Drum: Today: "Philip A. Cooney, the former White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on... Chris Mooney: Philip Cooney, in a stunning turn, leaves the Bush administration and moves to ExxonMobil! |
CNN Transcripts for June 9, 2005 CNN — Permalink Note: This page is continually updated as new transcripts become available. If you cannot find a specific segment, check back later. • New Arrests in Disappearance of Natalee Holloway; New Developments in Investigation of Possible Terror Plot in Northern California. | |
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Greg Saunders: Because if you can look past the way he sneers the words "illegal aliens"[2] you can find the occasional story that really deserves more attention : [snipped quote] Damn right. |
Greg @TheTalentShow: Because if you can look past the way he sneers the words "illegal aliens"[2] Which is, admittedly, a very difficult... |
GOP Committee Targets International Red Cross By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are calling on the Bush administration to reassess U.S. financial support for the International Committee of the Red Cross, charging that the group is using American funds to lobby against U.S. interests. | |
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James Martin Capozzola: Here's the latest evidence of the party's "If we don't play our way, we're talking every last agate, cat's eye, and... |
Randy Paul: The Senate Republican Policy Committee: [snipped quote] Shorter Senate Republican Policy Committee: "All criticism is un-American." |
Specter Calls Gitmo System a 'Crazy Quilt' By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged Congress Wednesday to help define legal rights of terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, bemoaning a ''crazy quilt'' system. | |
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Blackavar: In a rambling disquisition on the remote naval base used for holding captured Al Qaida, he noted: [snipped quote] That's about right, IMHO. |
SK Bubba: Disturbance in the force... Senate Republicans questioning Administration policy and chastising Congress for not acting? |
Guantanamo inmates can be held 'in perpetuity'- US Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators called on Wednesday for the rights of foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay prison to be legally defined even as the Bush administration said the inmates could be jailed there "in perpetuity." | |
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Jayson @PoliPundit: Gitmo Terror Droids, of course. We've sure come a long, long way since Janet Reno, Bubba, and Robert ("the Torch") Torricelli ….. |
Jeralyn Merritt: White House Admits Detainees Can Be Held 'In Perpetuity' — Deputy Associate Attorney General J. Michael Wiggins told... |
Graduation crowd boos Schwarzenegger AP — Permalink SANTA MONICA, California (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in perseverance when virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the crowd. | |
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Skippy: gov. ah-nold not valedictorian — Example gov. ah-nold's commencement speech yesterday at his alma matter, santa monica... Chelsea Peretti: "Schwarzenegger left the stage almost immediately after his speech, speeding across the infield in a golf cart surrounded by sprinting security guards. |
Echidne: Poor Arnold, he's not very popular these days, even at his alma mater, which he attended for a few years |
Schwarzenegger Jeered at Graduation Speech By / AP — Permalink SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in perseverance when virtually his every word was accompanied by catcalls, howls and piercing whistles from the crowd. | |
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John Hawkins: Unfortunately, as is becoming all too common, a bunch of liberals acting like howling yobbos did their best to ruin the... Justin @SouthernAppeal: This kind of ticks me off: "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to his alma mater turned into an exercise in... Steve Bainbridge: Why are so Many Lefties so Rude? Fine, you're a public employee who disagrees with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot proposals. |
Digby: My Peeps "Schwarzenegger Jeered at Graduation Speech: SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's return... Captain Ed: Schwarzenegger did not intend on turning the graduation into a political event, but a number of protestors did just that... |
From Downing Street to Capitol Hill Newsweek — Permalink June 15 - Two senior British government officials today acknowledged as authentic a series of 2002 pre-Iraq war memos stating that Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program was "effectively frozen" and that there was "no recent evidence" of Iraqi ties to... | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Michael Isikoff and ark Hosenball today posted a Newsweek web exclusive called "From Downing Street to Captol Hill" that catches us up on the latest Downing Street developments. |
Laura Rozen: Late Update: A long piece on the issue from Newsweek. |
Vote on flag desecration may be 'cliffhanger' USA Today — Permalink The Senate may be within one or two votes of passing a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the U.S. flag, clearing the way for ratification by the states, a key opponent of the measure said Tuesday. "People think it's something that's never going to happen. | |
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Steve Soto: His Agenda Crashing, Bush Blames Obstructionist Democrats — When your second-term domestic agenda has tanked eighteen... Justin @SouthernAppeal: Vote on flag desecration may be 'cliffhanger': [snipped quote] — Me: I'm a little twisted over this one. |
Kerry Howley: Whole thing here. [Via Rational Review. ] |
Abolish Michael Kinsley! By / Slate — Permalink "What happens to the institutional voice?" asks Jack Nelson, former Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. He is complaining about my friend and former boss Michael Kinsley's plan to have outsiders write some of the L.A. Times' editorials. | |
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Ezra Klein: Death to the Editorial! I agree with just about every word in Tim Noah's argument to end the editorial page. Ed Cone: Kill the edit page? Tim Noah: "Eliminate the editorial page." Or maybe just reserve it for the right occasions. |
Kevin Roderick: Advice for Kinsley — Michael Kinsley's old friend and Slate colleague Timothy Noah writes today that the L.A. Times should just do away with unsigned editorials. Jim Romenesko: Noah: Kinsley should just get rid of LAT's editorial page — Slate "Nobody wants to read editorials," says Tim Noah. |
Hostage Douglas Wood rescued ABC News — Permalink Australian hostage Douglas Wood has been rescued in a military operation in Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard says. "I am delighted to inform the House that the Australian hostage in Iraq, Mr Douglas Wood, is safe," Mr Howard told Parliament. | |
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Red @ScaredMonkeys: Australian Hostage Rescued In Iraq — Douglas Wood, the Australian hostage was rescued this morning following a military... James Martin Capozzola: [Post-publication addendum: In related news, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. is reporting that Douglas Wood, held... Murray @SilentRunning: Score! Wonder if John Campbell will be reporting this as a "so-called" resuce. |
Jan Haugland: Australian hostage rescued — Douglas WoodDouglas Wood, who has been held hostage in Iraq for more than six weeks, has been freed in a military operation. Marc @USSNeverdock: Iraq - Hostage Wood Rescued or Released? ABC (AU) reports on Wood's rescue. |
Ford Faces Family Trouble Amid Senate Bid By / AP — Permalink NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Just a day after Rep. Harold Ford (news, bio, voting record) Jr. announced he was running for the Senate, the FBI arrested his lawmaker uncle back home in Tennessee on corruption charges. | |
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Orrin Judd: BETTER BLACK AND RED: Ford faces family trouble amid Senate bid (MATT GOURAS, June 15, 2005, AP) [snipped quote] He used... |
Jayson @PoliPundit: Now? Heck, even the Associated Depressed is not all that excited anymore. Sacre bleu. |
Two E-Mails Contradict Annan on Oil-for-Food Fox News — Permalink NEW YORK — Faced with two e-mails from 1998 that raise questions about what U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) knew about a lucrative Oil-for-Food contract, investigators said they were "urgently reviewing" fresh evidence. | |
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Roger L. Simon: Does Paul Volcker have a comment? Or will he leave his reputation to history? UPDATE: More on the second email. |
Glenn Reynolds: UNSCAM UPDATE: FoxNews has PDFs of the Annan emails mentioned earlier. And Roger Simon continues to follow the story. |
Schiavo's Brain Was Severely Deteriorated, Autopsy Says By / NYT — Permalink An autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman whose death sparked an intense debate over a person's right-to-die, showed that her brain was severely "atrophied" and weighed less than half of what it should have, and that no treatment could have reversed the damage. | |
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Riggsveda @Corrente: The response of Schiavo's parents to this? |
Ed Cone: RIP. Or not. Maybe now you can rest in peace, Terri Schiavo. UPDATE: Sigh. Apparently not. |
Airport Security's Grand Illusion By / WaPo — Permalink If you happen to be reading this while standing in one of those disturbingly slow, zigzag lines at airport security — looking repeatedly at your watch, wondering if this time you really will miss the plane — here's something to make you feel worse: Almost... | |
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Will Baude: Little Things — I notice with a little bit of glee this Anne Applebaum column (via Todd Zywicki). Todd Zywicki: From Airport Security's Grand Illusion: [snipped quote] She continues: [snipped quote] Related Posts (on one page): Nail... |
Will Collier: Even better Anne Applebaum piece on the expensive idiocy known as the Transportation Security Administration: "If you... |
Schiavo had irreversible brain damage-autopsy Reuters — Permalink LARGO, Fla. (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who died in March after a fierce right-to-die battle that involved the U.S. Congress, was severely brain damaged and had no hope of recovery, said a medical examiner who made the results of an autopsy public on Wednesday. | |
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La Shawn Barber: Death Culturists Say Michael Schiavo 'Vindicated' — According to Terri Schiavo's autopsy report, she was severely brain-damaged. |
David Allan Pell: Half a Political Brain — The results are in from the wildly inappropriate autopsy of Terry Schiavo. |
Group to seek referendum against gay marriage By / Boston Globe — Permalink Opponents of same-sex marriage will announce tomorrow an initiative petition to put a constitutional amendment on the statewide ballot in 2008 that would ban such marriages, lawmakers and activists involved said yesterday. | |
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Jay Tea: Well, those very same people who tried for years to put the issue before the people, and were repeatedly rebuffed by... |
Andrew Sullivan: DESPERATE MEASURES: In Massachusetts, the anti-marriage-equality forces seem to have given up on a state constitutional... |
Memo on Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement Center for American Progress — Permalink The Bush Administration's Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) is in trouble in Congress. Predictably, the Administration is now trying to deflect attention from the economic shortcomings of DR-CAFTA by arguing that its rejection would be a foreign policy setback for the United States. | |
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Brad DeLong: Dan Tarullo and Dan Restrepo on CAFTA — I believe their views are trustworthy: Dominican Republic-Central America Free... |
Heather Hurlburt: "Smart" Trade Policy — The week's shout-out for intelligent progressive thought on trade goes to Dan Tarullo, Dan... |
Expect a 1st in the 2nd By / Cincinnati Enquirer — Permalink Jean Schmidt, the Clermont County Republican whose political career hit bottom last year when she lost an Ohio Senate primary, won a shot at an even bigger job Tuesday night - a seat in the U.S. House. | |
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Alexander K. McClure: 2005 Ohio 2nd Congressional District Race — It looks like the Republican Party will add another female to its congressional caucus. |
Taegan Goddard: DeWine Finishes Fourth — Pat DeWine, son of Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH), came in fourth in the special election to fill... |
Chinese Peasants Attacked in Land Dispute By / WaPo — Permalink SHENGYOU, China — Hundreds of men armed with shotguns, clubs and pipes on Saturday attacked a group of farmers who were resisting official demands to surrender land to a state-owned power plant, witnesses said. | |
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Richard TPD: In a story of almost unbelievable dramatic intensity, busloads of armed thugs (can't think of a beter word for them)... |
Orrin Judd: WHERE THE SMART MONEY IS: Chinese Peasants Attacked in Land Dispute: At Least 6 Die as Armed Thugs Assault Villagers... |
Liberals don't know what to do with nondeferential minorities Seattle Times — Permalink SAN DIEGO — In the minds of many liberal Democrats, Hispanics and African Americans must seem to come in only two varieties: deferential or defective. And according to one angry caller — who was, from the sound of it, perfectly at home in a blue state — I fall into the second category. | |
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TheAnchoress: If you can stand it, here is another piece about "liberals" by Ruben Navarrette Jr., and I include it mostly because I... |
La Shawn Barber: 'You're Being Used' — Ruben Navarrette, who writes for the San Diego Union Tribune, has a column in the Seattle Times... |
Who'll Apologize for the Filibuster? LAT — Permalink The Senate should be ashamed of the tactic that killed anti-lynching legislation. Who knew the Senate was so cheeky? On Monday, a mere three weeks after the centrist, bipartisan Gang of 14 agreed, ever so proudly, to save the institution's fabled... | |
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Patterico: L.A. Times Op-Ed Page Remains Consistent on Filibuster The head of the L.A. Times op-ed page, Andres Martinez, has a... K. J. Lopez: In the LATimes today: "Who knew the Senate was so cheeky? |
Captain Ed: LA Times Points Out Lynching-Apology Hypocrisy — The Los Angeles Times opinion pages runs a commentary by Andres... |
PBS Updates Editorial Standards, Adds Ombudsman By / WaPo — Permalink Amid conflict over the political content of its programming, the Public Broadcasting Service yesterday unveiled editorial standards intended to ensure balance and fairness in its news, science and documentary shows. | |
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Garrett M. Graff: PBS Now To Be "Fair And Balanced" — Paul Farhi today updates the looming train wreck that is PBS and its government funder, the government-run Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Jesse Walker: More Standards! More Ombudsmen! The war over public broadcasting takes another turn. |
Jim Romenesko: New PBS editorial standards could be a source of contention — Washington Post PBS yesterday unveiled editorial standards intended to ensure balance and fairness in its shows. |
Ex-hostage thanks Iraqi rescuers CNN — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Freed Australian hostage Douglas Wood has thanked Iraqi troops for helping to free him from insurgents who had held him for six weeks. Wood, 64, in a message read by Australia's counterterrorism chief Nick Warner on Wednesday, said he was "extremely happy and relieved to be free again." | |
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Jan Haugland: Update: A very happy Douglas Wood has released a statement: At a news conference, an Australian official read a... |
Kevin Aylward: Shaka Oprah has a nice ring to it... - [Page Six] Australian hostage Douglas Wood, held captive in Iraq, was rescued by... |
Official: Schiavo's Autopsy Shows No Sign of Abuse ABC 7 Eyewitness News — Permalink (Largo-AP, June 15, 2005) — An autopsy concludes that Terri Schiavo did not suffer any physical trauma before her 1990 collapse. A report released Wednesday on the autopsy performed on the body of the severely brain-damaged woman also revealed that her brain was about half of the normal size when she died. | |
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Scott Sala: Technorati Tags: Al+Franken Al+Franken+Senate Al+Franken+Air+America Air+America — Schiavo Autopsy If I was an... |
Kos @DailyKos: [quote]He also says, "The vision centers of her brain were dead" - meaning she was blind. [end quote] |
Arrests made in Newsday circulation scandal By / Newsday — Permalink Federal agents arrested three former Newsday employees today for criminal fraud in connection with a scandal that inflated the circulation of both publications, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. | |
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Captain Ed: Newspaper Circulation Scandal Turns Criminal — The scandal of fraudulent circulation numbers in the newspaper industry... |
Jim Romenesko: Ex-Newsday/Hoy officials arrested for fraud in circ scandal — Newsday They're Edward Smith, Robert Garcia and Richard Czark. |
No Progress on Bolton Effort By / WaPo — Permalink A key Democratic senator warned yesterday that the Bush administration may be losing ground in its bid to confirm John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, as the White House continued to rebuff Democrats' request for documents related to the nominee. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: The new era of bipartisanship ushered in by the McCain Caucus is fading fast if this Post piece is to be believed. Steve Clemons: As Charles Babington reports: "A key Democratic senator warned yesterday that the Bush administration may be losing... |
Mark Leon Goldberg: As Charles Babington reports today in the Washington Post: [snipped quote] Funny enough, it turns out that heaping... Laura Rozen: Update: The WaPo's Charles Babington reports that the White House Bolton position may be losing ground. |
Steele expected to form exploratory panel By / Baltimore Sun — Permalink Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele is expected to announce today the formation of an exploratory committee that would be his first step in seeking the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Paul S. Sarbanes, a source familiar with Steele's candidacy said. | |
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Kos @DailyKos: After much national pressure, it looks like Steele is going to run. |
Taegan Goddard: Steele Considering Senate Bid — Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) will announce today the formation of an... |
Close Gitmo? By / Townhall.com — Permalink The retreat is on. Even Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel (Nebraska) and Mel Martinez (Florida) are scurrying along with the panicked pack calling on the U.S. to close its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. | |
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Richard Reeb: Enough of the Guantanamo "Prisoner Abuse" Absurdity — National Review editor Rich Lowry provides much-needed backbone... |
Justin @SouthernAppeal: Jonah's back: And he's on top of his game. [snipped quote] Rich Lowry weighs in on Gitmo as well. |
Sen. DeWine's Son Loses House Primary in Ohio By / LAT — Permalink BATAVIA, Ohio — Pat DeWine, son of U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, was considered an easy favorite to succeed newly named U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman as the Republican congressman from Ohio's 2nd District — until the younger DeWine ran afoul of the Christian right. | |
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John Hawkins: From the LA Times: [snipped quote] The LA Times — being the LA Times — tries to play this off like only the "Christian right" was angry about the sell-out on judges. K. J. Lopez: OHIO POLITICS — A DeWine loses |
Patrick Carver: Pat DeWine, son of Sen. Mike DeWine, who is [snipped quote], finished in fourth place in the GOP primary yesterday after starting out with a commanding lead. |
Edwards Builds New Platform By / WaPo — Permalink DES MOINES, June 14 — John Edwards may formally deny he is a candidate for president, but it's awfully hard to tell. Last year's Democratic vice presidential nominee pulled into Iowa — whose caucuses gave Edwards his biggest victory — Tuesday to talk about poverty and moral values. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: "Edwards Builds a New Platform" is a headline in the Washington Post. |
Taegan Goddard: A Washington Post article notes Edwards "may formally deny he is a candidate for president, but it's awfully hard to tell." |
Archbishop hits out at 'suspicious' media Guardian — Permalink The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will tonight launch an attack on the media, berating the "adversarial and suspicious" nature of modern journalism, which he says holds people "guilty until proved innocent". | |
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Terry Heaton: I've asked for a copy of the entire speech, but excerpts from The Guardian suggest it is a biting challenge to the news media in the wake of the Michael Jackson verdict. |
Jeff Jarvis: The Archbishop of Canterbury probes the probers today: "The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will tonight launch... |
Next step is Jackson's, media insiders say USA Today — Permalink Michael Jackson has plenty of options for telling his side of the story now that he has been found innocent of child molestation charges. But most media insiders agree that it will need to be the pop singer himself who comes forward, whether in a broadcast interview, a book or both. | |
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Jim Romenesko: > Courtroom cameras would have allowed more civics, less circus (Inq) > NYP, NYDN react similarly to verdict with "Boy,... |
Brian Stelter: Bonnie Fuller, editorial director of American Media says yes: "He's got to act now, the sooner the better, to speak out and gain everybody's sympathy," she tells USA Today. |
Kilgore clinches GOP primary for governor By / Virginian-Pilot — Permalink Jerry W. Kilgore easily won the Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, capturing 83 percent of the vote against an opponent he never acknowledged: Warrenton Mayor George B. Fitch. | |
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Chris Bowers: Turnout for the primary was extremely low: "Jerry W. Kilgore easily won the Republican primary for governor on... |
Taegan Goddard: Kilgore Wins GOP Primary — Former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore (R) easily won the Republican primary for... |
Where have all ze (real) men gone? By / Townhall.com — Permalink Two recent news items offer clues to the nagging question: What's wrong with the French? One story headlined "French men yearn for pregnancy" seems to speak for itself, n'est-ce pas? | |
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S.Z.: Where have all ze (real) men gone? by Kathleen Parker Kathleen's point seems to be that the French are silly nancy boys, and so is Michael Jackson. |
Amanda Marcotte: Someone introduce Kathleen Parker to S&M — I'm sick and tired of her trotting out her fantasies of being dominated out in her column space. |
Search of Aruban Beach Yields No Clues AP — Permalink ORANJESTAD, Aruba — More than two weeks after an Alabama teen disappeared, Aruban police once again came up empty-handed after searching a swampy beachfront based on information from a former security guard who said three young men may have lied about what happened to the missing student. | |
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Scared Monkeys: However, FOX CNN MSNBC stops the world on it and since we are knee deep into this story, we are going to keep at it. |
Kevin Aylward: [Tampa Tribune] The latest Natalee Holloway beach search came up empty - [Fox] Captured Iraqi insurgents, mainly... |
The Interactive Truth By / LAT — Permalink It used to be that the longest unprotected border in the world was that between the United States and Canada. Today it's the one between fact and fiction. If the two cozy up any closer together The National Enquirer will be out of business. | |
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Kevin Roderick: In today's New York Times, Stacy Schiff — one of the guest fill-ins for Maureen Dowd, who is on book leave — questions the LAT's move toward "wikitorials." |
Jim Romenesko: > Let's hope the Los Angeles Times' interactive editorial leads directly to the interactive tax return, says Stacy Schiff. |
Schiavo Autopsy Report Due Out Today By / AP — Permalink TAMPA, Fla. - The lawyer for Terri Schiavo's husband says he's confident the long-awaited autopsy report on the brain-damaged woman will show no evidence she was abused before she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state. | |
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James Joyner: Schiavo Autopsy Report to Be Released Today — The results of Terri Schiavo's autopsy will be released today, likely... |
Justin @SouthernAppeal: Not to keep opening old wounds: But, the Schiavo autopsy report is due out today. |
California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes By / NYT — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO, June 14 - The best sellers at the Green Cross medical marijuana dispensary here are whipped up in the kitchen of Kevin Reed, the founder and president. A patron perused the selection last week at the Green Cross medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. | |
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Ann Althouse: Here's a front-page NYT article suggesting that, quite aside from the conflict with federal law, California authorities... |
Orrin Judd: California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes (DEAN E. MURPHY, 6/15, LA Times) [snipped quote] Who'd... |
Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired By / USA Today — Permalink Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo. Mark Jen was fired from Google because of his blog. Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with. | |
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RCox: Stephanie Armour of USA Today has a comprehensive review of the "dangers of workplace blogging" issue. |
Damian Penny: The risks of blogging — USA Today notes that several people have been fired or disciplined by their employers because of what they wrote on their weblogs. |
Kurdish Officials Sanction Abductions in Kirkuk WaPo — Permalink KIRKUK, Iraq — Police and security units, forces led by Kurdish political parties and backed by the U.S. military, have abducted hundreds of minority Arabs and Turkmens in this intensely volatile city and spirited them to prisons in Kurdish-held northern Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials, government documents and families of the victims. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Problems in Northern Iraq — Via WaPo: Kurdish Officials Sanction Abductions in Kirkuk "Police and security units,... Juan Cole: Steve Fainaru and Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post report that the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic... Daniel Drezner: Activating the Kurdish SEP field — Continuing the theme from my last post is this story by Steve Fainaru and Anthony... |
Steve Soto: According to Wednesday's Washington Post in a Page One story, the Kurdish political majority are abducting their Arab... Laura Rozen: "Kurdish Leaders Sanction Abductions in Kirkuk," of Arab and Turkomen civilians, the WaPo's Anthony Shadid and Steve... |
I hate that (The rise of identity journalism) By / Townhall.com — Permalink From time to time someone will suggest that we add a particular columnist to the opinion section here at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - not because he's a great writer or she's got some interesting ideas, but because the paper needs someone who'll represent a certain race or class or age group. | |
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Vox Day: Literary crimes — Paul Greenberg excoriates a literary crime: [snipped quote] This is the sort of thing I mean when I... |
James Panero: Mr. Greenberg goes on to praise our May contribution from the good doctor Theodore Dalrymple. Read it all here! |
New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists By / NYT — Permalink PRIPYAT, Ukraine, June 11 - Sometime after visiting the ruins of the Polissia Hotel, the darkened Energetic theater and the idled Ferris wheel, the minivans stopped again. Doors slid open. Six young Finnish men stepped out and followed their guide through a patch of temperate jungle that once was an urban courtyard. | |
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Michael J. Totten: It is now "safe" enough that it's open for tourism. Ann Althouse: Chernobyl tourism. Wouldn't you love to take a photography tour through a city that 45,000 persons suddenly abandoned twenty years ago? |
Commissar: Don't Believe Everything on the Internets — Today's NY Times reports on the tourism that has sprung up around the Chernobyl radioactive exclusion zone in the Ukraine. John Cole: Bad Vacation Spots — Someone tell the Griswolds to get packed: [snipped quote] I think I will go to the beach. |
Ghost-Wary, Dot-Eating Pac-Man Turns 25 By / AP — Permalink For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month. From the early 1980s "Pac-Mania" to today's endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar. | |
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Jan Haugland: Pac-Man at 25 — Still looking young, not to mention slightly dated, the videogame hero Pac-Man turns 25 this month. David: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAC-MAN! |
Cookie Jill: look who's pac'n on the age... and turning 25 |
Richardson bets chips on a Western strategy By / The Hill — Permalink New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is pushing to increase the weight of Western states with fast-growing Hispanic populations in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, which would give him a major advantage over other candidates vying to be the alternative to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) three years from now. | |
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Kos @DailyKos: 2008-pres: Richardson promotes Western primary (Bumped over the geeky discussion of site CSS — kos) Since it's never... |
Taegan Goddard: Richardson Pushes Western Super Primary — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) wants to "increase the weight of Western... |
Comedian for Senator? Don't Laugh By / NYT — Permalink MINNEAPOLIS, June 13 - The swells who showed up before Al Franken's speech at a Democratic fund-raiser to down finger food and punch were thrilled to see him, all the more so because he continues to make threatening noises about running for the Senate here in 2008. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Franken Fuels Senate Speculation — The New York Times runs another piece speculating that comedian Al Franken may run for U.S. Senate from Minnesota. Scott @PowerLine: Carr's excellent story on the fundraiser appears in tomorrow's Times: "Comedian for Senator? Don't laugh." |
Scott Sala: Technorati Tags: Spitzer Spitzer+Intermix Intermix+media Spitzer+win Spitzer+Settlement — Frankenstein Al Franken's run for the Senate is dependent on his failure in radio. |
US Democratic Party Chairman's Comments Stir Controversy By / Voice of America — Permalink Democratic Party Chairman and former presidential contender Howard Dean is making news again, but not the kind of news some Democrats want. Some members of his own party are unhappy with Dr. Dean's verbal attacks on Republicans. | |
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David Sirota: Let's Make a Deal with Sen. Joe Biden — Sen. Joe Biden (D) is continuing his self-serving, arrogant and conceited... |
Kos @DailyKos: Biden (D-MBNA) That "D" next to Biden's name is starting to look shaky. Sirota goes for the juggular: [snipped quote] Biden still dreams of the Oval Office. |
Major quake strikes off coast of Northern California AP — Permalink (06-14) 22:12 PDT Crescent City, Calif. (AP) — A major earthquake struck about 80 miles off the coast of Northern California on Tuesday night, briefly prompting a tsunami warning along the Pacific coast. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Major quake strikes off coast of Northern California — AP is reporting a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck minutes before... |
Patterico: UPDATE: The warning was apparently rescinded an hour after the quake hit. Nice; I learned about it about an hour and a half after the quake hit. |
Behind the Spitzer Curtain By / Opinion Journal — Permalink In the celebrated case of Eliot Spitzer versus Dick Grasso, Exhibit A is the Webb report. Commissioned by former New York Stock Exchange Chairman John Reed and produced by former federal prosecutor Dan Webb, the report is the basis for the New York Attorney General's claim that Mr. Grasso manipulated the NYSE board into paying him too much money. | |
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Mindles H. Dreck: Emergent Stupidity at the NYSE — I recommend this article by Kim Strassel on the Webb Report and the behind-the-scenes story of Dick Grasso's fat pay package at the NYSE. Don: Here are lengthy excerpts from a report exonerating Richard Grasso and the NYSE board of directors — that Eliot Spitzer tried to keep the world from seeing. |
Steve Bainbridge: Spitzer's Suit Against Grasso — Eliot Spitzer's suit against former NYSE CEO Dick Grasso looks to be in big trouble, if... |
Senate GOP: Closing Gitmo Not the Answer By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Prominent Senate Republicans said Tuesday that closing the Guantanamo Bay prison will not fix a U.S. image tarnished by allegations of American troops mistreating terrorism suspects. "To cut and run because of image problems is the wrong, wrong thing to do," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said. | |
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Michelle Malkin: SENATE GOP SHOWS RESOLVE, FINALLY — Via AP: [snipped quote] Hey, maybe the GOP leadership is finally listening:... |
Jayson @PoliPundit: To the contrary, they were forced to run the following (implicit) story line: Gitmo, hate it and never leave it. |
Schiavo Autopsy Report to Be Released By / AP — Permalink TAMPA, Fla. — The medical examiner's office plans to release its autopsy report Wednesday on Terri Schiavo _ findings her family hopes will shed light on the cause of the collapse that left her severely brain-damaged 15 years ago. | |
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K. J. Lopez: NOT YET AT REST — For better or for worse, the Terri Schiavo autopsy results are being released today. |
Michelle Malkin: TERRI: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN — After a long and unexplained delay, the Terri Schiavo autopsy results will be released tomorrow. |
Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports to Join ExxonMobil By / NYT — Permalink Philip A. Cooney, the White House staff member who repeatedly revised government scientific reports on global warming, will go to work for ExxonMobil in the fall, the oil company said today. | |
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Judd @ThinkProgress: June 13, 2005: Cooney hired by ExxonMobil. Cernig: The Revolving Door — From the New York Times, news that the good old revolving door between the Bush White House and vested corporate interests is alive and spinning a blur. Joe Gandelman: Controversial Resigned Bush Environmental Official Gets New Gig — We just WON'T comment on this since it truly speaks... |
Cookie Jill: "- nytimes" Norbizness: (UPDATE: and that job is with noted environmental sensitivity conglomorate ExxonMobil. Sur-prise (x3)). Gary Farber: You don't really need to read more than the headline: Ex-Bush Aide Who Edited Climate Reports to Join ExxonMobil. |
Memo raises questions on Annan role in UN contract By / Reuters — Permalink UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A newly disclosed memo appeared to cast doubt on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's insistence he was unaware of a bid by a Swiss firm that employed his son for a lucrative contract under the scandal-tainted U.N. oil-for-food program. | |
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Charles Johnson: Kofi's Smoking Memo — Kofi Annan may have finally landed in very hot water, as a newly revealed memo indicates he may... |
Jan Haugland: UNSCAM: Annan 'has no recollection' — Reuters follows up on the latest Cotecna memo, and has received a response from Kofi Annan's office. |
Bill O'Reilly More of a Journalist than Bob Woodward? Poll Finds People Say So Editor and Publisher — Permalink WASHINGTON More Americans say they consider talk show host Bill O'Reilly a journalist than Bob Woodward, The Washington Post reporter who broke the Watergate story with Carl Bernstein, according to a poll conducted this spring. | |
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Riggsveda @Corrente: And (they still can't get over this) more Americans felt Bill O'Reilly is a journalist than Bob Woodward. |
Nellie B: The question "Who is a journalist" was a hot one during the height of the Jeff Gannon saga, and now the Annenberg Public... |
What's being desecrated here? By / Townhall.com — Permalink Thank you, Michael Isikoff. Because of Newsweek's commode Quran story — the one that went down the drain in a retraction — a previously undisclosed threat to our very existence has been revealed. | |
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Joe Katzman: UPDATE: Diana West goes further, and explains this in a chilling and dead accurate fashion: read the rest! »... |
Richard Reeb: Bending Over Backwards at Guantanamo Bay — Columnist Diana West has actually read the rules (the Quranic Code of... |
UPI Hears... By / Washington Times — Permalink A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds... | |
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Mitch Berg: Are they nuts, or is it the rest of us? Ask Morgan Reynolds, a former Department of Labor chief economist. Jeff Goldstein: Chimpy McHitlerburton's smirky rodeo ride through history: Fight the Future — From UPI: [snipped quote] When asked if... Vox Day: The truth will out — From the Washington Times: [snipped quote] Considering that the architect of the buildings was... |
Skippy: let's open up the ol' skippy mailbag... think progress points out that since the autopsy revealed that terry schiavo was... Kevin Aylward: UPI reports:A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Charles Johnson: Morgan Reynolds: Economist, Moonbat — A former chief economist for the Department of Labor is now a full-time member of the Tin-Foil Hat Brigade. |
| Also: Ace, Richard TPD, Matt Welch, K. J. Lopez | |
GOP Senators May Make 69 Retirement Age By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Key Senate Republicans are considering gradually raising the Social Security retirement age as high as 69 over several years as they struggle to jump-start legislation that President Bush has placed atop his second-term agenda, officials said Tuesday. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Raising Retirement Age to 69? Via WaPo: GOP Senators May Make 69 Retirement Age. Karl-Thomas Musselman: Raise the retirement age to 69. Though with proposals like this, I've always wondered if they hurt the 62-67 year old age cohort who would otherwise be looking forward to retiring. Jeralyn Merritt: Republicans Propose Retirement Age of 69 — After a long, hard day at work, the last thing I needed to see when I got... |
Leopold Stotch: Upping the Retirement Age — GOP Senators May Make 69 Retirement Age (AP) [snipped quote] I'm looking for a little... Spoons: Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 69 — GOP Senators May Make 69 Retirement Age In 1940, when the... Cookie Jill: gop'ers with sex on their mind gop senators may make 69 retirement age |
Mounties uncover 'Al Qaeda' cache By / Toronto Star — Permalink OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. | |
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Colt: The Khadr saga has a good moment: the Mounties have found a cache of information on Zaynab Khadr's laptop. Charles Johnson: Mounties Uncover Al Qaeda Cache — Mounties uncover 'Al Qaeda' cache. (Hat tip: philopundit.) Marc @USSNeverdock: Canada - al Qaeda Cache Found — The Toronto Star reports. |
Captain Ed: Canada Discovers AQ Information Trove — Canadian authorities impounded a computer and recordings from a woman whose... James Joyner: Mounties uncover 'Al Qaeda' cache (Toronto Star) [snipped quote] Let's hope this pans out. |
Where Will Rates Go From Here? Experts Consider the Fed's Path WSJ — Permalink In two weeks, the Federal Reserve Board will hold its two-day June meeting and will be considering what could be the ninth increase to the central bank's target for the federal-funds rate — the rate charged on overnight loans between banks and the key to the rates charged on a variety of consumer and business loans. | |
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Mark Thoma: The Dynamic Adjustment to Monetary Shocks — In an email concerning my discussion on Econolog regarding lags in monetary... Brad DeLong: Mark Thoma and Barry Ritholtz on Interest Rates — They write, in an Econoblog: WSJ.com - Where Will Rates Go From Here? |
PGL: Consider the position of Mark Thoma in his Econoblog with Barry Ritholz. Mark argues that the FED is raising interest rates to stabilize output over the long-term. Barry L. Ritholtz: WSJ: Debate on the Fed in Economy | Fixed Income | Investing | Politics > Here comes the reveal of the "project" referred to earlier today: "Econoblog: What should the Fed do? |
Raped, Kidnapped and Silenced By / NYT — Permalink No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining - and now kidnapping - a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States. | |
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Charles Bird: There are two cases of oppression/suppression where this choice should be clarified, one in Uzbekistan and one in Pakistan. Ezra Klein: What he really didn't count on, though, was a columnist for the New York Times taking up the case and making more noise than she ever could've. Laura Rozen: Here's place number one where the Sharansky vision of a human rights-driven foreign policy might be applied by the Bush... |
Lindsay Beyerstein: The story has attracted worldwide media attention, including this New York Times column byNick Kristof. Mipe @ThinkProgress: Pakistan: "No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. Cori Dauber: Here's one. (And, no, nothing that's happened at Gitmo or abu Ghraib in any one hinders or undermines or ability to advocate a case of this nature.) |
| Also: Norm Geras, Gary Farber, Steve Antler | |
Judiciary GOP pulls the plug on Conyers 'forums' The Hill — Permalink If the Financial Services Committee is the best in the House when it comes to bipartisan comity, then the Judiciary Committee may well be the worst. In December, ranking Democrat John Conyers (Mich.) began holding "forums" — gatherings with all the... | |
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Steve Soto: Downing Street Memo Update As for the Downing Street Memos, and the hearing that John Conyers had planned to convene... Attaturk: From the Hill: "Sean McLaughlin, deputy chief of staff for Sensenbrenner, recently wrote to a minority staffer in more pointed language. |
Avedon Carol: At Daily Kos, Fink reports that, according to The Hill, those forums John Conyers has been holding are having to move,... |
Memo Suggests Oil-For-Food Link to Annan By / AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS - Investigators of the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday they are "urgently reviewing" new information that suggests U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may have known more than he revealed about a contract that was awarded to the company that employed his son. | |
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Captain Ed: Second Cotecna OFF Memo Links Bid Win To Kofi Annan — The AP reported earlier tonight that a second Cotecna memo has... Pejman Yousefzadeh: Kofi Annan's problems continue to grow: [snipped quote] The best thing that Annan could do now is to come completely... Jayson @PoliPundit: Grifter (crook)fi Annan. What's the over/under on how long it'll take before (crook)fi lawyers up?? |
Jan Haugland: UN investigators 'urgently reviewing' Cotecna memo — UNSCAM update from the Associated Press: Investigators of the U.N... Gateway Pundit: Dead Men Walking — Speaking of Sean Penn... This is the best news line of the day: [snipped quote] And, this here was a pretty good piece of credentialed journalism as well! |
Who's the best? AP — Permalink 1. New jail promises to ease crowding 2. Grandfather of 'mystery girl' charged 3. Chief escapes drunk driving prosecution | |
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McQ: Pick your battles wisely — A "libertarian" was arrested yesterday for refusing to identify himself and refusing to... Jay Tea: But if this is an example of Libertarian thinking, I might have to reconsider. |
Gerry @DalyThoughts: The Concord Monitor Online: "A Keene Libertarian who tried to board a flight carrying nothing but a Bible and a copy of... John Cole: This, via Wizbangblog, is the second reason why I have not made the Libertarian party my home: [snipped quote] I bet he... |
The Old and the Rested By / NYT — Permalink Men in their 70's raced on bikes for 40 kilometers in this month's National Senior Games in Pittsburgh. A 68-year-old woman threw the discus 85 feet, and a 69-year-old man hurled the javelin nearly half the length of a football field. | |
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John Hawkins: Yet and still, John Tierney wrote a common sense column in the New York Times today pointing out the obvious: given the... Ezra Klein: John Tierney, because he does the first job, has written a column addressed to all those lazy asses doing the second. Jesse Taylor: And That's A Fact — Oh, John Tierney. You're David Brooks without the inspiration. |
Barbara O'Brien: Soylent Green Is People, II — In today's New York Times, John Tierney argues that it's selfish for old folks to retire while they are still in their 60s. Matthew Yglesias: THE GOOD LIFE. Today's John Tierney column on how Social Security makes people fat and lazy sure is revealing. Lindsay Beyerstein: Geriatric marathoners are the new welfare queens — John Tierney rails against the sloth of America's elderly [snipped quote] They don't just feel entitled, they are entitled. |
| Also: Ann Althouse, Attaturk, Glenn Reynolds, John Cole | |
The Consciometer By / Slate — Permalink Sometime in the next decade or so, neuroscientists will likely identify the specific neural networks and activity that generate the vague but vital thing we call consciousness. | |
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Hei Lun: CUTTING THE FETUS IN HALF — Eugene Volokh has some criticisms of the end of this David Dobbs piece in Slate that... Eugene Oregon: All Hail the Consciometer — David Dobbs has an interesting article in Slate predicting that, in the near future,... |
Eugene Volokh: Scientific Fundamentalism: At the end of an otherwise quite interesting Slate piece, which discusses the potential... |
AP: Saudis Reject Call for Inspections By / AP — Permalink VIENNA, Austria - Saudi Arabia is defying the United States, the European Union and Australia by resisting U.N. efforts to verify that it has no nuclear assets worth inspecting, according to a confidential EU document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. | |
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Norbizness: (7) It seems that Uzbekikitty ( Get Your War On) doesn't want anyone to find out how the hundreds of corpses in its... Daniel Drezner: This Associated Press report by George Jahn makes me wonder just how many governments will be deploying an SEP field |
SK Bubba: The Saudis are our pals — So 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, and now the Saudis are refusing to allow UN inspection of it's nuclear programs. |
Next Generation of Conservatives (By the Dormful) By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, June 13 - They are young and bright and ardently right. They tack Ronald Reagan calendars on their cubicle walls and devote brown bag lunches to the free market theories of Friedrich von Hayek. They come from 51 colleges and 28 states, calling for low taxes, strong defense and dorm rooms with a view. | |
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Riggsveda @Corrente: Republican madrassas were reported to be growing their own undead to fill future leadership seats. Jo Fish: A place for recruiters to meet — With all the brouhaha ha ha ha about the recruiting numbers, I'm surprised that the... Hugh Hewitt: The New York Times has an article on the Heritage Foundation's fabled summer internship program, "Next Generation of Conservatives (By the Dormful)". |
Ben Adler: PLANNING BORED: In yesterday's New York Times, Jason DeParle writes about the Heritage Foundation's cushy summer... Brad: What we need now is some sort of... summer camp, where we can train the next generation of these delightful little Heritage folks. Ezra Klein: Free Work, Emphasis on the Work — The New York Times clocks in this morning with a superb article on the Heritage Foundation's attitude towards its Summer interns. |
| Also: David Sirota, Gerry @DalyThoughts, Don, Roger Ailes, Kos @DailyKos, Jesse Taylor, Taegan Goddard, John J. Miller, Betsy, Attaturk, Will Wilkinson, Orrin Judd, Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
Diet sodas linked to obesity By / Arizona Republic — Permalink Just when you thought the news about losing weight couldn't get any worse, try this: A review of 26 years of patient data found that people who drink diet soft drinks were more likely to become overweight. | |
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John Hawkins: Diet Soda, Ice Cream, Rape & The Press — A story that has been getting a lot of play today is titled "Diet sodas linked to obesity." Betsy: A researcher finds a link between diet sodas and obesity. "A review of 26 years of patient data found that people who drink diet soft drinks were more likely to become overweight. |
James Joyner: Diet sodas linked to obesity [snipped quote] No kidding. |
Senate Apologizes for Lynching-Ban Delays By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - One woman remembered a cousin who had died at the hands of a mob in Kentucky. Another recalled a teenager dragged from a relative's home in Mississippi only to turn up dead in a river. James Cameron lived to recount his own brush with mob justice. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: On Lynching, Apologies and the Past — Via the AP: Senate Apologizes for Lynching-Ban Delays "Seven presidents petitioned Congress to end lynchings. Chris Lawrence: Progress and regress — As reputed Klansman Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial for his role in the Philadelphia Three... |
Zoe Kentucky: Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) John... |
Muslim Target By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink Oriana Fallaci is 75 years old. The renowned Italian journalist lives in hiding because of death threats she received after the publication in 2001 of her book The Rage and the Pride. She is dying of cancer. And now she is going to go on trial for "defaming Islam." | |
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Charles Johnson: The Charges Against Oriana — Italian author Oriana Fallaci will be put on trial for the thoughtcrime of "defaming... Michelle Malkin: Not in Italy, apparently. Says the IHT: [snipped quote] Robert Spencer has much more. |
TheAnchoress: I don't think so." Meanwhile, Oriana Fallaci is being told, "freedom of speech for me, but not thee." |
U.S. Opposed Calls at NATO for Probe of Uzbek Killings WaPo — Permalink Defense officials from Russia and the United States last week helped block a new demand for an international probe into the Uzbekistan government's shooting of hundreds of protesters last month, according to U.S. and diplomatic officials. | |
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Damian Penny: Realpolitik wins, democratization loses — At a recent NATO meeting, the Americans sided with Russia to oppose a call... Cernig: The Washington Post reports that "the United States last week helped block a new demand for an international probe into... Smash: THIS IS DISAPPOINTING: [snipped quote] The Kharsi-Khanabad airbase is important, but not that important. |
Riggsveda @Corrente: First there was finding out how my freedom-loving government stood up for human rights by blocking an investigation into... Praktike: The article is a little confusing: Defense officials from Russia and the United States last week helped block a new... Michael J. Totten: Carrying Karimov's Water - Again — Our relationship with Uzbekistan's tyrant Islam Karimov gets slimier by the day. |
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The Madrassa Myth NYT — Permalink IT is one of the widespread assumptions of the war on terrorism that the Muslim religious schools known as madrassas, catering to families that are often poor, are graduating students who become terrorists. | |
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Ace: [Dave at Garfield Ridge] This here New York Times op-ed is garnering notice today for its insightful discussion and... Phillip Carter: Deconstructing — and reconstructing — "The Madrassa Myth" — Peter Bergen (one of this country's leading thinkers and... Joseph Alexander Norland: Interesting - if true — Considering the Jayson Blair tradition of the NYT, I hesitate to recommend any article that... |
Cori Dauber: Education and Terrorism — An oped in today's Times points out that time after time the biographies of the terrorists... K. J. Lopez: IT'S JUST HATE, DON'T WORRY — I'm sure lessons in glad anti-American fundamentalist hate would never sow the seeds for... Orrin Judd: The Madrassa Myth (PETER BERGEN and SWATI PANDEY, 6/14/05, NY Times) "While madrassas may breed fundamentalists who... |
Governor Puts Agenda on the Ballot By / LAT — Permalink SACRAMENTO — His ultimatums rebuffed by lawmakers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered a Nov. 8 special election that could trim the power of California's Legislature and dampen the influence of the public employee unions that help finance its Democratic majority. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Biggest Political Battle — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has now entered into his biggest... Taegan Goddard: Schwarzenegger Calls Special Election — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) "ordered a Nov. 8 special election... Orrin Judd: THE BIG FIGHT: Governor Puts Agenda on the Ballot: Three special-election initiatives would wrest power from legislators and public employee unions. |
Paradox @LeftCoaster: Unions Raise Dues to Battle Arnie for CA Election 2005 — When Arnie threw down the gauntlet yesterday for his... Kevin Roderick: No sooner is the mayor's race over than the drumbeats begin for the governor's agenda-pushing special election, called for Nov. 8. K. J. Lopez: CALIFORNIA VOTING — When Californians vote in a special electionon November 8, parental notification for minors' abortion will be on the ballot. |
Schwarzenegger timeline USA Today — Permalink A look at the job approval rating of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger since his election in Oct. 2003. Oct. 7: Californians vote to recall Gov. Gray Davis and choose Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him. | |
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Guest @ThinkProgress: After his election almost two years ago in the highly unorthodox open ballot format, polls show his approval ratings are at an all time low. Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: A USA Today timeline shows just how poorly Schwarzenegger has fared this year: from 60 percent approval in May... |
Laurence Leamer: And it was just another day of misfortune for the governor whose polls have dropped from 65% to 40 in four months. |
Vice President Dick Cheney Talks With Sean Hannity Fox News — Permalink This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," June 13, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch "Hannity & Colmes" weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Mr. Vice President, great to see you again. | |
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Praktike: Well here he goes again, assuring us breathlessly that "the important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people." Paul @PowerLine: Unfortunately, I was stuck at work last night and didn't get to see Sean Hannity's interview of the Vice President,... |
Andrew Sullivan: THE CHENEY INFOMERCIAL: I found myself watching the Sean Hannity "interview" of vice-president Dick Cheney last night on Fox. |
Colo. Gov. Drops Off GOP National Radar By / AP — Permalink DENVER - He was a cover boy for the National Review, a Republican governor whose tough talk on taxes and accountability in education made him a darling of conservatives who wondered whether he might be White House material in 2008. Then something happened. | |
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Jayson @PoliPundit: Supernova — The Associated Depressed profiles Colorado Gov. Bill Owens. |
K. J. Lopez: AP writes Bill Owens off. |
Clintons Pay Off Whitewater Legal Bills By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - The Clintons' long financial hangover from Whitewater and impeachment has finally ended, thanks to millions of dollars in post-White House payments for speaking appearances and book contracts. | |
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Fontana Labs: Our long national nightmare is finally over — The Clintons have finished paying off their Whitewater legal bills. |
Jayson @PoliPundit: Zero Balance — For the Klingons, er, I mean the Clintons. |
5 unions plan new group to fuel labor By / Washington Times — Permalink Five labor unions are drawing up a framework for a new coalition to represent their 5 million members because they are increasingly dissatisfied with the AFL-CIO's strategy to bolster the labor movement. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: It cannot be good news for the Dems when huge cracks develop in one of their base coalitions. |
Jayson @PoliPundit: Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic — The unions. Jimmy Hoffa is rolling over in his (Meadowlands) grave. |
Memo: U.S. Lacked Full Postwar Iraq Plan By / WaPo — Permalink A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top advisers eight months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq concluded that the U.S. military was not preparing adequately for what the British memo predicted would be a "protracted and costly" postwar occupation of that country. | |
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Arianna Huffington: Arianna Huffington: Russ Feingold Standing Tall on Iraq... and Standing Alone — With memos pouring out of the U.K... |
Echidne: This weekend the Washington Post wrote: "A briefing paper prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top... |
Lawyer says Jackson won't share his bed with boys anymore AP — Permalink SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Basking in the jurors' decision to acquit his client of all counts, Michael Jackson's lawyer said today the singer will no longer share his bed with young boys. "He's not going to do that anymore," attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. told NBC's Today. | |
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Red @ScaredMonkeys: Juror #5 better get a sense of perspective. Oh, but know his lawyer says, he is not going to do that anymore. |
Joe Gandelman: His lawyer, speaking on NBC's Today Show, says yes: [quote] "He's not going to do that anymore," attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. told NBC's Today.[end quote] |