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Frist, Reid Work on Judge-Approval Deal AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - In private talks with Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Senate's top Democrat has indicated a willingness to allow confirmation of at least two of President Bush's seven controversial appeals court nominees, but only as part of a broader compromise requiring Republicans to abandon threats to ban judicial filibusters, officials said Monday. | |
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Joe Gandelman: But now there are reports, such as this one from the AP, that some kind of compromise could be in the works: [snipped quote] Is this for real or a quintessential trial balloon? Skippy: addendum: cookie jill sends us an asspress update: in private talks with majority leader bill frist, the senate's top... |
Betsy Newmark: Then, news leaks out that Frist and Reid are talking on a deal and that Reid's offer is to let two of the seven to go through. Orrin Judd: TURN THE CRANK (via Steve Jacobson): Frist, Reid Work on Judge-Approval Deal (DAVID ESPO and JESSE J. HOLLAND,... |
Internet, Polarized Politics Create an Opening for a Third Party By / LAT — Permalink The Internet is a leveling force. It diffuses power and empowers new competitors to challenge old arrangements. Elite newspapers and magazines, for instance, dominate their markets partly because it costs so much to build conventional hard-copy competitors. | |
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Mark Schmitt: Ron Brownstein's column today starts off on a point that I got obsessed about a year or so ago: whether the low cost of... Kevin Drum: What's more, Joe Trippi agrees: [snipped quote] Now, this appeals to my centrist temperament, just as it appeals to guys... Orrin Judd: WE'RE NOT QUITE ALL CAPITALISTS: Internet, Polarized Politics Create an Opening for a Third Party (Ronald Brownstein,... |
Chris Bowers: In the Los Angles Times, Ron Brownstein, via Joe Trippi, speculates on the how the Internet could fuel a future major... Ezra Klein: Not So Fast — Ron Brownstein's article on the net's potential to facilitate a successful third-party ticket is going to... Taegan Goddard: Trippi told the Los Angeles Times that a third-party candidate, through the power of the Internet, [snipped quote] Link | Related News |
Unexpectedly, Capitol Hill Democrats Stand Firm By / WaPo — Permalink Democrats were supposed to enter the 109th Congress meek and cowed, demoralized by November's election losses and ready to cut deals with Republicans who threatened further campaigns against "obstructionists." But House and Senate Democrats have turned that conventional wisdom on its head. | |
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Sam Rosenfeld: At the same time that The Washington Post marvels at the shocking unity demonstrated by the Democratic Senate caucus... Garance Franke-Ruta: As a new conventional wisdom begins to dawn about the Democrats' growing success as an opposition party, and an... |
Avedon Carol: On the page — The WaPo headline that says it all: Unexpectedly, Capitol Hill Democrats Stand Firm: Democrats were... Lambert @Corrente: Republicans vs. The Constitution: "We have the votes" — As WaPo reminds us (under the truly lovely headline,... |
Media adopts false claim that "nuclear option" is a Democratic term Media Matters for America — Permalink Major media outlets have recently miscast the term "nuclear option" as a creation of Senate Democrats. These include even National Public Radio (NPR), the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times, all of which had previously reported accurately that it was Senate Republicans who originated the term. | |
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Taegan Goddard: For those just tuning in, Media Matters has an excellent backgrounder on the birth of the term "nuclear option." Atrios: Nucular — Our media is so in the tank. If I were the Dems, I'd start insisting that it be called the "fetus destruction option." |
Josh Marshall: Media Matters assembles together the full and comprehensive dossier on the RNC's now-flagging 'nuclear option' bamboozle. |
Americans Oppose Senate Rule Changes, Poll Shows WaPo — Permalink As the Senate moves toward a major confrontation over judicial appointments, a strong majority of Americans oppose changing the rules to make it easier for Republican leaders to win confirmation of President Bush's court nominees, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News Poll. | |
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Joe Gandelman: They remember a name "Newt Gingrich." The latest Washingtonpost-ABC poll on this issue is CATASTROPHIC for the GOP. Josh Marshall: This just out from a late afternoon article by Richard Morin and Dan Balz in the Post (emphasis added) ... |
Taegan Goddard: Public Opposes "Nuclear Option" — "As the Senate moves toward a major confrontation over judicial appointments, a... |
San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy resigns By / San Diego Union-Tribune — Permalink SAN DIEGO - Amid demands by the city attorney that he quit and a week after being named by Time magazine as one of the three worst big-city mayors in the United States, Mayor Dick Murphy announced he will resign effective July 15. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: "Amid demands by the city attorney that he quit and a week after being named by... Kevin Aylward: Murphy resigns - [Union-Tribune] Reaction - [Union-Tribune] |
Smash: San Diego Mayor Resigns — MAYOR DICK MURPHY shocked the city of San Diego Monday morning by announcing his intention to... |
Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men By / NYT — Permalink On May 29, 2004, a station wagon that Iraqi insurgents had packed with C-4 explosives blew up on a highway in Ramadi, killing four American marines who died for lack of a few inches of steel. | |
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Blackfive: The New York Times, the Marines, and Counter Column — In case you haven't seen the New York Times story about the... Jason Van Steenwyk: A Mudville Gazette reader has a nice catch: The visual graphic accompanying this story states that the 3/8ths inch thick... |
Cernig: The GOP Still Hate The Troops — I have argued before that the Republican party, George Bush and their appointees at the... Pudentilla: iraq war vets hate america — [snipped quote] if they loved america they'd tell us about all the wonderful schools we... |
Drudge at 10: Now He's Fun By / WaPo — Permalink On Sunday morning, April 17, Time magazine sent Matt Drudge an early copy of its controversial cover story on Ann Coulter, which he splashed on his gossipy Web site. | |
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James Joyner: Update: Ace, reacting to a Drudge interview by Howie Kurtz on the occasion of the former's 10th anniversary, has a different take: Drudge is a "legacy blogger." Kevin Roderick: Slater explains it some — Fired LA Times reporter Eric Slater tells Howard Kurtz in today's Washington Post that he got... Nick Gillespie: Snippets: [snipped quote] Whole thing here. |
Ace: Drudge Jumps the Shark — Sad but true: [quote] "For some reason the media elites aren't as hostile to me," Drudge says.[end quote] Ed Driscoll: Today, Howard Kurtz writes: "Drudge later zinged Time by quoting his friend Coulter as saying her cover photo — in which her legs took up half the page — was distorted. |
Syrian Intel Agents Leave Lebanon Post By / AP — Permalink BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Syrian intelligence agents abandoned their main headquarters in Lebanon on Monday, leaving the nerve center from which they controlled much of the neighboring country's affairs for 29 years. | |
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Wretchard: "Lebanon heads down road to democracy as Syrians go home (Times of London) Syrian Intel Agents Leave Lebanon Post... Pejman Yousefzadeh: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL — Not only is the regular Syrian army gone from Lebanon, the intelligence service is as well. |
Damian Penny: Without a shot being fired — It's getting remarkably little media attention, but the Syrians have all but completed the withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. |
Frist, Reid work on compromise on judge approvals AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — In private talks with Majority Leader Bill Frist, the Senate's top Democrat has indicated a willingness to allow confirmation of at least two of President Bush's seven controversial appeals court nominees, but only as part of a broader compromise requiring Republicans to abandon threats to ban judicial filibusters, officials said Monday. | |
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Captain Ed: However, a late report from USA Today hints that Frist may have buckled under the pressure, considering an unprecedented... |
Lambert @Corrente: AP gets the law wrong on the nuclear option — David Espo and Jesse J. Holland write: [snipped quote] Indeed, Republican's "can" do that, but only because they have the power. |
Editorial: Nuking the filibuster/GOP arguments fail smell test Minneapolis Star Tribune — Permalink As the Republicans in the U.S. Senate consider invoking the "nuclear option" of prohibiting filibusters on judicial candidates, a bit of Senate history might be in order. It shows that the arguments being marshaled against the filibuster are sheer sophistry. | |
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John @PowerLine: 1994 Was So Long Ago... Yesterday, the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune came down squarely on the side of... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: SHORTER MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE — The filibuster is bad when there is a Democratic President and his/her legislative goals are being thwarted. |
American Catholics Approve of Pope Benedict XVI By / WaPo — Permalink An overwhelming majority of American Catholics approve of the selection of Pope Benedict XVI and predicts that he will defend the traditional policies and beliefs of a church that many members say is out of touch with their views, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. | |
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Patrick Ruffini: 83% of American Catholics Approve of B16 — I'm shocked — shocked — that the attitudes of real Catholics are not quite... Dr. Steven Taylor: To the Surprise of Many in the Pres… ….American Catholics Approve of Pope Benedict XVI (via WaPo):... Pudentilla: bear s**ts in woods — [snipped quote] hint to abc and wapo - the vatican is not governed democratically- what the laity... |
Robert Tagorda: American Catholics Approve of New Pope — American Catholics Approve of Pope Benedict XVI (WaPo) "An overwhelming... John J. Miller: AMERICAN CATHOLICS LOVE B16 — The chattering classes may not care for the new pope, but more than 8 in 10 American... |
Experts Call Spy Agency Practice an Eye-Opener By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on electronic communications around the world, receives thousands of requests each year from U.S. government officials seeking the names of Americans who show up in intercepted calls or e-mails —... | |
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Lambert @Corrente: I was just wrong: "The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on electronic communications around the world,... Kevin Drum: Greg Miller of the LA Times reports that this is common practice: [snipped quote] Does this get Bolton off the hook? |
Digby: No, he'll just continue running around the world having temper tantrums in front of people like Kim Jong Il and... |
Bush Gets Personal on Social Security By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — The president invited the small group of Republican congressmen to his living room on the second floor of the White House — not the formal offices he usually presides over — to talk about Social Security. He listened to them. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: One hopes the LA Times's Janet Hook will get some good access in the future in exchange for today's mash note about how... Digby: Master Of Disaster "Republicans who have been lobbied by Bush say he is uncommonly engaged in the issue and more... |
Kevin Drum: For a different take on this issue, check out Janet Hook's article in today's LA Times about how seriously Bush takes Social Security. |
2 Journos Fired for Drinking With Subjects of Beer-Pong Story Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK When reporter Craig McCool and photographer Mairin Chapman of The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette went to a local party to research a series on drinking among young adults, they saw nothing wrong with partaking of the libations themselves. But editors did. | |
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Tim Cavanaugh: Kalamazoo Gazette reporter Craig McCool and photographer Mairin Chapman have been canned for drinking beer while doing a story on "Beer-Pong." |
Tom Biro: Reporters get booted for drinking on the job — Editor & Publisher reports that two Kalamazoo Gazette reporters were... |
An ugly new chapter in the religious wars By / Boston Globe — Permalink THE PERENNIAL battle over judicial nominations is escalating into a religious war. On April 24, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is set, at the time of this writing, to participate in a ''Justice Sunday" telecast at which America's most prominent evangelical... | |
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QD @SouthernAppeal: Eugene Volokh endorses Cathy Young's argument that the refusal on the part of Senate Democrats to allow a vote on some... Steve Bainbridge: Judicial Nominations and Disparate Impact — My friend and colleague Eugene Volokh endorses a Cathy Young column in... |
Cathy Young: The "faith card": Right-wing P.C. My latest Boston Globe column, which takes issue with conservative complaints about... Eugene Volokh: Religion and Judicial Nominations: Cathy Young writes: [snipped quote] Young's analysis strikes me as quite right. |
Wary Democrats discover a severe 'parents gap' By / Washington Times — Permalink An analysis by a Democratic think tank argues that Democrats are suffering from a severe "parent gap" among married people with children, who say the entertainment industry is lowering the moral standards of the country. | |
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Nick Gillespie: Go here for the PPI study and here for the Times story. Dafoe Whitehead is most famous for announcing "Dan Quayle was right" in the pages of the Atlantic some years back. James Joyner: Democrats Suffer "Parent Gap" — Wary Democrats discover a severe 'parents gap' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics... |
ArchPundit: Here's the blurb about why it matters: [snipped quote] The Washington Times piece mentions the Governor's video game... Betsy Newmark: Donald Lambro highlights a Progressive Policy Institute poll showing that Democrats have a gap among married voters with children. |
John Temple Rocky Mountain News — Permalink Who says journalists don't debate bias? The exchange got its start in a column by one of our media critics, Dave Kopel. Almost a month ago, he lumped Denver Post Washington bureau chief John Aloysius Farrell, who writes a regular Sunday column, among the Post's opinion writers on the left. | |
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Bill Hobbs: Then go and read his rather long post on the exchange between RMN columnist Dave Kopel, and Denver Post Washington... |
Glenn Reynolds: JOHN TEMPLE, the editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, has started a blog, and he's not afraid to expose his paper's internal debates. |
Google to Sell Ads Not Related to Searches By / NYT — Permalink Google, which has built a huge business out of small ads related to what people are searching for on the Internet, is now entering the larger and more competitive market of advertising for things people do not know yet that they want to buy. | |
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Jan Haugland: Google to sell non-keyword ads — Google is expanding its empire, from keyword-based ads to more conventional branding... Ed Cone: Google expands ad biz — NYT: "Google, which has built a huge business out of small ads related to what people are... |
James Joyner: Google to Sell Ads Not Related to Searches — Google is today unveiling a new business model for its web advertising program. Rex Hammock: I think DoubeClick's timing is good: When a train is about to run over you, it's good to get out of the way. |
Ferrell Going Back in Time for Universal's 'Lost' By / Reuters — Permalink LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After playing an elf and an anchorman on the big screen, Will Ferrell is venturing into "Land of the Lost" for Universal. The "Saturday Night Live" alumnus is attached to star in a "Land of the Lost" comedy feature based on the 1974-77 television series of the same name. | |
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Ace: And yet a lot of us are going to see it. Well, both Scooby-Doo movies were actually, um, sorta fun. |
Jonah Goldberg: LAND OF THE LOST — A remake with Will Ferrell is in the works. |
Outlook grows brighter for grads By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink CORAL GABLES, FLA. - Plenty of college students load up their undergraduate years with episodes of self-discovery, tweaking life goals in response. Mary Carriere's experience might be considered Exhibit A. | |
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Donald Luskin: And David Hogberg notices that the jobs situation isn't quite as dire as Krugman seems to believe (even students... |
Joanne Jacobs: Jobs for graduates — Job prospects are rosy for 2005 college graduates, reports the Christian Science Monitor. |
Credit Unions By / TNR — Permalink When it comes to the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Arabian Gulf, media and governments in the West have been largely united in their praise. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently dubbed the emirate of Dubai "an amazing city-state on the Gulf that is... | |
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Skippy: letters...we get letters...we get stacks and stacks of letters... let's open the ol' skippy mailbag... joseph braude... |
Donald Sensing: Unions in the Persian Gulf — Joseph Braude writes in TNR that in the Persian Gulf states, "labor unions can be a force for liberalism. |
Frist: Don't Leave Nominees 'Hanging' By / AP — Permalink "/ President Bush's picks for the federal court. Frist, speaking at an event organized by Christian groups trying to rally churchgoers to support an end to judicial filibusters, also said judges deserve "respect, not retaliation," no matter how they rule. | |
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David Allan Pell: In distancing himself from Tom DeLay, he boldy came out in favor of not kicking the s**t out of judges: When we think... |
Commissar: Sunday, Justice Sunday — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn, addresses a crowd via teleconferencing at an... |
Fat and Happy By / NYT — Permalink Porkers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your diets! But don't start wearing spandex just yet. For those of us lacking six-pack abs, this week's report that the overweight live longer is the greatest medical news in history. | |
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Ogged @Unfogged: You're Fat, I'm Not Happy — Good lord, the New York Times' other new conservative, John Tierney, also wrote about the fat study. Matthew Yglesias: Here's what you missed: The Columnists: Frank Rich. Plug the Prospect and you'll be spared. John Tierney. |
Chris Mooney: Both David Brooks and John Tierney decided that a recent scientific report suggesting that slightly overweight (not... |
G.O.P. Senator Casts Doubt on U.N. Nominee By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, April 24 - In contrast to optimistic statements from the White House, a top Republican senator said Sunday that John R. Bolton's prospects of winning Senate confirmation as ambassador to the United Nations were "too close to call." | |
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Steve Clemons: As reported by Douglas Jehl in the New York Times: [snipped quote] I have joined Bill Kristol in calling on Senator Frist... Pudentilla: specter bolting on bolton? |
Kos @DailyKos: The last gasps of the Bolton nomination — It's not looking good for our favorite mustached villain. |
Conservative Democrats Vanishing in South By / AP — Permalink (04-24) 23:38 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In consecutive days last month, Alabama lost two legends from a disappearing movement — Southern Democrats who were powerful in Washington because of their party's majority and powerful back home because of their tendency to buck it. | |
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James Joyner: Conservative Democrats Vanishing in South — The AP reports—as a news story—that conservative Southern Democrats are a vanishing breed. Jeff Quinton: Conservative Southern Dems disappearing AP "Look around Congress these days and you'll find few conservative Democrats... |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: How times have changed. (Cross posted on Red State.) |
Benedict Says He Prayed Not to Be Elected By / AP — Permalink VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI said Monday he had viewed the idea of being elected pope as a "guillotine," and he prayed to God during the recent conclave to be spared selection but "evidently this time He didn't listen to me." | |
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Taegan Goddard: Pope Prayed Not To Be Elected — Pope Benedict XVI said "he had viewed the idea of being elected pope as a 'guillotine,'... |
Stuart Buck: The New Pope — Nolo episcopari Romae? |
'Positive' Dean calls GOP 'brain dead' By / Washington Times — Permalink Howard Dean, who promised to change the way Democrats speak about the issues, has accused Republicans of being "evil," "corrupt" and "brain dead," attacks that are reminiscent of the angry language he used against the Republican Party in the 2004 campaign. | |
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Ace: Let's Be Honest: You're All "Brain-Dead" and "Corrupt" — Howard Dean continues on with his Positive Message of Hope and Tolerance. |
Taegan Goddard: The Washington Times had a similar piece last week. Link | Related News |
Crime rate down, but prison population on the rise By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink WASHINGTON — While the U.S. crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released, the government reports. | |
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Dale Franks: ...And, sometimes, correlation is causation The Houston Chronicle trumpets the headline: Crime rate down, but prison... |
Jonah Goldberg: THE HEADLINE WHICH WILL NOT DIE — At least Fox Butterfield got the day off: "Crime rate down, but prison population on the rise" |
Chairman of Voting Reform Panel Resigns By / AP — Permalink The first chairman of a federal voting agency created after the 2000 election dispute is resigning, saying the government has not shown enough commitment to reform. DeForest Soaries said in an interview Friday that his resignation would take effect next week. | |
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Avedon Carol: Also via Brad, the article I didn't get to over the last few days about how the chair resigned from the committee on... |
Mipe @ThinkProgress: The Sorry State of Election Reform — DeForest Soaries, the first chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, has announced his resignation. |
Secret Service eyes volunteer who tossed 3 from Bush event By / WaPo — Permalink WASHINGTON — The US Secret Service is intensifying its investigation into whether a Republican volunteer committed the federal crime of impersonating a federal agent while forcibly removing three people from one of President Bush's public Social Security events, according to people familiar with the probe. | |
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Garance Franke-Ruta: More importantly, if Bush really thinks his "60 stops in 60 days" tour is going well, it is a worrying sign of a... |
Frederick Maryland: The Bushies are giving a whole new meaning to the term "crowd control": "The Secret Service in Washington last week... |
White House May Go to U.N. Over North Korean Shipments By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, April 24 - The Bush administration, facing a series of recent provocations from North Korea, is debating a plan to seek a United Nations resolution empowering all nations to intercept shipments in or out of the country that may contain nuclear... | |
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Smash: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION may soon propose a UN Security Council resolution to establish a nuclear embargo on North Korea, the New York Times is reporting. |
Pudentilla: awol threating to quarantine north korea — [snipped quote] sounds like a matter as dangerous as the cuban missile crisis... |
Hybrid Car Sales Soar in U.S. in 2004 By / AP — Permalink DETROIT - The lure of the Toyota Prius and other hybrid cars helped drive healthy sales of electric and alternative-powered vehicles last year, according to new data that shows the hybrid market has grown by 960 percent since 2000. | |
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SK Bubba: Hybrid sales increase 81% in 2004 — Hybrid Car Sales Soar in U.S. in 2004 [snipped quote] Seems like there's a market and plenty of demand. |
Kevin Aylward: News Flash — Capitalism works! Unfortunately, gravity does too! |
Has Coverage of New Pope Been Fair? CNN — Permalink THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. HOWARD KURTZ, CNN HOST: Pummeling the pope. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger gets a hero's welcome in Rome and rough treatment in the press. | |
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Patrick Ruffini: Catholics see Benedict XVI in a unifying, pastoral role — the traditional role of the Papacy — and not pushing any... Jim Romenesko: A more "modern" pope would have journalists more excited — "Reliable Sources" "Journalists want something new and... Brian Stelter: Transcript... |
Joe Gandelman: Read this transcript of CNN's Reliable Sources and you can see that Pope Benedict XVI has a rocky road ahead of him... Roger Ailes: Howie the Unreliable Putz — Speaking of dishonest, overheated rhetoric, Howie the Putz channels el-Brent Bozell and... |
Newspapers struggle to avoid their own obit By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink Will the last American newspaper lose its last reader before the middle of the century? Journalism professor Philip Meyer thinks it's possible. After all, the percentage of adults who report reading daily newspapers has fallen from 81 percent in 1964 to just 52 percent in 2004. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: OF NEWSPAPERS AND DODO BIRDS — The Christian Science Monitor informs us that newspapers are threatened with extinction. |
Jim Romenesko: "I don't think it matters whether newspapers survive" — Christian Science Monitor That's what journalism prof and former Forbes reporter Adam Penenberg says. |
The Ambassador Nobody Knows By / Weekly Standard — Permalink MANY COMMENTATORS on President Bush's second-term appointments have linked the nominations of Secretary Rice to her position at State, Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank, and John Bolton to the United Nations as a troika making a particular statement. | |
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Hugh Hewitt: Here's Scott Johnson on Rudy Boschwitz's mission to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. And here's Joseph Bottum on the last European pope. |
Scott @PowerLine: Meet Ambassador Boschwitz — The Daily Standard has posted my column on the American ambassador to the United Nations... |
Frist Urges End to Nominee Filibusters By / WaPo — Permalink LOUISVILLE, April 24 — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist delivered a taped speech Sunday to a nationwide broadcast in which Christian conservatives, during other segments, attacked Democratic senators for blocking judicial nominees described in the program as "people of faith." | |
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Noam Scheiber: The GOP and its conservative evangelical allies have spent the last several months threatening to eliminate the judicial... Susan Madrak: LOVES TO LOSE — You know, I've changed my mind. Joe Biden isn't a whore, because he gives it away for free. |
Steve Soto: Frist Lends His Support To Those That Target His Own Caucus — Well, Frist went ahead in his taped remarks to the... Betsy Newmark: Check out these headlines and guess which one came from the New York Times. [snipped quote] If you guessed the first one, you're right. |
FAIR or Unfair Game? By / WaPo — Permalink I was inundated with e-mails and phone messages last week from 700 or so faithful followers of FAIR, short for Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. One of several self-described media watchdog operations on both sides of the political divide, FAIR labels itself "progressive" and comes at things from a liberal position. | |
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Jim Romenesko: More ombud/editor columns: > FAIR fans tell Getler that WP story glossed over Lott's racism (WP) > Okrent: How NYT... |
Avedon Carol: Michael Getler doesn't like write-in campaigns - seems FAIR put its readers up to complaining and they all said the same thing. |
A Protected Friend of Terrorism By / WaPo — Permalink The Bush administration is touting the rule of law and democracy as priorities in its effort to create stability and defeat terrorism. Yet it remains curiously apathetic about the activities of one of the world's most notorious indicted war criminals, a man who is also an abettor of al Qaeda and Hezbollah. | |
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Andrew Cochran: Doug Farah in today's Washington Post on Charles Taylor: "A Protected Friend of Terrorism" — Today's Washington Post... |
Cori Dauber: Arrest his ass. (Pardon my language, but the shoe fits, if you take my meaning.) |
The Oblivious Right By / NYT — Permalink According to John Snow, the Treasury secretary, the global economy is in a "sweet spot." Conservative pundits close to the administration talk, without irony, about a "Bush boom." Yet two-thirds of Americans polled by Gallup say that the economy is "only fair" or "poor." | |
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Tarek @LiquidList: Politics: The Final Factor — Krugman's good today. But he's missing something that I fear endangers the relevance of the column as a whole. |
Riggsveda @Corrente: Looks Okay From Here, Boss funstuff6 Krugman points out the reason for Republican self-satisfaction: when the only... |
'Today' Seeks Yesterday's Glory By / NYT — Permalink Something has to be very wrong with NBC's "Today" if viewers are turning to ABC's Diane Sawyer as a refreshingly wholesome, down-to-earth alternative. For more than a decade Katie Couric has reigned as the Everywoman of morning television. | |
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Vox Day: The not-so-affable Eva Braun — The NYT paints an unflattering portrait of Katie Couric: [snipped quote] A Marxist-style cult... how very apropos! Jonah Goldberg: The New York Times turns on Couric: "...lately her image has grown downright scary: America's girl next door has morphed into the mercurial diva down the hall. |
Jim Romenesko: Why morning-show viewers are turning to ABC's Sawyer — New York Times Diane Sawyer's appeal on "Good Morning America"... Brian Stelter: Too Many "Sparkles" On Today? couric2.jpg"Panic has set in at Rockefeller Center," Alessandra Stanley writes, in a critique of 'Today' and NBC's Katie Couric. |
Marines From Iraq Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men By / NYT — Permalink On May 29, 2004, a station wagon that Iraqi insurgents had packed with C-4 explosives blew up on a highway in Ramadi, killing four American marines who died for lack of a few inches of steel. | |
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Steve Soto: Returning Marines Are Speaking Out About Staff And Equipment Shortages In Iraq — Read this story and see how long it takes you to curse Donald Rumsfeld. |
Susan Madrak: MORE TROOP SUPPORT — How do you tell people their son or daughter died because the money went to Halliburton instead? |
Mother sues NHS after twin survives abortion By / Times of London — Permalink A MOTHER who underwent an abortion after learning that she was pregnant with twins is suing the NHS for £250,000 after one of the babies survived. Stacy Dow, who was 16 when she found out that she was pregnant, is seeking compensation and damages for the "financial burden" of raising her daughter. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Mother Sues Because Twin Survives Abortion — Here's a story about a child who might have to undergo some therapy one... Orrin Judd: NURSING'S LOSS...: Mother sues NHS after twin survives abortion (David Lister, 4/25/05, Times of London) "A MOTHER who... |
James Joyner: Twin Survives Abortion, Mother Suing — Mother sues NHS after twin survives abortion (Sunday Times of London)... |
A Hundred Cellphones Bloom, and Chinese Take to the Streets By / NYT — Permalink BEIJING, April 24 - The thousands of people who poured onto the streets of China this month for the anti-Japanese protests that shook Asia were bound by nationalist anger but also by a more mundane fact: they are China's cellphone and computer generation. | |
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Richard TPD: But according to this article, mobile phones, with their text messaging capabilities, are becoming a formidable weapon... Orrin Judd: A Hundred Cellphones Bloom, and Chinese Take to the Streets (JIM YARDLEY, 4/25/05, NY Times) "The thousands of people... |
Jeff Jarvis: Witness today's NY Times front-page story on the unfortunate anti-Japan mobs in China: [snipped quote] : Read a great... |
'The Air of Freedom' By / Opinion Journal — Permalink Recently the BBC decided to conduct an informal survey around Iraq: "Two years after the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled in Baghdad, marking the fall of the city to US-led forces, BBC Arabic.com asked seven Iraqis for their thoughts on how life has changed for them since the conflict." | |
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Arthur Chrenkoff: Good news from Iraq, 25 Apirl 2005 — Note: Also available at the "Opinion Journal" and Chrenkoff. |
FrancoAlemán: AT THE START of his latest roundup of good news from Iraq, Arthur Chrenkoff copies the comments to the BBC (not... |
Rice and Cheney Are Said to Push Iraqi Politicians on Stalemate NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 24 - Worried about a political deadlock in Iraq and a spike in mayhem from an emboldened insurgency, the Bush administration has pressed Iraqi leaders in recent days to end their stalemate over forming a new government, with Secretary of... | |
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Tbogg: Posted by Hello Condi and Dick demand puppets work faster! faster! |
Pudentilla: iraq is still a mess "rice and cheney are said to push iraqi politicians on stalemate - baghdad, iraq, april 24 -... |
Lib Dems demand Iraq war inquiry BBC — Permalink The Liberal Democrats will repeat calls for a full public inquiry into the Iraq war as Charles Kennedy puts the issue at the heart of his election campaign. It follows his demand for the attorney general's full legal advice on the war to be published, after a newspaper claimed a memo raised legal concerns. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: Like I was saying yesterday, the Lib Dem position on the war is now don't mention the Iraqis. Sources: BBC and Guardian. Andrew Olmsted: Tory leader Michael Howard accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of being a liar, while the Liberal Democrats are... |
Stephen Pollard: Three reasons I'm voting Labour voteaboursmall.jpg (designed by Anthony Cox) And here's another reason |
The Last European Pope? By / Weekly Standard — Permalink A FAILING CIVILIZATION CAN'T BE argued out of its failing. It can be led, perhaps, or inspired, or converted and reformed. But argument requires the application of universal truths to the particular facts of the moment, and when a culture is tumbling downward,... | |
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Hugh Hewitt: And here's Joseph Bottum on the last European pope. Austin Bay on Victor Davis Hanson —you have to read that, right? |
Orrin Judd: CHURCH 1, HUMANISM NIL: The Last European Pope? : The mission of Benedict XVI. |
TWO CENTS San Francisco Chronicle — Permalink Yes, because then I would have no way to justify my misinformed opinions and paranoia. Somewhat. I like the feel-good stories, usually involving animals, that they often show at the end of the local newscast. But I hardly ever watch TV news anymore. | |
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Jim Romenesko: (LAT) > Maine high court orders state to release clergy sex abuse records (AP) > Man-on-the-street poll: Would you be sad if TV news disappeared? |
Tom Biro: At a news loss — The San Francisco Chronicle runs an interesting set of responses in "Two Cents" on Sunday, with folks... |
Republicans Say Have Votes to Ban Filibusters By / Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans have the votes to ban any more Democratic procedural roadblocks against President Bush's judicial nominees, a top Republican said on Sunday. | |
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Betsy Newmark: First Biden floats a trial balloon of the Demos allowing five of the filibustered seven to get through. Joe Gandelman: Republicans May Have Votes To Nuke Filibuster — As reports indicated that Republicans were increasingly confident that... John @PowerLine: It's Time to Vote — Mitch McConnell says the Republicans have the votes to stop the Democrats from filibustering President Bush's judicial nominees. |
Hugh Hewitt: Slow Joe Biden blinked yesterday, and the GOP must not sacrifice two of its nominees to avoid the showdown which the Dems are beginning to realize they will lose. Captain Ed: On a day when Senator Mitch McConnell announced that the GOP has the votes to force a rule change on filibustering... Lambert @Corrente: Of course, that's what they would say, but that's what they're saying: [quote] "There's no doubt in my mind, and I'm a pretty...[end quote] |
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UN investigator who exposed US army abuse forced out of his job By / Independent — Permalink The UN's top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he presented a report criticising the US military for detaining suspects without trial and holding them in secret prisons. | |
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Tim Dunlop: Via Laura Rozen we can now see the latest example of how the Bush administration has no interest in living up to its... Laura Rozen: This is a great travesty. So the guy uncovering the evidence of more US Abu Ghraibs is forced out of his UN job under US pressure. |
Cernig: The UN's top human rights investigator in Afghanistan has been forced out under American pressure just days after he... |
GM industry puts human gene into rice By / Independent — Permalink Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights. | |
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Dean Esmay: The usual suspects are wringing their hands while others are saying "bah." Story here. I confess to a certain ambivalence. Cookie Jill: rice-a-phoney...the frankenfoody treat — [snipped quote] you just have to ask wtf? |
Atrios: Prescient Heston — Soylent Green is people! |
A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her By / NYT — Permalink LOS ANGELES, April 23 - Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective. | |
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Jim Lindgren: The New York Times has a strange story on Arianna Huffington's new celebrity blog designed to compete with the Drudge Report. Rex Hammock: Huffington in today's NY Times: Having prominent people join the blogosphere, Ms. Huffington said in an interview, "is... Ann Althouse: Arianna Huffington thinks she's discovered something new in blogging: the group blog with famous people, a lot of famous people. |
James Joyner: A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her (NYT) "Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. Dan Gillmor: Huffington's Celebrity Group Blog — A reporter for a Big Newspaper called me today to ask about Arianna Huffington's soon-to-launch celebrity group-blog project (NY Times). Dr. Steven Taylor: Arianna Takes on the Blogging World — A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her [snipped quote] Actually it looks... |
| Also: Kevin Roderick, Jeralyn Merritt, Ogged @Unfogged, Jim Romenesko, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Ed Cone, Rickheller @Centerfield, Matt Welch, JoelF @SouthernAppeal | |
Any Kerry Supporters On The Line? Time — Permalink The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards and spectrum regulations. But for this week's meeting in Guatemala City, politics has barged onto the agenda. | |
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Lambert @Corrente: The geeks just got it — Smooth move by the Republicans, blacklisting Kerry contributors from a telecommunications standards commmittee meeting. Atrios: If Clinton Had Done This... Yes, it's a tired refrain, but I'm just getting sick of all these things which would've... Michael Froomkin: Link-o-Rama — The "K Street Project" spreads to technical standard-making: Any Kerry Supporters On The Line? |
Steve Soto: Bush Using Political Litmus Test With Telecommunications Industry — Here's one way to piss off the telecommunications... Charles Johnson: Bush, the Telecomm Hitler — Here's a story at TIME Magazine saying that the Bush administration has bumped several... Kevin Drum: NIXONIAN PARANOIA WATCH...The Bush administration is blackballing the attendance of technical experts at a telecom... |
| Also: Cookie Jill | |
Politics is no longer Britain's cup of tea By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink VAUXHALL, ENGLAND - When it comes to elections, Daniel Kemp doesn't take long to make up his mind. "I'm not voting," the 20-year-old snorts while waiting for his mom outside a superstore in this gritty south London neighborhood. | |
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Jan Haugland: Some experts fear the British May 5 election may have the lowest voter turnout in a century, and the least likely voters are young people. Chris Lawrence: Turnout collapsing in Britain — Robert Tagorda has a link to a really interesting Christian Science Monitor piece that... Orrin Judd: LOW STAKES AT THE END OF HISTORY: Politics is no longer Britain's cup of tea: Experts say voter turnout in the May 5 general election could plunge to a century-low 53 percent. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: POLITICAL APATHY IN GREAT BRITAIN — Yet another Christian Science Monitor story relates the growing apathy and... Robert Tagorda: Britain Poised for Century-Low Turnout — As hard as it is to believe, our British friends are set to surpass us in... |
Living Longer Is the Best Revenge By / NYT — Permalink The release of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight people actually live longer than normal-weight people represents an important moment in the history of world civilization. | |
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Doctor Suarez: THEY HIT MY SWEET SPOT, SO NOW I GET TO HIT THE SWEET SPOT — As ably described by David Brooks at the NYT, the CDC has... Matthew Yglesias: David Brooks. Tierney stole my column idea — bring back Bill Safire! Nicholas Kristof. Tom Maguire: Their Worst Nightmare — To what we imagine is the dismay of health professionals, David Brooks delivers an almost... |
Glenn Reynolds: DAVID BROOKS: "The release of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight... Ogged @Unfogged: Choke on that Cinnabon — The only important question that remains in the case of David Brooks is whether he could be any dumber. Atrios: Bobo on Bobo — Bobo confronts himself in the mirror: "The shallowest people end up blissfully happy and they are so... |
| Also: Cori Dauber | |
Pope 'obstructed' sex abuse inquiry Observer — Permalink Pope Benedict XVI faced claims last night he had 'obstructed justice' after it emerged he issued an order ensuring the church's investigations into child sex abuse claims be carried out in secret. | |
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Steve M.: Breaching the pontifical secret at any time while the 10-year jurisdiction order is operating carries penalties,... Michelle Malkin: Meanwhile, the London Observer runs with claims that the Pope obstructed the investigation of molestation cases by... Skippy: the ukguardian: pope benedict xvi faced claims last night he had 'obstructed justice' after it emerged he issued an... |
Jan Haugland: New pope was central in sex-abuse coverup — The Observer brings serious allegations that Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope... Jeralyn Merritt: Atrios tells us about the charge in the Observer that the new Pope obstructed justice by demanding that the sex abuse inquiry of the Church be conducted in secret. Joe Gandelman: He barely has been in office a week, and already Pope Benedict XVI is facing his first scandal if allegations in... |
| Also: Atrios, Lambert @Corrente | |
Washington's Egghead Quotient Keeps Growing By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON — IRVING KRISTOL snubbed New York when he left for Washington in 1988, pronouncing Manhattan no longer the "nation's intellectual center" as he packed off his ideological enterprise. The Atlantic Monthly does not have as lofty a motive for moving to Washington in the months ahead. | |
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Ezra Klein: I Wouldn't Throw That Rock — Armando is all Kossack-gone-wild on this article detailing The Atlantic's move to DC, and DC's efforts to be more intellectual. Avedon Carol: Plus: Because We Need More Out-of-Touch Reporters: Did the New York Times ever stop to consider that this is why the... |
James Joyner: Washington's Egghead Quotient Keeps Growing — Anne Kornblum has an interesting piece in the New York Times magazine... Armando @DailyKos: A story on the Atlantic Monthly's move from Boston to Washington in the NYTimes, pointed out by David Sirota, provides... |
Bolton's British Problem By / Newsweek — Permalink May 2 issue - Colin Powell plainly didn't like what he was hearing. At a meeting in London in November 2003, his counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, was complaining to Powell about John Bolton, according to a former Bush administration official who was there. | |
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Steve Clemons: Here are two key excerpts from the Michael Hirsh Newsweek story which broke the story on how Bolton threatened key... Joe Gandelman: Bolton Nomination Prospects Dim Amid New Bad News — The nomination of John Bolton for U.S. Ambassador to the UN now... Avedon Carol: The press — Newsweek has a delightful story about the charm Bolton brought to his job on previous diplomatic missions, managing to piss off even Jack Straw. |
Von @ObsidianWings: This Newsweek story, which concerns Bolton's involvement in the US's and UK's attempts to eliminate Libya's WMD... Laura Rozen: Bolton had to be taken out of the Libya negotiating chain of command at Tony Blair's insistence, Newsweek reports, for it to succeed. Judd @ThinkProgress: Fresh evidence this morning in Newsweek: "On several occasions, America's closest ally in the war on terror, Britain,... |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh, Scott @PowerLine | |
Yep, Howard Dean Takes the Subway US News — Permalink Let's just state the obvious: New Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is no Terry McAuliffe . Where the flashy former Clinton fundraiser was a gregarious ringmaster accustomed to the bling-bling of the highest non-publicly elected Democratic job around, Dean is almost a seminarian in his approach to the post. | |
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Kos @DailyKos: Howard, man of the people — Is there any doubt that we, as a party, desperately needed this? Charles Kuffner: I love this line from this Washington Whispers piece on how Howard Dean is doing so far as the Chair of the DNC:... |
Taegan Goddard: Dean is No McAuliffe — Washington Whispers compares current DNC Chairman Howard Dean with his predecessor, Terry McAuliffe. Karl-Thomas Musselman: Dean-Style — From Washington Whispers for all of those interesting in the head of our Party... "Let's just state the... |
Media-savvy youth reject traditional journalism By / Indianapolis Star — Permalink WASHINGTON — If you awake before dawn you probably hear a daily sound that may become as anachronistic as the clatter of horses' hooves on urban cobblestones. The sound is the slap of the morning paper on the sidewalk. | |
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Paul @PowerLine: The will of big media — George Will writes about the decline of newspaper and network news consumption that results in... John Hawkins: "— George Will" |
Ed Driscoll: Via Power Line, George Will observes: "The combined viewership of the network evening newscasts is 28.8 million, down from 52.1 million in 1980. |
Ex-employee alleges mistreatment by Bolton By / Boston Globe — Permalink WASHINGTON — In a new allegation against President Bush's nominee for United Nations ambassador, a woman who worked under John Bolton in the early 1980s has complained that he tried to fire her after they clashed over US policy on infant formula in developing nations. | |
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Captain Ed: However, those challenging Bolton's confirmation have turned this into a parody of the attitudes that presumably... Susan Madrak: MORE CULTURE OF LIFE — Yet another story about John Bolton: [snipped quote] Pushing infant formula in the third world is still a major issue. |
Steve Clemons: This morning in the Boston Globe: [snipped quote] Given this story — which I did not know about — and several others... |
Hu Tightens Party's Grip On Power By / WaPo — Permalink BEIJING — More than two years after taking office amid uncertainty about his political views, Chinese President Hu Jintao is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party's monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it, according to party officials, journalists and analysts. | |
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Brad DeLong: Political Unreform in China — Philip Pan writes: Hu Tightens Party's Grip On Power: More than two years after taking... Robert Tagorda: It isn't a pretty picture: Hu Tightens Party's Grip On Power [snipped quote] In 2003, Business Week considered fairly seriously the idea that Hu might be the next Mikhail Gorbachev. |
Richard TPD: Hu Jintao's reforms — Step by step and with a ruthless efficiency, Washington Post correspondent Philip Pan demolishes... |
Annie Jacobsen Gets a Visit from the Feds By / WomensWallStreet — Permalink How Intelligent Are We? Who Is Steering the "No-Fly" List? The call came a little over a month ago, on my cellular phone — which is not listed. It went like this: | |
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Charles Johnson: Annie Jacobsen Gets a Visit from the Feds — A fascinating and disturbing new installment of Annie Jacobsen's Terror in... Joe Gandelman: In a MUST READ ARTICLE HERE she details her visits from the feds....the Homeland Security Department visitors and raises troubling questions once again. Michelle Malkin: Read the whole thing. Yes, we all recall when James Woods came forward after the 9/11 attacks to recount his suspicions... |
Roger Ailes: Nutbag Annie Flies Again — Whackjob Annie Jacobson and her series, Pope John Paul Terror in The Skies XIII, are back with an unbalanced vengeance. Jeralyn Merritt: This one has details about a recent visit she says she got from Homeland Security agents. Details, she says, of facts never before released. Cori Dauber: (Here for example.) Today (via Memeorandum) comes an update. |
Frist Initiative Creates Rift in GOP Base LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will draw a chorus of amens tonight when thousands of evangelicals across the nation hear his call to put more conservative judges on the federal bench. | |
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Noam Scheiber: The L.A. Times had a great piece yesterday about business groups' squeamishness over the nuclear option. Matthew Yglesias: The business lobby seems to agree, not because they don't care about the judiciary, but because they understand that... |
Hugh Hewitt: This despite unprecedented screeching from MSM and weak knees from the Chamber of Commerce and other "I need my special... Yuval Rubinstein: Sure enough, the looming nukular war on the Senate floor is splitting the GOP coalition right down the middle: ... |
A Judicious Compromise By / WaPo — Permalink It is not too late to avoid a Senate-splitting rules fight over President Bush's embattled judicial nominees and achieve something positive for both the public and the cause of good government, if only Democrats and Republicans can free themselves for a moment from the death grip of the opposing outside interest groups. | |
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Jeffrey Dubner: David Broder's horrendous column advocating total and immediate Democratic surrender has already received a bit of the criticism it deserves. Lambert @Corrente: But here's what WaPo's Bigfoot purveyor of the slightly stale conventional wisdom has to say on the nuclear option. Avedon Carol: David Broder proves once again that he is blinkered beyond all hope, saying - wait for it - that the Democrats need to compromise on judicial nominations. |
Matthew Yglesias: Nicholas Kristof. What good will real-world progress do us if it isn't reflected in the movies? David Broder. Hugh Hewitt: Senator Mitch McConnell said yes on Friday, and David Broder is urging Senate Democrats to put the filibuster down and back away from the showdown. Chris Andersen: Will the Democrats, as David Broder suggests, come out on the wrong side if they follow through on Harry Reid's threats to stop Senate business if Frits invokes the nuclear option? |
| Also: Dwight Meredith, Paul @PowerLine, James Joyner, Josh Marshall, Riggsveda @Corrente, Betsy Newmark, PoliPundit | |
Blunt but Effective By / WaPo — Permalink President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has generated a bad case of dyspepsia among a number of senators, who keep putting off a confirmation vote. That hesitation is now portrayed as a consequence of Bolton's purported "mistreatment" of several State Department intelligence analysts. | |
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Roger L. Simon: He's also clearly no Lawrence Eagleburger. Gregory Djerejian: B.D's Voinovich Moment — "I've heard enough today that I don't feel comfortable about voting for Mr. Bolton...Maybe it... Charles Johnson: Eagleburger on Bolton — Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger comes out strongly in favor of John Bolton: Blunt but Effective. |
Paul @PowerLine: "Blunt but effective" — Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger who served the Department for 27 years, defends... Kevin Aylward: In Sunday's Washington Post:President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has... Steve Clemons: On top of this, Eagleburger who has now put his own reputation on the line on behalf of John Bolton has NO IDEA what is... |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
The Earl of Shaftesbury Telegraph — Permalink The 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, whose death aged 66 was confirmed yesterday, demonstrated the dangers of the possession of inherited wealth coupled with a weakness for women and Champagne. Shaftesbury, who disappeared last November prompting an international police investigation, was tall, debonair, affable and rather shy. | |
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Andrew Stuttaford: Here's an extract, but read the whole thing. |
Dr. Frank: The best obituary I've read in a while, of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury. |
Republican joins Bolton hearing monkey biz By / Chicago Sun Times — Permalink Britain's Daily Telegraph had an intriguing headline the other day: ''U.S. police force to recruit capuchin monkey for 'intelligence' work.'' Maybe when the Mesa, Ariz., SWAT team is through with the monkey in question, we could get him made chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | |
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Charles Johnson: Monkey Business in DC — The Democrats have devolved into an obstructionist party that will do and say anything to stand... Peter Burnet: Republican joins Bolton hearing monkey biz (Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times, April 24th, 2005) [snipped quote] Do these... |
Betsy Newmark: Mark Steyn lays into the weak-willed Republican senators who are waffling on Bolton's nomination. "Republican voters understand this. |
Source: Weld talking to GOP about New York run By / Newsday — Permalink Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld has had discussions with New York Republican officials about a possible run for governor or the U.S. Senate next year in the state where he has lived since 2000, a top GOP official said Sunday. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Weld Considers New York Run — We noted the speculation more than two years ago, but now the AP reports former... |
Orrin Judd: IT'S PRACTICALLY AN INHERITANCE: Weld talking to GOP about New York run (MARC HUMBERT, April 24, 2005, AP) "Former... |
Darfur's Real Death Toll WaPo — Permalink THE BUSH administration's challenge on Darfur is to persuade the world to wake up to the severity of the crisis. On his recent visit to Sudan, Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick took a step in the opposite direction. | |
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Robert Tagorda: According to the Washington Post, Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick recently weakened the case for action in... Laura Rozen: Why is the Bush administration's Bob Zoellick lowballing the death count in Darfur, the WaPo asks. |
Joseph Britt: The Washington Post thinks it's vitally important; if people believe only 160,000 people have died through violence,... |
Detroit Spinning Out WaPo — Permalink Motown is singing the blues. General Motors reported a $1.1 billion quarterly loss, the biggest since the dark days of 1992. The company also said it was withdrawing its forecast for the rest of the year while declining to spell out details of any rescue plan. | |
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Brad DeLong: The Distribution of Income — Max Sawicky notes a little item in the Washington Post: Detroit Spinning Out: Economic... |
Max B. Sawicky: (Link) More from EPI, here. On the 4.1 productivity growth, cue Bruce Webb. |
Democratic Moral Values? By / NYT — Permalink You can forgive Democrats in Washington for feeling somewhat vindicated by the way the controversy over Terri Schiavo played out. For years, after all, they waited in vain for the moment when Republicans might trip over their own arrogance while crusading for moral values, and finally, if polls are to be believed, it happened. | |
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Orrin Judd: THAT WHICH THE REST OF US REGRET AS INEVITABLE THEY BASE A PARTY ON: Democratic Moral Values? |
Tully @Centerfield: Food For Thought — Democratic Moral Values? [snipped quote] Some good chewy stuff there. Check it out. |
Frist Defends Effort to End Filibusters By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was telling conservatives on Sunday that judges deserve "respect, not retaliation," no matter how they rule, and he defended his effort to strip Democrats of their ability to block votes on President Bush's court nominees. | |
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Hunter @DailyKos: More on Frist — From David Espo, we have this AP article on Frist trying to balance on the head of a pin. |
Armando @DailyKos: Extremist Sunday: Frist on the Nuclear Option — Senator Bill Frist, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, has taped... |
Terrorist denial By / Jewish World Review — Permalink Does P.C. Hollyweird once again fear offending terrorists? "The Interpreter," a new movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, is a thriller about a terrorist assassination plot at the United Nations. | |
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Charles Johnson: First, Greg Crosby at Jewish World Review: Terrorist denial. |
Ed Driscoll: Its producer has been quoted as saying that he "didn't want to encumber the film in politics in any way"—which of course means that it's crawling with politics—Hollywood style. |
Grams tells GOP group he's out of Senate race Minneapolis Star Tribune — Permalink Rod Grams gave up his bid for a U.S. Senate seat on Saturday, according to an official in the state party, a move that would virtually ensure that U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy will walk away with the Republican nomination in 2006. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Grams Will Not Run for Senate — Former Sen. Rod Grams (R-MN) gave up his bid for a U.S. Senate seat, "a move that would... |
Alphaaqua @DailyKos: Rod Grams now says he will not run for the GOP nod for the open Senate seat in Minnesota: Star Tribune |
U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew By / Wired News — Permalink The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks — from electric grids to telephone nets. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: THE HACKER POSSE — I really hope that I never ever do anything to tempt these people to mess with my computer. |
Tom Smith: But can they kill you with their bare hands? New elite military unit. |