memeorandum: Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq (New York Times)

12:05 PM ET, May 28, 2007

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How not to honor a fallen soldier — Update: Don't forget to pause today at 3pm for the national moment of remembrance. Click to play: — Bill Richardson: Dishonoring the dead — Welcome to Memorial Day 2007. Here's a lesson in How Not To Honor a Fallen Soldier 101.

Discussion: Mudville Gazette, The Mahablog, Gateway Pundit, moxie, Sister Toldjah and Macsmind

Gov. Bill Richardson / MSNBC:

'Meet the Press' transcript for May 27, 2007 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues. An exclusive interview with Democrat Bill Richardson. He is now in his fifth year as governor of New Mexico. He was United States congressman …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Lonewacko

Boston Globe:

Contender Richardson wants to have it all — Can anyone be a New York Yankees fan and a Boston Red Sox fan at the same time and win the presidency? — Democratic candidate Bill Richardson wants to have it all. — "I'm a Red Sox fan," said the New Mexico governor, who was born in Pasadena …

Associated Press:

Richardson to Stop Using Name of Marine — WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he will stop using the name of Marine from New Mexico who was killed in Iraq and whose story the Democratic governor has recounted while campaigning.

Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)

Tim Montgomerie / Britain and America:

British media could swing the next US election — By Tim Montgomerie, Editor of BritainAndAmerica.com. — Paul Wolfowitz gave what I think was his first interview this morning since giving up his battle to stay World Bank President. He chose to give it to the BBC World Service.

BBC:

Wolfowitz blames media for exit — The outgoing president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, has told the BBC an "overheated" atmosphere at the bank and in the media forced him to resign. — Mr Wolfowitz stood down after a scandal over his role in winning a new pay and promotion package for his girlfriend.

Discussion: Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Jules Crittenden:

Memorial Day on the Ground — A quick glance around: — Acute Politics with Promotion Party and Gator. Not exactly Memorial Day pieces, but they are, when you live where every day is Memorial Day. For the occasion, here's a reprise of the Devil's Windchimes, which Don calls The Road to Hell.

John / Argghhh!:

MEMORIAL DAY 2007. — Today, we honor those who have gone before. In November, we honor the living. — I don't mind the sales. Commerce built this country. I don't mind "Going to the Lake" - having fun with family and friends makes life worth living. And this day is about having a life worth living.

Discussion: The Glittering Eye

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com: SOME MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHTS, from Peter Collier. A must-read.

Peter Collier / Opinion Journal:
America's Honor — The stories behind Memorial Day.

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: Trust and Betrayal — Future historians will shake their heads over how easily America was misled into war.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Firedoglake, Norwegianity, Prairie Weather and AMERICAblog

Atrios / Eschaton:

We Must Be Able To Do Something — I understand where Adele is coming from. We're good liberals, we gaze on the horror that we (yes, all of us) are responsible for, and are compelled to try to fix it. To make it better. To somehow uns**t the bed, if just a little bit.

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings

Andrew G. Bostom / American Thinker:

Ignorance, Cognitive Dissonance, and al-Sadr — Re-emerging publicly on Friday May 25, 2007 for the first time since he went underground 4-months ago, Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr journeyed in a long motorcade from Najaf to the adjacent city of Kufa where he delivered a fiery sermon before 6,000 worshippers.

Discussion: Power Line and Atlas Shrugs

Alison Leigh Cowan / New York Times:

Wealthy Enclave Offers Windfall for Candidates — Senator John McCain made his pitch to this gilded shoreline suburb back in April. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts came on May 7, followed one night later by former President Bill Clinton on behalf of his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Discussion: Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Scott Bronstein / CNN:

Group: Terrorism not focus of Homeland Security … WASHINGTON (CNN) — Claims of terrorism represented less than 0.01 percent of charges filed in recent years in immigration courts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group.

Discussion: The Next Hurrah, The Impolitic and AMERICAblog

Des Moines Register:

Vilsack becomes key player in Clinton campaign — Aides say the efforts seem to be tied to a possible role of running mate. — Sioux Center, Ia. - Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has assumed a role in Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign unlike any of the New York Democrat's other national advisers.

David Carr / New York Times:

The Media Equation: Not to See the Fallen Is No Favor — On this Memorial Day, thousands of United States men and women are engaged in untold acts of bravery and drudgery on behalf of what our leaders have defined as vital American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Discussion: The Impolitic