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Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father By / Reuters — Permalink PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq , directly blamed President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death. "My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. | |
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Christopher Kanis: But this is starting to go too far: [snipped quote] Blaming Bush is fine. Excusing the terrorists isn't. Tbogg: Meanwhile, when the Berg story does get attention, they don't like what it tells them. I just listened to the CBS news on the local CBS radio affiliate. Mathew Gross: Time to Crank Up the Wurlitzer — Look for the cultural detente over Iraq to break into open combat over Nick Berg's... |
Cori Dauber: This is simply grotesque. He apparently also said the Patriot Act was a coup. Fine, good, whatever. This isn't news. Oliver Willis: So... I wonder how soon until the righties let us know how evil Michael Berg is for saying Damian Penny: By and large, it's backfired badly, but it did get that reaction from at least one American... Nick Berg's father: The... |
| Also: John Hawkins | |
Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 12 — The Central Intelligence Agency has used coercive interrogation methods against a select group of high-level leaders and operatives of Al Qaeda that have produced growing concerns inside the agency about abuses, according to current and former counterterrorism officials. | |
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Kevin Drum: "PAUL CLEMENT, DEPUTY SOLICITOR GENERAL: Well, our executive doesn't..." May 13, in the New York Times: "In the case... Cori Dauber: So when you read the Times' lead article this morning, lets just try and keep a little perspective. Matthew Yglesias: As we all know, the United States would never implement a policy of torturing prisoners: [snipped quote] I might point out that this stuff isn't exactly news. |
Robert Cox: The New York Times is reporting that some people are concerned that the CIA might be abusing al Qaeda leaders captured over the past few years. David Allan Pell: In order to try to extract information from him after he was in custody, the CIA used a technique known as water... Mike Hendrix: Continuing the outrage — The NYT tries hard to keep the ball rolling with this front-page non-news: [snipped quote] I... |
| Also: Howard Kurtz, Tim Dunlop, Captain Ed, Jonah Goldberg, Tom Maguire, Roger L. Simon, Jeralyn Merritt, Smash, Angry Bear, Atrios, Mark Kleiman | |
This is the Enemy: Vile image shows world why we fight Dallas Morning News — Permalink The image you see here depicts an al-Qaeda terrorist brandishing the severed head of American hostage Nick Berg as a trophy of war. This is who the enemy is. This is what our nation is up against. We have chosen to obscure Mr. Berg's face. | |
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Steven Taylor: The editorial is worth reading, even though one has to register to do it: This is the Enemy: Vile image shows world why we fight. Sparkey: The hometown paper get's one right for a change: Publishing this photo in no way justifies what happened in Abu Ghraib,... |
Glenn Reynolds: Meanwhile, Rod Dreher emails to make clear that the Dallas Morning News did run the Berg picture. Cori Dauber: Then they present an image of what happened to Nick Berg death's so doctored as to mean nothing. |
Dancing Alone By / NYT — Permalink It is time to ask this question: Do we have any chance of succeeding at regime change in Iraq without regime change here at home? "Hey, Friedman, why are you bringing politics into this all of a sudden? | |
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Mark Kleiman: Tom Friedman is off the reservation — Friedman writes: It is time to ask this question: Do we have any chance of... Garance Franke-Ruta: Thomas Friedman, writing with the angry honesty of the newly betrayed, lays out the case that George W. Bush and Karl... Kevin Drum: He kept hoping that Bush really wanted to do what was right for the country, but: [snipped quote] For all I that I... |
Matthew Yglesias: DISGRUNTLEMENT WATCH, THREE. Tom Friedman's getting off this bus. David Allan Pell: Friedman: "I thought the administration would have to do the right things in Iraq - from prewar planning and putting in... Harley: Better Late Than Never — Tom Friedman finally gets it right about regime change. Update [2004-5-13 10:35:7 by Harley]: Kevin Drum on Friedman. |
| Also: Micah Sifry, Edward _, Tarek @LiquidList, Ed Cone, Ezra Klein | |
Bloggers doubt Berg execution video By / Aljazeera — Permalink Revolting millions around the world, the video footage of an American citizen's execution has also raised numerous questions concerning its authenticity. Even at first glance, internet bloggers were asking on Thursday why Nick Berg was wearing an orange jumpsuit — just like US prisoners wear. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: Because Al Jazeera is now attacking its authenticity. Who are these unnamed bloggers? H.D. Miller: Here's al-Jazeerah (of course) suggesting that something is fishy about the video of the murder. Charles Johnson: Al Jazeera: The Delusions Begin — JihadTV has begun constructing the inevitable conspiracy theory around the Nick Berg snuff film: Bloggers doubt Berg execution video. |
Cori Dauber: Of course, forget links — that would be far too much to ask for — forget names — that would be crazy to expect — they don't even make up quotes from these alleged bloggers. Blackfive: Al Jazeera - "Bloggers Doubt Berg Execution Video" — It's a sad, sad day when the blogosphere (many bloggers hope for... Hesiod: ADDENDUM: Al Jazeerah is following the blog discussion about Nick Berg. |
| Also: Stephen Green | |
The War of Images By / TCS — Permalink It is often said that we are fighting a war of ideas. We are not. We are fighting a war of images, and right now our enemy is winning this war, while we are losing it, and losing it badly. | |
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Digby: Update: Via Atrios, I see that Yglesias has posted about one of those six million, apparently, a writer for tech central... Jesse Taylor: Lee Harris: "It is often said that we are fighting a war of ideas. We are not." Glenn Reynolds: LEE HARRIS and Fouad Ajami both think that the Bush Administration is blowing the war of ideas. |
Matt Yglesias: The Downward Spiral — Has it come to this? [snipped quote] I'm foreseeing an ugly future. Nick Gillespie: A snippet: [snipped quote] I'm not sure I agree with Harris' full analysis, but he raises a number of interesting points,... |
Liberal Talk Show Shuts LA, Chicago Sales Offices By / Reuters — Permalink LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Air America has shut its sales offices in Los Angeles and Chicago and is recasting its business plan, the network's president said on Wednesday as troubles beset the liberal talk show network. | |
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Betsy Newmark: More Frankenfreude, as Jonah Goldberg would say. Air America is having more bad news. What a dang shame. Pejman Yousefzadeh: ERR AMERICA: THE SAGA CONTINUES — And it looks like the saga is still filled with bad news for the network:... Jeff Jarvis: The network gets pulled off the air in a major market. Executives keep leaving. And bad news keeps piling up. |
Captain Ed: Air America Shuts Some Doors — Err America logoIn more bad news followed by some first-class spin, Air America... Steven Taylor: Yet More Trouble for Air America — Reuters News Article [snipped quote] What!?! they had a business plan? Who knew? |
Kerry Assails Bush on Iraq By / WaPo — Permalink ORLANDO, May 12 — Sen. John F. Kerry, breaking momentarily from his cautious approach to turmoil in Iraq, blasted President Bush on Wednesday for running an "extraordinarily mismanaged and ineptly prosecuted war" and strongly suggested Bush is partly to blame for abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. | |
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Oliver Willis: It's As If They Lie — Who would ever think that an Enron lobbyist like Bush's campaign chair Marc Racicot would have such a loose relationship with the truth? Josh Marshall: You know Marc — Racicot's reputation as a liar is getting pretty widespread when the Post walks its readers through... Mark Kleiman: Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post shows how the real pros do it: The Bush campaign has repeatedly accused the senator of "politicizing" Iraq. |
Betsy Newmark: Just One Minute adds a third headline to the stories about whether or not Kerry is saying enough about Iraq. Pejman Yousefzadeh: THE POLITICIZATION OF ABU GHRAIB — John Kerry has come out with an uncommonly silly take on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Noam Scheiber: THE MILBANK-IFICATION OF THE WASHINGTON POST: I've been a little critical of Jim VandeHei lately, so it's only fair that... |
| Also: Tom Maguire, Stephen Green | |
LEASH GAL'S SEX PIX New York Post — Permalink WASHINGTON - Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday. "She was having sex with numerous partners. | |
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Radley Balko: Reports of the latest round of pictures suggest that the abuse wasn't the result of expressed or implied military... James Joyner: Lynndie England Photos — NY Post - LEASH GAL'S SEX PIX [snipped quote] Since Drudge is highlighting this one, it'll be all over the 'net soon enough. Jeralyn Merritt: Congress Sees Explicit Lynndie England Photos — Bump and Update: Among the photos seen by Congress were many depicting... |
Steven Taylor: James Joyner notes this story from the NY Post: Leash Girl's Sex Pix "Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Howard Kurtz: All that's been missing from the story is sex, an angle the New York Post is all too happy to jump on: "Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. |
World Bank Corruption May Top $100 Bln By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corrupt use of World Bank funds may exceed $100 billion and while the institution has moved to combat the problem, more must be done, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday. | |
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Captain Ed: Senator Richard Lugar set off warning bells at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon: "Corrupt use of... Stephen Green: Now That's Real Money — The latest scandal involving a do-gooding international body: [snipped quote] Corrupt Enron went... |
Glenn Reynolds: IT'S NOT JUST UNSCAM: [snipped quote] I hope this story gets the attention it deserves. |
Rumsfeld Pays Surprise Visit to Iraq By / WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, May 13 — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq Thursday afternoon in a surprise visit to reach out to U.S. soldiers and to meet privately with his top generals in the field. | |
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Phil Carter: A change in leadership at Abu Ghraib — Shift from reserve to active MPs should make a big difference The Washington... Gregory Djerejian: The problem here was with individuals, not the system." This is a variation on this Rummy statement. Aaron @LiquidList: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld decided to surprise the troops and his field commanders in Iraq today. |
David Allan Pell: Rummy Goes to Baghdad — Donald Rumsfeld showed up in Baghdad today where he spoke to the troops: "In recent months... Steven Taylor: Mucho Rummy — While the big story in the Blogosphere today is obviously the Nick Berg execution, there is also quite a... KJL: RUMSFELD'S IN IRAQ on a surprise visit. Might be a relief compared to the Hill. |
Globe caught with pants down: Paper duped into running porn photos Boston Herald — Permalink The Boston Globe was reeling yesterday after graphic photos of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers turned out to be staged shots from a hardcore porn Web site. ''This photo should not have appeared in the Globe,'' editor Martin Baron said in a statement. | |
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Jeff Goldstein: Please Come to Boston... Boston Globe editor Martin Baron acknowledges his paper's mistake in running a staged porn... Glenn Reynolds: You'd have to buy the Boston Herald, he observes, to find out the full story. Ouch! |
Jesse Walker: For the rest of the story — including the alleged involvement of the Nation of Islam (?!) — go here. |
The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel Jew," Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: such murders are consistent with sacred... | |
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Donald Sensing: Beheading enemies has long Islam history — So reports LGF, citing this article. Fred Lapides: The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading — Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another "infidel... |
Charles Johnson: The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading — Andrew Bostom reminds us that Nick Berg's decapitation was not an anomaly: The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading. |
WSJ vs. 'Jersey Girls' NY Daily News — Permalink Wall Street Journal pundit Dorothy Rabinowitz - who last month penned an acid assault on the "Jersey Girls," four 9/11 widows who've dared to criticize the Bush administration - received some payback yesterday at the hands of "Jersey Girl" Kristin Breitweiser. | |
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Max B. Sawicky: "THESE ABSURD PRODUCTS OF THE ZEITGEIST . . . " Don't let the children see this. Nick Confessore: One of the paper's editors sent it to Rabinowitz for some thoughts, and she responded — to Breitweiser, accidently... |
The Poor Man: Sort of. By accident. Still: [snipped quote] That's sweet. Via Romenesko. Roger Ailes: Now it's an act of patriotism, says Dotty Rabinowitz. A class act, that Dotty. And bright, too! |
To Help Restore U.S. Standing, Rumsfeld Must Take the Fall By / LAT — Permalink Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's failure to offer his resignation over the Abu Ghraib scandal is sadly typical of the lack of accountability that permeates the U.S. government. We have suffered some catastrophic failures during the last few years. | |
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Garance Franke-Ruta: As my colleague Matthew Yglesias notes below, Iraq war enthusiast and proud neocon Max Boot, today — in a surprising... Robert Garcia Tagorda: The Neoconservative Case Against Don Rumsfeld — Max Boot delivers it, citing not the Secretary of Defense's personal... |
Matthew Yglesias: Max Boot, who's been one of the least-gruntled neocons out there for quite some time, is ready to sack Don Rumsfeld. |
CIA Says Al-Zarqawi Beheaded Berg in Iraq AP — Permalink WASHINGTON May 13, 2004 — U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the person shown on a video beheading an American civilian in Iraq, based on an analysis of the voice on the video, a CIA official said Thursday. | |
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Hesiod: How did they figure this out? "[B]ased on an analysis of the voice on the video. . . ." Oh really? KJL: ZARQAWI KILLED BERG, THE CIA SAYS |
Steven Taylor: Berg Beheaded by al-Zarqawi says CIA — CIA Says Al-Zarqawi Beheaded Berg in Iraq "U.S. intelligence officials have... |
Abu Ghraib Denial, Part 2 By / Slate — Permalink Stop the presses! Chatterbox predicted May 11 that right-wing culture warriors would soon be blaming the Abu Ghraib prison scandal on the depravities of the 1960s. But various readers alerted Chatterbox that quite a few conservative commentators (most of them second-tier) have already come tantalizingly close to making just that point: | |
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Oliver Willis: Like Clockwork — You can always count on the right to blame homosexuals, porn, feminists and movie directors when things go wrong. Andrew Sullivan: THE RIGHT-WING UNHINGED: Tim Noah collects a few of the more nutty far right attempts to explain away, ignore or just duck the issue of Abu Ghraib. |
Nathan Hallford: Slate Takes A Look at the responses from "right-wing cultural warriors" on the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. |
Cheer Up, Hawks By / TCS — Permalink There's a hint of hopelessness in the air, understandable given the shocking images and casualty reports that continue to come out of Iraq. While the neurasthenic natterings of the likes of Maureen Dowd would be of little note, much of the debacle chatter is coming from the decoder-ring wielding members of the right wing conspiracy. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: OF GOOD CHEER — Charles Rousseaux points out some stories coming out of Iraq that you may have missed: "One of the... Tom Smith: UPDATE: As usual, I'm just a radio, picking up the waves in the blogosphere. |
Andrew Sullivan: CHEER UP, HAWKS: Reasons to be more cheerful. THE RIGHT-WING UNHINGED: Tim Noah collects a few of the more nutty far... |
The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name By / NRO — Permalink EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is adapted from a speech given last month at the annual conference of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG). The theme of this year's CIAG conference was "Countering Suicide Terrorism: Risks, Responsibilities and Realities." | |
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Edward _: Silence and the Moderate Muslim (part 3): Resistance is Futile — Andrew McCarthy's essay on NRO reads like a summary of... Ted Belman: The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name — The battle is against militant Islam, not "Terror" By Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO ... |
Cori Dauber: THE WAR THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME — An important piece today from Andrew McCarthy in the NRO. |
The images we see -- and those we don't By / Boston Globe — Permalink THE DEATH of Nicholas Berg is a horror. It is a bitter reminder of why we are at war — something that much of America's political and media elite, in their binge of outrage and apology over the Abu Ghraib abuses, have lately seemed all too willing to forget. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Jeff Jacoby looks at the media double standard on what disturbing images they will show you. "What exactly is the governing rule here? Cori Dauber: Cowards. Update: This piece was written before the author knew about the DMN piece, obviously. |
Glenn Reynolds: Or maybe both.) UPDATE: Jeff Jacoby writes on the pictures we see and the pictures we don't. ANOTHER UPDATE: Capt. Ed thinks it's the Arnold effect. |
Kingdom Comes to North America By / NRO — Permalink Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, the Saudi government appointed imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, will give a series of lectures in Canada next week and attend the Islamic Society of North America conference in Toronto. Al-Sudayyis's position is one of the most prestigious in Sunni Islam. | |
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Ted Belman: Beware — Kingdom Comes to North America Top Saudi cleric to visit Canada. By Steven Stalinsky [snipped quote] This article is well worth reading in its entirety. Damian Penny: I'm not sure I agree with that decision on freedom-of-expression grounds, but I do believe we should at least be... |
Charles Johnson: The Sheikh is a Grade A, Saudi-certified, jihad-preaching moonbat, whose khutba (sermons) are distinguished by their... |
In Huge Upset, Gandhi's Party Wins Election in India By / NYT — Permalink NEW DELHI, May 13 — Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee resigned this evening after his ruling coalition suffered a resounding defeat in parliamentary elections, party officials said today. | |
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Max B. Sawicky: 1,049,700,118 PEOPLE WHO DON'T READ INSTAPUNDIT — Somewhere Rush-uday Limbaughrawat weeps. Tacitus: Still, I am interested to see that the hitherto-decrepit Congress Party has just won an upset victory in elections there. |
Tim Dunlop: Holy cow — The world's biggest democracy did its democratic thing and elected—against all expectations—a new government. |
British Inquiry Says Paper's Prison Abuse Photos Were Faked By / NYT — Permalink LONDON, May 13 — The British government said today that its investigation into a series of published photographs showing the brutal mistreatment of an Iraqi prisoner has concluded that the photos were not taken in Iraq and, therefore, must have been faked. | |
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Clayton Cramer: The Left's Continuing Campaign of Falsification — The New York Times is reporting that a series of pictures showing... |
Glenn Reynolds: MORE FAKE PHOTOS of prisoner abuse. As I said before, if people keep this up, it's going to make it less likely that Abu Ghraib will be taken seriously. |
Boston Globe publishes bogus GI rape pictures By / WorldNetDaily — Permalink Boston residents got more than they bargained for this morning when their copy of the Globe came complete with graphic photos depicting U.S. troops gang-raping Iraqi women. Problem is the photos are fake. | |
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Betsy Newmark: The Boston Globe has egg all over itself for publishing pictures that seemed to show Americans raping Iraqi women. Mike Hendrix: Other side shoots self in foot, blames Rumsfeld — Yeah, tell me again about how the media isn't actively engaged in... Cori Dauber: Someone got a little too creative with some frame grabs from a porn site. |
James Joyner: Boston Globe Publishes Bogus Pictures — WorldNetDaily - Boston Globe publishes bogus GI rape pictures Andrew Sullivan: WHAT THEY PUBLISH: The Boston Globe won't publish the most graphic parts of beheading of Nick Berg, but they will... Moe Lane: She apparently wasn't skeptical enough for her editors, however, because World Net Daily called up and pretty much... |
| Also: Jonathan Gewirtz, Clayton Cramer, Stephen Green | |
Doolittle changes tune on song copying Sacramento Bee — Permalink WASHINGTON - Rep. John Doolittle, always buttoned down and usually in a dark suit, may not be considered the hippest guy on the block. But Doolittle has something in common with tens of thousands of teenagers. | |
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Ezra Klein: A Match Made in Cupertino — Looks like one senior lawmakers love affair with an iPod might save digital music. |
Jeff A. Taylor: That Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) did not really "get" the issues involved in digital copyright until he bought an iPod shouldn't be that surprising. |
80% in Iraq Distrust Occupation Authority By / WaPo — Permalink Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative view of the U.S. occupation authority and of coalition forces, according to a new poll conducted for the occupation authority. | |
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Oliver Willis: But The Schools Are Open! 80% in Iraq Distrust Occupation Authority Four out of five Iraqis report holding a negative... Libertarian: BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ Ha! 80 percent of Iraqis distrust the occupation government. |
Mark Kleiman: My earlier post about the Washington Post report on the CPA poll showing that four out of five Iraqis have a poor... Cori Dauber: OH LOOK — A POLL — Funny, isn't it, that now that polls of the Iraqis are providing bad news, it becomes easy to find coverage of them. |
Reporter's Expulsion Brings Mounting Criticism in Brazil By / NYT — Permalink Brazilian opposition leaders, press associations and legal and judicial groups yesterday protested their government's decision to expel a New York Times correspondent for a report critical of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but Mr. da Silva said he would not consider revoking the action. | |
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Patrick Belton: The NYT follows up on the story, noting the initial public support for the decision is beginning to wane. |
Matt Welch: How to Expel Journalists — If you need reminding that America is not quite so bad as other countries, look no further... |
India's Gandhi Sweeps Hindu Nationalists from Power Reuters — Permalink NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee resigned Thursday after a shock election defeat that paved the way for Italian-born Sonia Gandhi's Congress party to take power in the world's largest democracy. | |
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Hesiod: MAJOR BREAKING NEWS! India's Hindu Nationalist Government has been resoundingly defeated at the polls! |
Matt Welch: Gandhi Returns — This time it's Sonia, wife of the assassinated Rajiv, who has just registered a stunning victory in India's national elections. |
Bada Bing? Bada Boom. By / Opinion Journal — Permalink I share an obsession with Tony Soprano. This startles me and makes me unhappy because it has been my experience that once my inner fears are echoed in the outer culture, some kind of grim critical mass has been achieved, and trouble ensues. | |
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Tbogg: Conservatives are criminals - P. Noonan — Let's start with the fun quote: This being "The Sopranos," signaled plot... |
Betsy Newmark: Peggy Noonan has been watching The Sopranos. And she's worried. |
Bush's Secret Stash By / Washington Monthly — Permalink Like the natural world, campaign finance is governed by inescapable laws of physics. One is that what goes up usually keeps going up: During every pres-idential election, the two parties manage to raise more money than they did the last time around. | |
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Nick Confessore: I just published an article showing that, in fact, the GOP doesn't need 527s as much — not just because they can raise... |
Taegan Goddard: Update: A Political Wire reader notes a fascinating piece by Nicholas Confessore that examines how Republicans have... |
THROWING VICTORY AWAY By / New York Post — Permalink QUIET isn't the same thing as peace. As a column of Marines paraded through Fallujah this week, it was done at the sufferance of our enemies. We lost the battle of Fallujah. By surrendering. The Coalition Provisional Authority insists that quiet streets are what matter. | |
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Stephen Green: Victory at Any Price So Long As It's Discounted — Ralph Peters on our "victory" in Fallujah: [snipped quote] If Bush is... KJL: WE SOUND LIKE THE U.N. Ralp Peters this morning, on the Fallujah precedent: [snipped quote] The whole thing is here. |
Ted Belman: THROWING VICTORY AWAY — By RALPH PETERS, NYPost May 13, 2004 — QUIET isn't the same thing as peace. |
Half a century after Brown: Part II By / Townhall.com — Permalink The landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education was immediately about schools, even though it quickly became a precedent for outlawing racial segregation in other government-controlled institutions and programs. | |
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Michael DeBow: Half a century after Brown: Thomas Sowell offers a two-part assessment, here and here. |
Joanne Jacobs: It was "not segregation as such that made black schools inferior," writes Thomas Sowell, who frequently praises high-quality all-black schools. |
Nick Berg's executioners all too clearly enjoyed beheading him By / Telegraph — Permalink One thing that unites the men who beheaded the American Nick Berg in Iraq, the soldiers who abused Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, the Palestinians who have held on to Israeli body parts in Gaza City and the murderers of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is that they all enjoyed what they did, and enjoyed it immensely. | |
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Charles Johnson: There's Nothing Kind About Man — Theodore Dalrymple has a sobering look at the power of evil: Nick Berg's executioners all too clearly enjoyed beheading him. |
John Derbyshire: HUMAN NATURE—THE BAD NEWS — I had the pleasure of lunch with "Theodore Dalrymple" (Tony Daniels) on Monday. |
Focus on What's at Stake in Iraq By / WaPo — Permalink What if Bush the Illegitimate promises to wear sackcloth and ashes to John Kerry's inaugural ball, prostrates himself for 40 days and nights before Jordan's king and Egypt's president-for-life, and stages an execution (real or mock, to be determined by an online poll managed by al-Jazeera TV) of Rumsfeld the Ogre? | |
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Ted Belman: A complicating factor — Focus on What's at Stake in Iraq By Jim Hoagland, Washinton Post [snipped quote] WHAT? Gregory Djerejian: Some Perspective — From Jim Hoagland. Meanwhile, goods news on the Moktada al Sadr front. Sully has the details. |
Atrios: Hoagland — Link: Those who were silent about torture in Iraq during Saddam Hussein's time should be modest about... |
Bush Ratings Fall Amid Iraq Woes CBS News — Permalink "The public is just very unhappy with what has happened in the war. We are talking about perceptions of the war that are akin to the public's perception on Vietnam, or lower." | |
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David Allan Pell: The President's approval rating when it comes to managing the economy has suffered a sharp decline. Mark Kleiman: And it turns out you can only fool most of the people some of the time: By 46 percent to 37 percent, more Americans... TChris: More Polls — A snapshot of recent opinion: From CBS News (Tuesday): "President Bush's overall approval rating has... |
Joe Drymala: From CBS: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President? Taegan Goddard: Another Poll Shows Bush In Free Fall — President Bush's approval rating "has fallen to the lowest level of his... Angry Bear: Waking Up and Smelling The Coffee — But why did it take so long? |
| Also: Josh Marshall, Steve Messina | |
Line Increasingly Blurred Between Soldiers and Civilian Contractors WaPo — Permalink While on missions in Iraq last year, 35-year-old Todd Drobnick was attacked by small-arms fire, grenades and makeshift bombs. Yet he continued to go out day after day, until he died in a vehicle crash on his way from one U.S. military base to another. | |
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Shawn @LiquidList: Today, for example, the Washington Post offers a lengthy article on the blurred line between civilian and military operatives in Iraq. |
Atrios: Unbelievable — Link: While on missions in Iraq last year, 35-year-old Todd Drobnick was attacked by small-arms fire, grenades and makeshift bombs. |
Commitments By / NRO — Permalink EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial appears in the (forthcoming) May 31, 2004, issue of National Review. As damaging as the pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib have been to our cause in Iraq, we suspect that the pictures of thugs in Fallujah celebrating their supposed victory over U.S. Marines have done more damage. | |
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Matt Welch: The Editors: "But nothing going on in Iraq is quite as alarming as the panic of our political class about it." Christopher Kanis: It's bad, but not hopeless — A useful editorial at National Review says that some things are indeed going very badly in... |
Howard Kurtz: National Review questions whether Iraq is spinning out of control: "Abu Ghraib and Fallujah have led to a new, more... |
U.S. Officials Failed to Protect Slain Civilian, Family Says NYT — Permalink The next morning, Mr. Berg described F.B.I. agents' questioning as amicable, but pointed. Among the questions asked, he wrote, were: "Why was I in Iraq? Did I ever make a pipe bomb? Why was I in Iran?" He conjectured that their questions arose from some Farsi literature and a book about Iran that he had. | |
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Cori Dauber: Thus the frontpage headline of today's Times: "U.S. Officials Failed to Protect Slain Civilian, Family Says." Andrew Sullivan: SPINNING BERG: The NYT does its usual job of trying to find the anti-Bush line even on a story as gripping and complex as Nick Berg's. |
Hesiod: If you read today's NYT story, Berg had some paraphenalia on him that lead his captors to believe he was Israeli, and it was common knowledge amongst the prisoners. |
DEM PANIC ON KERRY New York Post — Permalink JUST 10 weeks ago, when John Kerry came out of nowhere to vault ahead of the Democratic presidential field and leave his rivals choking in his dust, conventional wisdom had it that President Bush was certainly a goner and that Kerry should start writing his inaugural address. | |
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Steve Messina: But at the New York Post, Eric Fettmann is still on the island fighting for the Emperor: DEM PANIC ON KERRY May 13,... |
Betsy Newmark: Eric Fetterman says that the Democrats shouldn't be surprised about the lack of success Kerry has been having while the news stories from Iraq seem so bad for Bush. |
Shiite Leaders Report Progress in Talks on Najaf, but Cleric Balks NYT — Permalink KARBALA, Iraq, Thursday, May 13 — Shiite leaders reported progress Wednesday toward an agreement that would end a five-week-old standoff with the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf, but Mr. Sadr himself vowed to fight on and gun battles continued between American forces and his followers. | |
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Wretchard: Those who might regard Lieutenant Oliver's letter as optimistic will find it corroborated by these developments reported by the New York Times. |
Andrew Sullivan: Just as interesting as the apparently decisive attack in Karbala is the following news: "Special Forces soldiers led... |
Poll: Support For War At New Low CBS News — Permalink The public overwhelmingly thinks that the war in Iraq is making the U.S.'s image in the Arab world worse. Only 6 percent think the war's result has improved the U.S.'s image. (CBS) News of the abuse charges against American soldiers appears to have exacerbated what were already growing American concerns about the situation in Iraq. | |
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Fred Lapides: Poll: Support For War At New Low — News of the abuse charges against American soldiers appears to have exacerbated what... Angry Bear: And this is probably the worst news for the President: "BUSH'S HANDLING OF CAMPAIGN AGAINST TERRORISM Approve Now 51%... |
Jerome Armstrong: Given the latest poll numbers: President Bush's overall approval rating has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency, 44 percent, in the latest CBS News poll. Atrios: No. I want things to work out, but I'm enraged by it, actually." ...and so is everyone else. |
Kerry's legendary lead By / The Hill — Permalink "So Mark, how well is John Kerry doing?" "Better than any challenger in modern times has ever been doing at this point in this race!" "You wouldn't know that from the press spin." | |
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Ruy Teixeira: And here are some more from Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, writing in The Hill: In the latest Gallup poll, John Kerry... Ezra Klein: Poll Check — Eh. Kerry's poll numbers don't look that good to me. Kos: Kerry's poll numbers looking GOOOOD — Democratic pollster Mark Mellman gives us the straight scoop: [snipped quote] But... |
Steve Messina: Mark Mehlman, in The Hill yesterday: "So Mark, how well is John Kerry doing?" Brad DeLong: Pollster Mark Mellman Rallies the Democratic Troops — Pollster Mark Mellman says that Kerry is in a very strong... |
Nader Wins Endorsement From Reform Party By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has been endorsed by the national Reform Party, giving him ballot access in eight states, including Florida and Michigan, party leaders announced Wednesday. | |
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Pessimist: Nader Wins Endorsement From Reform Party [snipped quote] I can't rule out that Republican-leaning Reform Party members,... Steve Bainbridge: Reform Party Endorses Nader — What's left of the Reform Party has endorsed Ralph Nader's presidential bid, which will... Michael DeBow: Nader on a roll: According to this AP story, Ralph Nader has won the endorsement of the Reform Party (the vehicle Ross Perot created in order to deny Bush 41 a second term). |
Oliver @LiquidList: The scattered remnants of the Reform Party have endorsed Ralph Nader, putting him on the ballot in some battleground states. Micah Sifry: The Reform Party Rises Again? So Ralph Nader has the Reform Party's endorsement. Talk about a shadow chasing a mirage! Captain Ed: Nader May Accept Reform Party Endorsement — In a move that has to worry Democratic Party leadership, the Reform Party... |
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Now Pittsfield Stakes Claim to Baseball's Origins By / NYT — Permalink PITTSFIELD, Mass., May 11 - A generation ago, the popular belief was that baseball was invented in 1839 in Cooperstown, N.Y., by Abner Doubleday. That belief was later refined, with the birth date shifting to 1846, in Hoboken, N.J. Still later, a New York... | |
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Robert Garcia Tagorda: In other baseball news, the New York Times reports that another city is claiming to be the sport's birthplace:... |
Ken Masugi: Researchers have discovered a 1791 reference to "base ball" being played in New York State. |
GOP leaders oppose release of more abuse images CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Top GOP leaders said Wednesday they oppose the release of hundreds of fresh images showing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, saying they could compromise the prosecution of those soldiers implicated in the acts and further inflame tensions in Iraq. | |
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Captain Ed: CNN reports that Congressional leaders have reviewed all of the confiscated pictures and video of Iraqi prisoner abuse,... |
Oliver Willis: No wonder the GOP is trying to cover up the latest batch of photos, as Secretary Rumsfeld did. |
Kerry Calls Iraq War a Failure AP — Permalink ORLANDO, Fla. - Presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday the war in Iraq is a failure and that a shake-up is needed to end the Bush administration's mistakes and incompetence, a sharp critique that sparked more Republican criticism that the Democrat is making the war a political issue. | |
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David Adesnik: KERRY ON THE AIRWAVES: While trying to find a transcript of Kerry's comments from today about Iraq, I came across the webpage with all of his recent commercials. |
Oliver Willis: Whether you were in favor of this war or not, the Bush execution of it has been a miserable failure "Why should we reward more of the same? |
Iraq Soccer Team Qualifies for Olympics AP — Permalink AMMAN, Jordan - Iraq 's soccer team qualified for the Athens Olympics on Wednesday, less than three months after the country was reinstated by the International Olympic Committee . Iraq beat Saudi Arabia 3-1, and then clinched the third and final Asian qualifying spot when Kuwait held Oman to a scoreless draw. | |
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Edward _: Iraq Soccer Team Qualifies for Olympics [snipped quote] God bless 'em. |
Jeff A. Taylor: Feel Good Story of the Day — Iraq's soccer team is going to the Olympics. |
General who made anti-Islam remark tied to POW case By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army general under investigation for anti-Islamic remarks has been linked by U.S. officials to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, which experts warned could touch off new outrage overseas. | |
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David Neiwert: Yesterday came the confirmation of this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army general under investigation for... Steve Messina: Boykin has declined comment.... —Reuters (Link via Seeing the Forest.) |
Jack Balkin: "Jerry" Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence, may have been involved in the recommendation to... |
Powell says Bush was 'informed' of Red Cross concerns By / Baltimore Sun — Permalink WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he and other top officials kept President Bush "fully informed ... in general terms" about complaints made by the Red Cross and others over ill-treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. | |
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Von @ObsidianWings: If this statement by Powell (via Marshall, who has commentary) proves true, however, it seems my defense has been in vain. |
Josh Marshall: The Baltimore Sun quotes Colin Powell as saying that "we kept the president Advertisement informed of the concerns that... |
Dr. D & DM By / NRO — Permalink I went on Dennis Miller's new CNBC show for the first time a few weeks ago and realized I'd better stop by the ophthalmologist first, because one of my fake tear ducts had become dislodged again, and a dripping eye is particularly unattractive on TV. | |
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Jesse Taylor: With this inane NRO article, I have officially spent more time reading about Dennis Miller's show and politcal conversion than any person alive has actually spent watching it. Jeff Jarvis: Glenn Reynolds says Howard Stern is dissing Catherine Seipp. But the truth is, Seipp dissed Stern's audience. Nathan Hallford: National Review Online has several good articles up today. First, a look at how Dennis Miller drives the Left nuts. |
Libertarian: See here and here. Oh, and Seipp is wrong about the Eric Alterman and Dennis Miller episode. Glenn Reynolds: HOWARD STERN IS DISSING CATHY SEIPP: Knowing her as I do, that strikes me as unwise. |
'Holy war' general linked to Iraq prison scandal ABC News — Permalink The US Army general under investigation for anti-Islamic remarks has been linked by US officials to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, which experts warned could touch off new outrage overseas. | |
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Tom Maguire: General Boykin, Again — He insulted Islam. He led the capture of Saddam. He may have inspired the abuse of prisoners. Mark Kleiman: But it's hard not to wonder what might have been in the briefing he delivered last summer on "ways military interrogators could gain more intelligence from Iraqi prisoners." |
Max B. Sawicky: ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS — Loony-fundy general embroiled in Iraqi prison scandal. (Background) |
Kerry Suggests Replacements for Rumsfeld AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday any number of people, including Republican Sens. John McCain and John Warner, could replace Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, rejecting concerns that a change in Pentagon leadership could hurt the war effort. | |
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Donald Sensing: Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry named Senators John McCain, John Warner and Carl Levin as potential... Kos: And he does so by citing Secretary of Defense possibilities who are, well, Republican... [snipped quote] But I'm not offended. |
Captain Ed: If He Can't Figure This Out ... John Kerry continued his irresponsible rhetoric this morning on the Don Imus show, again... |
It's a Fight for Survival -- Pull Out All Stops By / LAT — Permalink It may seem to be a radical idea, but why not use every means possible — without politically correct detours — to win the war against terrorism? Our victory in World War II was not achieved by trying to win the hearts and minds of Germans and Japanese. | |
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Kevin Drum: Meanwhile, here in Los Angeles, just to prove that we can be as tough as any New Yorker, über-conservative hawk... Ted Belman: Even the LA Times — It's a Fight for Survival — Pull Out All Stops By Bruce Herschensohn, LATimes Bruce Herschensohn... |
Matt Welch: When Opposing Torture Becomes "Politically Correct" — Perennial failed California Republican candidate Bruce... |
Decrying Iraq, Kerry Cites McCain for Defense Chief By / Reuters — Permalink ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic challenger John Kerry said on Wednesday his first choice as defense secretary would be Republican Sen. John McCain as he criticized the Bush administration for failed policies in Iraq. | |
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Aaron @LiquidList: Politics: Kerry's Choice — Out on the campaign trail today, John Kerry announced that his first choice for Secretary of... SK Bubba: UPDATE: I thought I was pulling that McCain pick out of thin air. Apparently not. |
Andrew Sullivan: KERRY-McCAIN: Well, if not vice-president, defense secretary? A fascinating wrinkle on my suggestion yesterday. |
A City of Quitters? In Strict New York, 11% Fewer Smokers NYT — Permalink In the wake of huge tobacco tax increases and a ban on smoking in bars, the number of adult smokers in New York City fell 11 percent from 2002 to 2003, one of the steepest short-term declines ever measured, according to surveys commissioned by the city. | |
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Kevin Drum: LEGISLATING MORALITY...Cigarette smoking is down in New York City: [snipped quote] You can argue all day long about... Jacob Sullum: Vice Charge — Survey data released today indicate that the share of New Yorkers who smoke fell from 21.6 percent in 2002 to 19.3 percent in 2003. |
Radley Balko: Nurse Bloomberg — Jacob Sullum does a good job putting into perspective a new survey purporting to show that... |
Why the Polls Don't Add Up By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — You can hardly blame the Democrats if they seem a bit confused. After all, as the situation in Iraq has worsened over the past six weeks and national polls have shown a steep decline in President Bush's job-approval ratings (some, including the... | |
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Ruy Teixeira: The first column is by Andrew Kohut in today's New York Times. Mark Kleiman: Relax — Andrew Kohut says that Kerry's failure to gain ground on Bush is normal for this stage of the cycle, and consistent with the patterns of 1980 and 1992. Aaron @LiquidList: The post references observations by Andrew Kohut on the 1980 and 1992 races. |
Steve Messina: And it's one that Bush operatives are worried about more than they say... Andrew Kohut, in yesterday's New York Times:... David Adesnik: WHY ISN'T KERRY SURGING? Pew's Andrew Kohut makes an interesting argument in a NYT op-ed. Rich Lowry: Well, Andrew Kohut explains in the New York Times today that weak incumbents always tend to be tied around this time... |
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Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worst taste NY Daily News — Permalink The United States "is on the slippery slope to theocratic fascism." "The Catholic Church has been secretly encouraging oral sex for years." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured." President Bush should be taken out and shot. | |
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Jeff Jarvis: The latest: Rhodes made a "joke" about assassinating George Bush but especially these days, when madmen plot to fly jets into our White House, that's just not funny. Charles Johnson: Bad Radio — Michael Goodwin has a spot-on look at the venom and street-corner-crazy ranting of Air America: Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worse taste. Steve Antler: Among other problems... Air America seems to be having trouble keeping sponsors: During a day of torture by radio, I... |
Betsy Newmark: Michael Goodwin has been listening into Air America. It does not sound like it has been an edifying experience. Stephen Green: The whole story is here. |
Overdosing on Islam By / NYT — Permalink QOM, Iran — In the offices of an ayatollah here, I was jokingly introduced as coming from the Great Satan. "Humph," a young man responded immediately. "America is only Baby Satan. We have Big Satan right here at home." | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: Via Stephen Green, more from the travels of Nick Kristof in Iran. Ted Belman: Ripe for revolution — Overdosing on Islam By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, NYT ""How can you have hope for life any more?" said... |
Stephen Green: We Have Met the Great Satan, and He is Us — Nick Kristof continues reporting from Iran: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing. |
NICK BERG'S MURDER New York Post — Permalink Indeed, you can't get much more barbaric than the filmed beheading of 26-year-old Nick Berg that splashed across a terrorist group's Web site yesterday. In case the world needed a reminder of why America is waging its War on Terror, it got one yesterday. | |
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Kevin Drum: TALKING TOUGH....The New York Post says it's time to kick some ass: "This war cannot be waged with half-measures. Steve Messina: NEW YORK POST CONDEMNS BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNORING AL-QAEDA — Well, not exactly, but that's an unintended subtext... |
Rich Lowry: If you want a pretty good distillation of Jacksonian opinion on Iraq at the moment, consider the end of the New York... Ted Belman: NICK BERG'S MURDER — NY Post editorial What cruel, sick bastards. |
Gen X in the Green Zone By / NRO — Permalink "I can't sleep. I lie awake in my luxurious trailer and my mind is racing through possible scenarios. A few days ago there was a stretch where we were attacked several days in a row at 8am...like clockwork. | |
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David Adesnik: THIS IS WHERE I'M NOT: A tribute to the young men and women who've left the comforts of home to volunteer for the CPA. Sparkey: They Serve As Well... A great article on NRO about some of the civilian 20-somethings working in Iraq: [snipped quote] So begins an April 16 diary entry of 25-year-old Brendan Lund. |
Glenn Reynolds: GEN-X IN THE GREEN ZONE: An interesting report. Matt Yglesias: The Best And The Brightest — My friend Rachel Friedman (née Zabarkes) has an interesting piece in The National... |
Kerry a no-show when it counts Boston Herald — Permalink We never thought we'd be grateful to have Sen. John Kerry [related, bio] too busy on the campaign trail to tend to his day job. But there's a first for everything. A Democratic election-year favorite - extending federal unemployment benefits for six months - went down the drain yesterday by one vote. | |
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Ezra Klein: Senate Games — Here's the problem with running for President as a sitting senator, particularly when your party is out of power. C. D. Harris: One and only one Senator missed the vote. Care to guess who it was? |
Robert Garcia Tagorda: Why was he the lone senator absent from the floor — as the bill went down in flames by a single vote? |
Kerry Focused on 5 Possible Running Mates, People Say (Update2) Bloomberg — Permalink May 11 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is focusing on five potential running mates, including former party nomination rivals Senator John Edwards and retired General Wesley Clark, according to campaign and party officials familiar with the selection process. | |
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Mathew Gross: Voting the Veepstakes — Bloomberg has it that Kerry's VP choice has been narrowed down to five. Taegan Goddard: Kerry Narrows List To Five — Sen. John Kerry "is focusing on five potential running mates," Bloomberg reports. Kos: Bloomberg claims to know Kerry's short list: [snipped quote] The Democratic Party seems to be currently split in at least... |
Susan Q. Stranahan: Taking his cue from a rehash of the supposed Veep "short list," published by Bloomberg News, Kos says he likes Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and retired Gen. Wesley Clark. Tim Graham: KERRY'S VEEP LIST — Bloomberg reports that it's Edwards, Gephardt, Clark, Bob Graham, and Tom Vilsack. Still nobody but white guys? |
Prison Abuse Said Bigger to U.S. Than 9/11 AP — Permalink ROME - The scandal of prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq has dealt a bigger blow to the United States than the Sept. 11 attacks, the Vatican foreign minister told an Italian newspaper. | |
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Damian Penny: Church Chat — Most of us would assume the murder of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 is a greater disaster than the Abu Ghraib... Charles Johnson: Vatican Babbles Nonsense — In the most insanely out of proportion statement yet on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the... |
Fred Lapides: [quote]Except that the blow was not inflicted by terrorists but by Americans against themselves," Lajolo was quoted as saying in La Repubblica...more>> [end quote] |
U.S. Military Strikes Mosque Held by Iraqi Cleric's Militia NYT — Permalink KARBALA, Iraq, Wednesday, May 12 — The American military attacked a mosque in this holy city on Tuesday in its largest assault yet against the forces of the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, even as the first signs emerged of a peaceful resolution to the five-week-long standoff with him. | |
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Joe Drymala: More Images For Al-Jazeera — From the New York Times today: [snipped quote] Can we please, please just try not to mount... Christopher Kanis: Karbala — Not only does it appear that we don't know what we're doing, but it appears that we can't decide what we're... Juan Cole: On the other hand, Dempsey is drawing the wrong conclusion if the thinks the lesson here is that the US should have gone after Muqtada earlier. |
Cori Dauber: Here's the headline on the front page of today's New York Times: "U.S. Military Strikes Mosque Held by Iraqi Cleric's Militia." James Joyner: U.S. Begins Offensive Against Al Sadr — NYT: U.S. Military Strikes Mosque Held by Iraqi Cleric's Militia [RSS] "The... |
Bush Escapes Capital to Stump in the South WaPo — Permalink VAN BUREN, Ark., May 11 — While Congress held another hearing about the abuse of detainees in Iraq and negotiated to view explicit photos and videos, President Bush flew into the South on Tuesday to joke with a mayor about filling potholes and to lavish praise on a junior high school with strong test scores. | |
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Noam Scheiber: NOT EXACTLY: I'm not sure I entirely buy the analogy, laid out in today's Washington Post, between George W. Bush's way... Taegan Goddard: Rumsfeld May Yet Resign — Tucked at the end of a Washington Post article on President Bush's latest campaign trip: ... |
David Allan Pell: At times, it seems absurd to even try to gain traction in such areas when everyone's mind is on something else. |
Media ethics, consistency questionable in release of photos By / Townhall.com — Permalink It's time to put up or shut up. Last week I wrote a column saying that CBS should have thought twice before showing the photos from Abu Ghraib prison. The response from readers and even some journalists was like I'd proposed banning the printing press. | |
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Cori Dauber: Otherwise, how can they be true, as Goldberg notes, to their own arguments? SLZoll: Jonah Goldberg cuts open his beloved foozball table to save the life of Gary Aldrich, who had climbed inside and... |
Betsy Newmark: Jonah Goldberg calls for the televising of Nicholas Berg's murder, along with Daniel Pearl's and, for good measure, photos of a partial birth abortion. Jeff Goldstein: And these. update 2: Jonah Goldberg. And more. update 3: "H&C" transcript, courtesy Henry Hanks. update 4: A poem |