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'Milbloggers' are typing their place in history By / USA Today — Permalink Imagine some of the soldiers who survived the Battle of Gettysburg stopping the next day to write their dramatic tales — and people around the world instantly reading them. If that battle had been fought today, no imagination would be necessary. | |
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Jason Van Steenwyk: Welcome USA Today Readers! I got quite a spike in traffic from being quoted in USA Today. Smash: Preserving MilBlogs — THE USA TODAY has a five-part report on MilBlogs in the Thursday edition. James Joyner: 'Milbloggers' are typing their place in history "Imagine some of the soldiers who survived the Battle of Gettysburg... |
Tom @ScaredMonkeys: No, it is the Milbloggers that are getting out the story. USA Today has an article out today about these great people. Blackfive: 'Milbloggers' Are Typing Their Place In History Troops assume new posts with clicks and keystrokes By Mark Memmott, USA... Ed Cone: MilBlogs — USA Today reports on military bloggers. |
| Also: Glenn Reynolds, Bill Hobbs | |
WWII comments blasted By / Newsday — Permalink Was World War II worth it? In the inflammatory world view of Pat Buchanan, the short answer is no. The war that stopped the Nazis' global campaign and the mechanistic extermination of European Jewry was actually not worth the effort. | |
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John Hawkins: Buchanan is taking a controversial position that I believe is wrong, but that doesn't mean its beyond the pale for him... Clayton Cramer: Not surprisingly, quite a number of people are expressing their profound disapproval. Ace: Pat Buchanan Again Calls the American Entry Into WWII Unnecessary — Happy VE day, huh? He does seem like a nice guy. |
Matthew Yglesias: Why World War II — I'm not sure that invoking the Jews as a rebuttal to Pat Buchanan's claim that World War II wasn't worth it is the soundest strategy. Pejman Yousefzadeh: SCARCELY EXIST IN THE WEST" I trust that after this, the few people who actually take Pat Buchanan seriously will be... JoelL @SouthernAppeal: PAT BUCHANAN INSULTS THE SACRIFICE OF WWII VETERANS. According to Mr. Buchanan WWII was not worth the effort. |
| Also: Josh Marshall | |
Dr. Hager's Family Values By / The Nation — Permalink Late last October Dr. W. David Hager, a prominent obstetrician-gynecologist and Bush Administration appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), took to the pulpit as the featured speaker at a morning service. | |
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LeanLeft: This week, though, The Nation magazine released a devastating expose of Hager by Ayelish McGarvey, detailing both his... Steve M.: By all means read the Nation story about Dr. David Hager. Ezra Klein: I'm rambling. Read the article, it's the best thing I've read in months. |
Digby: Blasphemous Perverts — Everybody's talking about the article in The Nation about Dr. David Hager, the Bush appointee to... Barbara O'Brien: Other stuff: This is absolutely disgusting. | bar.jpg Avedon Carol: The net is all abuzz with the tale of the OB/Gyn who had an odd way of practicing his "love". |
| Also: Tom @BeggingToDiffer, Jesse Taylor, Chris Mooney, Steve Soto, Jeffrey Dubner, Liesa @LeftInTheWest, Matthew Yglesias, Kerry Howley, Kevin Drum, Tbogg, Atrios, Roger Ailes | |
Was World War II worth it? WorldNetDaily — Permalink In the Bush vs. Putin debate on World War II, Putin had far the more difficult assignment. Defending Russia's record in the "Great Patriotic War," the Russian president declared, "Our people not only defended their homeland, they liberated 11 European countries." | |
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Jay Tea: But after his little reminiscence about World War II kicking around today, and hearing him shill his latest book on a... Cernig: Hitler's Pal Pat Buchanan — In a breathtaking show of idiocy, the tinfoil hat brigade at World News Daily have given... Clayton Cramer: Pat Buchanan's Controversial Essay — The essay—arguing that World War II was a mistake, is here. |
John Hawkins: A Short Defense Of Patrick Buchanan — After writing a column suggesting that the Allies made a mistake by fighting... Barbara O'Brien: Putin's remark inspired the great Nattering Nabob himself, Pat Buchanan, to once again trot out his theory that the U.S,... Jonah Goldberg: BUCHANAN ON WWII — I'm probably stupid for taking the bait, but Drudge links to Buchanan's column with the tagline... |
| Also: Vox Day, Attaturk, Stephen Green, Damian Penny, Armed Liberal, Lindsay Beyerstein, Hilzoy @ObsidianWings | |
Bolton Nomination Poised for Full Senate By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — In a tense atmosphere, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debated John Bolton's fitness to be United Nations ambassador on Thursday. A critical Republican senator, George Voinovich of Ohio, agreed to let the nomination go to the full Senate but he called the diplomat "arrogant" and "bullying." | |
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Jon Henke: Republican holdout Senator Voinovich "said Bolton was a sometime bully whose short fuse would have gotten him fired in... James Joyner: Bolton Goes to Full Senate Despite Voinovich Objections — Voinovich Slams Bolton but OKs Senate Vote (AP) WaPo "In a... Josh Marshall: Sen. Voinovich says he'll vote 'no' on Bolton before he votes 'yes'. |
Red @ScaredMonkeys: Voinovich To Allow Bolton to Full Senate Vote — It what can only be said to be some of the most hypocritical... Lindsay Beyerstein: From the Washington Post: [snipped quote] Laura Rozen has tried to take down what he said here. |
Bench Memos NRO — Permalink His latest offer is to "allow" votes on three of the four Michigan nominees if Frist doesn't push the filibuster rule change, according to this AP report. In the same story, Senator Schumer says the renomination of filibustered nominees was a "thumb in the eye" and the recess appointment of Bill Pryor was a "slap in the face." | |
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Betsy Newmark: Go check out Bench Memos. It's a bit more political than Volokh, but both blogs are great fun for a non-lawyer like myself to read. Ann Althouse: Despite my general dislike for high-profile blog launches, I'm going call attention to Bench Memos, the new National... |
Orin Kerr: Blogging Judicial Nominations: Apropos my suggestion a few days ago that blogs will play a big role in future Supreme... Steve Dillard: Bench Memos: Cool new section over at NRO. |
Voinovich Says He Won't Back Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to UN Bloomberg — Permalink May 12 (Bloomberg) — Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio said he won't support John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador the United Nations when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes today. Voinovich's opposition would bar the panel's approval. | |
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Red @ScaredMonkeys: Earlier in the session, Voinovich had made the reference that Bolton would have been fired for his actions if he had been in a major commercial organization. Michelle Malkin: Laundry lists Dems' attack on Bolton... 1140am: Bloomberg News reports on Voinovich... "Republican Senator George... James Joyner: Voinovich Says He Won't Back Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to UN (Bloomberg) "Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio... |
Jeff Jarvis: George Voinovich says he won't support Bolton because: [snipped quote] But I do believe we need someone critical of and... Pessimist @LeftCoaster: Voinovich Says He Won't Back Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to UN May 12 [snipped quote] We all have our opinions as to where he SHOULD be on this issue. |
Voinovich Slams Bolton but OKs Senate Vote By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON (AP) — In a tense atmosphere, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debated John Bolton's fitness to be United Nations ambassador on Thursday. A critical Republican senator, George Voinovich of Ohio, agreed to let the nomination go to the full Senate but he called the diplomat "arrogant" and "bullying." | |
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Jeff Jarvis: UPDATE: Following the Bloomberg story above, the AP reports that Voinovich will vote to pass the Bolton nomination to the full Senate: the political compromise. Pejman Yousefzadeh: TRAGICOMEDY — So John Bolton's nomination will go to the Senate floor after all—though not, of course, without some... |
Michelle Malkin: Now, ABC News: Voinovich to Vote for 'Bullying' Bolton "Republican Sen. George Voinovich (news, bio, voting record) of... Tarek @LiquidList: Politics: Voting Your Conscience — This is just bulls**t. If you think someone is "arrogant" and "bullying," and that... |
CNBC cancels 'Dennis Miller' CNN — Permalink In an attempt to revive primetime, 'Dennis Miller' will be replaced by 'Mad Money With Jim Cramer.' NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - CNBC is canceling "Dennis Miller" in an attempt to revive the network's struggling primetime, according to Variety. | |
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Joe Gandelman: CNBC Says Buh-Bye To Dennis Miller — CNBC is dumping the Dennis Miller Show, which was an attempt at a combination... Ann Althouse: CNN reports: "'Dennis Miller' will be replaced with a second airing of 'Mad Money With Jim Cramer' at 9 p.m. ET." Jesse Taylor: Dennis Miller's show canceled. Daniel Okrent is leaving the NYT, but not before he slams the "liberal" paper, which... |
James Joyner: CNBC cancels 'Dennis Miller' (CNN/Money) [snipped quote] I'm a fan of Miller but found his show unwatchable. Dr. Steven Taylor: Adios, Dennis — CNBC cancels 'Dennis Miller' [snipped quote] It's bad enough to get cancelled, but getting replaced by a re-run's gotta hurt. |
Galloway accepts Washington call BBC — Permalink British MP George Galloway says he is ready to face down US senators who claim he received oil rights from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Mr Galloway denies claims by a Senate committee that he and a former French minister were allowed to sell Iraqi oil to reward their support for the regime. | |
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Jan Haugland: Galloway to travel to Washington to answer charges — George Galloway has now accepted an invitation to Washington DC to... John @PowerLine: Galloway in the Lions' Den — I'll believe it when I see it, but British M.P. and Saddam Hussein supporter George... |
Attaturk: Whatever he bailed — I suggest you click link. Meanwhile, here's a guy that is not afraid of a tussel. |
Bolton nomination heads for Senate vote CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to the Senate for a vote, despite stinging criticism from a key Republican on the panel. | |
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Steve Soto: Voinovich Steers Foreign Relations Committee Into No Endorsement Of Bolton (Thanks to the AP for the photo) "The United... Tim Cavanaugh: John Bolton held hostage, Day 653: Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes 10-8 to send the anal-explosive public servant for a full Senate vote. |
Orrin Judd: Bolton nomination heads for Senate vote (CNN, 5/12/05) "The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send John... |
Memo May Have Swayed Plan B Ruling By / WaPo — Permalink Soon after the Food and Drug Administration overruled its advisory panel last year and rejected an application to make an emergency contraceptive more easily available, critics of the agency said it had ignored scientific evidence and yielded to pressure from social conservatives. | |
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LeanLeft: Dr. David Hager: Lunatic, Extremist, Rapist, Bush's Favorite Gynecologist, and the Man Who Killed "Plan B" — Filed... Tom @BeggingToDiffer: If you'd prefer to avoid the salacious content, the Washington Post covers the purely bureaucratic half of this controversy. Steve Soto: Well, Dr. W. David Hager finally got his chance to do the American Taliban's work. |
Steve M.: Yeah, read it, and read the Washington Post follow-up — but realize that this is the kind of thing that tends to blow up in our faces. Chris Mooney: First, the Washington Post reports that a minority memo written by Hager (which has not apparently been made public) may... Jeffrey Dubner: Hager has taken credit for convincing the FDA to overrule its own advisory panel and reject Plan B's application for... |
| Also: Matthew Yglesias, Liesa @LeftInTheWest, Kerry Howley, Pudentilla | |
The blog that ate real journalism Townhall.com — Permalink The Huffington Post, an Internet blog that debuted May 9 after a campaign that would have delighted P.T. Barnum, makes me nostalgic for the good old days of journalism. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Thomas on Huffington, Blogs and the Virute of the MSM — Writes Cal Thomas "The Huffington Post, an Internet blog [,,,]" Is there another kind? S.Z.: Ask Uncle Cal Cal Thomas's new Townhall column is so full of old-fashioned, crotchedy, Ann Lander-style pseudo-wisdom... |
John Hawkins: Fisking An Attack On Blogs By Cal Thomas — Perhaps Cal Thomas woke up on the wrong side of the bed or maybe he's just... James Joyner: The blog that ate real journalism [snipped quote] Isn't that true of opinion journalists—like Mr. Thomas—as well? |
Historians hope to preserve candid glimpses of war By / USA Today — Permalink The blogs that soldiers are writing from Iraq and Afghanistan may not be as valuable to historians as the letters and journals that troops, as warriors have done for centuries, are writing by hand. Staff Sgt. Steven Kiel uses the communications and electronics shop in Iraq to update his blog. | |
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Smash: One of the articles specifically addresses the preservation of milblogs for historical posterity, and notes that this weblog is being archived in the Library of Congress. Glenn Reynolds: USA TODAY is writing about milblogs, and here's an interesting tidbit: [snipped quote] Making history, one blog at a time. |
James Joyner: More interesting is this news, buried in a sidebar article: Historians hope to preserve candid glimpses of war "Many of... |
McClellan Spars With Press, Says No Need to Notify Bush Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK On the day after more than 30,000 people — including the vice president, the first lady, and a former first lady — were evacuated from their offices or homes in Washington, D.C., but the president, who was biking in Maryland was not notified until the threat passed, reporters grilled Press Secretary Scott McClellan at his daily briefing. | |
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Norbizness: This may be Holden at First Draft's territory (as I suspected), but it's too funny not to alter (unoriginal unaltered... |
Tbogg: Go here and do a shot every time he says: protocol. Then call us when you come out of your coma. |
A Turning Tide for Bolton By / NYT — Permalink Usually the bug dies. When a presidential nominee is treated like an ant under a magnifying glass under the noonday sun, when he has the full scrutiny of the media and Congressional investigators focused upon him, he usually gets incinerated. | |
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Attaturk: Perhaps Bobo will turn out to be correct and Bolton will get confirmed (followed by a long night of celebratory passive/aggressive mustache rides). Scott @PowerLine: The ordeal of John Bolton — In his New York Times column today David Brooks takes a look at the testimony of hostile... Jonah Goldberg: TIDE TURNS ON BOLTON — David Brooks has a good one. (reg required) |
Betsy Newmark: David Brooks thinks that the tide has shifted in John Bolton's favor because, through testimony, it has become clear... Steve Clemons: The Tide Turns Against Bolton — Voinovich just said that [snipped quote] Someone notify David Brooks that the tide has yet again turned. |
And Now Back to You, Skippy By / Slate — Permalink The past few days, I've been so wrapped up in trying to figure out whether or not TV makes you smarter that I haven't had time to watch very much of it (which, depending on your point of view, must be either raising or lowering my IQ). | |
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Ed Cone: Cable news and blogs — Now that Jon Stewart has given people permission to talk about the early failings of efforts to... |
Skippy: the famous get more famous, the unkowns get unknowder fresh off our flirtation with (fake) cable news on the daily show,... |
Bolton Poised to Pass Committee By / WaPo — Permalink A key Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today came out in opposition to President Bush's choice of John R. Bolton to be the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but urged his colleagues to send the nomination to the Senate floor for an "up-or-down vote," with no recommendation from the panel. | |
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John Cole: They aren't going to roll over because some foul-mouthed (presumably) bully goes in and scolds them. Remember the Helms-Biden reforms? |
Nico @ThinkProgress: It's a sad day for our country, and a sad statement about the Bush administration's chokehold on Senate leadership, that... |
Former officers of Islamic charity arrested on federal charges By / AP — Permalink BOSTON — Two former officers of an Islamic charity were arrested on Thursday after they were indicted on federal charges of lying to authorities investigating the charity's alleged ties to terrorist organizations. | |
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Mitch Townsend: A Couple of Familiar Names — A grand jury has handed up an indictment against two former officers of Care International. |
Charles Johnson: Got Two in Boston — Former officers of Islamic charity indicted on federal charges. (Hat tip: billindc.) |
Radio host Michael Medved's privatization meltdown Media Matters for America — Permalink When radio host Michael Medved challenged Rock the Vote Washington director Hans Riemer's use of the term "privatization" to describe President Bush's proposed changes to Social Security, Riemer confronted Medved with a quotation of Bush describing his proposed private accounts as "privatization." | |
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Josh Marshall: MediaMatters gets the — Medved tape. No response yet from the Count. Late Update: We are in touch with MediaMatters personnel to ascertain who will be awarded the shirt. |
Atrios: Wanker of the Day — Michael Medved. Extra bonus wanking here. |
On a Bicycle in Beltsville, Blissfully Unaware By / WaPo — Permalink When the state of red alert was declared yesterday, the vice president was evacuated from the White House and the first lady was whisked to a secure location. But no precautions were needed for President Bush. | |
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Tbogg: From the offending article: When the state of red alert was declared yesterday, the vice president was evacuated from... |
Michelle Malkin: Just take a look at the headline on his snark-infested piece on how the White House handled yesterday's air scare: "The... |
Tancredo gets flak for criticism of city By / Rocky Mountain News — Permalink Denver officials blasted U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo on Wednesday for alleging that the city has a policy of noncooperation with immigration authorities. Tancredo, a Jefferson County Republican, made the charge in a news release Tuesday following the weekend killing of Denver police Detective Donald Young. | |
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John Andrews: This week when my congressman, Tom Tancredo, asked why, he was brushed off by the mayor's office and the media. Outrageous. |
Mark Krikorian: The city government is furiously spinning, but the facts speak for themselves — the (alleged) murderer presented a... |
Experts: Iraq verges on civil war By / Newsday — Permalink WASHINGTON — An unchastened insurgency sowed devastation across Iraq Wednesday as experts here said the country is either on the verge of civil war or already in the middle of it. | |
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Juan Cole: Tim Phelps of Newsday reports that some experts think the guerrillas are attempting to cut Baghdad off from the rest of... Attaturk: Today Newsday gives us more evidence of their foresight: [snipped quote] It is not a long article, but it is full of disturbing information. |
Steve Soto: Even if the Post and the New York Times won't come out and say it directly, others are saying the words "civil war" and "Iraq" in the same sentence. Jesse Taylor: Daniel Okrent is leaving the NYT, but not before he slams the "liberal" paper, which appears to be determined, in his mind, by... By... Uh, Iraq's on the verge of civil war! |
Rice: Gun Rights Important As Free Speech By / AP — Permalink Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, recalling how her father took up arms to defend fellow blacks from racist whites in the segregated South, said Wednesday the constitutional right of Americans to own guns is as important as their rights to free speech and religion. | |
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Mitch Berg: Condi: Fourteenth Amendment, Front And Center — Condi comes out swinging for the Second Amendment - and the contructionist view thereof - via the Fourteenth. Jonathan H. Adler: RICE ON GUN RIGHTS — Condi says "The Second Amendment is as important as the First Amendment." |
Clayton Cramer: I Guess This Blows Condoleeza Rice Out Of The Running For President — An interview with Larry King reveals the deep... |
The Economy in the Fed's Hands? NRO — Permalink Our money-meddlers in Washington are up to their old tricks. Does anyone really know what Alan Greenspan is up to? Does the Maestro himself know why the Fed's target interest rate has been robotically raised eight consecutive times, with no end in sight? | |
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PGL: Mark Thoma has some fun with the latest from Lawrence Kudlow but left this line alone: "The blowout jobs report for... |
Max B. Sawicky: HELLO LARRY — I don't know much about monetary policy, and neither does Larry Kudlow, but we know what we don't like:... |
Kiddie Class Struggle By / The Atlantic Online — Permalink The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother? B ecause, like many American mothers with children at home, I am a juggling, multi-tasking, somewhat less than full-time freelance employee, the hours I spent reading Camille Peri and... | |
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Chris Nolan: And to add insult to injury, the magazine's one featured female writer, Sandra Tsing Loh, a self-styled celebrity Mom... |
Glenn Reynolds: CHRIS NOLAN: [snipped quote] One hopes. |
Hickenlooper's eateries didn't verify Social Security numbers By / Rocky Mountain News — Permalink Mayor John Hickenlooper's restaurants followed immigration law by checking the identification of murder suspect Raul Garcia-Gomez - but didn't know the IRS wanted restaurant managers to verify new hires' Social Security numbers, a spokesman said Wednesday. | |
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Scott Sala: As this battle played out, with Senators against local city officials, suddenly it was revealed Denver Mayor John... Michelle Malkin: As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, Det. |
Mark Krikorian: And the restaurant had been notified by the government that the employee's Social Security number was invalid. |
Bush asked to explain UK war memo CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002. | |
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Cernig: From CNN: Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress have sent Bush a letter asking for explanation of the... Dan Gillmor: One More Time on Iraq War: The Fix Was In — [snipped quote] This request will probably be ignored or dismissed as "old news" by the administration. Roger Ailes: Because Blair was eeeeeevil: [snipped quote] Okrent also can't imagine there was anybody in the Oval Office saying: "Let's make up some things." |
Steve Soto: At least the corporate media is finally paying attention to the story from last week about the secret plan between the... Attaturk: And the memo even made CNN's crawl on its front web page, though not the top story, which remains Satan's Cessna! |
Arms Makers Find Being Cash-Heavy Is Mixed Blessing By / NYT — Permalink The nation's military contractors are awash in cash, which is making their shareholders happy and pushing their stocks to new highs. Less happy, however, is the Pentagon, which is the source of much of that cash and may now want something in return. | |
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Cernig: Daddy Warbucks — The New York Times, known pawn of the liberal movement (/sarcasm) has the news that even the Pentagon... Avedon Carol: This one is about an NYT article that shows that the Military-Industrial Complex is winning the war against America. |
Attaturk: Sorry Ike, we f**ked it up — The New York Times writes of the "perils" of the Military-Industrial Complex being flush with cash thanks to all that freedom marching. |
Panel Sends Bolton Nomination to Senate By / AP — Permalink A divided Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday sent the nomination of John Bolton to be U.N. ambassador to the full Senate. But it took the rare step of refusing to endorse the blunt-speaking conservative. | |
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Steve Soto: But due to the slapdown Bolton got today from GOP Senator George Voinovich of Ohio, Dick Lugar was forced to send the... |
Orrin Judd: SOUND AND PETULANCE: Voinovich slams Bolton but OKs Senate vote (BARRY SCHWEID, May 12, 2005, AP) "In a tense debate, a... |
Seymour Hersh: Iraq "Moving Towards Open Civil War" Democracy Now — Permalink We spend the hour with Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh won the Pulitzer prize for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Last year, he broke the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. He is author of the book "Chain of Command: From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib." | |
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Avedon Carol: Amy Goodman interviews Sy Hersh on how creepy things are. Scorpio reacts to one of my posts at Eschaton with "the rant I rewrite every place that mentions Mr. Kerry." Riggsveda @Corrente: Yesterday she spoke with him on the events building in Iraq. Lindsay Beyerstein: As If She Wanted To Change Her Skin — Guest post by hilzoy Via kos, a quote from Seymour Hersh: [quote] "I get a call from a mother.[end quote] |
Joe Gandelman: Totally attributed. An opposing view comes from Seymour Hersh who contends Iraq is on the verge of civil war. Nico @ThinkProgress: But Talabani's not the only one, according to New Yorker journalist Sy Hersh, who was asked about Chalabi's pardon yesterday: "Here's what I know about that. Hilzoy @ObsidianWings: As If She Wanted To Change Her Skin — Via kos, a quote from Seymour Hersh: [quote] "I get a call from a mother.[end quote] |
Senate accuses two in oil scandal BBC — Permalink Saddam Hussein rewarded two veteran UK and French politicians by allowing them to collect profits as middlemen in oil sales, a new US Senate report claims. The Senate names British MP George Galloway and former French minister Charles Pasqua, but gives no evidence either actually received money. | |
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Scott Burgess: As the BBC notes: [quote] "The Senate report said the documents it used to make the allegations "have no relation" to those discussed in the Daily Telegraph piece." [end quote] Marc @USSNeverdock: True to form the BBC's report whitewashes the affair and even makes a false claim related to Kofi Annan. More on the BBC report later. Brownie @HarrysPlace: Oil of Uday — I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation... A US Senate report says two senior politicians... |
Jan Haugland: The same report also outlines evidence against former French minister Charles Pasqua, who is to have received allocations of 11 million barrels of oil. Scott @PowerLine: The BBC story carries denials of profiteering by both Galloway and Pasqua. |
Sacramento Columnist Quits Amid Inquiry AP — Permalink (05-12) 10:04 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) — A member of a Pulitzer Prize winning team resigned from The Sacramento Bee amid an investigation into whether she fabricated some of the people she mentioned in several recent columns, the newspaper said. | |
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Michelle Malkin: NOT QUITE THE NEWS — Two items from the MSM bloopers file: - Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Diana Griego Erwin has... |
Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Pulitzer Prize Journalist Fired — The public demand for accuracy and accountability, fueled by bloggers, claims another trophy - a Pulizer Prize trophy no less. |
U.N. Nominee Asserts His Independence on Intelligence By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 11 - With a vote scheduled Thursday on his contested nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, John R. Bolton has told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a policy maker should maintain the right to "state his own reading of the intelligence" even when it differs from that of intelligence agencies. | |
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David Greenberg: Dick Lugar is probably just spinning, but if he's predicting he'll hold all the Republicans — rather than saying he may lose one or two — you have to think he'll pull it out. Steve Clemons: John Bolton: Wanted to Be His Own Intel Czar — Doug Jehl reports: [snipped quote] Will Bolton assert the same if he is... |
James Joyner: Senate Panel Is Set to Vote on Bolton Nomination Today (NYT) [snipped quote] Well, yes. |
Bolton's Chances for Approval Brighten By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton's chances of winning Senate approval to be U.N. ambassador appeared to brighten as Republican fence-sitters drifted in his direction. | |
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Jayson @PoliPundit: Bolton Will Get a Floor Vote — After a couple of hours of preening, posturing, and mugging for the cameras, George... James Joyner: (See, for example, "Bolton's Chances for Approval Brighten" from AP.) Larry Flynt's charges may ensure that. |
Lorie Byrd: Bolton's Prospects Brighten — From ABC News/AP: "Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton's chances of winning Senate... |
A Man's Job NRO — Permalink Ground combat is more than just a "women's issue." On May 11, the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the House Armed Services Committee approved legislation requiring the Army to prohibit women from serving in any company-size unit that provides support to combat battalions or their subordinate companies. | |
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Phillip Carter: Those who support this legislation will argue that they are, in fact, advancing military readiness by restricting combat billets to the men who can do the job. |
Cori Dauber: Creating Definitions — Here's a piece arguing that the Army is playing fast and loose with definitions in order to expand roles for women on the battlefield. |
Terror Suspects Sent to Egypt by the Dozens, Panel Reports By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, May 11 - The United States and other countries have forcibly sent dozens of terror suspects to Egypt, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The rights group and the State Department have both said Egypt regularly uses extreme interrogation methods on detainees. | |
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Orrin Judd: WHAT JIMMY BOUGHT US: Terror Suspects Sent to Egypt by the Dozens, Panel Reports (DAVID JOHNSTON, 5/12/05, NY Times)... Pudentilla: a nation of torturers — [snipped quote] is what awol has made of america. one would imagine him washing his hands, like... |
Riggsveda @Corrente: And what was it that prompted this display of Bushco solidarity? |
A man who has mattered By / Townhall.com — Permalink WASHINGTON — ''I can't tell you,'' Paul Wolfowitz says with justifiable asperity, ''how much I resent being called a Wilsonian.'' As he retires as deputy secretary of defense and becomes head of the World Bank, the man most responsible for the doctrinal... | |
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Richard Reeb: Will calls him "A man who has mattered" but I think it more helpful to call him a man who knows—or at least has learned—what matters. Scott @PowerLine: Paul Wolfowitz: Realist — George Will interviews Paul Wolfowitz as he retires as deputy secretary of defense and becomes head of the World Bank: "A man who has mattered." |
Orrin Judd: REAL MEN AREN'T REALISTIC: A man who has mattered (George Will, May 12, 2005, Townhall) "''I can't tell you,'' Paul... |
Air Force Chaplain Tells of Academy Proselytizing By / NYT — Permalink A chaplain at the Air Force Academy has described a "systemic and pervasive" problem of religious proselytizing at the academy and says a religious tolerance program she helped create to deal with the problem was watered down after it was shown to officers, including the major general who is the Air Force's chief chaplain. | |
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Jesse Taylor: Low, Low Prices...On Jesus — The Air Force Academy guts a program designed to promote religious tolerance...because the evangelical Christians feel persecuted. John J. Miller: AIM HIGH — A big problem at the Air Force Academy: Too many Christians! |
Avedon Carol: Onward Christian soldiers — Dependable Renegade found a story in this morning's NYT saying that there seems to be at... |
A Beirut Diary By / LA Weekly — Permalink Beirut, Lebanon — Just as the last Syrian troops were ending their 30-year occupation, I traveled with three young leaders of the Cedar Revolution on their campaign up the coast to the ancient Christian stronghold of Mount Lebanon. | |
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Jan Haugland: Michael Totten has published a very interesting article about his stay in Lebanon: A Beirut Diary. Glenn Reynolds: MICHAEL TOTTEN DESCRIBES THE CEDAR REVOLUTION, in an article in the latest L.A. Weekly. |
Michael J. Totten: So here it is, my first (published) LA Weekly story. A Beirut Diary: Inside the Forest of the Cedar Revolution. Here's a preview. |
Full text: Galloway response BBC — Permalink A US Senate committee says British MP George Galloway was granted potentially lucrative oil allocations by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Mr Galloway issued this statement to deny the allegations: It's Groundhog Day again. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: The Mariam Appeal is mentioned by name in the documents cited. Here is Galloway's statement. |
Scott @PowerLine: The BBC has also posted the statement issued by Galloway on the report: "It's Groundhog Day again. |
It's curtains for Okrent By / Guardian — Permalink The Jayson Blair fabrication scandal in 2003 left the New York Times with little choice but to join the Washington Post and other top newspapers in hiring an ombudsman - a reader representative to provide more scrutiny of its news-gathering practices. | |
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Jim Romenesko: Okrent: NYT's WMD reporting was "very bad journalism" — Salon Times public editor Daniel Okrent is asked by Steve... |
Roger Ailes: Bad vs. Evil — In a long-overdue exit interview, Danny Jokrent explains that Jayson's Blair's plagiarism was a larger... |
Poll shows Perry slipping By / Houston Chronicle — Permalink AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry's job approval rating, after rebounding earlier this year, slipped to 45 percent in a new poll released Wednesday. Perry's job approval hit 51 percent earlier this year, his highest showing in three years of polling. | |
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Charles Kuffner: Another poll on Perry — On the heels of Survey USA comes the quarterly Texas Poll, which contains better but still not good news for Rick Perry. |
Taegan Goddard: Perry's Approval Slides — Texas Gov. Rick Perry's (R) job approval rating, "after rebounding earlier this year, slipped to 45 percent" in a new Texas Poll. |
Telegraph reply to Galloway's oil story denial Telegraph — Permalink George Galloway, MP, yesterday responded to a story first published in The Telegraph on Thursday. The report stated that documents had been submitted to the US Congress showing that Saddam Hussein had diverted huge sums of money from a UN humanitarian aid programme designed to provide food and medicine to vulnerable Iraqis, including children. | |
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Scott Burgess: The Telegraph's claim was based primarily on allegations that he had "already received at least 375,000 from the Iraqi... |
Marc @USSNeverdock: Last year The Telegraph presented evidence on how Galloway managed the scam. |
Afghan Protest Against the U.S. Becomes Violent By / NYT — Permalink KABUL, Afghanistan, May 11 - Four protesters were killed and more than 60 injured Wednesday in the eastern city of Jalalabad as the police and troops struggled to contain the worst anti-American demonstrations in Afghanistan in the more than three years since the fall of the Taliban. | |
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Riggsveda @Corrente: Bush's plan to spread freedom and democracy has evidently convinced these beneficiaries of it: [quote] "Four protesters were...[end quote] |
Pudentilla: gitmo's gift — [snipped quote] hey, let's hear some more defense of torture and violating geneva convention accords at... |
John Bolton's defender By / Townhall.com — Permalink Janice O'Connell, the veteran Democratic staff expert on Western Hemisphere affairs, acted as though she were seeing an apparition at 2:30 p.m. last Friday. She was present with other Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers to question unfavorable... | |
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Betsy Newmark: Robert Novak thinks that a lot of the opposition to John Bolton is related less to his stand on the UN and his supposed... |
Scott @PowerLine: I think there are several equally ugly themes that run through Bolton's order, but Novak's column is interesting: "John Bolton's defender." |
Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents By / LAT — Permalink LONDON — Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain. | |
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Attaturk: Took Long Enough — From the L.A. Times: [snipped quote] Still not front page though (PDF file). |
Orrin Judd: THE CEASE FIRE WAS CONDITIONAL: Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents: Critics of Bush call them proof... |
Senate Probes European Oil-for-Food Graft AP — Permalink UNITED NATIONS — A U.S. Senate committee probing corruption in the U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) program released new evidence Wednesday purporting to show that two leading politicians from Britain and France received millions of barrels of Iraqi oil in exchange for their support of Saddam Hussein's (search) regime. | |
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Marc @USSNeverdock: Fox News reports on the mounting evidence agaisnt Galloway. True to form the BBC's report whitewashes the affair and even makes a false claim related to Kofi Annan. |
Glenn Reynolds: UNSCAM UPDATE: [snipped quote] Pardon me if I'm not surprised to hear this. |
Allende branded a fascist and anti-Semite By / Telegraph — Permalink Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile who was killed during a CIA-backed coup in 1973, was an anti-Semite who held fascist ideas in his youth about race and crime, it is claimed in a book which has split Chile. | |
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Scott Burgess: Speaking of Salvador Allende, I'm hereby promoting a comment I just made, to ensure wider readership: Did you see the... |
Peter Burnet: PEAS IN A POD — Allende branded a fascist and anti-Semite (Hannah Cleaver, The Telegraph, May 12th, 2005)... |
What Political Capital? By / The Atlantic Online — Permalink Bush's job rating hit a new low for a President just three months into a second term. T he rule about political capital is, when you've got it, spend it, because you can't hold on to it. | |
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David Greenberg: On this model, William Schneider argues in the National Journal that Bush's low poll numbers bode ill. But the Bush White House has a different view of power. |
Ruy Teixeira: Political Capital? What Political Capital? According to the latest Gallup poll, the "Public Mood Remains Dour". |
Secret Service: Airspace incursion accidental MSNBC — Permalink WASHINGTON - The U.S. Secret Service told NBC News on Wednesday that it is satisfied that a light plane's incursion into restricted airspace in the Washington area Wednesday morning was accidental. The two men aboard the Cessna were released after hours of questioning. | |
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Duckman GR: "While D.C. panicked, Bush bicycled" That's your headline for the rest of the world. Tom Biro: CNN's Arena reports just the facts about DC evacuation — Cori Dauber writes about the report that CNN staffer Kelli... |
Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: Yet more begging questions are raised by MSNBC, which notes that an unnotified President George Bush peddled his... |
Galloway was given Iraq oil allocations, says Senate report Times of London — Permalink GEORGE GALLOWAY, the MP who taunted the Prime Minister over Iraq after scoring an upset victory in the election, faced fresh accusations last night that he had received oil allocations from the Saddam Hussein regime and may have used his Mariam Appeal charity to conceal payments. | |
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Jan Haugland: Senate report shows Galloway received Iraqi oil allocations — A US Senate committee has released a report outlining... Scott @PowerLine: The report was embargoed until midnight (EDT), but the London Times has the story: "Galloway was given Iraq oil allocations, says Senate report." |
Marc @USSNeverdock: UPDATE The Times (UK) paints a much more damning and accurate picture than the BBC. Roger L. Simon: [You probably thought you were supporting a clean U. N.-ed. Me idiot. ] MEANWHILE: The real investigation continues. |
Now, Audio Blogs for Those Who Aspire to Be D.J.'s By / NYT — Permalink What do the pope and Paris Hilton have in common? They're both podcasters - and you can be one too. Ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, podcasts are essentially do-it-yourself recorded radio programs posted online. | |
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Gary Farber: How this differs from "recording" something is unclear, but either it was reconsidered in the story, something, because... Rickheller @Centerfield: Wanted: A Centrist Podcast — The NY Times has an article about podcasts, so I might as well mention my recent experience with them. |
Rex Hammock: A NYT reporter meanders through an explanation of podcasting: Despite not quite understanding that syndication via RSS... |
Larry Flynt: Bush UN nominee won't answer questions about troubled marriage Raw Story — Permalink The controversial Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt has waded into the conflict surrounding the nomination of Bush hawk John Bolton to a UN post by revealing Bolton's divorce records and unanswered questions about his sexual past, RAW STORY has learned. | |
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Ezra Klein: A Puritan Country With a Perverted Populace — Between Dr. Hager's forced sodomization of his narcoleptic wife, John... Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Larry Flynt of Course When the Democrats do not know where to turn and they absolutely need to bring down a Republican they will alway have Larry Flynt. Amanda Marcotte: And now he's got his sights on John Bolton, much to the relief of those of us who want not to alienate the rest of the world any further, if at all possible. |
Steve Soto: And if you never thought you would see the words "John Bolton" and "Plato's Retreat" in the same sentence, stay tuned. Attaturk: Unless, of course, Senator Voinovich isn't down with licking the boots of a dominitrix. Holden points out Wolcott once again outsnarks me. John Cole: None other than this glaring headline: "HUSTLER'S FLYNT GETS DIVORCE RECORDS OF BUSH NOMINEE; QUESTIONS ABOUT SEX, PAST... |
| Also: James Joyner, Kevin Drum, Tbogg, Lambert @Corrente, Atrios | |
Beyond Red vs. Blue Pew Research Center — Permalink Part 4: Beyond Red vs. Blue: Value Divides Within the Party Coalitions Where Do You Fit? Coming out of the 2004 election, the American political landscape decidedly favored the Republican Party. | |
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Reihan Salam: Which was ...? Ah yes, so the Pew Research Center just released a bombshell of a survey report, "Beyond Red and Blue." Chris Bowers: Pew Typology Study — Pew has released an expansive survey of the two coalitions that deserves a closer look. David Greenberg: They have a big new study out that forges beyond some of the cliches and generalizations about red states and blue states we've all come to use. |
Ezra Klein: This wouldn't be so galling, except check this graph (via Julie Saltman) from Pew's typology study: 24248 There's a... Patrick Ruffini: For us election junkies, Pew's political typology of the United States is manna from heaven, a rare bone to chew on in a lean month equidistant from either November. Matthew Yglesias: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press has a big old survey out, slicing the American public up into eight... |
| Also: Taegan Goddard, Michelle Malkin, Tom Maguire, Orrin Judd | |
Aircraft prompts brief White House evacuation CNN — Permalink WASHINGTON (CNN) — Parts of the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court were briefly evacuated Wednesday when a small plane violated restricted airspace over Washington, the White House said. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Cessna Scare Shows Mixed Post 911 Prep Results — When a small Cessna 150 containing a pilot and student pilot veered... Jeff Quinton: Quante-fied Michelle Malkin Wonkette—more Memeorandum Cori Dauber Rex Hammock Scared Monkeys Liquid List Attaturk... Zoe Kentucky: Earlier today when the terror alert was raised to red and the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court were evacuated... |
Oliver @LiquidList: Media: Coverage — There are two ways to go about covering a story that is only briefly a real story, and then turns out to be nothing at all. Cori Dauber: (The all clear has since been sounded.) All three cable networks are now wall-to-wall on this story. Red @ScaredMonkeys: 'This is not a drill,' guards shouted forced people away from the building… Officers rushed through Supreme Court... |
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War in Iraq looks like last stand for al Qaeda By / Washington Times — Permalink The war in Iraq is increasingly looking more like a showdown with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda followers than a battle primarily against Saddam Hussein loyalists. | |
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Cernig: His latest nonsense is given credence by the Washington Times today. Joe Katzman: Interestingly, it seems to correlate with some professional military analysis. But then, The River War predicted operations like this months ago. James Joyner: War in Iraq looks like last stand for al Qaeda (Washington Times) [snipped quote] An interesting argument. |
Ace: Iraq is beginning to look like an operating table, too: [snipped quote] Five years from now the debate will be whether... Marc @USSNeverdock: UPDATE The Washington Times reports that al Qaeda is sending it's best fighters to Iraq to make a last stand. JoelL @SouthernAppeal: According to this Washington Times story, Al Qaeda is throwing everything it has into Iraq. Consequently, if we beat them there they are done. |
| Also: Paul @PowerLine, Andy McCarthy, Orrin Judd, Tom Maguire, Hugh Hewitt, Smash | |
Ridge reveals clashes on alerts By / USA Today — Permalink WASHINGTON — The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The paper then points to its article in which former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge reveals that his agency often... Steve M.: He writes at the Huffington Post: At this point, my pal Micah Sifry called and noted—half-jokingly —that it was very... David Corn: At this point, my pal Micah Sifry called and noted—half-jokingly —that it was very interesting that this had all... |
Leah A: Annals of Shamles...s......n....... ......e.................. . .... Honestly, I almost don't have the energy to finish typing that word. Cookie Jill: paint-by-poll-numbers. Steve Soto: Tom Ridge Confirms That Terror Threat Warnings Were Used For Political Purposes — Remember all the times we wondered if... |
| Also: Chris Bowers, Nick Gillespie, Taegan Goddard, Kevin Drum, Attaturk | |
Military judge convicts sailor who refused to deploy By / AP — Permalink SAN DIEGO - A Navy sailor turned anti-war activist was convicted Wednesday of missing his ship's movement when he refused to board the USS Bonhomme Richard as it deployed to the Persian Gulf in December. | |
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Smash: I might have more to add later, after I've had a chance to sit down and listen to the audio... UPDATE: Pablo Paredes has been convicted. Jan Haugland: Navy deserter converted by Chomsky — Pablo Paredes has been convicted of refusing to board his ship the USS Bonhomme Richard when it was sailing for Iraq. |
Charles Johnson: The Chomsky Effect — Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes, convicted of missing his ship's deployment to Iraq due to a... Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Happy Smash, Sad Pablo — Next Stop, the Brig. [snipped quote] Smash will have more later, but says "Pablo Paredes has been convicted. |
Wanted: Responsible Demagoguery By / NYT — Permalink You'd never guess from the Democratic hysteria that President Bush's plan to "progressively index" Social Security is an idea we liberals may one day want to embrace. | |
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Ezra Klein: Miller Time! I know I'm a day late on it, but Matt Miller's column is worth a 48-hour comment-cycle, so off we go. Jesse Taylor: Demagogue This — Oh, my! Can you taste the contrarianism? You say it tastes like peanut butter...but I say it tastes like jelly. Matt Singer: The Problem With "Progressive" Indexing — Matt Miller, unfortunately, writes about the Pozen Plan as though the only objection that has been made is that it cuts benefits. |
Sam Rosenfeld: In his first offering he castigates Democrats for their demagogic rejection of progressive indexation. Matthew Yglesias: MORE ON MILLER. There are a few more things that ought to be said about the Matt Miller column Sam criticized earlier. Reihan Salam: Well, it looks like Matt Miller is here to save the day, for the next month at least. [snipped quote] That's what I'm talking about. |
| Also: Orrin Judd, Tom Maguire, Michelle Malkin | |
Experts Are at a Loss on Investing By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Harry M. Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in economics as the father of "modern portfolio theory," the idea that people shouldn't put all of their eggs in one basket, but should diversify their investments. | |
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Bryan Caplan: Four Bad Role Models — Some Nobel prize-winning economists keep investing foolishly even though they know better, according to a recent L.A. Times article. Ken Masugi: The Ditzy Denizens of the Dismal Science — This amusing LAT story (Peter Gosselin) on celebrated economists who fail to... |
Steve Bainbridge: LAT Swipes Bush Social Security Reform — In a diatribe against Social Security reform thinly disguised as a news... Pudentilla: it looks like you'll need more than a nobel prize in economics to survive awol's social insecurity plans —... |
Vikings' RB Smith had drug test avoidance kit ABCNEWS — Permalink May 11 MINNEAPOLIS — Vikings running back Onterrio Smith, who has a history of violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, was briefly detained by airport police last month after they found an elaborate kit used to beat drug tests. | |
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Captain Ed: The Vikings' leading rusher ran afoul of airport security three weeks ago with a kit to beat NFL drug tests featuring... James Joyner: Vikings' RB Smith had drug test avoidance kit (ESPN-ABC News) [snipped quote] One wonders what Smith's cousin wanted with... |
Chris Lawrence: Nobody beats the Whizz — Vikings RB Onterrio Smith was apparently caught in possession of a device known as "The... |
Plane Scare Prompts Brief Evacuation of White House and Capitol AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol and White House were briefly evacuated Wednesday after a small plane entered restricted airspace over the city. Security officials in several other government buildings, including the Treasury Department and the U.S. Supreme Court, ordered people to safer locations. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Although it's still a bit early to give a definitive judgment, some things have already become clear: Military aircraft... Tarek @LiquidList: Apparently, an attack from a deadly Cessna was feared: [snipped quote] Just another day in Washington. |
Michelle Malkin: As you've probably read, there was a scare at the Capitol about 20 minutes ago when a small unidentified plane violated D.C.'s no-fly zone. |
Brown and Originalism By / NRO — Permalink The Left invokes the Orwellian euphemism of the "living Constitution" as it promotes and applauds lawless judicial decisions, like Roe v. Wade, that have no conceivable basis in the text or structure of the real Constitution. The "metastasizing Constitution" would be a far more honest moniker. | |
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Randy Barnett: A concise summary of the originalist response to this repeated charge (including that by Judge McConnell) is presented... Paul @PowerLine: Even a broken watch is right twice a day — Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, responds on NRO... Steve Dillard: "Brown and Originalism—There's more than one way to get it right" is today's must read, courtesy of Edward Whelan. |
Will Baude: Take My Breath Away — Randy Barnett and Edward Whelan are making much of now-Judge Michael McConnell's article,... Orrin Judd: B, NOT A: Brown and Originalism: There's more than one way to get it right. |
United Air Wins Right to Default on Its Employee Pension Plans By / NYT — Permalink United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court permission yesterday to terminate its four employee pension plans, setting off the largest pension default in the three decades that the government has guaranteed pensions. | |
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James Martin Capozzola: I Give Up Let's go ahead and do it because, well, it's in the interest of, I don't know, I give up, but I'm guessing... Dwight Meredith: The New York Times reports: [snipped quote] With United unable to meet all of its pension obligations, the remaining issue is who sould bear the costs. John Cole: United Airlines — I just don't get it: "United Airlines, which is operating in bankruptcy protection, received court... |
Norbizness: Good news, people who worked hard for several decades, paying diligently into their pension funds! James Joyner: United Airlines Defaulting on Pensions — United Air Wins Right to Default on Its Employee Pension Plans (NYT) [snipped quote] Lovely. Tom Tomorrow: That darned liberal judiciary — A Federal Bankruptcy Court ruling will allow United Airlines to default on its pensions. |
Saying Sorry By / WaPo — Permalink "It just offends me that the president of the United States is, directly or indirectly, attacking his own country in a foreign land." That was 1998. The speaker, Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), was then House majority whip. The president was Bill Clinton, who had "attacked his own country" while in Uganda. | |
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Betsy Newmark: Anne Applebaum agrees that Bush was speaking quite appropriately in criticizing Yalta while in the Baltic states. Jonah Goldberg: APPLEBAUM ON YALTA — She offers an insightful take on the Yalta business. |
Robert Schlesinger: (I won't claim to have come up with this on my own, but because I didn't agree with everything in her column I'm not giving credit to The Washington Post's Anne Applebaum.) Pejman Yousefzadeh: MORE YALTA — Anne Applebaum has an eminently sensible article on the subject: [quote] "It just offends me that the president...[end quote] |
Reid doesn't back down from Friday remark about Bush By / Las Vegas Review-Journal — Permalink WASHINGTON — If Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada still feels remorse for calling President Bush a loser, he didn't show it on Tuesday. In a news conference, Reid was asked if his comment about Bush would make it more difficult to negotiate with Republicans. | |
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Jack Cluth: What's good for the goose... Reid doesn't back down from Friday remark about Bush: Senator says administration has done... Taegan Goddard: Quote of the Day — [snipped quote] — Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), quoted by the Las Vegas Review Journal. Link | Related News |
Red @ScaredMonkeys: Some how Senator Reid thinks its OK to speak is mind and in the process demean others while making an ass out of himself. Jonathan H. Adler: THE "LOSER" — Apparently Reid's not so sorry about calling the President a "loser" after all. |
Seven big ideas (and one pet peeve) from BlogNashville By / Online Journalism Review — Permalink How many bloggers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Who knows, but a lot of light bulbs went off when 300-plus bloggers met up in Tennessee. Robert Cox was frustrated. But all around Cox were liberal bloggers, liberal academics and people who did not share his conservative worldview. | |
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Jim Romenesko: Additional items for May 11, 2005 > Seattle Times' Armstrong testifies in Chicago Tribune libel trial (CT) > Man... Tom @ScaredMonkeys: Glenn 2 Dave 0 — Glenn Reynolds tells the truth to Dave Winer. Ed Cone: Nashville again — Mark Glaser on what he liked (big ups for GSO's webcasters) and didn't like at BlogNashville. |
Dan Gillmor: BlogNashville, in Retrospect — Mark Glaser has a good roundup of the events at last weekend's blogging confab. Bill Hobbs: Seven Ideas — Mark Glaser at Online Journalism Review has Seven Big Ideas (and one pet peeve) from BlogNashville. Good stuff. Glenn Reynolds: MARK GLASER: Seven Big Ideas (and one pet peeve) from BlogNashville. |
What Matters in Kansas By / Slate — Permalink Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day. This week, the Kansas State Board of Education will wrap up hearings on "intelligent design," a theistic alternative to the theory of evolution. Scientists have refused to testify, dismissing ID as tarted-up creationism. | |
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Amanda Butler: Creationism: *YAWN* apropos of What Matters in Kansas from Slate I suppose I have some odd areas of apathy. |
Bill @INDCJournal: UPDATE: An excellent column is William Saletan's exaltation of Intelligent Design (sort of) in the service of condemning... |
In Today's White House Evacuation, No Official Notice to Press By / Editor and Publisher — Permalink NEW YORK A public address system installed after the Sept. 11 attacks to warn White House reporters about an emergency was not used earlier today when the building was evacuated after a small plane flew into unrestricted air space over Washington, D.C., reporters told E&P. | |
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Joe Gandelman: The press fared worse, although it doesn't seem (at first glance, at least) to have been a Freudian slip-up: "A public... Jim Romenesko: Capitol reporters no longer panic during evacuations — Editor & Publisher "People are getting used to it," says the Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins. |
Zoe Kentucky: As for a not-so-trite angle on this story, the post-9/11 P.A. system that was installed to warn people about a potential threat was dead silent during today's evacuation. |
White House, Capitol Briefly Evacuated AP — Permalink WASHINGTON - The U.S. Capitol and White House were briefly evacuated Wednesday after a small plane entered restricted airspace over the city. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the plane came within three miles of the White House before it turned away from it. | |
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Steve M.: First a grenade was discovered in the general vicinity of Bush during his speech in Tbilisi (the grenade turned out to... Attaturk: ..."Sorry, just a Cessna that lost its way, all clear given" STOP HURTING AMERICA! Update: [NEVER MIND] |
Dr. Steven Taylor: More on the Story — The AP has a write-up: Capitol Building, White House Evacuated [snipped quote] The "all clear" has been given. |
Pac Man turns 25 CNN — Permalink NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's easy to see "Halo 2" fans lined up for several blocks in the hours before the game is released and think the industry has never been hotter; but if you want to see what a true phenomenon looks like, jump into your wayback machine and head to 1980. | |
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Michele Catalano: I see that this year marks Pac-Man's 25th birthday. Of course, I'll be celebrating with a post later on today. |
Will Collier: Waka-Waka-Waka — Pac-Man is 25 years old. I still remember the first time I played it, in an arcade at the old Denver airport. |
Reconsidering Yalta NRO — Permalink The liberal whitewash is hypocritical and shameful. This week, while touring the remnants of the former Soviet Union on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, President Bush gave perhaps the greatest diplomatic performance of his career, balancing a host of moral and strategic interests simultaneously. | |
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Steve Bainbridge: As Jonah Goldberg observes: "After a war to end one evil empire, we signed a piece of paper accepting the expansion of another evil empire. |
John Cole: And I like newly commissioned General Jonah Goldberg, but please quit quoting him as a source for military strategy circa 1945. |
Examiner Editorial - Pain relief is major casualty of drug war Washington Examiner — Permalink As federal prosecutors target physicians who prescribe large doses of pain-killing drugs because they can also be abused, doctors are increasingly afraid to provide relief for sick people with intractable pain. | |
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Radley Balko: Also, today's Washington Examiner's lead editorial scores a direct hit against the DEA's "arrest the doctors" campaign. Jacob Sullum: Fear of Pain — The Washington Examiner gets hip to the conflict between drug control and pain control. |
Jeralyn Merritt: Feds' Drug War Hurts Chronic Pain Patients — The Washington Examiner, in an editorial, points out another unfortunate... |
Satan no match for God, says pope Reuters — Permalink VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Satan is still at work in the world unleashing "evil energy" but God will be the final arbiter of history, Pope Benedict XVI said on Wednesday. | |
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TheAnchoress: Darkness and Light and Who wins in the end I like this post from Wittingshire, on darkness…and this little article about what Benedict XVI has to say about it. |
K. J. Lopez: GOD'S THE WINNING TEAM — Good to know. Thanks, B16. |
The Problem With the 28% Solution By / Claremont Institute — Permalink Mickey Kaus has said something about Social Security that no one else has: If liberals were serious about their domestic agenda, they would scale back future Social Security benefits more that Pres. Bush has proposed - a lot more. | |
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TheAnchoress: I'm still thinking and learning about Social Security and I think this is a pretty good article on the whole issue of reform. |
Ramesh Ponnuru: THE DEMOCRATS' SECRET NUMBER — William Voegeli analyzes recent columns by Mickey Kaus and Matthew Miller. |
And You Thought World War II Was Over? By / New York Observer — Permalink Historical falsification, when spoken by the President of the United States to slander one of his greatest predecessors, should not go unanswered. In a display of the extremist ideology that drives politics and policy in his administration, George W. Bush chose a platform in Latvia to repeat an old right-wing slur against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. | |
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David Greenberg: More Yalta Reverberations — Joe Conason expresses more precisely than I did why Bush's Yalta remarks were so... Orrin Judd: THE NEW DEALER GOT A WORSE DEAL: And You Thought World War II Was Over? |
Steve Bainbridge: Joe Conason reflexively criticizes President Bush's candid remarks on Yalta, opining: "For the President to utter such... |
Brussels Sprouts By / NYT — Permalink In his book "The Ideas That Conquered the World," Michael Mandelbaum tells a story about a young girl who is eating dinner at a friend's house and her friend's mother asks her if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl says. "I like brussels sprouts." | |
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Tom Maguire: Problem Solved — Tom Friedman solves the nuclear proliferation problems with North Korea and Iran, and absolves the Bush Administration of malfeasance. Matt Welch: I present to you the first sentence of Friedman's column from today, with no further comment: [quote] In his book "The Ideas...[end quote] |
John Derbyshire: THE NORTHEAST ASIA PROBLEM(S) Reading Tom Friedman's column this morning, I recalled a conversation I had last year with a policy academic VERY well-informed about NE Asia. |
Showdown looms over Bolton nomination MSNBC — Permalink WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it was confident a Senate committee would back John Bolton for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. But late Wednesday afternoon ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.,... | |
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Mark Kleiman: In the meantime, is Lugar really willing to force a committee vote before we learn whether Bolton violated about... |
Laura Rozen: Now Biden is hinting there could be a Bolton vote delay if they don't get the NSA intercepts. |
Retaking the Universities By / Opinion Journal — Permalink It's not the kids at the university who are the problems, it's the faculty, a self selected guild accountable to no one. Michelle Russell - Monteagle, Tenn. Great Article...is there any way to get the author to put it into a 1-4 step process so that we can put the concepts into action? | |
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Tom Smith: Fate of the academy — This at opinionjournal is a must read, if not the best written thing in the world. Stefan Beck: PostedToday's Wall Street Journal featured a reprint of Roger Kimball's "battle plan" for restoring sanity and accountability to the American university. |
Stanley Kurtz: THE T WORD — Roger Kimball raises the $64,000 question-tenure. |
Clinton, Gingrich Unite on Health Care By / AP — Permalink (05-11) 12:05 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Longtime political foes Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined cheerfully Wednesday to promote legislation on health care changes, joking that some might view it as a sign of a soon-to-come doomsday. | |
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Jamie Court: In the wake of major security breaches at data warehousers like Choicepoint it's vital to build into databases the... |
Jayson @PoliPundit: Partners in Crime? Here's a headline you don't often see. |