Top Items:
Los Angeles Times:
A Donor Who Had Big Allies — DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record. — WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used …
RELATED ITEMS:
Time:
Bush and DeLay: Never A Texas Two-Step — The Bush Administration sees the former House majority leader as a necessary burden — When legal and ethical questions began spinning around House majority leader Tom DeLay last year, President George W. Bush was publicly supportive.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Ends Bid to Regain Post as G.O.P. Leader — WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - Representative Tom DeLay, under pressure from colleagues and swept into an election-year lobbying scandal, abandoned his effort to remain House majority leader on Saturday. The move touched off a battle …
ThreatsWatch.Org:
The Easy Way — The Washington Post makes simple corrections but does not address the real issues — The Washington Post has printed corrections to the article Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War - U.S. Recruits Advocates to the Front, Pays Iraqi TV Stations for Coverage:
RELATED ITEMS:
Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
US Army gets on the blog train — Interesting discussion at Instapundit about the MSM, blogs and the military. The Bill Roggio-Washington Post kerfuffle is still alive and well. But here I comment upon an email from an Army colonel Glenn Reynolds quotes. Writes the colonel,
Washington Post:
CORRECTIONS — A Jan. 6 correction incorrectly said that the University of Maryland men's basketball team will play Duke on Jan. 11 at College Park. The game will be in Durham, N.C. — A Jan. 6 article incorrectly described the sponsorship of an annual Florida conference attended …
New York Times:
Judging Samuel Alito — Judicial nominations are not always motivated by ideology, but the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito certainly was. President Bush's previous choice to fill Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, was hounded into withdrawing by the far right …
RELATED ITEMS:
Washington Post:
A Search for Order, an Answer in the Law — Since his youth, Samuel Alito Jr. has been drawn to conservative ideas. On the eve of confirmation hearings, the first of two articles looks at the forces that shaped the nominee. — It was May 3, 1971, the crest of the antiwar movement …
Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:
American Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator Saturday in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. — Maj. Falah Mohamadawi said the translator told police before he died that the abduction took place …
Discussion:
Rantingprofs
RELATED ITEMS:
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Washington Post:
The Real Choice in Iraq — "Bring 'em on." — President Bush on Iraqi insurgents, summer 2003 — The insurgency is "in its last throes." — Vice President Cheney, summer 2005 — " . . . there are only two options before our country: victory or defeat." — President Bush, Christmas 2005
Harvey Mansfield / Weekly Standard:
The Law and the President — EMERGENCY POWER FOR SUCH UNDERHANDED activities as spying makes Americans uncomfortable and upset. Even those who do not suffer from squeamish distaste for self-defense, and do not mind getting tough when necessary, feel uneasy.
RELATED ITEM:
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Hamas Talks of Possibly Forming Government — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The militant Islamic Hamas group spoke openly for the first time Saturday about the possibility of forming the next Palestinian government after this month's parliamentary elections. — Hamas is expected to deliver …
Discussion:
Jihad Watch
RELATED ITEM:
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:With Sharon Ill, Palestinians Face Own Travails
Discussion:
Mediacrity
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Hugh Thompson, 62, Who Saved Civilians at My Lai, Dies — Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot who rescued Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre, reported the killings to his superior officers in a rage over what he had seen, testified at the inquiries and received a commendation …
RELATED ITEM:
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
U.S. shouldn't have to do tap dance over bugging — Here's a Reuters headline from New Year's Day: "CIA May Need Decade To Rebuild Clandestine Service." — A decade, huh? Circa 2016, you mean? The last time I checked the job-completion estimates was back in spring 2004 …
Discussion:
The Strata-Sphere
Anne Hull / Washington Post:
When Mom Is Over There — A Family Learns to Stay the Course and Prays for a Safe Return From Iraq — I am driving a hulking Expedition with a yellow ribbon on the bumper that says "Support Our Troops." In the grocery store parking lot, a man nods at me. I'm walking to the shopping carts when it hits me.
Miriam Pawel / Los Angeles Times:
Farmworkers Reap Little as Union Strays From Its Roots — The movement built by Cesar Chavez has failed to expand on its early successes organizing poor rural laborers. As their plight is used to attract donations that benefit others, services for those in the fields are left to languish.
Times of London:
Turkish deaths put Europe on bird flu alert — THE number of Turkish people thought to be infected with avian flu rose to more than 50 this weekend, prompting concern that the disease may be about to spread into Europe. — Yesterday a British laboratory confirmed that a Turkish brother …
