Top Items:
Joel Stein / Los Angeles Times:
Warriors and wusses — I DON'T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on. — I'm sure I'd like the troops.
Discussion:
QandO, Hugh Hewitt, Mudville Gazette, BLACKFIVE, Gina Cobb, RedState, One Hand Clapping, Inside Larry's Head, The Strata-Sphere, Solomonia, Right Wing News, Flopping Aces, American Leftist, Sister Toldjah, Why Are We Back In Iraq?, euphoricreality.net, AMERICAN FUTURE, WILLisms.com, The Sundries Shack, Ace of Spades HQ, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Ed Driscoll.com, Brainster's Blog, TigerHawk, The RCP Blog, The LLama Butchers, NewsBusters.org and Confederate Yankee
RELATED ITEMS:
radioblogger.com:
Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein today saying he doesn't support the troops. — It's another glaring example of why the Times is the worst newspaper in America: — 01-24stein.mp3 — HH: Welcome now Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times, columnist there. Hi, Joel. Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Michelle Malkin:
THE MOST LOATHSOME PEOPLE IN AMERICA — ***update: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Joel Stein today and posts his thoughts...transcript and audio at Radioblogger...*** — Some website has named me the 49th most loathsome person in America. (I'm just ahead of Geraldo.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway: Don't Support the Troops — Joel Stein makes a rather bizarre argument …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Leftist: "I Don't Support Troops"; Urges Them to Disobey Orders
Kimberly Hefling / timesleader.com:
Casey announces endorsement of Alito — WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum's leading Democratic challenger, Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey, announced Tuesday that he endorses Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. — For weeks, Republicans have called Casey "Silent Bob" …
RELATED ITEMS:
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee Recommends Alito to Senate — By a 10-8 party line vote with sometimes bitter partisan debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee today recommended that Samuel A. Alito Jr. be confirmed by the full Senate as associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Insight:
Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst — The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. — "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said. — Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Administration's new FISA defense is factually false — In light of Gen. Hayden's new claim yesterday that the reason the Bush Administration decided to eavesdrop outside of FISA is because the "probable cause" standard for obtaining a FISA warrant was too onerous (and prevented …
RELATED ITEM:
General Michael V. Hayden / dni.gov:
FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY ADDRESS TO THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB — WHAT AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE & ESPECIALLY THE NSA HAVE BEEN DOING TO DEFEND THE NATION — NATIONAL PRESS CLUB — WASHINGTON, D.C. — MR. HILL: Good morning. My name is Keith Hill.
Discussion:
Unclaimed Territory, The Heretik, PBD, Early Warning …, AMERICAN FUTURE, Daily Kos and RedState
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Agrees to Censor Results in China — Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country's free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet's fastest growing market. — The Mountain View …
RELATED ITEM:
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause — Kathryn Hanson, a former telecommunications engineer who lives in Oakland, Calif., was looking at BBC News online last week when she came across an item about a British politician who had resigned over a reported affair with a "rent boy."
Discussion:
Amygdala
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Posters vs. the Post — Lessons from the Post.blog meltdown. — Washingtonpost.com temporarily shuttered its Post.blog message board last week after hundreds of personal attacks and profane, sexist, and generally hateful comments were placed there by readers—and others …
Discussion:
The Blogging of the President, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, mediabistro, Open Letter … and Crooks and Liars
RELATED ITEM:
Michelle Malkin:
THE WAR AT THE BORDER (W/VIDEO LINK) — The Inland Daily Bulletin reports on the latest armed Mexican incursions on our southern border: … FOX News has confirmation from Texas officials. — Bare Knuckle Politics has video from the Minutemen. More from the Guard the Borders Blogburst.
RELATED ITEM:
Associated Press:
West Poses As Jesus for Rolling Stone — NEW YORK - Kanye West, with a crown of thorns atop his head, poses as Jesus Christ on the cover of the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone. The outspoken rapper defends his brash attitude inside the magazine's pages, on newsstands Friday.
Brian / Santorum Exposed:
ASK NOT WHAT SANTORUM CAN DO FOR YOU — Last week Rick Santorum addressed the Centre County Republican Party and asked them to support him. During the course of his speech Rick actually had the gall to compare putting a Santorum bumper sticker on your car to serving your country in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Mark Mazzetti / Los Angeles Times:
Pentagon Planning Document Leaves Iraq Out of Equation — A four-year blueprint for the military reflects a view that the war is an anomaly. There's talk of robots and drones, but no force buildup. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has long been accused of always planning to fight its last war.
Discussion:
Defense Tech, Winds of Change.NET, Outside The Beltway, The Washington Monthly and BrothersJudd Blog
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
TimesSelect Draws About 156,000 Web-Only Subs in First 4 Months — NEW YORK About 156,000 people have signed up and paid a special online fee to read The New York Times' columnists since the paper launched its TimesSelect service four months ago, the paper reported Tuesday.
Discussion:
mediabistro
Cindy Chang / New York Times:
Conservative Alumnus Pulls Offer to Buy Lecture Tapes — LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 - A 24-year-old conservative alumnus who announced earlier this month that he planned to pay students at the University of California, Los Angeles, to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning professors backed …
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy
