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A CNN Executive Says G.I.s in Iraq Target Journalists By / New York Sun — Permalink The head of CNN's news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet firestorm last week when he told a panel at a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that the American military had targeted journalists during operations in Iraq. | |
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Joe Gandelman: A story in the New York Sun is absolutely catastrophic to Jordan's clarifications — and more than ever suggests that what is going on now is quintessential CYA. Hugh Hewitt: The New York Sun's Roderick Boyd writes a much better introduction to the controversy surrounding Eason Jordan's remarks at Davos. Captain Ed: New York Sun On Eason's Fables: More Than Kurtz Can Do — Roderick Boyd writes on Eason's Fables in today's New York Sun... |
Hindrocket: UPSDATE by BIG TRUNK: For an account of the Jordan scandal without the Kurtz spin, see Roderick Boyd's New York Sun... Glenn Reynolds: UPDATE: Here's another news story that's far less kind to Jordan, from the New York Sun: "Mr. Jordan's remarks might... Damian Penny: Today's New York Sun has a story on the subject: The head of CNN's news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet... |
| Also: Betsy Newmark, Cori Dauber, Roger L. Simon, Michelle Malkin, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Jay Rosen, Bill @INDCJournal, RCox | |
Eason Jordan, Quote, Unquote By / WaPo — Permalink What CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan said, or didn't say, in Davos, Switzerland, last month has become a burgeoning controversy among bloggers and media critics. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Howard Kurtz was not a witness to the incident, but he reported the reactions of some who were. Jeanne D'Arc: January, 2005: CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, apparently mentioned the 12 journalists and media workers who... Jude Nagurney Camwell: Hitting the Mainstream: Howard Kurtz on Eason Jordan — Howard Kurtz takes a dispassionate look at what occurred at Davos. |
Charles Johnson: Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who has a professional association with CNN, weighs in with a noncommittal piece... Ace: Kurtz Defends Eason; Kaus Destroys Kurtz — Kurtz goes after East Jordan with a wet kiss (registration required). Shannon Love: Eason Jordan's Ignorance — Howard Kurtz's report (via Instapundit) on Eason Jordan's comments on the killing of... |
| Also: Joe Gandelman, Jon Henke, Hindrocket, Glenn Reynolds, Damian Penny, Jeff Jarvis, Betsy Newmark, Cori Dauber, Matt Welch, Lorie Byrd, Captain Ed, Roger L. Simon, Hugh Hewitt, Kevin Aylward, Michelle Malkin, Ed Driscoll, Jay Rosen, Jason Van Steenwyk, Bill @INDCJournal, Stephen Green, RCox, Brian Stelter, K. J. Lopez, Greg Ransom | |
CNN clarifies Iraq comments By / Boston Globe — Permalink Two weeks ago at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, CNN's chief news executive, Eason Jordan, raised eyebrows when he suggested that some of the 63 journalists who have been killed in Iraq had been targeted by US troops. | |
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Ace: Slicing the Baloney, Again, Update: The Boston Globe deigns to report on the story: "Representative Barney Frank, who... Captain Ed: UPDATE: The Boston Globe also covers this story today, but does little more than rehash Howard Kurtz's Post piece. Jay Rosen: Mark Jurkowitz in the Boston Globe (Feb. 8): "The Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization based in... |
Hugh Hewitt: (UPDATE: The Boston Globe also has a story on the controversy.) Scrappleface launches the ridicule phase of the story. Orrin Judd: HOPEFULLY HE WAS RIGHT: CNN clarifies Iraq comments (Mark Jurkowitz, February 8, 2005, CNN) [snipped quote] If they... |
Campos: Truth tricky for Churchill Rocky Mountain News — Permalink The deeper one digs into the Ward Churchill scandal, the more amazing the story becomes. Academic freedom must be protected, which is why I'm continuing to write about this matter. A version of academic freedom that protects Churchill from appropriate sanctions isn't sustainable either as a political or an ethical matter. | |
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Clayton Cramer: First of all, he claims to be an Indian—part of how a guy without a Ph.D. became not only a professor but a department chair at a major research institution. Dale Franks: The Wisdom of Churchill — UC Law professor Paul Campos, in his regular Rocky Mountain News column, keeps hammering his fellow UC professor, Ward Churchill. Orrin Judd: MORE: Truth tricky for Churchill (Paul Campos, February 8, 2005, Rocky Mountain News) "The deeper one digs into the Ward Churchill scandal, the more amazing the story becomes. |
Deacon: In addition, according to University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, Churchill apparently has fabricated a story... Glenn Reynolds: WARD CHURCHILL UPDATE: University of Colorado Law Professor Paul Campos says that Churchill has problems with academic... Maimon Schwarzschild: FURTHER UPDATE: Paul Campos has kept digging. |
| Also: Greg Ransom | |
Cole Goes On NRO — Permalink The "debate" continues. Wow, this is not how I planned to spend my time (and if you haven't been following any of this stuff, it's probably too late to care now). Juan Cole, dashboard saint of lefty Middle East experts, says I'm continuing to embarrass myself by arguing with him. | |
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Juan Cole: Playing with Human Lives — Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a sad thing to watch. Jon Henke: UPDATE (Dale): Mr. Goldberg responds to Prof Cole. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: So I didn't. UPDATE: In response to this statement from Goldberg, Cole descends into schoolmarmish screechiness. Steve Bainbridge: Prof. Cole: Put Up or Shut Up — Juan Cole is having a cow because Jonah Goldberg invited him to put his money where his mouth is. |
GOP Fears a Redistricting Backfire By / LAT — Permalink SACRAMENTO — Worried about losing clout in Congress, influential Republicans in Washington are telling Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that he should drop his effort to redraw congressional voting districts in time for next year's elections and limit his focus to reshaping the state Legislature. | |
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New Donkey: Well, this movement from skeptical and conditional to strong and universal support for redistricting reform got a big... Chris Bowers: Even though he is absolutely right and the plan that currently is being proposed cannot be tolerated, somewhat... Kevin Drum: But then I read in the LA Times this morning that the biggest opposition to Arnold's plan is coming from....Republicans: [snipped quote] That sucks. |
Chris Lawrence: More details in today's Los Angeles Times; meanwhile, Robert Tagorda looks at the redistricting politics on both sides... James Joyner: Schwarzenegger's Anti-Gerrymandering Plan — GOP Fears a Redistricting Backfire (LAT) [snipped quote] Gerrymandering safe... Jesse Taylor: Are You Threatening Me? Advantage: corruption everywhere else. |
| Also: Taegan Goddard | |
Dershowitz Says Faculty Members Work To Encourage Islamic Terrorism By / New York Sun — Permalink It's not often that a professor tells a packed crowd at Columbia University that Edward Said was a political extremist and that faculty members in the school's Middle East studies department encourage Islamic terrorism. | |
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Charles Johnson: Dershowitz: Columbia Profs Aid Terrorism — Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is taking an active role in fighting... James Joyner: Dershowitz: Columbia Faculty Encourages Terrorists — Dershowitz Says Faculty Members Work To Encourage Islamic Terrorism (The New York Sun) [snipped quote] Strong words, indeed. James Martin Capozzola: Oh, Please, As If You Don't Already Know Each Other Alan Dershowitz, a known, self-proclaimed even, and of course... |
Roger L. Simon: Only a mile from Zabar's... well maybe a scootch more... Alan Dershowitz tells it like it is at Columbia: "This is... Robin Burk: So it's not surprising that yesterday he took on Columbia Univ. and its faculty. Stanley Kurtz: DERSH ON COLUMBIA — I missed this till I saw it highlighted at lucianne.com. |
| Also: Glenn Reynolds, Norm Geras, The Big Trunk | |
Crossing Jordan Investor's Business Daily — Permalink Media: The past year saw the toppling of several high priests of High Church Journalism. This week yet another wobbles: the top news executive at CNN. Eason Jordan first inflicted himself with controversy two years ago, when President Bush finally launched the invasion of Iraq. | |
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Captain Ed: IBD: Time For Jordan To Eason Down The Road, And Other Quick Links — Investor's Business Daily has an editorial in... Glenn Reynolds: Meanwhile, Investor's Business Daily editorializes: "It's time for him to go." Somebody should have given Jordan one of these. |
Charles Johnson: Investor's Business Daily: Crossing Jordan — Investor's Business Daily breaks media silence on the Eason Jordan story: Crossing Jordan. |
Mr. President, Let's Share the Wealth By / NYT — Permalink President Bush said he was open to other people's ideas on how to fix Social Security, so I hope he'll listen to mine. My idea starts with a blunt political observation. Personal accounts - as they are currently envisioned - are going to be hard to pass. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Steve Clemons recommends today's David Brooks column in which he observes that "Personal accounts - as they are... Jesse Taylor: Secularize, Proselytize, Martinize — Pharyngula deals with older David Brooks (where a man who appears on national... Orrin Judd: OF COURSE, DEMOCRATS WILL OPPOSE THESE TOO: Mr. President, Let's Share the Wealth (DAVID BROOKS, 2/08/05, NY Times)... |
Noam Scheiber: But once you look more closely at these proposals, it turns out they're just another way to do Social Security... Yuval Rubinstein: Brooks proposes an innocuous-sounding "Kidsave" plan as an alternative to the administration's faltering plan, where the... Pejman Yousefzadeh: "KIDSAVE" — David Brooks has a good supplemental idea to consider in the ongoing Social Security debate. |
| Also: Ellen Dana Nagler | |
About Faces NRO — Permalink Jordan, Dean, and Rice. The good news is that current newsmakers Eason Jordan, Howard Dean, and Condi Rice have virtually nothing in common. Jordan, the CNN news executive who slandered the U.S. military without a shred of evidence to back his claims, should be out of a job. | |
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Captain Ed: Larry Kudlow writes a scathing column in National Review, and then has Hugh Hewitt on Kudlow and Cramer to discuss the story; Radioblogger transcribes it. Glenn Reynolds: Kudlow also has a column on the subject. UPDATE: Jim Geraghty has a good, sober summary of where things stand: [snipped quote] Yes. |
Venkat @BeggingToDiffer: (See, here ("Jordan, the CNN news executive who slandered the U.S. military without a shred of evidence to back his... |
Sistani 'not seeking Islamic law' BBC — Permalink A spokesman for Iraq's most influential Shia cleric has denied reports that the cleric is demanding that Islam be the country's sole source of law. Hamed Khafaf said Ayatollah Ali Sistani believes Iraq's new constitution should respect what he described as the Islamic cultural identity of Iraqis. | |
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Captain Ed: Sistani: No Shari'a Need Apply — Contrary to the desperate analyses from Western journalists that have appeared almost... Pejman Yousefzadeh: FORMING AN IRAQI LEGAL CODE — Captain Ed has an informative and encouraging post—the gist of which states that Grand... |
McQ: Sistani not pushing for Islamic Iraq — Contrary to reports out this weekend, a spokesman today denied that Ayatollah... |
The Human Rights Case Against Attacking Iran NYT — Permalink DURING her tour of Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has given assurances that a military attack by the United States on Iran "is simply not on the agenda at this point." | |
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Jeanne D'Arc: War and Human Rights — I don't have time to write anything about it, and anyway, I think Fred Clark has already written... Laura Rozen: Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi argues the human rights case against attacking Iran in the NYT: "Respect for... |
Fred Clark: Human rights invasion — Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Hadi Ghaemi of Human Rights Watch write today in The... James Joyner: The Human Rights Case Against Attacking Iran — Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and Hadi Ghaemi,... |
The Incredible Shrinking Democrats Time — Permalink There was a cheap metaphor to be had in the remarkable moment when Safia al-Souhail, who had just voted in the Iraqi elections, and Janet Norwood, whose U.S. Marine son was killed in Iraq, embraced during the President's State of the Union speech last week. | |
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Steve Soto: His latest piece blasts Democrats for voicing their displeasure during Bush's SOTU, without remembering that the GOP did the same thing numerous times while Clinton was president. |
Thomas Lang: Already this week, Time's Joe Klein offers up a dubious revision (subscription required) of very recent history in his column about the Democrats and Social Security. |
Israel, Palestinians Declare End to Violence By / Reuters — Permalink SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders declared a cease-fire on Tuesday at a summit in Egypt aimed at ending more than four years of bloodshed and reviving long-stalled peace talks. | |
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Greg @TheTalentShow: Why hasn't Instapundit blogged about the Israel-Palestine truce yet? |
Atrios: Heh — Indeed. |
GOP Consultant Sentenced in Phone Jamming By / AP — Permalink CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The former head of a Republican consulting group was sentenced Tuesday to five months in jail for jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 election. | |
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James Joyner: GOP Consultant Sentenced in Phone Jamming — GOP Consultant Sentenced in Phone Jamming (AP) [snipped quote] The wheels of justice certainly turned slowly on this one. Josh Marshall: Allen Raymond gets five months for his role in the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal. We also hear something's bubbling on the Tobin front. |
Jeralyn Merritt: GOP Operative Gets 5 Months in Jail — Allen Raymond, President of GOP Marketplace, LLC, has been sentenced to five... |
Police: Idaho Teen Is Tied Up and Scalped AP — Permalink BOISE, Idaho — A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been an act of revenge by another woman. The girl, who had a punk-style mohawk haircut before the attack, is recovering at home. | |
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Acidman: flip my wig — I'm really surprised that more raving maniacs don't do this. |
Jeff Quinton: Girl tied up and scalped AP "A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been an act of revenge by another woman. |
Sharon, Abbas Pledge to Halt Mideast Violence WaPo — Permalink SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt, Feb. 8 — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced mutual agreements Tuesday to stop violent operations against each other, with both leaders expressing hope for the start of new relations that could end the last four years of bloodshed. | |
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Fafnir: don't mention "Middle East Peace" or you'll jinx everything! Oh no too late! Kevin Drum: PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?....Maybe: [snipped quote] Baby steps. But let's hope it blossoms. |
Josh Marshall: But today, there is at least more than a little of it. |
SAN FRANCISCO By / San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink The Board of Education is expected to approve the school district's calendar for the 2005-06 academic year tonight — but not before a spirited debate among parents over when classes should begin. | |
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Joanne Jacobs: Burning issue — San Francisco will start its school year on Aug. 29, despite protests from parents who want to take... |
Brian Doherty: Public Schools = Burning Controversies — In one of those unavoidable social conflicts that public education engenders,... |
I hate to rain on Europe's parade, but … By / Telegraph — Permalink I was very moved by the story of Mr Richard Kral, a Slovak gentleman found staggering drunk down a snowy trail a few days back. He'd been motoring through the Tatra Mountains in his Audi when he got buried by an avalanche. | |
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Charles Johnson: Steyn: Raining on Europe's Parade — Mark Steyn keeps hitting them out of the park: I hate to rain on Europe's parade,... |
Hindrocket: This paragraph in Steyn's latest struck me forcibly: [snipped quote] A race against time, indeed, in which the dithering... |
Race Bait And Switch By / WaPo — Permalink "Every Hispanic in America is watching," Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch declared ominously as most Senate Democrats voted last week to oppose the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. What was the senator from Utah implying? | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Other good stuff from today's papers — Paul Krugman, "Spear the Beast"; E.J. Dionne, "Race Bait and Switch"; Richard... Jeralyn Merritt: Republicans Play the Race Card — E.J. Dionne writes today of how Bush and Republicans have played the race card both... |
Sam Rosenfeld: E.J. Dionne has a decent column today noting the right wing's appropriation of the cheapest kind of racial identity... |
Rove's new position will involve policy AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Karl Rove, the senior political strategist who orchestrated President Bush's re-election campaign, has been promoted to deputy chief of staff, a job that will involve him in all White House policy and not just politics. | |
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John Cole: Terry McAwful takes the first shot: [snipped quote] But I thought Rove already ran everything? He is, after all, Bush's Brain. |
Orrin Judd: UNDEMOCRATIC DEMOCRATS: Rove's new position will involve policy (The Associated Press, February 8, 2005) |
W sees rear-guard action - in church NY Daily News — Permalink President Bush still feels the fire for his First Lady. The man can't keep his hands off her - even in church. Dubya didn't let the Sabbath inhibit him Sunday when he and Laura Bush attended services at St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House. | |
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Steve M.: BUSH, MAN OF FAITH — From the New York Daily News: ...Dubya didn't let the Sabbath inhibit him Sunday when he and Laura... |
Holden: i'm supposed to be guesting here on occaision, and what better way to guest-post at skippy international than to borrow... |
Mid-East leaders announce truce BBC — Permalink Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have declared a truce to end four years of Middle East violence. Mr Abbas said the ceasefire, which begins immediately, would lead to a "new era of peace and hope". | |
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McQ: Hopefully eating my words — A month or so back, when it seemed that Mahmoud Abbas was a shoe in for the leadership of... Steven Taylor: The BBC version of the story notes: [quote] The Palestinians, Mr Gissin told Reuters news agency, would effectively announce the "cessation of the… intifada".[end quote] |
Andrew Jaffee: So what am I to make of the ceasefire agreement made today between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas? |
The Big Picture May Seem Rosy, but the Deficit Is in the Details By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - The large tables in President Bush's new budget show he intends to keep his promise of slicing the federal deficit in half by the end of his term, but the fine print indicates that the goal may be elusive. | |
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Howard Kurtz: The New York Times scoffs at some of the fuzzy math, saying that "the fine print indicates that the goal may be elusive. Josh Marshall: "Transition financing does not represent new debt," OMB chief Josh Bolten said yesterday. |
Kevin Drum: And it's a dishonest budget because it excludes the enormous costs of Iraq, AMT reform, and Social Security transition. |
Holy Soybean! NRO — Permalink Ending red-state welfare as we know it. The Bush administration is set to take on one of the great scandals of American governance: a system of farm subsidies so perverse that it should get whatever the equivalent of an NC-17 rating is for a federal program. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: National Review editor Rich Lowry rather eloquently makes the case against farm subsidies, which the president has indicated he wants to curtail. Greg Ransom: ALL you need to know about agricultural welfare: [snipped quote] The Heritage Foundation has the details. |
Jesse Taylor: Hot Damn — Rich Lowry writes an anti-farm subsidy column that even references the case of environmentalists approvingly. |
Well, at Least He Won't Be Fathering More Fans... Reuters — Permalink LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror reported Tuesday. Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Darwin Award Nominee — He might not die from his wounds, but he won't be continuing his bloodline either...LONDON... McQ: Redefining " Rugby fan" — I don't want whatever he was drinking: [snipped quote] Well, one less wack-job able to "swim" in the gene pool. |
Nick Gillespie: The Balls of Rhymney — Just when Welsh jokes were as played out as the Big Pit at Blaenavon, comes this tale of... |
Some Bush Foes Vote Yet Again, With Their Feet: Canada or Bust By / NYT — Permalink VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 4 - Christopher Key knows exactly what he would be giving up if he left Bellingham, Wash. "It's the sort of place Norman Rockwell would paint, where everyone watches out for everyone else and we have block parties every year,"... | |
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McQ: People leaving U.S. for "America Left" — Yes they're beginning to drift into Canada, those that just can't abide the... TChris: Question: If reasonable Americans get so fed up with the Bush administration that they move to Canada, who will be left to vote the rascals out? |
Ann Althouse: The NYT has an article following up on all those Americans who were going to move to Canada after Bush got re-elected. |
Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines By / CNET.com — Permalink As expected, the search company will add Trustic, which owns Bloglines, to its corral of Web search products in an effort to keep pace with rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN. | |
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Charles Kuffner: Various mainstream coverage is here, here, here, and here. They say they won't make any major changes, at least not at first, but you never know what will happen. |
Jan Haugland: Ask Jeeves to acquire Bloglines — The search company Ask Jeeves is to buy Bloglines. The financial details are not yet known. |
The War's Far from Won NRO — Permalink Harvey Kushner homes in on the home front. "If we don't wake up to this, we could lose it all," that's Harvey Kushner's message to Americans — and American intelligence officials. Harvey Kushner is a familiar face to many Fox viewers. | |
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James Frederick Dwight: As Harvey Kushner documents in his new book Holy War on the Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network in the United... |
Charles Johnson: The War's Far from Won — Terrorism expert Harvey Kushner answers questions about his new book Holy War on the Home Front, at National Review: The War's Far from Won. |
Specter wary of 'nuclear option' By / Washington Times — Permalink The new Senate Judiciary Committee chairman favors more negotiations with Democrats over the so-called "nuclear option" Republicans could use to push President Bush's judicial nominees through Democratic filibusters. | |
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Quin Hillyer: Specter interview: The Specter interview was very encouraging. Sounds like he really has a strategy. Let's see if it works. |
Nathan Hallford: Not So Fast: Sen. Specter said, in an interview with the Washington Times, that the "nuclear" option should be one of last resort, after all negotiations fail. |
A Breathtaking Budget WaPo — Permalink THERE ARE TWO ways to treat a president's budget proposal. The realistic, even cynical, method is to unmask the various bits of budget gimmickry involved, to assume that some aspects are dead on arrival, and to view the document as the administration's opening gambit in a long political chess match. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: Editorial, Washington Post: "There are two ways to treat a president's budget proposal. |
Hesiod @AmStreet: We are now living in The Matrix — The quote of the day comes from the Washington Post: "THERE ARE TWO ways to treat a president's budget proposal. |
Senate's Reid Blasts GOP 'Hit Piece' Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada hit back at the Republican Party on Monday for targeting him with an attack reminiscent of one used to help oust his predecessor, Tom Daschle. "What they want to do is just like [what] they did to Daschle," Reid said. | |
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Julia @AmStreet: Amusingly, part of the RNC effort to force Democrats to support the budget is an mailing attacking Harry Reid, the House Minority Leader, who hails from Nevada. |
Orrin Judd: NO WONDER MS PELOSI WEARS PANTS: Senate's Reid Blasts GOP 'Hit Piece': Democratic leader says Republicans are using a tactic similar to one used to oust his predecessor. |
IN A MINUTE: Boy, 4, gets behind wheel to get to store Detroit Free Press — Permalink At least he wasn't speeding. A 4-year-old boy drove his mother's car to a video store a quarter-mile from their apartment in Sand Lake, about 15 miles north of Grand Rapids. Unable to reach the accelerator, the boy managed to put the car in gear and make his way to the store about 1:30 a.m. Friday, Sand Lake police said. | |
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Joe Gandelman: We Know Some People Want To Lower The Driving Age But... Maybe it's a sign of age, but every year it seems drivers look... |
Norm Geras: Drive, he said — This boy will go far. |
Troops Free Egyptian Captives, Employer Says Reuters — Permalink CAIRO — U.S. forces in Iraq stormed a house in Baghdad on Monday and freed two of the four Egyptian telecommunications engineers who were kidnapped Sunday, the head of their Egyptian parent company said. The other two managed to escape on their own from a car they had been locked in, he added. | |
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Greyhawk: Baghdad: US Raid Frees Hostages — From Reuters "U.S. forces in Iraq stormed a house in Baghdad on Monday and freed two... |
Tom Biro: This week, a few bloggers have been a little skeptical of the kidnapping of Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena on Friday. |
Palestinians, Israel announce cease-fire CNN — Permalink SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (CNN) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced a cease-fire Tuesday, hailing it as a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East. | |
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Bryan Caplan: The Economics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — News of an Israeli-Palestinian cease fire reminds me of Tyler's... |
Ann Althouse: So says Mahmoud Abbas, as he and Ariel Sharon announce a cease fire. |
President Offers Budget Proposal With Broad Cuts By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - President Bush proposed a budget on Monday that would scale back or eliminate scores of agriculture, education, health, environmental and other domestic programs to help him meet his goal of slashing the budget deficit while providing more money for national security. | |
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Steve Lovelady: But they go about it in different ways: The Times' Richard W. Stephenson resorts to the timeworn but safe format of he... |
Nathan Newman: Bush is using the language of "eliminating reduncancy" but this Bush budget is about a Reaganesque assault on the poor and vulnerable. |
Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Meet for 1st Time in 4 Years By / NYT — Permalink The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel today and afterward described the talks as "the beginning of a new era." Mr. Abbas said the Palestinians had agreed to cease all attacks against the Israelis, and that attacks on Palestinians by Israelis would also stop. | |
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Steven Taylor: Progress — Via the NYT: Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Meet for 1st Time in 4 Years "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of... |
Nathan Hallford: The Right Direction: Well, it's not perfect, but at least it's a start. Israeli and Palestinian leaders have declared a cease fire after four long years of violence. |
Specter transcript Washington Times — Permalink Transcript of a Feb. 4 interview with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, in his Capitol office: Q. Were you disappointed by the opposition in the 60-36 vote confirming Alberto R. Gonzales as Attorney General? | |
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Josh Marshall: Here's Specter from an interview published today by the Washington Times ... "Q. Do you agree with the president's plan for changing Social Security? |
K. J. Lopez: HERE'S the full transcript of the Washington Times interview with Specter. |
Dean's Last Rival Quits the Party Race NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 - Timothy J. Roemer, the last of Howard Dean's rivals in the race for Democratic national chairman, dropped out on Monday, assuring Dr. Dean of victory. | |
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Captain Ed: The New York Times reports that Dean is the last man standing for DNC chair after Rep. Tim Roemer dropped out: "Timothy... |
Orrin Judd: THE CULTURE OF LIFE AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DON'T MIX: Dean's Last Rival Quits the Party Race (THE NEW YORK TIMES,... |
Staying Put for Social Spending By / WaPo — Permalink Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year. | |
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Betsy Newmark: If you couldn't remember why no one likes Arlen Specter, read his column in the Washington Post. |
K. J. Lopez: Try: Too much! Specter-Harken, the new bipartisan power couple, or so Specter explains in the Washington Post today. |
Bush Approval Increases to 57%, Highest Rating in a Year By / Gallup — Permalink PRINCETON, NJ — A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey shows that President George W. Bush's approval rating has increased to 57%, up from 51% three weeks ago. The approval increase appears to be related to the recent Iraqi elections, which the poll shows went better than most Americans expected. | |
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Hindrocket: Bush's Poll Numbers Jump — The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released today shows a significant jump in President Bush's approval rating. |
Cori Dauber: Don't Miss the Big Number — The first major poll since the Iraqi elections is out, Gallup/CNN/USA Today, and since most... |
Bush's $2.57-trillion budget eliminates scores of programs AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush proposed a $2.57-trillion US budget yesterday that erases scores of programs and slices Medicaid, disabled housing and many others but still worsens federal deficits by $42 billion over five years. | |
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Julia @AmStreet: Community police grants? Student loans? Medicaid? Screwed, Screwed, Screwed, Screwed, Screwed, Screwed. What isn't on the table? |
Matt Welch: In more trivial news, President Bush unveiled a $2.57 trillion federal budget yesterday, and Israeli and Palestinian leaders declared a cease-fire. |
They March for Themselves By / TCS — Permalink On the day President Bush was re-inaugurated, protesters clogged the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon with their usual lashing-out-in-your-face performance-art shtick. It took me thirty minutes to get home. It usually takes me five. | |
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James Joyner: Protestors: They March for Themselves — Michael J. Totten describes his slow transformation from a protestor of the... Michael J. Totten: Activistists Revisited — My new Tech Central Station column is up: They March for Themselves. |
Ed Driscoll: As his title implies, "They March for Themselves". It's a very good piece, but there's a passage in it that caused me to... |
For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be 'Evil' By / NYT — Permalink Predatory killers often do far more than commit murder. Some have lured their victims into homemade chambers for prolonged torture. Others have exotic tastes - for vivisection, sexual humiliation, burning. Many perform their grisly rituals as much for pleasure as for any other reason. | |
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Lambert @Corrente: From The Times: "Western religious leaders, evolutionary theorists and psychological researchers agree that almost all... K. J. Lopez: BREAKING NEWS — Psychiatrists discover evil! |
James Joyner: Scientists Discover Evil — For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be 'Evil' (NYT rss) [snipped quote] When science... Orrin Judd: EVIL LIVES: For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be 'Evil' (BENEDICT CAREY, 2/08/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] More... |
Despite Proposed Cuts, Bush Budget Is Bigger By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Even as President Bush proposes deep cuts in healthcare, farm subsidies and other domestic programs, his new budget makes one thing clear about the legacy of his first term in the White House: The era of big government is back. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: THE BUDGET: It would be extremely churlish of me not to offer some praise for at least the aspirations of Bush's new budget. Greg Ransom: UPDATE: It's easy to make budget "cuts" (i.e. slow spending growth) after you've expanded spending by 1/3 in 4 years: ... |
Howard Kurtz: The Los Angeles Times says Bush isn't being all that austere: "Even as President Bush proposes deep cuts in healthcare,... Taegan Goddard: Bush's Big Budget — The Los Angeles Times notes that even as President Bush "proposes deep cuts in healthcare, farm... |
President Discusses Strengthening Social Security in Florida White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Go ahead and sit down, please. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's good to be back in Florida. (Applause.) I'm looking for my little brother, but he didn't show. (Laughter.) It's okay, I love him anyway. Plus, he's doing a great job as the Governor. | |
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Eugene Oregon: But unfortunately, he is the President of the United States. (as usual, the post was more or less stolen from the Carpetbagger.) Billmon: George W. Bush Town Meeting in Tampa, Fla. February 4, 2005 "As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. Atrios: Bush Explains His Plan — For Social Security: Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. |
Norbizness: From today's privatization private account personal account jolly fun time free candy rally: THE PRESIDENT: Because the... Steve Soto: Bush Masters The Details On Social Security Benefit Indexing - Well, No — Yikes, courtesy of Kos, take a look at Bush... Tim Dunlop: It occured to me that maybe non-Americans are having trouble understanding the specifics of the debate, so I thought it... |
| Also: Digby, Greg @TheTalentShow, Oliver Willis, Richard TPD, Kos @DailyKos | |
Bush shows highest ratings in a year By / USA Today — Permalink WASHINGTON — Americans gave President Bush his highest approval rating in more than a year and showed cautious optimism about Iraq in a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken days after historic elections in Iraq. | |
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Howard Kurtz: Bush wasn't on the ballot in Iraq, but still: "Americans give President Bush his highest job-approval rating in more... Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: But George Bush is going into his powder-keg political battles with some renewered strength, according to a new... Jan Haugland: Bush approval rating up — Not unexpectedly, after the successful elections in Iraq, George Bush's approval rating has bounced to 57% on the Gallup poll, the highest in a year. |
Betsy Newmark: Bush's poll numbers have moved up in the past week. That is probably a temporary blip from the Iraqi election and a successful State of the Union. Pejman Yousefzadeh: RISING — That's what is happening to George W. Bush's approval ratings: [snipped quote] The downside is that portions of... Paul @Wizbang: Bush shows highest ratings in a year WASHINGTON " Americans gave President Bush his highest approval rating in more than... |
| Also: Joel Foreman, James Joyner, Orrin Judd, Alexander K. McClure, Steve M. | |
Cole v. Goldberg NRO — Permalink Juan Cole has made his intellectual insecurity clear. Juan Cole claims to be a major scholar. He is a tenured professor at the University of Michigan and the president-elect of the Middle East Studies Association. You wouldn't expect such a guy to be so thin-skinned and intellectually insecure. | |
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Stuart Buck: More on Goldberg vs. Cole — Jonah Goldberg responded yesterday to Juan Cole via this column. Today, Juan Cole responds in turn. Juan Cole: Goldberg v. Cole Redux — Goldberg seems to like embarrassing himself, so he won't let go. Let us see what has been established. Tbogg: You won't know who getting their ass kicked without your scorecard... For those keeping score at home...it's the... |
James Martin Capozzola: This has to be the saddest, the sorriest, sentence ever scribbled by a right-wing blogger: "Juan Cole claims to be a major scholar." Tom Smith: Experts beware — This is what it looks like when an expert gets beat up by a smartish journalist. Ouch-o-rama. Glenn Reynolds: IT'S A COLE V. GOLDBERG SMACKDOWN! |
OUTSOURCING TORTURE By / New Yorker — Permalink On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, assured the world that "torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture." Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in Syria, was surprised to learn of Bush's statement. | |
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Phillip Carter: Outsourcing Torture — Jane Mayer has a brilliant article in the current issue of the New Yorker on the practice of... Medium Lobster: As a wise man or sociopath has recently said, "The debate is over... the issue is dying out." . Jeanne D'Arc: And after that, go on to Jane Mayer's New Yorker essay on extraordinary rendition. |
Michael Froomkin: A Reader Writes In About Yoo and Torture — A reader writes in to say, You MUST read Jane Mayer's "Outsourcing Torture" in the New Yorker. Steve Soto: And our disgrace in handling ordinary citizens of other countries who we suspect of being terrorists or their assistants... Sebastian Holsclaw: Extraordinary Rendition — At Katherine's request, an open thread to discuss the New Yorker article on Extraordinary Rendition. |
Media Backtalk By / WaPo — Permalink Consumers used to get their news from newspapers, magazines and evening broadcasts from the three television networks. Now, with the Internet, cable TV and 24-hour news networks, the news cycle is faster and more constant, with every minute carrying a new deadline. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Jim Geraghty has posts on the Eason Jordan story here, here, and here. (UPDATE: And here.) Michelle Malkin: And Washington Post/CNN media critic Howard Kurtz has just concluded his live online chat without breathing a word about Easongate. Taegan Goddard: Update: Howard Kurtz says Executive Editor Len Downie "told me he had no information about Deep Throat being ill, not from Woodward or anyone else." |
Will Collier: Howard The Coward — Washington Post reporter and CNN host Howard Kurtz just finished an hour-long online chat. Captain Ed: Howard Kurtz is in the middle of conducting his hour-long Media Backtalk live chat session. Jason Van Steenwyk: Unfortunately, America's foremost media reporter did not address the Eason Jordan issue even in passing - although he... |
Poll: Iraqi elections give Bush boost CNN — Permalink (CNN) — The Iraqi elections that went "better than expected" produced a bump in President Bush's approval rating, according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. Between January 14 and 16, 51 percent of survey participants expressed approval of Bush's performance as president. | |
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Hindrocket: According to CNN, "In the January 7 survey, 42 percent of respondents said they approved of how Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, and 56 percent expressed dissatisfaction. James Joyner: Other coverage of the same poll: Poll: Iraqi elections give Bush boost (CNN) [quote] The Iraqi elections that went "better...[end quote] Ace: Freedom Pays a Political Dividend: Bush's Approval Rating Spikes — The SOTU had something to do with it, but more... |
Taegan Goddard: Bush Approval Helped By Iraq Elections — The "better than expected" Iraqi elections gave President Bush a bump in his... Tim Graham: TICKING UP IN THE POLLS — Here's a natural development you may not have seen yet: poll ratings for the president and... |
States See Growing Campaign to Change Redistricting Laws By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - The politically charged methods that states use to draw Congressional districts are under attack by citizens groups, state legislators and the governor of California, all of whom are concerned that increasingly sophisticated map-drawing... | |
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Kevin Drum: I've been feeling guilty ever since my churlish dismissal of Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to end gerrymandering in... New Donkey: Redistricting Reset — Adam Nagourney of the New York Times did a broad-brush review today of the widespread interest in redistricting reform across the nation. Chris Nolan: So Special — Yet another sign Gov. Schwarzeneger's redistricting plans are gonna fly: Today's New York Times where Adam... |
Chris Lawrence: Redistricting Roundup — Today's New York Times has a somewhat lengthy piece on efforts in various states to reform their redistricting processes. Hugh Hewitt: What a surprise: The GOP dominates Congress and can be expected to do so for years into the future, and suddenly the New... Taegan Goddard: Fed Up With Redistricting — "The politically charged methods that states use to draw Congressional districts are under... |
| Also: Rickheller @Centerfield | |
Hotting up Economist — Permalink "THE intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history." So warns Michael Crichton at the end of his current, popular novel, "State of Fear". He argues that wilful obfuscation by politicians and wild-eyed greens is leading to a herd mentality over global warming, akin to the uncritical embrace of eugenics a century ago. | |
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Henry Farrell: Alex may sneer, but this is exactly what at least one, and possibly two of the members of the Lomborg panel suggest,... John Quiggin: The Economist, which backed Lomborg's exercise, published an interesting piece on climate change recently, noting that... |
Alex Tabarrok: Schelling is owed an apology (Lomborg too) John Quiggan writes that "The wheels are coming off Bjorn Lomborg's attempt... |
Kuwaiti prisoners accuse U.S. soldiers of abuse By / Knight Ridder — Permalink WASHINGTON - Six Kuwaiti prisoners said they were severely beaten, given electric shocks and sodomized by U.S. forces in Afghanistan before they confessed to fighting with the Taliban and were sent to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their lawyer said Monday. | |
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Steve Soto: Second, six former Kuwaiti prisoners allege today that they were tortured, beaten, and sodomized by American military... Jeralyn Merritt: Kuwaiti Prisoners Claim U.S. Soldiers Abused Them — Six released Kuwaiti prisoners, held in Afghanistan, have made... |
Jeanne D'Arc: UPDATE: Steve Soto has more articles to send The Sleazy Six — torture through lack of basic medical care, Kuwaitis... |
What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima By / WaPo — Permalink At a conference on the future of al Qaeda sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory last month, I posed a dark question to 60 or so nuclear weapons scientists and specialists on terrorism and radical Islam: How many of them believed that the probability of a... | |
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Jan Haugland: The ultimate terror nightmare — Steve Coll may not have any new evidence that Bin Laden is close to a nuclear weapon,... Charles Johnson: What Bin Laden Sees in Hiroshima — Here's an article by Steve Coll of the Washington Post that won't help you sleep at... |
Wretchard: All for One and One for All — Steve Coll of the Washington Post (hat tip: Little Green Footballs) was at a conference... |
Update 5: W.R. Grace Accused of Hiding Cancer Risk AP — Permalink W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air and tried to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. | |
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Atrios: "Frivolous Asbestos Claims" — Frivolity: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was... Cookie Jill: "The indictment also accused grace and alan stringer, former manager of the now-closed mine, of trying to obstruct..." |
David Neiwert: Seems W.R. Grace's culpability in the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Montana, is even more egregious than previously surmised. |
$2.5 Trillion Budget Plan Cuts Many Programs WaPo — Permalink President Bush plans to unveil a $2.5 trillion budget today eliminating dozens of politically sensitive domestic programs, including funding for education, environmental protection and business development, while proposing significant increases for the military and international spending, according to White House documents. | |
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Steve Antler: Are the reports correct? Are we really talking not about reductions in the rate of growth of spending, but genuine reductions in the absolute amount of spending? Barbara O'Brien: The Washington Post quotes Dick the Dick: [quote] "We are being tight," Vice President Cheney said yesterday.[end quote] Steven Taylor: The Budget Wars Begin — Via WaPo: $2.5 Trillion Budget Plan Cuts Many Programs [snipped quote] While, no doubt, if the... |
Joe Gandelman: Let The Bitter Battle Begin — GWB's proposed budget is out — and it's going to be a battle royal because it's... Charles Bird: Update: The 2006 budget was released. First, some historical perspective. Noam Scheiber: Anyway, I was stewing about this when I read that Cheney had used this bit of trickery on Fox News yesterday. |
| Also: Max B. Sawicky, Ezra Klein | |
A cultural disconnect in Dixie By / US News — Permalink DURHAM, N.C. —The hundred or so Democratic activists gathered in an auditorium at North Carolina Central University on a January weeknight to meet with state party bigwigs have each been given two paper flags—one green, one red. | |
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James Joyner: Southern States Looking for a Different Sort of Democrat — The Southern states are looking for a different sort of... Tim Graham: THAT'S A GOP THING Also in U.S. News, Dan Gilgoff begins his story on Southern Democrats by noticing how they reject... |
John Hawkins: This article from U.S. News & World Report Helps Explain.. "DURHAM, N.C. |
Meet the men who Britain and the US hope will take over the battle against Iraqi insurgents - if they live long enough Guardian — Permalink Silence enveloped Baghdad's police academy yesterday as 2,000 cadets filed into classes to sit a mid-term exam of multiple-choice questions. Brows crinkled over ticklish selections, such as how to respond to bombs. | |
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Michael Froomkin: Pop Quiz — Crooked Timber: Pop Quiz: From the Guardian, a sample from the test administered to recruits to the Iraqi... Kevin Drum: Wonder no longer. The Guardian has sample questions from a recent midterm. But there's also this: [snipped quote] Indeed. |
Kieran Healy: Pop Quiz — From the Guardian, a sample from the test administered to recruits to the Iraqi Police Force: Any act by... |
Building the New Iraq Army By / NRO — Permalink Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (D. , Mass.) is at it again. This time — one week after proclaiming, "The U.S. military presence has become part of the problem [in Iraq]" — he rhetorically asks an audience at the University of Massachusetts, "If America can... | |
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Dale Franks: Rome Wasn't Built in a Day — Former Marine inafantry leader and paratrooper, W. Thomas Smith writes in NRO that all... |
Jeff Quinton: Educating Ted Kennedy — NRO: Building the New Iraq Army by W. Thomas Smith, Jr. [snipped quote] Full article here. |
Bush's Social Security Equation Comes Up Short on Money, Trust By / LAT — Permalink Is it already time for the White House to unveil Plan B on Social Security? That may seem premature, given both the infancy of the debate and President Bush's track record in passing his agenda. Without more of both, Bush appears to be headed for a crackup. | |
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Tom Maguire: Soc Sec - A Risk For Republicans — Ron Brownstein of the LA Times counts votes on Social Security reform, and doesn't find many. Howard Kurtz: Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times is practically playing taps for the Bush effort: "Is it already time for the White House to unveil Plan B on Social Security? Kevin Drum: Why should they bother cooperating this time around? In the New York Times, Edmund Andrews says that Bush's plans to cut the deficit in the past have been smoke and mirrors. |
Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times' Ronald Brownstein sees Bush and his plan in clear trouble: "But even many of... Matthew Yglesias: Ron Brownstein rightly notes that George W. Bush's habit of perennially screwing over Democrats who try to collaborate... |
Roemer withdraws from DNC chair race AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — Tim Roemer, the only remaining opponent of Howard Dean in the race to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said Monday he's bowing out of the race — but he offered a warning to Democrats. | |
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Steve Soto: Dean Now Unopposed For DNC Chair As Roemer Drops Out — Howard Dean's lone remaining opponent for the DNC chairmanship, Tim Roemer, just dropped out of the race. Taegan Goddard: Dean Is Last Man Standing — Former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-IN) dropped out of the race for DNC chairman leaving Howard Dean as the only remaining candidate, the AP reports. |
Jeralyn Merritt: Tim Roemer has dropped out of the race for DNC Chair. It's curious that Roemer is still pitching that Dems need to be more inclusive and less divisive. |
Group: Journalist in Iraq to be released AP — Permalink CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — An Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq will be released in a few days, according to an Internet statement posted Monday in the name of the militant group alleged to be holding her. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Today we learn that she will soon be released.CAIRO, Egypt - An Italian journalist being held hostage in Iraq will be... |
Michelle Malkin: THE STRANGE ABDUCTION OF GIULIANA SGRENA — Looks like that Italian hostage in Iraq, an anti-war journalist who writes... |
A transformative president By / Townhall.com — Permalink George W. Bush — clumsily in the view of his critics, but with confidence self-evident to those who watched his State of the Union with clear eyes — sets out to transform America and the world. And is succeeding. Consider Social Security, the centerpiece of Bush's domestic policy this year. | |
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Joe Gandelman: "Michael Barone argues that George Bush is a "transformative President" a la FDR who is winning the Social Security... Betsy Newmark: Michael Barone knows more about the American electorate than anyone else I've read. And he thinks that Bush might already have transformed the electorate. The Big Trunk: A transformative president — Michael Barone takes the measure of President Bush in a column that deserves attention: "A transformative president." |
James Joyner: American Political Realignment? Michael Barone argues this morning that, "George W. Bush is a transformative president." Orrin Judd: TRANSFORMER, MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: A transformative president (Michael Barone, February 7, 2005, Townhall)... PoliPundit: The Numbers — Michael Barone surveys the political landscape: "On Election Day, John Kerry won 16 percent more votes than Al Gore did in 2000. |
Heflin withdraws challenge to Vo after investigative finding Houston Chronicle — Permalink AUSTIN - Former Republican state Rep. Talmadge Heflin today withdrew his election challenge after a fellow Republican who investigated the matter concluded that Heflin narrowly lost to Democrat Hubert Vo. | |
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Charles Kuffner: Heflin concedes — Talmadge Heflin has withdrawn his challenge after Discovery Master Will Hartnett recommended that it be dismissed. |
Byron LaMasters: Heflin Withdraws Election Challenge — Details to follow... Live Stream of the Heflin press conference here on live stream 8. |
Religious right fights science for the heart of America Guardian — Permalink Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with rebellious teenagers, but the last years have been particularly trying for the high school biology teacher. | |
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Barbara O'Brien: See also, "Religious Right Fights Science for the Heart of America" from The Guardian. | bar.jpg |
Peter Burnet: BLEEDING KANSAS — Religious right fights science for the heart of America (Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, February... |
Saudi government foments religious hatred in U.S. Chicago Sun Times — Permalink What is happening in some American mosques, including a few in the Chicago area, is deeply disturbing. In certain Islamic schools, textbooks spit vitriol against Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims: "Be disassociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion." | |
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James Joyner: Update (1748) The Chicago Sun-Times comments on the same study: "Fifteen of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were Saudis who were indoctrinated by this vicious Wahhabi ideology. Glenn Reynolds: OUR "FRIENDS" THE SAUDIS: Fomenting hatred in the United States. |
Bill Hobbs: Catching Up — If you read the Chicago Sun-Times this morning, or Instapundit, you learned about this today. |
The Right's Attack on Public Pensions By / LAT — Permalink Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says getting rid of public pension plans for California's state and local government workers is about helping to balance the budget. Peel back the budget wrapping on his plan, though, and you will find the governor's real agenda: the... | |
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Steve Bainbridge: The Right's Attack on Public Pension Funds — The LA Times op-ed page gave California Treasurer Phil Angelides a... Josh Marshall: Eyes wide open ... [snipped quote] That's from Phil Angelides, Treasurer of the state of California, in his opinion column in this morning's LA Times. |
Duckman GR: Kalifornia a test case for Privatization — I've been brooding on this subject for a while now, a couple of months... |
'Intimate killing' By / Washington Times — Permalink On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel on the future of warfare. Marine Lt. Gen. Jim Mattis was one of the panelists. During his remarks he made a statement about the pleasure that young soldiers and marines feel when killing in close combat, a... | |
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JoelL @SouthernAppeal: Read it here. Maj Scales does a fine job of explaining what LtGen Mattis meant by his comments. |
K. J. Lopez: "INTIMATE KILLING" — A retired Army major general (Scales) who was on the same panel as Lt. Gen. Mattis last week... |
Deficit Worries Threaten Bush Agenda By / WaPo — Permalink In 1992, Ross Perot likened the federal budget to a patient spurting blood in an emergency room. "Step one is to stop the bleeding, and we are bleeding arterially," the independent presidential candidate declared at one of that year's debates. | |
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Frederick Maryland: Nussle: Bush Deficits Were Deliberately Created — In his story about the Bush budget deficits, the Washington Post's... |
Noam Scheiber: THE PRESIDENT'S IMAGINATION: This graf in today's Post almost made me laugh out loud: [snipped quote] This works on so many levels. |
Saudi Preacher Musa Al-Qarni: 'The Jews and Christians are Allah's Enemies... We Ask Allah to Strengthen the Jihad Fighters in Iraq' MEMRI — Permalink During February 5-8, the government of Saudi Arabia is hosting an international conference on c ounter-terrorism, which is being attended by over 50 countries (ranging from Western nations such as the U.S. and UK to State Sponsors of Terrorism such as Iran and... | |
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Armed Liberal: When you stand at the mosque door and hear things like this: [quote] "At any rate, if we return to our discussion of the heart of the matter.[end quote] |
Charles Johnson: MEMRI has excerpts of a February 3, 2005 IQRA TV program with Saudi cleric Musa Al-Qarni: "The Jews and Christians are... |