memeorandum: My Time as a Hostage, and I'm a Business Reporter (David Barboza/New York Times)

'A Different Understanding With the President' … Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Think Progress

Atrios / Eschaton:

Indeed — Via email:

Discussion: The American Street, Ezra Klein, The Huffington Post and Angry Bear

The Raw Story:

Dems plan to cut Cheney from executive funding bill — Following Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) plans to introduce an amendment to the the Financial Services …

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, Crooks and Liars, The Gun Toting Liberal™ and The Newshoggers

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Rule Of Law? — I haven't followed the kerfuffle over Dick …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Middle Earth Journal, The Newshoggers and Dependable Renegade

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
FUN WITH DICK AND DICK....Last night at dinner my mother …

Discussion: Corrente

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DICK CHENEY AS A LEGISLATIVE OFFICIAL: Ed Morrissey is not impressed …

Discussion: Silent Running

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online: Cheneying Cheney — The Democrats grow some balls:

Michael Duffy / Time:
The Cheney Branch of Government

Discussion: Left in the West, CREW, The Rachel Maddow Show and TPMCafe blogs

Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Defends Cheney's Refusal of Oversight

Discussion: Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, The Politico, Liberal Values, The Impolitic, TalkLeft, Scholars and Rogues, War and Piece, The American Street and Talking Points Memo

Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:

IN THE MAIL: Col. Buzz Patterson's War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror. — I don't think that the left wants to lose the war on terror, exactly — they just want Bush to lose the war on terror. I suspect, however, that Patterson's theme …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Newshoggers

Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:

STAB IN THE BACK WATCH....Here's the latest from Instapundit, in its entirety: … Oh yes indeedy, I too expect we'll be hearing more of this in the future, especially if things go badly in Iraq. Lots more. — You can almost smell the stink of desperation from the pro-war crowd.

Discussion: INSTAPUTZ

Howie / The Jawa Report:

The Only Way — A little Instapundit post like this one can cause such a reaction from my little blog bitch Olliver Willis and Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly......is......there must be some truth to it. Stuff just doesn't get that kind of reaction unless you feel guilty about err something …

Discussion: Oliver Willis

David Barboza / New York Times:

My Time as a Hostage, and I'm a Business Reporter — AS an American journalist based in China, I knew there was a good chance that at some point I'd be detained for pursuing a story. I just never thought I'd be held hostage by a toy factory. — That's what happened last Monday …

Discussion: The Glittering Eye

Nick Denton / Valleywag:

Microsoft pays star writers to recite slogan — The stodgy old media industry has a rule that newspaper reporters, and TV news hosts, shouldn't trade on their public trust to endorse products. It's become redundant: the reading public typically wants journalists to drop the pretense of objectivity …

Discussion: GigaOM, FM Blog, BuzzMachine and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Tim Rutten / Los Angeles Times:

Where is the West's outcry? — FOR a writer, Salman Rushdie has had a rather turbulent career. — Even by his standards, however, this has been quite a week for the Indian-born, British-educated Booker Prize-winning novelist, now a resident of New York: — Queen Elizabeth II knighted …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters and Roger L. Simon

Richard Cowan / Reuters:

Lawmaker urges condoms for border control — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressman is pushing a not-so-quick fix in the debate over illegal immigrants from Mexico: free contraceptives. — "A slower rate of growth of Mexico's population would improve the economy of Mexico.

Discussion: PERRspectives Blog and Cliff Schecter

Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:

Iran Cracks Down on Dissent, Parading Examples in Streets — Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women's rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans …

Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Hot Air

Thomas B. Edsall / Huffington Post:

HuffPost Exclusive: More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 Candidate — John McCain, who made his name attacking special interests, has more lobbyists working on his staff or as advisers than any of his competitors, Republican or Democrat. — A Huffington Post examination …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Talking Points Memo

Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:

Judge criticizes warrantless wiretaps — WASHINGTON - A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks. — Royce Lamberth, a district court judge in Washington …

Discussion: Macsmind

Michael Alison Chandler / Washington Post:

Schools Pinched In Hiring — Teacher Shortage Looms As Law Raises Bar and Boomer Women Retire — As hundreds of thousands of baby boomers retire and the No Child Left Behind law raises standards for new teachers, school systems across the country are facing a growing scarcity of qualified recruits.

Discussion: Washington Monthly