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Political Groups Paid Two Relatives of House Leader By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, April 5 - The wife and daughter of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, have been paid more than $500,000 since 2001 by Mr. DeLay's political action and campaign committees, according to a detailed review of disclosure statements filed with the Federal Election Commission and separate fund-raising records in Mr. DeLay's home state, Texas. | |
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Atrios: And on and on... NYT: WASHINGTON, April 5 - The wife and daughter of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, have been... Richard TPD: Good news — Delay is finised. Expect him to resign any day now. And to think that such scum typified the moral fiber of the Age of Bush. Richard Schwartz: Ethical Behavior Has Been Unavoidably DeLayed — Just when you think the man could not be shown to be a bigger slimeball, along comes this. |
Kevin Drum: YET MORE TOM DELAY SLIMINESS...The noose is continuing to tighten around Tom DeLay: the New York Times reports that his... Oliver Willis: The DeLay Family Slush Fund — Categories: News | Politics | Republicans | Tom DeLay NYT: [snipped quote] I think Bush/Frist just got tired of the trickle of stories. |
Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK President George W. Bush's approval rating has plunged to the lowest level of any president since World War II at this point in his second term, the Gallup Organization reported today. | |
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McQ: The utility of approval ratings — My first reaction to "2nd term approval ratings" is 'who cares? ' That's my first reaction. Tom @Corrente: W's Approval Rating now the lowest of any president at this point in a presidency. Kos @DailyKos: Most unpopular president ever in second term — Can we quit with the "popular president" schtick? |
Joe Gandelman: It's going to be fascinating to watch in coming months since Gallup now says its latest poll puts President George Bush... Atrios: Lowest Approval Ever — According to Gallup, Bush's approval rating is the lowest of any president in March of their 2nd term - 45%. Taegan Goddard: Bush Approval Worst of Second Termers — President Bush's approval rating [snipped quote] Gallup reports. Link | Related News |
Blair sets 5 May as election date BBC — Permalink The general election will be held on 5 May, Tony Blair has formally announced. Speaking after asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament next week, Mr Blair said Labour had a "driving mission" for a third term in office. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: THE BRITISH ELECTIONS — There is little doubt that Tony Blair will win a third term in the upcoming British elections. James Joyner: Blair sets 5 May as election date (BBC) "The general election will be held on 5 May, Tony Blair has formally announced. Chris Lawrence: The next big election — The BBC is among those reporting that British prime minister Tony Blair will call a general... |
Jan Haugland: British election date set — The United Kingdom will go to the polls on May 5. Tuesday Tony Blair asked the Queen to dissolve parliament next week. Tim Dunlop: Blair dissolves — Tony Blair has officially called an election in Britain: "The general election will be held on 5 May, Tony Blair has formally announced. Norm Geras: Following the election — As Tony Blair announces the general election for 5 May, '[f]our opinion polls... suggest Labour's lead over the Tories has slipped'. |
| Also: Dr. Steven Taylor, Josh Chafetz, Chris @CrookedTimber | |
A 3rd DeLay Travel Controversy WaPo — Permalink A six-day trip to Moscow in 1997 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was underwritten by business interests lobbying in support of the Russian government, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the trip arrangements. | |
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Laura Rozen: DeLay wined, dined and feted by lobbyists for the Russian government, including Abramoff, on a 1997 junket to Moscow Kevin Drum: In other DeLay news, the Washington Post reports that yet another of his overseas trips that was supposedly paid for by a think tank was actually paid for by lobbyists. |
Atrios: ...WaPo article's up too, which was shockingly written by "Steno" Sue Schmidt... |
Is he Johnny Gosch? Des Moines Register — Permalink Johnny Gosch may finally have been found, thanks to Rush Limbaugh. The Iowa paperboy was kidnapped in 1982, with unsubstantiated stories emerging later from his mother that he was abducted into a child pedophilia ring. No trace of him has ever been found, and no suspects have been arrested. | |
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John Hawkins: Well...actually, it's still me because according to The Des Moines Register, the left side of the blogosphere has devolved into full-on "moonbattery" over the story. Kevin Aylward: This morning the Des Moines Register sets the hearts of the man-whore investigative corps aflutter by doing a feature on... Dan Gillmor: The Blogosphere's Over-Reaching on "Jeff Gannon" — The Des Moines Register dissects the conspiracy theories surrounding... |
Hoke: Start the insanity: "Johnny Gosch may finally have been found, thanks to Rush Limbaugh. Garrett M. Graff: Today's award goes to Des Moines Register and its article by Erin Crawford, "Is he Johnny Gosch?" touting the conspiracy... Jim Romenesko: Is he Jeff Gannon — or abducted paperboy Johnny Gosch? |
| Also: Atrios | |
A House Divided, and Strong By / NYT — Permalink We're living in the age of the liberal copycat. Al Franken tries to create a liberal version of Rush. Al Gore announced his TV network yesterday. Many Democrats have tried to create a liberal Heritage Foundation. | |
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Iain Murray: David Brooks explains it quite well in his New York Times piece today: [snipped quote] To tie this up, I got lambasted by... Barbara O'Brien: Brooks said roughly the same thing in his column today: "Conservatives fell into the habit of being acutely conscious... Digby: I'm Not Like Them. Really. Perhaps I'm unduly cynical, but I simply cannot take this David Brooks column seriously. |
Glenn Reynolds: And they're doing fine! Right? For a more cheerful view, read this David Brooks column. Avedon Carol: The increasingly tiresome David Brooks has another silly article in which he divides everything into two groups and gets it wrong. Noam Scheiber: Today's New York Times op-ed page offers up a prime specimen, but since Noam is busy with a deadline, I've offered to fill in for him. |
| Also: Kevin Drum, Kieran Healy, Matthew Yglesias, Tom Tomorrow, Juan Non-Volokh, Mark Schmitt, Mark Kleiman, Nick Gillespie, Jesse Taylor, Jack Grant, Betsy Newmark, James Joyner, K. J. Lopez, Laura Rozen | |
Author Saul Bellow Dies at 89 NYT — Permalink Saul Bellow, the Nobel laureate and self-proclaimed historian of society whose fictional heroes - and whose scathing, unrelenting and darkly comic examination of their struggle for meaning - gave new immediacy to the American novel in the second half of the 20th century, died today at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 89. | |
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John J. Miller: The NYT obituary chides him for once asking "Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?" Ogged @Unfogged: Saul Bellow — Saul Bellow has died. A long, rich life, and what a writer! |
Orrin Judd: WHAT STINGO KNEW: Author Saul Bellow Dies at 89 (MEL GUSSOW and CHARLES McGRATH, 4/05/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] He... |
U.S. to Tighten Border Controls by 2008 By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda by 2008, part of a tightening of U.S. border controls in an era of terrorist threat, three administration officials said Tuesday. | |
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John Hawkins: Meanwhile, Barry Schweid for myway news is reporting that the U.S. will tighten border controls by 2008: Americans will... Jeff Goldstein: Closer to the Borderline — Confederate Yankee, writing on the Border War, makes this interesting observation:... |
James Joyner: U.S. to Tighten Border Controls by 2008 (AP) [snipped quote] Either these measures are long overdue or they are a waste of time. Mathew Gross: Your Papers, Please AP: "Americans will need passports to re-enter the United States from Canada, Mexico, Panama and... |
Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions By / NYT — Permalink STOCKTON, Calif. - Since illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States six years ago, ngel Martínez has done backbreaking work, harvesting asparagus, pruning grapevines and picking the ripe fruit. | |
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PGL: Guest Workers and Social Security Solvency — Eduardo Porter's New York Times article entitled Illegal Immigrants Are... Nathan Newman: But immigrants are contributing to the stability of the social security system even more dramatically than I thought,... Pudentilla: those "economic refugees" the vigilantes pursue are pouring billions of dollars into social security and medicare (which they will never draw down) every year. |
Tully @Centerfield: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions UPDATE: It gets even more complicated (of course). TChris: In addition, they tend to disregard the benefits to the U.S. economy that result from that employment, including... Orrin Judd: DON'T WORRY, THE MINUTEMEN WILL MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE: Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions... |
Sensenbrenner to cable execs: Indecency is criminal act By / Hollywood Reporter — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO — The chairman of one of the entertainment industry's most important congressional committees wants to take indecency prosecutions into the criminal realm. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Via Ogged I see that Representative James Sensenbrenner wants criminal penalties, and not mere regulatory fines, for cable broadcasters who run afoul of the decency police. Ogged @Unfogged: Because No Child Should Ever See a Breast — One senator wants cable and satellite broadcasts to be subject to FCC... |
Nick Gillespie: Fulminating against indecency on the boob tube, the Badger State* blowhard suggests that small-screen swearing,... |
Border Watchers Capture Their Prey -- the Media By / LAT — Permalink PALOMINAS, Ariz. — Jim Gilchrist bounced into the Trading Post diner here Monday, ordered coffee and toast and began smoking vigorously. His cellphone occasionally rang, his two-way radio squawked and a coterie of followers hung on his every word. | |
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Clayton Cramer: This other news story, from the Los Angeles Times (well-known right wingers, of course) tells a more complete version of... Ken Masugi: One If By Land, Two If By Sea.... Mockery dominates LAT's David Kelley's coverage of the Minuteman Project. Jim Romenesko: Additional items for April 5, 2005 > More than 200 journos cover the Minuteman Project in Arizona (LAT) > Spiers: NYT's... |
Richard Schwartz: The Illusion of Vigilance — Sleep well, the Minutemen are on the job (or at least ready for the photo-op):... Pudentilla: tell those minutemen that they're ruining social security while the media circus the so-called minutemen vigilantes on... Orrin Judd: LIKE A.C.T. UP IN CAMO: Border Watchers Capture Their Prey — the Media (David Kelly, April 5, 2005, LA Times)... |
Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow Dies at 89 By / AP — Permalink (04-05) 17:19 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) — Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in "Herzog,""Humboldt's Gift" and other novels both championed and mourned the soul's fate in the modern world, died Tuesday. He was 89. | |
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The Big Trunk: Saul Bellow, RIP bellow.jpg The wire services report: "Nobel laureate Saul Bellow dies at 89." |
Roger L. Simon: Herzog Gone — The great American/Canadian/Jewish author and Nobelist Saul Bellow is dead at 89. |
Iraq Prepares to Name New President By / AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq — Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein will watch from his Baghdad jail cell as Iraq's newly elected parliament chooses a new president Wednesday, the next step in building Iraq's first democratically elected government in 50 years, Iraqi officials said. | |
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Kevin Drum: PROGRESS IN IRAQ...Electing a speaker was only a small step for the Iraqi parliament, but this is a pretty big one:... |
Josh Marshall: Good news from — Iraq from the AP ... [snipped quote] Every step is a small one. But these are all in right direction. |
ABC News: Peter Jennings Has Lung Cancer By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK - Peter Jennings, the chief ABC News anchorman for more than 20 years, has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will begin outpatient treatment next week, the network said Tuesday. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Have fun. Update: Lots of death and sickness around. ABC's Peter Jennings has lung cancer and will begin chemo. Jane Galt: Peter Jennings has lung cancer — This is awful news for him and his family. Here's wishing him a speedy recovery. |
Joe Gandelman: More Bad News In Network TV Anchormanland — Peter Jennings has announced he has lung cancer but will start treatment soon and remain on TV. |
Author Saul Bellow dies AP — Permalink NEW YORK - Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in "Herzog," "Humboldt's Gift" and other novels both championed and mourned the soul's fate in the modern world, died Tuesday. He was 89. | |
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Laura Rozen: Sad news about Saul Bellow. |
Josh Marshall: Saul Bellow dies at 89. Another great. |
Senator links violence, judges By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink WASHINGTON - In an eyebrow-raising speech on the Senate floor Monday, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn suggested a connection between "political decisions" by some judges and incidents of courthouse violence across the nation. | |
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Mark Kleiman: Making excuses — The Carpetbagger makes an interesting observation on Sen. John Cornyn's astonishing comments about shooting federal judges. Taegan Goddard: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), quoted by the Washington Post. The Houston Chronicle called the speech "eyebrow-raising." |
James Joyner: Senator Cornyn Links Violence, Judges' 'Political Decisions' — Senator links violence, judges' 'political decisions'... Charles Kuffner: UPDATE: Here's the (rather tepid, if you ask me) Chron coverage, via Greg. |
Major Parties in Iraq Agree on President and 2 Vice Presidents By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 5 - Iraq's major political parties agreed this evening to appoint a president and two vice presidents at a meeting of the national assembly on Wednesday, according to a senior assembly leader, breaking a two-month deadlock in negotiations to form a new government. | |
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Jan Haugland: Iraqi parties have reached an agreement on presidency After electing a speaker, it appears the Iraqi parliament has now broken the deadlock. |
Roger L. Simon: Iraq Gets a Kurdish President — From the NYT: Iraq's major political parties agreed this evening to appoint a president... |
Ex-presidents, Bush to go to pope funeral By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Presidents Bush and Clinton will accompany President Bush to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the White House announced Tuesday. The delegation will also include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. | |
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Orrin Judd: HIS INVITATION MUST HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE MAIL...: Ex-presidents, Bush to go to pope funeral (JENNIFER LOVEN, April 5,... K. J. Lopez: THANKS A LOT, JONAH — Bill Clinton is going to the pope's funeral. When The Corner says it, it happens (imagine if that were true). |
Scott Sala: I'm just saying... Clinton is going to the Pope's funeral representing America. New survey shows teens don't consider oral sex as sex. |
Key lawmaker calls for criminalizing TV indecency Netscape Communications Corp — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO (Hollywood Reporter) - The chairman of one of the entertainment industry's most important congressional committees says he wants to take the enforcement of broadcast decency standards into the realm of criminal prosecution. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Sensenbrenner Wants to Criminalize TV Indecency — Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) has come up with another doozy of a... Radley Balko: Rep. James Sensenbrenner isn't content with the FCC's regulatory prowess. He wants to make broadcasting indecency a criminal offense. |
Joe Gandelman: But we have to say it: I think they're going nuts: [snipped quote] It's increasingly clear that some members of the GOP... |
Feds bid to plug Gomery leaks By / CANOE — Permalink CANADA'S attorney general is probing possible breaches of a publication ban set up to protect explosive testimony at the AdScam inquiry. Justice spokesman Patrick Charette said federal lawyers are looking into the Internet sites reproducing excerpts of... | |
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Captain Ed: Canada's AG To Take On Bloggers — In an odd display of twisted priorities, Canada's Attorney General may start... Glenn Reynolds: And, er, a part of the horse: "CANADA'S attorney general is probing possible breaches of a publication ban set up to protect explosive testimony at the AdScam inquiry. |
Damian Penny: Charges considered — Bloggers who reveal details of testimony from the Gomery Inquiry - or even link to American blogs... |
Woman: Convict Held Me Against My Will AP — Permalink OKLAHOMA CITY Apr 5, 2005 — The wife of a deputy prison warden who was located this week, 10 years ago after she vanished along with a convicted killer, says the man held her against her will the whole time, a federal agent said Tuesday. | |
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Skippy: life imitates mel gibson movies talkleft tells us that a warden's wife claims she was held captive by an inmate for ten years. |
Jeralyn Merritt: And there's a very fishy story about a warden's wife who has surfaced after ten years, saying she was held captive by an inmate the whole time. |
Big election gain for Tories, new poll shows By / NYT — Permalink Tony Blair will on Tuesday call a general election for May 5 as a new opinion poll for the Financial Times shows the Conservatives for the first time building a clear lead over Labour among Britons who say they are certain to vote. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: On a day when a poll for the Financial Times gives the Tories five points clear of Labour. James Joyner: Big election gain for Tories, new poll shows (FT) "As Labour braces itself for what is set to be its toughest election... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: Then again, maybe I underestimate Labour's opponents: [snipped quote] This election may be something of a nailbiter after all. Atrios: But, for those in the know, if by some chance the Tories beat Labour, is a Labour-LibDem coalition a possibility? |
An Academic Question By / NYT — Permalink It's a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-proclaimed conservatives make up only a small minority of professors at elite universities. But what should we conclude from that? | |
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Stanley Kurtz: KRUGMAN AND COLLEGES — Paul Krugman's failed attempt to excuse the academy's liberal bias is a very good sign. Pudentilla: shorter krugman: republicans hate thinking — "An Academic Question - Think of the message this sends: today's... Mark Kleiman: Abusive misrepresentation — I don't find this Paul Krugman column on why professors don't vote Republican especially... |
Juan Non-Volokh: Kerr Contra Krugman: I don't beleive Orin was unfair to Krugman in his post below. Contrary to Kleiman's claim, Krugman does attack "conservatives" generally. Yuval Rubinstein: Welcome to the USSA — Even by Republican standards, John Cornyn's not-so-thinly-veiled attack on the judiciary yesterday went beyond the pale. Orin Kerr: Krugman on Conservatives in Academia: In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman considers why there are so few... |
| Also: Chris Mooney, Richard Schwartz, Ken Masugi | |
Frist Says Courts in Schiavo Case Acted Fairly By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Bill Frist said on Tuesday that courts had acted fairly in the Terri Schiavo "right-to-die" case, differing sharply from a vow of retribution by his House of Representatives counterpart, Tom DeLay. | |
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Steve Soto: Frist, who made himself look foolish in the Schiavo matter and is probably looking for a way to climb back out of the... |
Kos @DailyKos: Frist moderates on judges — Frist: "U.S. Senate Republican leader Bill Frist said on Tuesday that courts had acted... |
Egypt students rally for reform BBC — Permalink Thousands of Egyptian university students have demonstrated angrily against the government, in the largest such protest yet to be staged. The students - mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood movement - marched at five campuses in Cairo and the Nile Delta. | |
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Charles Johnson: Muslim Brotherhood Acting Up in Egypt — The BBC headline says: Egypt students rally for reform. |
Orrin Judd: TELLIN' OLE PHARAOH: Egypt students rally for reform (BBC, 4/05/05) "Thousands of Egyptian university students have... |
Past Pessimism By / American Prospect — Permalink A specter is haunting the Democratic Party: the specter of whiny liberals. A late March poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press contained excellent news on the Social Security front. | |
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Avedon Carol: So why don't Democrats seem to be making headway? Matthew Yglesias has a simple answer: It's because liberals won't stop bemoaning the Democrats' failure to make headway. |
Ezra Klein: One More Time, With Feeling — Matt's response to me in his latest Prospect column bears a read, and a reply. |
High court sticks to ruling on dogs' sniffing for drugs AP — Permalink The Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider whether police can have drug dogs sniff outside people's homes without any specific suspicion of illegal activity. | |
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James Joyner: High court sticks to ruling on dogs' sniffing for drugs (AP) [snipped quote] Given that the use of trained police dogs... Radley Balko: Death of the Fourth — What the hell is wrong with the Supreme Court? [snipped quote] Does the Fourth Amendment mean a damn thing anymore? |
Nick Gillespie: Whole thing here. Earlier this year, Jacob Sullum asked "Who let the dogs in?" . He's got more thoughts below, too. |
Jihad Jane and the Jews By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink For weeks, I have toyed with the idea of writing a column about Ward Churchill. I just can't seem to muster the energy. Maybe it's because there are so many professors here in North Carolina who are every bit as crazy and incompetent as the now infamous Colorado professor. | |
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McQ: Mulling all of this, I happened to stumble across a Mike Adams column in FrontPage Mag. |
Roger L. Simon: Evidence that some form of human cloning already exists... Ward Churchill has a sister. |
U.S. Drones Crowd Iraq's Skies to Fight Insurgents By / NYT — Permalink NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev., March 30 - In the skies over Iraq, the number of remotely piloted aircraft - increasingly crucial tools in tracking insurgents, foiling roadside bombings, protecting convoys and launching missile attacks - has shot up to more than 700 now from just a handful four years ago, military officials say. | |
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Bill Roggio: The increased use of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to provide intelligence on insurgent activities as well as the... |
Orrin Judd: SPREAD THEM OUT: U.S. Drones Crowd Iraq's Skies to Fight Insurgents (ERIC SCHMITT, 4/05/05, NY Times) [snipped quote] Cuban airspace is pretty empty... |
Pelosi helped donor to PAC By / Washington Times — Permalink House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped secure $3 million last year for a nonprofit transportation-research organization whose president gave money to her political action committee as the group was paying for a European trip for one of her policy advisers. | |
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Deacon: The Washington Times reports that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helped secure $3 million last year for a nonprofit... |
Orrin Judd: IT'S POLITICS, JAKE: Pelosi helped donor to PAC (Stephen Dinan, 4/05/05, THE WASHINGTON TIMES) [snipped quote] As with... |
Zarqawi Said to Be Behind Iraq Raid By / WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, April 4 — Insurgent groups led by foreigners and Iraqis asserted Monday that guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization was responsible for a major assault on Abu Ghraib prison Saturday that U.S. officers called one of the most sophisticated attacks of the insurgency. | |
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Bill Roggio: The Washington Post reports that the assaults on Abu Ghraib represent a change in military tactics as well. Pudentilla: news from iraq: still really bad — [snipped quote] but we can't think about that now, because the pope is still dead. |
Cori Dauber: Today the Post ponders whether this attack marks a shift in enemy tactics since, you know, after all the enemy says so. |
Making the case for Social Security reform By / Townhall.com — Permalink It is clear that President Bush's Social Security plan is not getting traction politically — even many Republicans on Capitol Hill think it is on life support. | |
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PGL: Reform Bruce may be the only NRO econopundit worth reading but his latest is not a ringing endorsement for Bush's brand of Soc. |
Jesse Taylor: In Which I Channel Ana Marie Cox — Bruce Bartlett: [snipped quote] Hey, it'd be nice to apply this to the tax code... |
Actors in the Insurgency Are Reluctant TV Stars WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD — Iraq's hottest new television program is a reality show. But the players are not there by choice. And they don't win big bucks, a new spouse or a dream job. Instead, all the characters on "Terrorism in the Hands of Justice" are captured suspected insurgents. | |
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Roger L. Simon: The Washington Post has an interesting report, including this response to the program from a Baghdad shop owner (yes,... Cori Dauber: Compare and Contrast — The Post writes about an Iraqi TV program showing tapes of captured terrorist suspects. |
David Allan Pell: It Ain't The Bachelor — Iraq has taken another step towards true, modern democracy with the launch of the country's first reality television show. |
Senator Links Violence To 'Political' Decisions By / WaPo — Permalink Sen. John Cornyn said yesterday that recent examples of courthouse violence may be linked to public anger over judges who make politically charged decisions without being held accountable. | |
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William J. Dyer: But that's not at all what he actually said, even in the truncated quotes contained in the WaPo article linked by Prof. Althouse. Sam Rosenfeld: Did John Cornyn look at the reaction Tom DeLay's veiled threat of violence against judges elicited and think he'd be a fool not to get in on the action? Ann Althouse: But here's a Washington Post report on a Senate speech by Senator John Cornyn that speculates that judicial activism... |
John Hawkins: Overreaction To John Cornyn's Statement — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is being flayed in some quarters for saying: "I don't... Jon Henke: The Cornyn Speech — The Left side of the 'sphere is terribly upset about this comment by Senator John Cornyn: "I don't... Joe Gandelman: Sen. Cornyn has now seemingly given a perfect mental fig leaf for every nut on the right OR ON THE LEFT who wants to... |
| Also: Jesse Taylor, Jack Balkin, Norbizness, James Joyner, Taegan Goddard, Sebastian Holsclaw, Charles Kuffner, Atrios | |
L.A. Times, WSJ Win Two Pulitzers Apiece By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK - The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal captured two Pulitzer Prizes apiece Monday, with the Times winning the public service award for exposing racial injustice at an inner-city hospital and the Journal cited for its incisive stories about the plight of cancer survivors. | |
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The Big Trunk: See the AP story by Elizabeth LeSure on yesterday's Pulitzers: "L.A. Times, WSJ win two Pulitzers apiece" (with links). |
Jan Haugland: A good hint at the biases behind the Pulitzer Committee's decision can be learned from the fact that the Associated Press won the photography prize for its Iraq coverage. |
World News Tonight Anchor and Senior Editor Peter Jennings ABCNEWS — Permalink Peter Jennings is the anchor and senior editor of ABC News' World News Tonight, where he has established a reputation for independence and excellence in broadcast journalism. He is the network's principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage and special events. | |
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Brian Stelter: > ABCNews.com: Jennings' bio > Google search: "lung cancer" > Is it true that Don Imus said Jennings was going to hell... |
K. J. Lopez: PETER JENNINGS has lung cancer. Our best wishes. |
Army, Marine recruiters shift focus to wary parents By / USA Today — Permalink Faced with wilting recruitment and ongoing violence in Iraq, Army and Marine Corps recruiters are turning their attention to those most likely to oppose them: parents. | |
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Kos @DailyKos: Recruiters focus on parents — Heads up. [snipped quote] I wouldn't be half the person I am today without my military service. |
James Joyner: Army, Marine recruiters shift focus to wary parents (USA Today, p1.) |
Blair calls election for May 5 Guardian — Permalink Tony Blair today called the general election for May 5 after visiting the Queen in Buckingham Palace to ask for the dissolution of parliament. Returning to Downing Street before hitting the campaign trail, the prime minister said the election would be "a big choice, a big decision". | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: Here we go — So the election has been called. On a day when a poll for the Financial Times gives the Tories five points clear of Labour. |
Orrin Judd: PLOTTING: Blair calls election for May 5 (Matthew Tempest, April 5, 2005, Guardian Unlimited) [snipped quote] But are the... |
Gomery testimony available to all Canadians Globe and Mail — Permalink "Just taking a quick look here at the last 100 people who were on the site, which at this rate was in the last 10 seconds, there's a lot of Canadian servers on there." As an American, Mr. Morrissey is not subject to the ban, and his publication of the details of the testimony has made the story accessible to all Canadians. | |
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Captain Ed: G&M Shows Why Publication Ban Is A Farce — Jane Taber reports in this morning's edition of the Globe and Mail on a... |
Glenn Reynolds: Read the whole thing, as well as this interview with Capt. Ed from The Globe and Mail. And there's more on the ban here, from the Montreal Gazette. |
They're Talking Up Arms By / LAT — Permalink Military recruiters are fortifying their outposts at high schools, hoping a chummy familiarity will entice students to enlist. Some decry the tactics. Marine Sgt. Rick Carloss is as familiar to students as some teachers at Downey High School. | |
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James Joyner: They're Talking Up Arms (LAT, p. 1) "As the conflict in Iraq entered its third year, the Marines missed their monthly... |
Pudentilla: vertical integration? |
Google to start 'video blogging' BBC — Permalink Search engine firm Google is to begin an experiment in "video blogging", according to co-founder Larry Page. Mr Page told a conference in San Francisco that the company would be archiving people's video clips, starting in the next few days. | |
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Dan Gillmor: Google now offers to host videos (BBC), but its constantly expanding GMail storage is part of the same trend. |
Dave Winer: According to the BBC and others Google is starting a video-blogging service, where they store and serve the video (or so it seems) index it, or create transcripts. |
GOMERY INQUIRY By / Globe and Mail — Permalink OTTAWA — An unassuming 42-year-old call-centre manager and Star Trek fan from Minneapolis, Minn., has provoked a political firestorm in Canada. Ed Morrissey — Captain Ed to his friends — published on the weekend what no Canadian is allowed to print or broadcast. | |
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Damian Penny: Said "right-wing blogger" is profiled by Jane Taber in today's Globe. The story gives his name and alias, but not the URL for his site. |
Howard Kurtz: The Toronto Globe & Mail plays catchup: "An unassuming 42-year-old call-centre manager and Star Trek fan from Minneapolis, Minn., has provoked a political firestorm in Canada. |
Watch the VLWC NRO — Permalink Byron York warns against underestimating the Left's new machinery. Today the book — literally — on the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy is unveiled. National Review's Byron York is author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic... | |
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Roger L. Simon: War of the Capitalists — Reading Kathryn Lopez's interview of Byron York this morning on the occasion of the... |
Steve Antler: It seems to me Byron is missing the very important point that each of (1), (2), and (3) above arose in response to public demand. |
Richardson plans appearances in New Hampshire Boston Globe — Permalink Gov. Bill Richardson is traveling to New Hampshire in June, but he says it's not to lay the groundwork for a presidential bid in 2008. New Hampshire traditionally holds the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, coming about a week after Iowa's precinct caucuses that lead off the presidential nominating season. | |
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Shawn @LiquidList: Politics: Oh, Just Travelling The Granite State For Fun — Hmmmm... New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson just happens to... |
Taegan Goddard: Richardson Schedules New Hampshire Visit — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) [snipped quote] the AP reports. Link | Related News |
Examiner Publisher Steps Down By / WaPo — Permalink The Washington Examiner said yesterday that publisher and president James McDonald has stepped down and is being replaced by Herbert W. Moloney III, a veteran advertising executive of two metropolitan daily newspapers. | |
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Garrett M. Graff: Moloney, who during twenty years with Knight Ridder has had stints on the business side of the Philadelphia Inquirer and... |
Jim Romenesko: D.C. Examiner publisher quits to start his own business — Washington Post James McDonald is being replaced by Herbert... |
Living and Dying In These Modern Times By / TCS — Permalink Terri Schiavo is dead and so is John Paul II. And one effect has been to get us talking about the whens and hows of dying. It seems that some people are against dying at all; or at least against the notion of dying all the way. | |
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Brian Keegan: And Glenn Reynolds has Living and Dying in These Modern Times up. |
Glenn Reynolds: LIVING AND DYING IN THESE MODERN TIMES: My TechCentralStation column is up. |
AP Poll: New Pope Should Push for Change By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Admiration for Pope John Paul II aside, most Americans surveyed in a poll — Catholics and non-Catholics alike — would like to see a successor willing to institute far-reaching changes: allowing priests to marry and women to join the priesthood. | |
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Tim Graham: UNHOLY PRESS — This AP story is a nearly perfect example of everything that's wrong with reporting on religion. |
John Hawkins: I'm not Catholic, he's not American, and while I do think some of the MSM coverage is kind of silly, especially polling... |
Williams's Tar Heels Take the Final Step By / WaPo — Permalink ST. LOUIS, April 4 — North Carolina Coach Roy Williams finally answered the skeptics. His junior forward Sean May, celebrating his 21st birthday, became a man. | |
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Cori Dauber: I'm off to my meetings, but I word to you alums — Well, one nice thing happened this week anyway. |
Bigwig: Besides, we have other plans, the Ngnat and I. Update: That went well. The English major in me loves this one. |
Gore TV Network to Launch in August, Google Tie-In By / Reuters — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Monday unveiled his new television network, "Current," which aims to attract younger viewers with short videos and a tie-in with the popular Google Inc. search engine. | |
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Charles Johnson: The Gore-Google Connection — Loony Al Gore is teaming up with Google to launch another reactionary leftist media outlet... |
Jeralyn Merritt: Gore TV Network to Launch in August — It's official, the Current Network, headed up by Al Gore, will launch in August. |
The Pope has blood on his hands By / Guardian — Permalink John Paul II became Pope in 1978, just as the emancipatory 60s were declining into the long political night of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As the economic downturn of the early 70s began to bite, the western world made a decisive shift to the right,... | |
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Will Baude: [Via Yglesias I also see this nasty piece by Terry Eagleton that obscures plausible criticisms of the Catholic church—... Arthur Chrenkoff: I was honestly not planning to comment much more, but this piece has caught my attention while looking through Memeorandum. Oliver Kamm: Evidently apprehensive at gaining a reputation for being informed and thoughtful, the newspaper also runs a litany of... |
Matthew Yglesias: Abroad, major papers in Ireland (via Maria Farrell) and the U.K. are happy to offer truly biting criticism. Damian Penny: But then you have the likes of Terry Eagleton, a professor of "cultural theory" (uh-oh) writing in the Guardian (double... |
Democrats Are Lost in the Shuffle While GOP Holds All the Cards By / LAT — Permalink On almost every major question in Washington today, the choice isn't whether to move in a Republican or Democratic direction, but how far in a Republican direction to move. This situation creates obvious problems for Democrats. | |
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Howard Kurtz: Ron Brownstein (a Pulitzer finalist yesterday) offers a critique of Beltway politics that is not exactly favorable to... Ezra Klein: No Ideas (That We'll Tell You About) Brownstein's got a nice piece today walking readers through the traps and pitfalls of a Republican dominated government. Ken Masugi: The key passage in Ron Brownstein's Monday LAT column, which emphasizes the Republican dominance of the political... |
Hoke: Ron Brownstein doesn't call the GOP the House of Ideas — not quite — but he does seem to understand that the... Dan Froomkin: Ronald Brownstein writes in the Los Angeles Times that Bush and the Republicans are to some extent seeing the downside of their complete domination of the political discourse. Pejman Yousefzadeh: UPDATE: Relatedly, see Ron Brownstein: "On almost every major question in Washington today, the choice isn't whether to... |
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GOP and Democrats trade ideologies? By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink WASHINGTON - Back in the early part of the Iraq war I was intrigued that Anthony Lake, who had been a national security adviser to President Clinton, held this perspective on the foreign policy debate between President Bush and his Democratic critics: That... | |
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Betsy Newmark: Godfrey Sperling looks at how the Democrats seem to have changed places with the Republicans on international affairs. Ed Driscoll: Also today, Orrin Judd links to this Christian Science Monitor piece, which includes this passage: "I well remember the foreign-policy conservatives of the 1930s and early 1940s. |
Deacon: A trade that's very old news — Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor wonders whether the Democrats and... Orrin Judd: NOT EXACTLY RECENT: GOP and Democrats trade ideologies? |
Historic Voyager Mission May Lose Its Funding By / WaPo — Permalink In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could summarily put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans. | |
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Tom @BeggingToDiffer: PLAYING SPACE COWBOY — Yesterday the Washington Post noted that the venerable Voyager mission is likely to be scrapped in short order — and it was only one day from retirement! Gary Farber: THEY'LL MELD WITH ALIENS AND COME BACK TO DESTROY EARTH FOR THIS. One of the most cockamamie stupid ideas ever. |
Jack Grant: Can we really trust that this particular cut is wise, given both the previous success and the (relatively) low cost of seeing it through to conclusion? Mark Krikorian: PENNY WISE — You don't have to be a fan of that unmentionable science fiction series to think that NASA would be making... |
It will be a hard night for Blair on May 5 By / Times of London — Permalink THE DAYS of Labour's three-figure majority may be coming to an end — at least if the voters of Milton Keynes North East are any indication. Last week BBC Two's Newsnight brought me over from America to examine the mood of the voters. | |
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Steve Soto: Luntz was asked to cross the pond and find out what triggered a hostile reaction to Blair, and it looks like Luntz found Tony Blair's Achilles heel. Orrin Judd: LEAD, DON'T BEG: It will be a hard night for Blair on May 5: In years of polling voters, I have never found the public... |
Taegan Goddard: Blair's Bush Problem — Based on his focus group research, GOP strategist Frank Luntz says British Prime Minister Tony Blair has a Bush problem: [snipped quote] Link | Related News Kos @DailyKos: Blair's "Bush" problem — This is quite interesting, from a Frank Luntz focus group: [snipped quote] I can't wait to get out there. |
Centrist Democrats warn liberals By / Washington Times — Permalink The Democrats' postelection war about what they should stand for is heating up again, with centrists challenging liberals to "real fights" within the party about staking out a tougher position against terrorism. | |
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Atrios: The most prominent coverage of them is coming from the Washington Times. Who cares. Betsy Newmark: The Democratic Leadership Council is still trying to pull their party to the right on security issues. |
Avedon Carol: Funnily enough, The Washington Times has an article (but use the Common Dreams link) on how the DLC are declaring war on the rest of the party (again). |
Testimony at Gomery published on blogs By / Globe and Mail — Permalink The explosive testimony given out of the public eye last week at the Gomery commission began appearing on websites yesterday, capping a weekend of frenzied rumours about snap elections and covert political meetings in Ottawa. | |
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Howard Kurtz: This Globe & Mail captures the difficulty of writing about something you're not supposed to cover: "While senior... Captain Ed: UPDATE: The Globe and Mail interviewed me yesterday, and published this Jane Taber article: "The explosive testimony... Kevin Aylward: Ed was interviewed about the story The Globe and Mail. Much like other recent stories that governments or the media have... |
Michelle Malkin: Here's the CBC's story on how American weblogs scooped our neighbors to the north. Globe and Mail article here. Damian Penny: Update: the blogger who shall not be named was interviewed by Jane Taber for today's Globe and Mail. |
Mourning and Remembrance By / Opinion Journal — Permalink He once described his high-school years as a time in which he was "completely absorbed" by a passion for the theater. So it was fitting that Karol Jozef Wojtyla lived a very dramatic life. As a young man, he risked summary execution by leading clandestine acts of cultural resistance to the Nazi occupation of Poland. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: George Weigel, an American biographer of John Paul II, has a wonderful essay on the man at OpinionJournal.com. Orrin Judd: WHY EVERYONE WON'T ENJOY THE END OF HISTORY: Mourning and Remembrance: The pope believed that "history" is His-story—the story of God's quest for man. |
Ken Masugi: He quotes extensively from George Weigel's biography. See our previous post on Weigel. Weigel in today's Opinionjournal. |
Cheney Opposes Retribution Against Schiavo Judges WaPo — Permalink Vice President Cheney says he opposes revenge against judges for their refusal to prolong the life of the late Terri Schiavo, although he did not criticize House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) for declaring that they will "answer for their behavior." | |
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Talking Dog: Vice-President Dick Cheney told the editorial board of The New York Post (you didn't think he'd be talking to the Nation... Nico @ThinkProgress: But I don't think there would be much support for the proposition that because a judge hands down a decision we don't... John Cole: Saner Than DeLay — Just to let you know how insane loudmouth bullyboy Tom DeLay is, check out these comments from VP... |
Joe Gandelman: ...Bigtime Vice President Dick Cheney has basically dissed House Majority Leader Tom Delay comments on court judges... Steve Soto: Cheney Saws Branch Off Behind DeLay Over Threatening Judges — Dick Cheney did two interesting things Friday in an... |
C-SPAN's Attempt To 'Balance' Views On Holocaust Deemed an 'Absurdity' New York Sun — Permalink In the face of protests from historians and Jewish groups, C-SPAN yesterday backed down from plans to air a lengthy speech from an author whom critics and a British court have labeled as a holocaust denier. | |
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David Neiwert: As Reid himself told the New York Sun, he has not read Lipstadt's book. "I haven't read her book. I told them that. Jim Romenesko: C-SPAN received over 3,000 e-mails re Holocaust denier — New York Sun The network ended up backing down from plans to air a lengthy speech from David Irving. |
Garrett M. Graff: Also the always fun C-SPAN is backing away from its bizarre flirtation with Holocaust deniers. |
Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens Reuters — Permalink CHICAGO (Reuters) - One in five U.S. teenagers say they have engaged in oral sex, an activity that some adolescents view as not sex at all and certainly less risky than intercourse, a report released Monday said. | |
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BobcatJH: From Reuters: [snipped quote] Why, when we live in a time when we could be so educated about these issues, do we continue to be so ignorant? Kevin Aylward: Bill Clinton's Real Legacy — Oral Sex Safe and Not Really Sex, Say U.S. Teens - [Rueters] (Teens say the darnedest... |
Libertarian Jackass: ORAL SEX Drudge is all worked up over teens having oral sex. I was informed the other day by a female friend that a lady simply does not engage in oral sex. K. J. Lopez: SEX 101, THE CLINTON WAY — Doesn't it seem like there is a study like this or Katie Couric report or somesuch every month or so? |
Gore Group to Start Cable Channel as Youth Forum By / WSJ — Permalink A cable channel recently acquired by an investment group led by Al Gore is to relaunch Aug. 1 under the name Current, hoping to generate much of its content from viewers. | |
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Jay Rosen: The Wall Street Journal reported on it Monday: "A cable channel recently acquired by an investment group led by Al Gore... Taegan Goddard: Gore TV Sets Launch Date — Al Gore's new television network is scheduled to launch Aug. 1 under the name Current and... |
Jim Romenesko: Gore's cable channel to seek material from young viewers — Wall Street Journal The cable channel recently acquired by... |
Al Gore and Joel Hyatt Unveil Current ... PRNewsWire — Permalink SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 /PRNewswire/ — Offering a glimpse of the independent network first announced at last year's National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention, former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, joined by executives and... | |
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Joe Gandelman: If TV Put You To Sleep Before.... Now here's a new reason why it'll be easier than ever to have TV put you to sleep: Al Gore is starting a TV network. Michelle Malkin: GOOGLE AND GORE TEAM UP — This just in: "Al Gore and Joel Hyatt Unveil Current ... - Set to Launch August 1,... |
Taegan Goddard: Update: The press release has more information. Link | Related News K. J. Lopez: GORE TV. Redundant, considering there's already a silly comedy channel. |
End of the Affair By / US News — Permalink Some final notes on the Terri Schiavo case. The behavior of conservatives: Uneven and sometimes awful, with lots of vituperation and extreme charges. (Jeb Bush does not remind me of Pontius Pilate; I don't think it's fair to circulate rumors that Michael Schiavo was a wife-beater.) | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Finally, the always wise John Leo looks back at the Terri Schiavo tragedy and provides an absolutely on-target... Mitch Berg: (Via Strom Posted by Mitch at 05:01 AM | Comments () | TrackBack () April 04, 2005 Uneven, Awful, Mystifying, Terrible... Glenn Reynolds: JOHN LEO writes that everyone behaved badly during the Schiavo flap. |
Jesse Taylor: Columnhood — I honestly don't think John Leo could have botched this more if he tried. Jonah Goldberg: JOHN LEO SUMS UP SCHIAVO EPISODE — I think he gets it exactly right. |
The Power of Faith By / WaPo — Permalink It was Stalin who gave us the most famous formulation of that cynical (and today quite fashionable) philosophy known as "realism" — the idea that all that ultimately matters in the relations among nations is power: "The pope? How many divisions does he have?" | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Update: Charles Krauthammer makes a similar point, but more eloquently (than me, that is; not the "Opinion Journal"). Matthew Yglesias: Are those who, like Charles Krauthammer, rightly praise John Paul II's commitment to liberty in Eastern Europe unaware... Jason Van Steenwyk: The Moral is to the Physical as Three is to One. Krauthammer: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing. |
K. J. Lopez: GRATITUDE — Charles Krauthammer: "I am not much of a believer, but I find it hard not to suspect some providential... Deacon: A genuine third way — Charles Krauthammer on the power of Pope John Paul II's faith. |
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan White House — Permalink The James S. Brady Briefing Room MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everybody. The President and Mrs. Bush are honored to lead the delegation to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II this Friday. The President had the highest respect and admiration for the Holy Father. | |
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Dan Froomkin: Here's what McClellan said, from the transcript. You can click on each phrase to see how many times he's used those same words before in previous briefings. |
Judd @ThinkProgress: Today, however, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan suggested that the Minutemen are just peaceful, law abiding... |
L.A. Times Wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes LAT — Permalink The Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal each won two Pulitzer Prizes today, with The Times awarded the foreign reporting prize and the prestigious public service medal for distinguished reporting on a troubled inner city public hospital. | |
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Ken Masugi: LA Times Wins Two Pulitzers: Color-Blind Justice At Issue — The LAT won two Pulitzers (Spano and Sanchez), one for public service, another for foreign affairs reporting. |
Jim Romenesko: Check out the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winners — AP | E&P| Stories from winning newspapers * Los Angeles Times for public... |
Promises, Promises NRO — Permalink If somebody owes you $10, the next best thing to having the cash itself is probably having a written IOU. After all, the IOU will make it harder to forget the liability, and also might give you evidence to use in court should the borrower attempt to shortchange you. | |
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PGL: I thought of this cartoon as I read the latest from Kevin Hassett on why privatization is so crucial. Matthew Yglesias: Writing in National Review Online, Kevin Hassett and Maya MacGuineas try to make the case for the "infinite horizon"... |
Jesse Taylor: Old friend Kevin Hassett is back, this time telling us the real, unvarnished truth about SS infinite projections. |
Leaving the Anchor Desk, Its Greatest Generation By / WaPo — Permalink In the fall of 1988, Michael Dukakis was droning on in his impassive way when Ted Koppel cut him short: "I still don't think you get it." At that moment, the cognoscenti concluded, the presidential campaign was over. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz writes about the Schiavo memo once again, finally acknowledging that the Post... Hindrocket: The Post Explains, Sort Of — Howard Kurtz follows up on the bogus "GOP talking points memo" this morning. |
Jim Romenesko: Sievers: Many news viewers don't want both sides of a story — Washington Post "The audience has changed," says Leroy Sievers, a former "Nightline" executive producer. |
The Absolutist By / TNR — Permalink The pontificate of John Paul II was noteworthy for many things: its length, its doctrinal controversies, its theological conservatism, its influence on world events, its efforts at fostering inter-religious and ecumenical dialogue. | |
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QD @SouthernAppeal: Damon Linker, former editor of First Things, suggests over at The New Republic Online that the sort of moral absolutism... |
Ramesh Ponnuru: DAMON LINKER — His criticism of the Pope is interesting, but only because it comes from a former employee of First Things. |
POL GETS 'BITCHY' OVER CHAPPELLE GAG New York Post — Permalink April 3, 2005 — A HATTIESBURG, Miss., policewoman and her husband found out the hard way how popular Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central show is - especially his catch phrase, "I'm Rick James, bitch!" Diane James' husband, Rick James, is running for Hattiesburg City Council. | |
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Rich Lowry: "I'M RICK JAMES..." Hilarious Page Six item from over the weekend for fans of the Chappelle Show (which is right up... |
Patrick Carver: The Power of Chappelle Show: Perhaps he should go by "Richard" |
New Pope Could Influence Political Life in America By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, April 3 - The death of Pope John Paul II came at a time when leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, reflecting the tone set by the Vatican, have become increasingly assertive in American political life. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: The New York Times begins its campaign to influence the papal succession with an attack against Cardinal Arinze, the Nigerian who appears on most short lists of papabili. Robert Tagorda: Papal Candidates: An Overview — John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter has perhaps the best summary of the papabili. |
Dan Froomkin: Adam Nagourney writes in the New York Times: "The rising assertiveness of some church leaders is particularly... |
How Run-Down Is the Briefing Room? Let's Start With the Mice By / NYT — Permalink President Bush concluded a recent news conference in a White House press briefing room so sweltering that his secret transmitter, if it ever existed, would have been setting off sparks. "Listen, whoever thought about modernizing this room deserves a lot of credit," Mr. Bush said. | |
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Dan Froomkin: Special to washingtonpost.com — President Bush's decision to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral in the Vatican on... Ann Althouse: The White House briefing room is a mess, plus, it's rather silly, per Elisabeth Bumiller: "The last major renovation of... |
Garrett M. Graff: The stories about the "firetrap" of the White House press room must be reaching some sort of critical mass. In her White... |
Awaiting White Smoke By / Newsweek — Permalink April 11 issue - Forget trying to guess who the next pope will be because no one, including the 117 cardinals who will elect him in their conclave, knows at this point. But it's fair to guess who it won't be. Certainly not another Pole or anyone else from Eastern Europe. | |
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Chris Bowers: Newsweek provides a summary of how a conclave works: [snipped quote] The lack of inside information is particularly... Taegan Goddard: Waiting for White Smoke — Newsweek has an excellent piece on the politics of electing a new Pope. |
Gary Farber: I doubt I'll say much more on the topic, but if you're interested in process, this article is a good summary of how the new pope will be chosen, better than this one. |
The first world leader By / Guardian — Permalink The world lived this death. It was a global Calvary. People from every corner of the earth gathered in St Peter's Square, peering up at those two windows of the papal apartment, illuminated against the night sky. Across five continents, Christians, Jews and Muslims joined them through television. | |
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Oliver Kamm: A papal legacy — Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian gives the most thoughtful commentary I have seen in the UK press on the political impact of John Paul's papacy. |
A.M. Mora y Leon: Read the whole thing here. |
Memo to Bob Iger: News Still Matters By / LAT — Permalink Forget those 18- to 34-year-olds and just do the right thing. He is a visiting professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. As you take over the Disney Co., along with the theme parks, the merchandise and the movies, you also take over a news division that is in trouble. | |
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Jim Romenesko: > Sievers: "'Nightline' was great — it was just a dream job" (L.A. Weekly) > Sievers says he was criticized for making... |
Garrett M. Graff: News on Nightline: Broadcasting & Cable examines last week's not-so-unexpected Nightline departures, and Leroy Sievers,... |
Intel: Did Bolton Try to Intimidate Spies? By / Newsweek — Permalink April 11 issue - Bush critics in the Senate are hunting for evidence to derail or delay confirmation of State Department official John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Newsweek's Mark Hosenball reports that a few years back, John Bolton [snipped quote] Now why anyone would bother to... |
Laura Rozen: Talk about political pressure on US intelligence analysts! Check out Mark Hosenball's latest on Bolton. |
DeLay spokesman rebuffs critical poll By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has earned support in his Houston-area district because of his principles, a spokesman said Sunday in a terse response to a Houston Chronicle poll about the Republican congressman and his constituents. | |
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S.Z.: Tom DeLay Defies Poll Results — Tells Critics: 'If You Strike Me Down, I Shall Become More Powerful Than You Can... Charles Kuffner: The official Tom DeLay response to the poll that shows voters in his district don't like him so much is sticking his fingers in his ears and chanting "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!" |
Joe Gandelman: May we say it? Amen. UPDATE: DeLay's rep is pooh-poohing the poll, almost sticking his tongue out at restless voters. Jeralyn Merritt: Poll: Support Drops for Tom Delay in Texas — The Houston Chronicle reports on a new poll showing a drop in support for Texas Congressman Tom Delay. |