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NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE'S CHILDREN Drudge Report — Permalink The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into the adoption records of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The TIMES has investigative reporter Glen Justice hot on the case to investigate the status of adoption records of Judge Roberts' two young children, Josie age 5 and Jack age 4, a top source reveals. | |
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John @PowerLine: I can't add much to what Drudge and Michelle Malkin have written. The Times admits that it has been checking into the adoption of Roberts' children, as Drudge reported. Captain Ed: Speaking of news priorities, now we know why the Paper of Record has failed to report on Air America's misappropriation... Tbogg: It's not siren-worthy, but Matt Drudge is in full fake outrage/facts mode. Again. |
Patterico: Drudge Says New York Times is Investigating Roberts's Adoption Records Matt Drudge is reporting that the New York... Damian Penny: I can't remember the last time the high court appointment process was proceeding simultaneously in Canada and the United... Michelle Malkin: They're too preoccupied with prying into the adoption records of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' young children, according to the Drudge Report. |
| Also: Hugh Hewitt, Smash, Jeff Goldstein, Greg @TheTalentShow, MarkInMexico, Steve Verdon, Glenn Reynolds, Erick @RedState, Steve Bainbridge, Orrin Judd, Kathryn Jean Lopez, PoliPundit | |
CNN Suspends Novak After He Walks Off Set By / AP — Permalink NEW YORK - CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville. The live exchange during CNN's "Inside Politics" came during a discussion of Florida's Senate campaign. | |
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Kevin Aylward: Robert Novak Suspended From CNN For Cursing Incident novakwalkoff.jpg It's August in Washington, which means that this... Captain Ed: UPDATE: CNN has announced its suspension of Novak for his behavior on today's show (and has clarified Carville's... Ed Driscoll: Update: CNN has suspended Novak, probably more for uttering "bull****" on the air than for walking off, which makes for... |
La Shawn Barber: (Source) I see. The profanity of profanity. Well, it would take a lot more than Carville's smart mouth to make me to... Jeralyn Merritt: The AP now has the story. Michelle Malkin: BOB NOVAK & B.S. The Political Teen has the video that has set the Beltway abuzz. |
| Also: Jim Romenesko, Plutonium Page, Jayson @PoliPundit | |
Iraq Violence; London Police Vigilant; Republican Spending; Nomination Battle; Future Elections CNN — Permalink THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANNOUNCER: A very deadly week for U.S. forces in Iraq. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We mourn the loss of every fallen troop. | |
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Atrios: ...Official transcript: HENRY: And the "Strategy Session" continues on INSIDE POLITICS. Still here: James Carville and Robert Novak. Kevin Drum: NOVAK'S MELTDOWN...Bob Novak got upset today on CNN when James Carville interrupted him, muttered "I think that's... |
Captain Ed: Apparently not. Jim Romenesko: Im wondering if I should complain to the FCC." Watch the video. (UPDATE: CNN posted the show transcript.) |
Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. worked behind the scenes for gay rights activists, and his legal expertise helped them persuade the Supreme Court to issue a landmark 1996 ruling protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation. | |
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Michael Stickings: Although the bloggers at Daily Kos continue to find anything they can to bring him down (and seem, in the process, to be... Paul @PowerLine: Nor am I concerned if, as the Los Angeles Times reports, Roberts helped lawyers in his firm who were arguing before the... Digby: Representing Gays For Free — I think Kevin asks the right question about this story that John Roberts did pro-bono work... |
Daniel Koffler: Whatever the explanation, Ann Coulter may feel a touch of insomnia when she reads in today's LA Times that John Roberts... Smash: MEANWHILE, Richard A. Serrano reports in the LA Times that Roberts once did pro bono work on a gay rights case —... Ezra Klein: John Roberts: Gay-Rights Crusader — According to The LA Times, John Roberts did a fair bit of pro-bono work for a... |
| Also: Ramesh Ponnuru, Gene Stone, Steve Soto, Ann Althouse, Patterico, Roger L. Simon, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Kevin Drum, Justin Gardner, McQ, Venkat @BeggingToDiffer, Pudentilla, Michael @AmericaBlog | |
Galloway praises Iraq 'martyrs' BBC — Permalink MP George Galloway is being accused of putting UK troops at risk after calling insurgents in Iraq "martyrs". During a tour of the Middle East, Mr Galloway spoke of "poor Iraqis" using the most basic weapons to write the names of their towns "in the stars". | |
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John Cole: I present you, George Galloway, hero to the people: MP George Galloway has defended comments referring to insurgents... Jan Haugland: In a recent Middle East tour, the traitor continues to provide aid and comfort to the enemy, this time by overtly praising the terrorists in Iraq. Clayton Cramer: MP Galloway At It Again — MP Galloway is at it again. |
Andrew Cochran: He's at it again, calling the Iraqi terrorists who kill Iraqi children and British soldiers "martyrs" and adding, "It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick." Scott Burgess: The BBC reports: [quote] "'It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq.[end quote] Scott Sala: Israel Occupation — Not Gaza. Not the West Bank. But Jerusalem. So says George Galloway. Oh, and not just occupation. |
| Also: Harry @HarrysPlace, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Pejman Yousefzadeh, Orrin Judd | |
Big Fat Yawn Investor's Business Daily — Permalink Media: Rush Limbaugh's prescription drug troubles were splashed all over the media. Yet a financial scandal rocking a leftist radio network rates no coverage. The mainstream media, fixated on bringing down Karl Rove, have so far deemed apparent funding irregularities at Air America unworthy of note. | |
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Forkum: Err America — From Investor's Business Daily: Big Fat Yawn (not a permalink). James Joyner: Investor's Business Daily is amazed that a scandal involving Air America is receiving "A Big Fat Yawn" from most of the press. Michelle Malkin: The latest: Investor's Business Daily Washington Times New York Post Power Line Radio Blogger Hugh Hewitt (Hugh's new Daily Standard column is here). |
Gateway Pundit: Hugh Hewitt, Michelle Malkin and Investors Business Daily (no offense, but not exactly the top three vote getters in the... Hugh Hewitt: So do the editors of Investors Business Daily. Both pieces note that the media obsessed over Rush Limbaugh's troubles,... Captain Ed: IBD asks, as we have, why the Exempt Media has gone AWOL: [snipped quote] Of course not! |
| Also: Dale Franks, Marc @USSNeverdock, Scott @PowerLine | |
Source Code By / TNR — Permalink Hours before President Bush announced his Supreme Court nominee, a White House reporter from a major daily newspaper was on the phone with one of "the four horsemen." | |
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Terry Heaton: New Republic senior editor Ryan Lizza has done a remarkable public service by surveying White House correspondents and... Jim Romenesko: A guide to the secret society of sources close to the WH — New Republic Ryan Lizza got 15 White House reporters to help him compile the list. Frank @AndrewSullivan: This is a classic piece demystifying a venerable trope of White House reportage. |
Orrin Judd: BUGS IN THE CODE: Source Code (Ryan Lizza, 08.04.05, New Republic) [snipped quote] Fault? Mr. Lizza can't really be that oblivious. Gary Farber: THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Ryan Lizza provides an invaluable, if unsurprising guide to "sources close to the White House." Josh Marshall: In The New Republic, Ryan Lizza goes undercover in Bushland and identifies the key "sources close to the White House." |
The Air Out There By / Weekly Standard — Permalink WHAT DID AL FRANKEN KNOW, and when did he know it? When Air America launched last year, it was the beneficiary of more free publicity than any radio show or network launch had ever received. | |
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Captain Ed: Hugh Hewitt follows up my column in yesterday's Daily Standard with one of his own on the scandal, "The Air Out There". Hugh Hewitt: On Reprting and Not Reporting — I write about Air America in today's WeeklyStandard.com column, "The Air Out There." Ed Driscoll: "Air Enron" — Hugh Hewitt and Ed Morrissey have articles on The Weekly Standard's Website on Air America—or "Air... |
James Joyner: Indeed, Hugh Hewitt hints at this in his Weekly Standard piece on the subject. "WHAT DID AL FRANKEN KNOW, and when did he know it? Brian Maloney: Hugh Hewitt's new Weekly Standard column is up and the Radio Equalizer is again mentioned. |
Corzine Gave $470,000 Loan to Head of New Jersey Union By / NYT — Permalink TRENTON, Aug. 3 - Senator Jon S. Corzine provided a $470,000 mortgage to the president of a union that represents thousands of New Jersey state employees in late 2002, then forgave the debt two years later. Senator Jon S. Corzine with Carla Katz at a ball in the Pierre Hotel in 2002 . | |
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Captain Ed: However, when the money goes the other direction on the basis of a clearly personal relationship, it hardly seems... Orrin Judd: INDECENT PROPOSAL: Corzine Gave $470,000 Loan to Head of Union (DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI, 8/04, NY Times) [snipped quote] At... Larry Kudlow: Corzine's Chum — Looks like the rather boring New Jersey gubernatorial race just got a little more exciting: Jon... |
Ace: Corzine Gave, And Forgave, $470,000 Loan To NJ Union Head — Okay, he was dating her when he gave the loan (but not when... Krempasky @RedState: Corzine gives big loan to Jersey Union Leader — Ok, so this is really significant "Senator Jon S. Corzine provided a... |
Dobson likened embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experiments Media Matters for America — Permalink On the August 3 broadcast of the Focus on the Family radio show — devoted to a discussion of stem cell research — James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, compared embryonic stem cell research with Nazi experiments conducted on live human patients during and prior to the Holocaust. | |
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Cernig: Via Media Matters: James C. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, compared embryonic stem cell research... Jeralyn Merritt: "They can be heard online here . On the show, Dobson said:" Atrios: Nazis Everywhere — Radical Mullah Stickypants Dobson equates stem cell research with Nazi experiments. |
Michael Stickings: As reported by Media Matters, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, one of the leading figures on the evangelical right,... Oliver Willis: In Other News, Your Dentist Is Josef Mengele — James Dobson says that life-saving stem cell research is nazism. |
Democrats, change your ways By / Boston Globe — Permalink IT IS TIME for Democrats to stop moaning about John Roberts and John Bolton and start doing something productive — such as figuring out how to win elections. Even though Democrats continue to resist the outcome, George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential contest. | |
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Brendan Nyhan: Stem cell initiatives: good politics, bad policy — Glenn Reynolds endorses Joan Vennochi's call for state stem cell... Kathryn Jean Lopez: From liberal Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi: "IT IS TIME for Democrats to stop moaning about John Roberts and... Betsy Newmark: Joan Vennochi of the Boston Globe has some advice for Democrats. [snipped quote] She's not a GOP supporter by any means. |
Glenn Reynolds: This confluence — together with poll data and other recent indicators — suggests to me that Joan Vennochi is giving... Justin Gardner: Note To Democrats: Wise Up — This editorial from Joan Vennochi is so spot on I wish the Dems would reprint it and distribute it among the faithful. La Shawn Barber: Liberal Tells Liberals to Stop Whining and Learn How to Win Elections — Joan Vennochi, a liberal columnist at the... |
| Also: Orrin Judd | |
Alabama limits eminent domain By / Washington Times — Permalink Alabama yesterday became the first state to enact new protections against local-government seizure of property allowed under a Supreme Court ruling that has triggered an explosive grass-roots counteroffensive across the country. | |
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Will Collier: Until now. [snipped quote] Bravo, ladies and gentlemen. Show that much good sense with the rest of your work, and there'll be a lot fewer wisecracks about our home state. Brian Keegan: Kelo Backlash — Hat tip, uberblogger insta-man: Alabama limits eminent domain Looks like we may not even have to amend the constitution to blunt the overstep of Kelo. James Joyner: Alabama limits eminent domain (Washington Times) [snipped quote] For once, Alabama is the leader in something good. |
Todd Zywicki: Alabama Says "Don't Mess With Our Property": Alabama yesterday became the first state to limit Kelo-style takings, unanimously passing legislation in a special session. Pejman Yousefzadeh: ROLL TIDE — What else is there to say after reading this excellent news? Glenn Reynolds: MORE KELO BACKLASH, this time in Alabama: [snipped quote] I guess my prediction ([snipped quote]) has been borne out. |
al-Qaida's No. 2 Threatens London, U.S By / AP — Permalink CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, threatened more destruction in London, saying in a videotape broadcast Thursday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be to blame. In Crawford, Texas, President Bush dismissed the threat, saying, "We will stay on the offense against these people. | |
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Dan Darling: Dr. Evil Calls for U.S. Withdrawl from Iraq — Well that took a little longer than I had expected (maybe he was waiting... Jeff Quinton: Would we really be getting contemporaneous reports from al-Qaeda's #2 if OBL was still stealing oxygen from the rest of us? (via James Joyner) Others blogging: Dan Darling |
James Joyner: A Qaeda's No. 2 Threatens More Attacks — Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, threatened massive attacks in... |
Al-Qaeda 'blames Blair for bombs' BBC — Permalink Osama Bin Laden's lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has warned London will face more attacks because of Tony Blair's foreign policy decisions. His comments were made in a videotape which was broadcast on Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera. | |
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Jan Haugland: In a recent tape, broadcast on al-Jazeera, al-Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri has warned against further attacks on... Smash: President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror' — Richard W. Stevenson, The New York Times [snipped quote] Al-Qaeda... Gateway Pundit: Al-Qaeda Warns London — Ajazeera broadcast a videotape by Al-Quaeda #2 today warning London of more attacks: Osama Bin... |
Joe Gandelman: As the BBC explains, Al-Zawahiri, in logic that can at best be charitably described as twisted, gives a new meaning to... Marc @USSNeverdock: Al-Qaeda 'blames Blair for bombs' — New tape from Zawahri, same old message from al Qaeda. Dr. Steven Taylor: Al Qaeda Warns of More London Attacks — Via the BBC: Al-Qaeda 'blames Blair for bombs' [snipped quote] Yup-God sure... |
Jewish extremist opens fire, killing 4 Arabs MSNBC — Permalink JERUSALEM - A 19-year-old Israeli soldier opened fire inside a bus Thursday, killing four Israeli Arabs before being killed by an angry mob — the deadliest attack on Arabs in Israel by a Jewish extremist since 1990. | |
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Damian Penny: No word for it but terror — An AWOL Israeli soldier, evidently upset about the pullout from Gaza, went on a shooting... Pejman Yousefzadeh: ALL KIND OF TERROR OUGHT TO BE CONDEMNED — All kinds. |
Orrin Judd: APPLYING THE LESSON OF FLIGHT 93: Jewish extremist opens fire, killing 4 Arabs (AP, 8/04/05) "A 19-year-old Israeli... |
NYCLU sues city over subway searches New York Newsday — Permalink The New York Civil Liberties Union will file suit against the city Thursday to keep police from searching the bags of passengers entering the subway, organization lawyers said. | |
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Baldilocks: Nope, not that one either. Better Red and dead. That just about sums it up for the New York Civil Liberties Union. Kathryn Jean Lopez: ACLU VS. NYPD — At last!—the subway-search lawsuit. |
La Shawn Barber: (Source) By the way, how did an Islamic non-profit, propped up with tax money, become powerful enough to control what people can and can't say? |
President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror' By / NYT — Permalink GRAPEVINE, Tex., Aug. 3 - President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war." | |
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Kevin Drum: Then, on Wednesday, Richard Stevenson reported in the New York Times that Bush made his position clear, saying, "Make no... Joe Gandelman: That's essentially the message of President George Bush who has made it clear that as far as he's concerned the "war on... Guest @ThinkProgress: And now, this morning's papers report on a speech the president gave yesterday in which he publicly overruled his senior... |
Cori Dauber: The Times Notices — Well, the networks may have ignored the fact that the President used a domestic policy speech to... Justin Gardner: In any event, from the NY Times comes more on the War On Terror: "GRAPEVINE, Tex., Aug. 3 - President Bush publicly... John Hawkins: Daily News For August 4, 2005 — Foreign "14 Marines, Interpreter Killed in Iraq" "Palestinian Rockets Kill 3-Year-Old... |
| Also: Steve Soto, Pseudo-Adrienne, Michael @AmericaBlog, Ace, Pudentilla, Joshua Claybourn, Kathryn Jean Lopez | |
Novak column was a malicious attack on 'revered' staffer By / Union Leader — Permalink THE ROBERT NOVAK syndicated column dated July 21 libeled Ms. Bettilou Taylor, who is one of the most respected, really revered, staffers after serving 16 years in the United States Senate. | |
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Callimachus: Crooks and Liars has a link-fest AND video. Even Arlen Specter is on his case; my god, it's a dogpile. |
Josh Marshall: Sen Arlen Specter (R-PA) accuses Novak of libeling one of his staffers. |
Steven Vincent, RIP By / Reason — Permalink Early on Tuesday—the same day he would later be abducted and killed—I was thinking a lot about Steven Vincent, who bears the horrible honor of being "the first American reporter to be attacked and killed in the current Iraq war" according to The New York Times. | |
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Jim Romenesko: "No small feat": Vincent's reporting transcended ideology — Reason.com Nick Gillespie says Steven Vincent was great to... Kathryn Jean Lopez: STEVEN VINCENT — A thoughtful remembrance from Nick Gillespie, who was his editor on pieces he did for Reason. |
Callimachus: UPDATE: Among the many tributes turning up on the Web, many of them quite moving, is this one, from one of Vincent's editors. |
Two More Charged in Pentagon Leak By / WaPo — Permalink Two former employees of an influential pro-Israel lobbying group were charged today with illegally receiving classified information from a Defense Department analyst, according to court documents unsealed in Alexandria. | |
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Steve Soto: Or maybe Bob is feeling the heat from another national security problem. |
Hunter @DailyKos: WaPo: [snipped quote] Franklin worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency under Douglas Feith, and is closely associated with the neocon wing of the Bush administration. |
The Decade of Illusions By / Townhall.com — Permalink It is now becoming ever clearer that the last decade of the 20th century could go down in history as the Decade of Illusions. There was the tech bubble whose detumescence was predicted by some of the very same engineering geniuses who had created the... | |
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John Cole: Steroid Use- Clinton's Fault And just to show that wingnuttery is an equal opportunity offender, this bit of bilious... Glenn Reynolds: PALMEIRO'S STEROID USE: It's all Bill Clinton's fault! Put me down as unpersuaded. |
Judd @ThinkProgress: Emmett Tyrrell, editor of the right-wing American Spectator, explains: [snipped quote] It's odd that Tyrrell tries to connect Palmeiro to Clinton. Jesse Taylor: Your Morning Dose Of Clinton-Bashing — Rafael Palmiero used steroids because of Bill Clinton and the Internet. I'm serious. |
Moral Maturity By / Slate — Permalink Does Bill Frist think unborn human beings have a right to life? Frist, the Senate majority leader, calls himself pro-life. He has a 100 percent pro-life voting record, according to the National Right to Life Committee. | |
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Greg @TheTalentShow: Jesus Hates Democrats — Well, apparently John Roberts is pro-gay and Bill Frist is pro-choice. Justin @SouthernAppeal: Bill Frist, closet pro-choicer: "Frist, the Senate majority leader, calls himself pro-life. |
Greg Saunders: Greg Saunders : Jesus Hates Democrats Well, apparently John Roberts is pro-gay and Bill Frist is pro-choice. Orrin Judd: MORE: Moral Maturity: Bill Frist, closet pro-choicer (William Saletan, Aug. 3, 2005, Slate) "Does Bill Frist think unborn human beings have a right to life? |
Israel soldier lynched after killing four in Gaza pullout row Yahoo! News — Permalink A teenage Israeli soldier shot dead four people in a blazing row over the country's imminent withdrawal from Gaza before being lynched by furious residents of an Arab-Israeli town. | |
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James Joyner: Israel soldier lynched after killing four in Gaza pullout row (AFP) [snipped quote] Horrendous. |
Stephen Green: Everything Sucks — Oh, lord: [snipped quote] Israel has three strageic options. |
Ohio Families Mourn Troops Killed in Iraq By / AP — Permalink COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rosemary Palmer and her husband were making plans to attend memorial services for six Marine reservists killed earlier this week — five of them from the same battalion as her son, Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder — when two uniformed servicemen came down her street. | |
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Captain Ed: Titled "Ohio Families Fed Up With Loss of Marines," nothing in the story offers any such sentiment: [snipped quote] The... Jesse Taylor: We Play Headlines — Five hours ago, Ohio families were fed up with the constant stream of deaths in Iraq: fedup.gif They're now apparently mourning. |
Marc @USSNeverdock: Here is the original AP headline: "Ohio Families Fed Up With Loss of Marines" When CQ pointed out that there was nothing... |
Gingrich Says Ohio Race Holds Lesson for GOP WaPo — Permalink Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) warned fellow Republicans yesterday not to ignore the implications of the party's narrow victory in Tuesday's special election in Ohio, saying the public mood heading into next year's midterm elections appears to helping Democrats and hurting Republicans. | |
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Charles Kuffner: Newt Gingrich, a man who knows a thing or two about Congressional landslides, looked at what happened in Cincinnati and is sounding a warning to his fellow Republicans. McQ: Newt Gingrich completely disagrees with me about the implications of the vote yesterday in Ohio. Susie Madrak: Click to read the whole thing. UPDATE: Gingrich agrees. |
Pete Ross: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich issued a candid warning to the GOP, as quoted in today's WaPo: [snipped quote] Ohio GOP... Oliver Willis: Newtie On Ohio — Gingrich Says Ohio Race Holds Lesson for GOP "It should serve as a wake-up call to Republicans, and... Taegan Goddard: Gingrich Sees Warning Signs for GOP — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) "warned fellow Republicans yesterday... |
| Also: Jeralyn Merritt, Steve Bainbridge, Frank @AndrewSullivan, John @AmericaBlog | |
China and US 'unite' over UN bid BBC — Permalink Beijing will work with the United States to block a plan to add new permanent members to the UN Security Council, China's UN ambassador says. Wang Guangya said he agreed the deal with the new US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, at a meeting. | |
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Cernig: Bolton Helps China Block UN Reform — Oh I just love this: Beijing will work with the United States to block a plan to... |
Kevin Drum: From the BBC: [snipped quote] Ah, our great allies, the Chinese. |
Bayh: Democrats Face Security Threshold By / AP — Permalink DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh (news, bio, voting record), a possible presidential candidate in 2008, said Thursday that his party lacks credibility on national security and needs to convince Americans that Democrats are willing to use force when necessary. | |
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Digby: Just Shut Up "Bayh said there are legitimate grounds to criticize President Bush's approach to fighting terrorism, but... |
Jayson @PoliPundit: Late Arrival to the Reality Party — Buried in the final graf of this Democrat campaign ad from the Associated Press is... |
GOP Makes Gains Among The Working Class, While Democrats Hold On To The Union Vote Pew Research Center — Permalink Last week's historic split in the House of Labor was driven, at least in part, by disagreements over whether the AFL-CIO should be focusing more on union organizing drives or electoral politics. Much is at stake, not just for the union movement but also for the political parties. | |
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Chris Bowers: The Era of Identity Politics — Factors influencing Party Affiliation: Race .25 Chruch At .15 Gender .10 Income .08... |
Steve Soto: (Graphic courtesy of Pew) Pew came out with another poll yesterday which showed among other things that: Although there... |
Tragic end to a war reporter's bracing story By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink BAGHDAD - In three articles for this newspaper over the past month, Steven Vincent deftly captured the criminal-induced confusion of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, the jockeying for power between rival militias within government departments, and the growing use of political assassination that foreshadowed his own murder Tuesday. | |
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Jim Henley: What It All Means, The Continuing Series — The foxes begin looking into the recent problem of disappearing chickens:... Laura Rozen: Read this and this. |
Jim Romenesko: Vincent wanted to do something to help the war on terror — Christian Science Monitor "He was too old to enlist," says Lisa Ramaci-Vincent. |
Police Chiefs Group Bolsters Policy on Suicide Bombers By / WaPo — Permalink The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the heads of police departments in the United States and across the world, has issued new guidelines saying that officers who confront a suicide bomber should shoot the suspect in the head. | |
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Bruce Schneier: Now the International Association of Chiefs of Police have issued new guidelines that also recommend a shoot-to-kill policy. Cori Dauber: Do Not Shoot Near the Bomb — An international police association recommends shoot-to-kill policies — and that's... |
Smash: Morning Quarters — War on Terror Police Chiefs Group Bolsters Policy on Suicide Bombers — Sari Horwitz, Washington... |
Almost Heaven By / Opinion Journal — Permalink It's summer, the country's traveling, and the great pleasure to be had from leaving home is meeting and falling in love with a place you've never been to. I end that sentence with a preposition to segue into my favorite story this summer of cultural tensions and differences as navigated by two American women. | |
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John Cole: Montani Semper Liberi Peggy Noonan comes to West Virginia: I have just been there for the first time, and it is a jewel of a state. Roy @Alicublog: SHORTER PEGGY NOONAN. Tourism copy like this can be yours for a mere $50,000 per assignment (kill fee 100%). |
Attaturk: I just love the little people — Says Peggy Noonan, and then she unleashes this amazing statement about the legend of... |
Al Qaeda Leader Vows More Attacks Fox News — Permalink Al Qaeda deputy leader Aymen al-Zawahiri (search) marked the four-week anniversary of the deadly blasts in London's transit system by threatening more attacks on London and against the United States. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Al Qaeda Video Threatens More Attacks — Al Qaeda's latest video has a message for Great Britain and the United States:... |
Jeff Goldstein: Happy coincidences **** Story: Al Qaeda Threatens Britain; see also, "House probes possible perjury" |
There's Always a Way By / WaPo — Permalink A lushly produced video on DVD arrived in lobbyists' mailboxes all over Washington this summer. In it, Sen. Michael D. Crapo narrates what amounts to a sales pitch for them to pay $2,500 each to party with him later this month in beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho. | |
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Kevin Aylward: They're doing much better attacking on Republican's one at a time on the talk show circuit... Related Fun With Numbers -... Josh Marshall: There's a good piece in the Post today by Jeffrey Birnbaum (who's been on this beat for literally decades) about all the forms of DC corruption that are perfectly legal. Pudentilla: it's not ethics if you write the rules your subject to yourself - it's politics — [snipped quote] we care not one whit... |
David Sirota: This isn't to undervalue America's need to support democratic reforms where we can throughout the world (and frankly,... Natasha @PacificViews: Bring on the Rules — Apparently, and am I ever surprised, all of the laws passed to take the money out of politics have... |
Briton held over 452 fake passports Guardian — Permalink A Briton was arrested at Bangkok airport yesterday with 452 fake blank European passports in his luggage, as he prepared to board a plane to return to the UK. | |
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Scott Burgess: There's a good chance he won't be prosecuted, and that he'll simply return to his taxpayer-subsidised life in Britain. Cori Dauber: It Should Be a Crime — Via Memeorandum, how is it not a crime to be in a possession of almost 500 fake passports? |
Marc @USSNeverdock: And now this! "A Briton was arrested at Bangkok airport yesterday with 452 fake blank European passports in his luggage, as he prepared to board a plane to return to the UK. |
In Congress, the GOP Embraces Its Spending Side By / WaPo — Permalink GOP leaders this week sent House Republicans home for the summer with some political tips, helpfully laid out in 12 "Ideas for August Recess Events." Drop by a military reserve center to highlight increased benefits, the talking points suggest. | |
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Michael @AmericaBlog: That's a lot smarter and more responsible than being a Republican who decides to "tax less for rich people and spend a LOT more." Pudentilla: we'll all have quite a hang-over when we wake up from this grand old party — [snipped quote] republicans: the party of war, deficits and corruption. |
Eugene Oregon: From the Washington Post "Indeed, Congress has exceeded the allocations or assumptions in its budget resolution four... |
Insurgents Using Bigger, More Lethal Bombs, U.S. Officers Say By / NYT — Permalink The explosion that killed 14 marines in Haditha yesterday was powerful enough to flip the 25-ton amphibious assault vehicle they were riding in, in keeping with an increasingly deadly trend, American military officers say. | |
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John Cole: Bomb-Building Techniques Improve From the NY Times: The explosion that killed 14 marines in Haditha yesterday was... Justin Gardner: The reason I bring this up is because of the tragic death of 14 Marines after one of these devices upended their 25 ton device. John @AmericaBlog: Are we winning yet? Guess not. |
Smash: Insurgents Using Bigger, More Lethal Bombs, U.S. Officers Say — David S. Cloud, The New York Times "In recent months... Michael @AmericaBlog: How can they possibly justify setting a deadline? The insurgency is stronger than ever. More people are being killed this year than last. Pudentilla: you know you're in the last throes — [snipped quote] when the other side's weapons start getting better. |
Civil Liberties Union Prepares Lawsuit Challenging Random Searches of Bags on Subways By / NYT — Permalink The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit today challenging the legality of the Police Department's new policy of randomly searching bags and packages in the subway system. | |
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Steve Bainbridge: The NY Civil Liberties Union plans to sue to block a new NYPD policy of randomly searching bags of subway passengers. Larry Kudlow: Bad Idea — The ACLU is preparing to file suit to stop the NYPD from conducting random bag searches in the subway—... |
Scott Sala: Technorati Tags: George+Galloway Galloway+rape+baghdad galloway+jerusalem — Random Searces Illegal So says the NYCLU (NY version of ACLU). Jeralyn Merritt: ACLU to Challenge Random Subway Searches — The ACLU will be filing suit today against random subway bag searches. |
Trading Cricket for Jihad By / NYT — Permalink Nothing has changed during the war on terror as much as our definition of the enemy. In the days after Sept. 11, it was commonly believed that the conflict between the jihadists and the West was a conflict between medievalism and modernism. | |
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Ed Driscoll: First up is a remarkable piece by David Brooks (made even more remarkable for where it's appearing—but then, this is... Tom Maguire: David Brooks - Troubling — David Brooks provokes thought today with an article on the psychology, background, and... Orrin Judd: THOUROUGHLY MODERN MILI-TANTS (via Robert Schwartz): Trading Cricket for Jihad (DAVID BROOKS, 8/04/05, NY Times)... |
Jesse Taylor: Nice Try, At Least — David Brooks makes the not-quite-novel point that many of the leaders of the global jihadist terror movement tend to be rich and frustrated. Armando @DailyKos: Brooks: Blame America First — In a column that reaches new heights of the bizarre, David Brooks proves he hates... |
President Makes It Clear Phrase Is 'War on Terror' By / NYT — Permalink GRAPEVINE, Tex., Aug. 3 - President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war." | |
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James Joyner: President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror' (NYT RSS) [snipped quote] I've never been happy with the phrase "war... John Cole: Turns out we are still at war: President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate... Jeff Jarvis: It is a war. And terrorists are the enemy. Now it seems that Bush, too, didn't like this odd Republican attempt at PC. |
Taegan Goddard: Proper Phrase is "War on Terror" — President Bush "publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate... MarkInMexico: Main Page Bush - Cut the crap! Or better, Cut through the crap. President Bush says, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war." Gary Farber: Whoops! The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism is over! We're fighting the War Against Terrorism again! |
| Also: Ann Althouse, Orrin Judd, Joe @AmericaBlog, Atrios | |
All Political Eyes Again Turn to Ohio By / LAT — Permalink WASHINGTON — An unexpectedly close finish in an Ohio congressional special election reverberated through both parties Wednesday, as each side searched for clues in a race that could foreshadow next year's midterm elections. | |
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Ken Masugi: Ohio's Congressional Race UPDATED — The narrow Republican victory over an anti-war Democrat in a solid Republican... |
Pudentilla: really stupid anonymous source award to ron brownstein "all political eyes again turn to ohio - a republican narrowly wins a congressional race in a heavily gop district. |
N.Va. Jail's 'Unassuming' Celebrity By / WaPo — Permalink She receives more mail than any other inmate at the Alexandria jail. Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has stopped by to see her, and she requested — and received — extra visitation time with her husband from New York, a courtesy extended to other inmates with out-of-town relatives. | |
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Garrett M. Graff: Jailed Judy new_jail3.jpgThe Post today takes a look at the jailed Gray Lady reporter across the river. |
Jim Romenesko: Sheriff: NYT's Miller is "fitting in just fine" at Alexandria jail — Washington Post "Let's face it, jail is not fun. |
But Is It Intelligent? WaPo — Permalink FOR MORE THAN 30 years, the conservative movement in America has been doing battle with the forces of relativism, the "do your own thing" philosophy that eschews objective truth and instead sees all beliefs and all personal choices as equally valid. | |
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Tarek @LiquidList: And this morning I was greeted with an editorial of surpassing feebleness. |
Chris Mooney: "Quasi-Scientific, Quasi-Religious" — That's the Washington Post editorial page's description of the "intelligent design" movement today. |
Roberts' iffy support for voting rights By / LAT — Permalink At the beginning of the 1980s, African American voters made up about one-third of the electorate of Mobile, Ala. Studies showed clearly that these black voters preferred different candidates than white voters, but the nature of the electoral system in the city... | |
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Michelle Malkin: The Left is worried that Roberts will advocate colorblind policies in the area of voting rights. |
Michael @AmericaBlog: He's not strong on voting rights. Heck, Roberts thought the Reagan Administration was too moderate at times and NEVER thought it was too conservative on any issue. |
Pentagon's New Goal: Put Science Into Scripts By / NYT — Permalink LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 - Tucked away in the Hollywood hills, an elite group of scientists from across the country and from a grab bag of disciplines - rocket science, nanotechnology, genetics, even veterinary medicine - has gathered this week to plot a solution to what officials call one of the nation's most vexing long-term national security problems. | |
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Philip Greenspun: Can engineers be portrayed positively in Hollywood movies? James Joyner: Pentagon's New Goal: Put Science Into Scripts (NYT RSS) [snipped quote] Silly as this sounds—and it sounds pretty damned silly—the idea here makes some sense. |
Stirling Newberry: Idiotia Update — Pentagon trying to get more science in screen plays. Gary Farber: PROBLEM: AMERICA IS GETTING STUPIDER. Solution: a Pentagon program to write scripts about scientists. My brain hurts. |
Cultural Differences Complicate a Georgia Drug Sting Operation By / NYT — Permalink ROME, Ga., July 29 - When they charged 49 convenience store clerks and owners in rural northwest Georgia with selling materials used to make methamphetamine, federal prosecutors declared that they had conclusive evidence. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Scenes from the Drug War: the Domestic Front — Via the NYT: Cultural Differences Complicate a Georgia Drug Sting... Kerry Howley: The New York Times reports: [snipped quote] The New York Times report is delicately titled "Cultural Differences... Jeralyn Merritt: Operation Drug Merchant — The New York Times highlights the folly of the drug war policy of busting clerks in stores selling pseudoephedrine. |
Will Baude: The New York Times informs me that this is a slang term for the manufacture of methamphetamine, and it is apparently... Gary Farber: WAR ON SOME DRUGS claims Apu and his cousins. Is this pathetic, or what? (And I hate meth.) Read The Rest Scale: 3 out of 5. |
Meth Madness at Newsweek By / Slate — Permalink The leading indicator that a national trend has peaked and has begun its downward trajectory is often its appearance on the cover of one of the newsweeklies. Newsweek's current scaremongering cover story, "The Meth Epidemic: Inside America's New Drug Crisis," is a textbook illustration of the phenomenon. | |
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Jacob Sullum: When Flat Numbers Indicate a Rising Problem — As Julian notes, Slate's Jack Shafer does a fine job of dissecting Newsweek's hysterical methamphetamine cover story. Jim Romenesko: Newsweek's meth cover story fails to deliver, says Shafer — Slate If meth is America's "most dangerous drug," as... Frank @AndrewSullivan: That's when I hit start on the stopwatch and began counting down to the Jack Shafer piece debunking it. |
Brad Plumer: Jack Shafer has nothing but arched eyebrows for the latest Newsweek cover story on the meth 'crisis'. Julian Sanchez: Another Fine Meth — The requisite Newsweek cover story clues in anyone who hadn't noticed that crystal meth is the new... |
Hillary Clinton Presses Bush on Sex Offender Bill NewsMax.com — Permalink 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling on President Bush to sign legislation that would make a national registry of sex offenders available to the public. | |
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Wind Rider: Unfortunate Headlines, Edition 5,826 — Hillary Clinton Presses Bush on Sex Offender Bill The rest of the story It's only really humorous till the visual sinks in. |
K-Lo: I'M NOT AS MATURE AS JPOD — This headline made me laugh. But it was, of course, intentional. |
What I learned in Oklahoma City By / Townhall.com — Permalink I'm a city boy, born and bred. I've lived in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Mass. Even though my parents are native Midwesterners (Chicago), the closest I've ever come to country living is vacationing in Wisconsin. | |
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Sadly, No!: That's why they call it that, Ben — Ben Shapiro, like Jonah Goldberg (Alaska) and John Tierney (Mars), has gone out of town this week and wants to tell you about his adventures. |
Amanda Marcotte: Virgin Ben allows bumpkins to touch his robes and reports that the peasants are simple but cute — Virgin Ben took a... |
States move to protect property USA Today — Permalink States across the country are rushing to pass laws to counter the potential impact of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that allows state and local governments to seize homes for private development. (Related story: Ruling may doom homes) | |
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McQ: Kelo sparking a rash of state laws preventing takings — In an interesting twist, states are now rapidly passing laws to... Justin Gardner: Now we're hearing that liberals and conservatives are coming together to fight this very questionable decision on eminent domain: [snipped quote] Found at USA Today. Bill Hobbs: Bredesen Silent on Kelo Ruling; Governor Making No Moves to Protect Private Property Rights in Tennessee — NASHVILLE -... |
Todd Zywicki: My favorite quote is from one of the sponsors in the Alabama Senate: [quote] "We don't like anybody messing with our dogs, our...[end quote] John Cole: Good News on The Property Rights Front Say what you will about 'activist judges,' they are at least getting local... Jayson @PoliPundit: Legislated solutions like these measures. For every leftist abomination vomited up by the court system, there are dozens of rulings which simply apply the law - fair and square. |
| Also: Betsy Newmark, Greg Ransom, Glenn Reynolds | |
Live From New York: It's Ambassador John Bolton By / Newhouse News — Permalink Now that John Bolton has been installed as United Nations ambassador — by the time-honored recess appointment or the power-crazed overreach of King Emperor Bush Fuhrer, depending on your point of view — one can only wonder how he'll do. Here's a hypothetical workday. | |
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John Hawkins: "Sharpton: Dems Take Blacks For Granted" Columns "Mark Krikorian: Mexican Immigration Isn't Going Away On Its Own"... Betsy Newmark: James Lileks imagines John Bolton's first day on the job at the UN. "3:17 p.m. — The afternoon sun is getting hot; Bolton discovers the shade is stuck. Dale Franks: Well, James Lileks has a diary of Mr. Bolton's first day. [snipped quote] Sure, when the day was over, Mr. Bolton was tired. |
Jan Haugland: About the U.N. Commission on Window Treatments — James Lileks hilariously describes the first day on the job for Ambassador John Bolton. Marc @USSNeverdock: America - John Bolton's First Day — JAMES LILEKS takes an irreverent look. Hilarious and spot on! Kathryn Jean Lopez: Must read Lileks on Bolton's first day at work. |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh, TheAnchoress, Glenn Reynolds | |
Democrats celebrate narrow U.S. House loss in Ohio Reuters — Permalink WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on Wednesday celebrated a closer-than-expected loss in a special House of Representatives race in Ohio and called it a warning sign for Republicans entering the 2006 congressional elections. | |
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Dr. Steven Taylor: Headline Reaction — Via Reuters: Democrats celebrate narrow U.S. House loss in Ohio. Um, methinks that that is a bit, well, silly. Jayson @PoliPundit: And now? They've been reduced to this. Sometimes the self-parodies literally tell themselves. John Cole: Unfortunate Headlines If you were a casual news consumer, you might not know the backstory and find this headline a... |
John Hawkins: They've been reduced to (celebrating a) "narrow U.S. House loss in Ohio". Sometimes the self-parodies literally tell themselves. Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Democrats Celebrate Ohio Loss — I kid you not. [snipped quote] This is how low the Democrats have sunk. JPod: WORLD'S MOST INADVERTENTLY HILARIOUS HEADLINE ALERT — To be found here. |
Election 2008: Republican Candidates Fare Better in Early Trial Heats By / Gallup — Permalink PRINCETON, NJ — Even though the next presidential election is more than three years away, those who might pursue the office are already testing the waters in New Hampshire, in Iowa, and at other gatherings where party power brokers are present. | |
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MarkInMexico: Gallup says Rudy Giuliani fares the best among registered voters in head to head contests against ALL COMERS. Joe Gandelman: Republicans Fare Better In 2008 Presidential Poll — A new Gallup poll taking the pulse of voters on the 2008 race has... Dean Esmay: President Giuliani? by Dean Every time I hear his name brought up as a Presidential hopeful I'm a little surprised, but... |
Captain Ed: Gallup has decided to get a head start on the next presidential election by beginning to build its polling data now to read trends and create projections for later in the cycle. Orrin Judd: Election 2008: Republican Candidates Fare Better in Early Trial Heats (Jeffrey M. Jones, 8/03/05, GALLUP NEWS SERVICE)... Taegan Goddard: Poll Finds McCain and Giuliani Strong for 2008 — In looking at the possible 2008 presidential contenders, Gallup finds... |
| Also: Gerry Daly, Alexander K. McClure | |
GOP ought to worry at poor Ohio turnout US News — Permalink What does Tuesday's special election in the 2nd District of Ohio mean? The election was held to replace former Rep. Rob Portman, now U.S. special trade representative. The 2nd District is heavily Republican: It voted 63 percent for George W. Bush in 2000 and 64 percent in 2004. | |
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Ken Masugi: UPDATE: Michael Barone's new blog defends Julie's view—with numbers. Keep checking this one out. Glenn Reynolds: ANOTHER UPDATE: So does the now-blogging Michael Barone, whose opinions on this sort of thing are worth a lot more than mine. John Cole: In a serious vein, Michael Barone blogs why Republicans should be worried. (via Instapundit) |
John @PowerLine: That he has started a blog is good news; unfortunately, his current lead post is not: Barone thinks that Jean Schmidt's... PoliPundit: Barone on Ohio — Michael Barone, on yesterday's result in Ohio: [snipped quote] If only there were some issue which... |
Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs By / WaPo — Permalink Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. | |
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Medium Lobster: Claustrophobic Techniques — All of us love freedom, and all of us want to protect freedom, and surely to protect... Jason Van Steenwyk: Torture in Al Qaim — Looks like it really happened. I knew Chief Welshofer and Chief Manwaring. Marty Lederman: Priest and White also quote an intelligence official as saying that the Scorpions were tasked "from time to time, to do... |
Jim Henley: The Dreaming City — While I've been working long hours, there has been news. "Bad apples." Gregory Djerejian: A must-read by Josh White in the WaPo. John Cole: Approved Interrogation Techniques From the WaPo: Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his... |
| Also: Digby, Hilzoy @ObsidianWings, Avedon Carol, Jeffrey Dubner, Kriston @BeggingToDiffer, Norbizness, Gary Farber, Mark Kleiman, Michael Froomkin, Michael @AmericaBlog, Ezra Klein, Fontana Labs, Matthew Yglesias, Mcjoan @DailyKos, Pudentilla, Jeralyn Merritt, Frank @AndrewSullivan | |
Fearless Basra blogger is abducted and murdered By / Times of London — Permalink A freelance American journalist whose blog exposed corruption and lawlessness in the Iraqi city of Basra has been abducted at gunpoint and shot dead. Steven Vincent's body was recovered at the side of a road south of Basra late last night, several hours after he and his female translator were kidnapped as they left a currency exchange shop. | |
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Callimachus: The Times of London tells it like this: "There is speculation that Mr Vincent, who received death threats, was murdered in an attempt to silence him. James Joyner: Elsewhere: American Journalist Is Shot to Death in Iraq (NYT RSS) Basra blogger is abducted and murdered (Times of London) Steve M.: It seems likely that some of the assassins he wrote about in the New York Times piece killed him to silence him, but The... |
Craig Crawford: The Times (London): "There are strong suspicions that Mr Vincent, who received numerous death threats, was murdered in an attempt to silence him." Arthur Chrenkoff: It appears that Steve might have fallen foul of Shia hardliners whose violent campaign of revenge against local Sunnis... Mary Madigan: In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, "Switched off in Basra", Vincent wrote: [snipped quote] Steven Vincent was murdered yesterday in Basra by what the police call "unknown gunmen". |
| Also: Roger L. Simon, Tom Paine, Dr. Steven Taylor, Gary Farber | |
Teenagers praise bestseller about a suicide bomber By / Telegraph — Permalink A new novel for teenagers about a mixed-race girl who trains to become a terrorist suicide bomber has become a bestseller in mainstream bookshops since its publication a month ago. | |
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Jan Haugland: Novel about suicide bomber is British teenage bestseller — In Britain, a novel about a racially mixed girl who trains... John Cole: Pushing the Edges of the Free Speech Envelope This is disgusting: A new novel for teenagers about a mixed-race girl... Cori Dauber: Serious Teen Literature Means Getting Teens to Think Sympathetically About the Terrorists Lives Would I kid you about that? |
John Hawkins: Do we really need a book for teenagers that glorifies the life of a suicide bomber? TheAnchoress: Betsy Newmark - that tireless educator who is all for getting kids interested in reading - is appalled, and I think... Lorie Byrd: Suicide Bombing For Teens — Betsy Newmark has the story. |
President Discusses Second Term Accomplishments and Priorities White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. (Applause.) Thank you all. Please be seated. Earl, thanks for the warm introduction, thanks for the invitation, and thanks for the award. And I appreciate your leadership of ALEC. Good leaders make good decisions — you made a good decision bringing this convention to Texas. | |
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Anne-Marie Slaughter: But that's a messy, complex solution to a messy, complex problem. Much easier just to keep saying "we are at war." Matthew Yglesias: At any rate, the revival of the war came in the context of exactly the sort of thing you expect to see a wartime... |
Cori Dauber: As reported on Brit Hume's show tonight, (although nowhere else that I saw) the President put a pretty clear kibash on... Ivo Daalder: Here's Bush, in Texas: "Make no mistake about it, we are at war. We're at war with an enemy that attacked us on September the 11th, 2001. |
Judges Should Have 'Limited' Role, Roberts Says WaPo — Permalink John G. Roberts Jr. said in a questionnaire released yesterday that he was first interviewed as a potential Supreme Court nominee in April and was questioned by Vice President Cheney in May, showing that the White House had been focusing on him months before a seat came open. | |
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Kevin: Filed under: Politics, Culture, Iraq No comment yet, add yours? » Roberts: No Right to Privacy Posted by Kevin ... Captain Ed: Questionnaire Provides More Answers On Roberts — The Washington Post reports this morning that a questionnaire and... Avedon Carol: Nothing is revealed — The Washington Post has another piece on John Roberts' judicial philosophy as shown from his... |
Digby: Armando points to this WaPo article in which we find that John Roberts does not believe in a right to privacy. John Rosenberg: Today, the Washington Post contributes another chapter in article written by Mike Allen and R. Jeffrey Smith. Jeff Berman: Most of the mainstream press missed this because the Administration released it the same day they put out the Roberts... |
| Also: Pejman Yousefzadeh, Armando @DailyKos | |
American Journalist Is Shot to Death in Iraq By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 3 - An American journalist writing about the rise of fundamentalist Islam was shot dead overnight after being abducted in the southern port city of Basra, American embassy and Iraqi officials said today. | |
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Spencer Ackerman: PACT FULL: Steven Vincent was murdered today in Basra, days after he published a New York Times op-ed about the formerly... Ann Althouse: Here is the NYT piece on the death of Steven Vincent, the first American reporter to be killed by the enemy in Iraq. Rickheller @Centerfield: American Reporter Murdered In Iraq — A journalist murdered in Iraq is the first American journalist to die from hostile action, as opposed to action or disease. |
Joe Gandelman: And the New York Times reports that he simply did his thing, without protection: "Mr. Vincent was married and lived in the East Village of Manhattan. Laura Rozen: His translator Ward al-Khal was shot through the chest, and is hospitalized. Fourteen Marines were killed today in Anbar province. Gary Farber: STEVEN VINCENT. Requiescat in pace. Sad. Sad. Sad. 14 times sad. Also: [snipped quote] If you got prayers, you know what to do. |
America Coming Together Comes Apart NRO — Permalink The Democrats' great hope goes away. A few days after the 2004 election, America Coming Together, the giant pro-Democratic voter turnout group that had raised about $200 million from George Soros, Peter Lewis, and a variety of Hollywood moguls, released a list of its accomplishments. | |
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Paul @PowerLine: America Coming Together apparently will linger on as a "research" outfit. UPDATE: Byron York at NRO has more. Orrin Judd: THE RICH GET BORED WITH THEIR TOYS FASTER THAN CHILDREN (profanity alert): America Coming Together Comes Apart: The Democrats' great hope goes away. Rich Lowry: Between the split at the AFL-CIO and withering of America Coming Together that Byron writes about today, it hasn't been a good couple of weeks for the Democratic turn-out machine. |
Gateway Pundit: ACT had the great success in November of witnessing Robin Carnahan win Secretary of State here in Missouri, and well, that's about it! Michael DeBow: How strange the American Left is today: Over on NRO Byron York describes the unraveling of "America Coming Together." MarkInMexico: Main Page America Coming Together - RIP Byron York writes the epitaph for George Soros's America Coming Together; But saying so didn't make it true. |
US journalist shot dead in Iraq BBC — Permalink A US freelance reporter, Steven Vincent, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Basra, southern Iraq, police have said. Mr Vincent was abducted with his female Iraqi translator at gun point by men in a police car on Tuesday. | |
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Jim Henley: One lonely comment » So Sad Nell e-mails the news that Steven Vincent is dead. Avedon Carol: I always find stories about journalists being killed in Iraq pretty upsetting, but read TBogg on this. Captain Ed: Terrorists Murder Author, Blogger Steven Vincent — The BBC reports this morning that author and blogger Steven Vincent was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists near Basra. |
James Joyner: US journalist shot dead in Iraq (BBC) "A US freelance reporter, Steven Vincent, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Basra, southern Iraq, police have said. Saint Paul l: Steven Vincent, RIP — It is with sadness we read about the murder of Steven Vincent in Iraq. Arthur Chrenkoff: Reports BBC: "Mr Vincent was abducted with his female Iraqi translator at gun point in a street in central Basra on Tuesday. |
| Also: Joe Gandelman, Mitch Berg, Marc @USSNeverdock | |
Air America and the race hustlers By / Townhall.com — Permalink Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment — able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. | |
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Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Air America and the race hustlers — Michelle Malkin calls out the "the raging reverends", Sharpton and... Captain Ed: Michelle has a new column out today (also here) about why the usual suspects in the civil-rights establishment have not... Scott @PowerLine: With any luck, Michelle Malkin's column will introduce the story to newspaper readers around the country: "Air America and the race hustlers." |
John @PowerLine: Michelle's new column, which will be out tomorrow morning and is available now on the web, sums up the facts known so... Gateway Pundit: Today Michelle explains the scandal in "Air America and the race hustlers". La Shawn Barber: Solid gold stuff. Also see Ed Morrissey's coverage. Related: BoreAmerica Irreverent Reverends Emboldened White Liberals See The RadioEqualizer's post on Selective Outrage. |
| Also: Betsy Newmark, Smash | |
Korean First to Successfully Clone a Dog By / AP — Permalink Scientists for the first time have cloned a dog. But don't count on a better world populated by identical and resourceful Lassies just yet. That's because the dog duplicated by South Korea's cloning pioneer, Hwang Woo-suk, is an Afghan hound, a... | |
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Michael Stickings: The cloned life of Snuppy the Dog — South Korean researchers have cloned a dog. That's right, cloned a dog. Roger L. Simon: Here... Snuppy.... Snuppy.... That's shorthand for "Seoul National University puppy." So far I'm sticking with my dog Zane Greyhound. Wind Rider: Who says... South Korea isn't about helping feed their Northern brothers? Gourmet style, too! |
Kate @OTB: Snuppy The Clone — Those damned Koreans are at it again; [snipped quote] (Dog breeder's aside; Why does the reporter... Kathryn Jean Lopez: KOREAN CLONED DOG — "Korean First to Successfully Clone a Dog" It's midday and I know what Jonah would say. I won't. |
Soros-Backed Activist Group Disbands as Interest Fades By / WaPo — Permalink A year ago, the liberal group America Coming Together was on the cutting edge of national politics, spending tens of millions of dollars on a massive voter-mobilization project in every presidential battleground state. | |
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Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Bad News Mounts for Democrats — The bad news for Democrats just keeps rolling in. Chris Bowers: Americans Coming Together — This is a bummer: [snipped quote] I had great hope for the mission of ACT, which promised... Gateway Pundit: "America Coming Together" Breaking Apart — The George Soros funded group, "America Coming Together", the "cutting edge group from a year ago"(?) is breaking up. |
Paul @PowerLine: Thus, The Washington Post reports that the leftist outfit he put on the map, "America Coming Together," is falling apart. McQ: "America Coming Together" turns off the lights — Apparently the party is over. Lindsay Beyerstein: ACT to disband — The Washington Post reports that America Coming Together (ACT), the liberal voter mobilization group, is dissolving. |
| Also: MarkInMexico, Ann Althouse, Kathryn Jean Lopez | |
14 U.S. Marines Killed in Iraq When Bomb Hits Their Vehicle By / NYT — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 3 - Fourteen marines were killed early today when their troop carrier struck a gigantic roadside bomb in the western town of Haditha, marking one of the single deadliest attacks on American troops since the invasion here in March 2003. | |
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McQ: But unlike Ailes, I know the difference. So bone up, Roger, and figure out that the 14 killed weren't "pukes". Gregory Djerejian: Marine Fatalities ... last throes of a defeated insurgency, doubtless. Gary Farber: Sad. 14 times sad. Also: [snipped quote] If you got prayers, you know what to do. It would be good to see a fund set up for her, as well. |
Brad DeLong: Twenty marines dead: 14 U.S. Marines Killed in Iraq When Bomb Hits Their Vehicle - New York Times: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug... Roger Ailes: It's A Beautiful Day — Rush Limbaugh must be in heaven today, as fourteen pukes have given their meaningless lives for the glory of the George W. Bush. Armando @DailyKos: Iraq: 14 Marines Killed — Will an Iraqi Constitution stop this: [snipped quote] Horrible. |
Calling All Luddites By / NYT — Permalink I've been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana's. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have cellphone service as good as Japan's, provided Japan agrees not to forge ahead on wireless technology. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Atrios has fun with Tom Friedman's disquiet about the poor state of American cellular service, noting that this is a bit out of step with the common man's priorities. Jan Haugland: Thomas Friedman picks up on this topic. Tom Tomorrow: I kid you not. |
Ed Cone: Reading Friedman for Greensboro — Reading Friedman for Greensboro*: Today TF writes about the sorry state of US technology infrastructure. Stirling Newberry: Even Thomas Friedman has noticed. Each of these components fits together, and there is a larger picture, and a much larger problem. Jeff Jarvis: Wi-fi in every pot Tom Friedman practically nominates Andrew Rasiej for President today as he extols Rasiej's vision... |
| Also: John Cole, Atrios, Glenn Reynolds | |
Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief By / Telegraph — Permalink Muslims must start integrating into mainstream British society, says David Davis, the shadow home secretary and front-runner to take over the Conservative leadership. | |
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Scott Burgess: Second thoughts about the potential migrs sans papiers - upon reflection, I'm sure the Home Office will cheerfully and efficiently dispense passports to anyone who requests one. La Shawn Barber: Brits with Common Sense — Multicultural Britain is not working, says Tory chief - Before anyone calls me a bigot, read... |
Marcus @HarrysPlace: Typical placard-waving Stopperspeak you might think. If you did, you'd be wrong. Stanley Kurtz: Here's the Davis opinion piece, and here's an article about it. And here's a Telegraph editorial on the subject. |
Army Officers Stage Coup in Mauritania By / AP — Permalink NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritanian army officers overthrew the U.S.-allied president on Wednesday, saying a military junta would temporarily rule the Islamic nation that has increasingly looked to the West as the government raised fears of a growing threat from al-Qaida linked militants. | |
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Nikolas Gvosdev: Nigeria welcomed the coup; the Guardian quotes a spokeswoman for President Olusegun Obasanjo stating, "As far as we are... Natasha @PacificViews: Mauritania — Well, there's been a military coup in Mauritania, and the excuse for it is either the most ironic ever, or... |
Smash: Military Coup in Mauritania — A MILITARY JUNTA seized power in the northwest African nation of Mauritania Wednesday,... Dan Darling: As the now-deposed Mauritanian despot has claimed his opponents were training with GSPC, it now looks as though we'll find out just how true those reports were. |
Some of Steven Vincent's NRO pieces NRO — Permalink August 02, 2005: On Again, Off Again: A power problem in Basra. June 21, 2005: Baffled in Basra: Self-defeating behavior persists. June 14, 2005: The Stringer: Hearing Iraqis. | |
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Callimachus: My blog-friend Tigerhawk has a good wrap of links on Vincent's killing. The National Review has a moving tribute. A.M. Mora y Leon: What an atrocity. What a damn shame. If you are not familiar with Steven Vincent, you can read about him here and here. Kathryn Jean Lopez: FREEDOM'S REPORTER, R.I.P. FYI: Here's a short piece I did this morning on Steven Vincent. |
Saint Paul l: Also, a compilation of his reports from Iraq for National Review. Kriston @GrammarPolice: Steven Vincent — I was not kind to his work—in fact, I have to own up to calling him a hack over a relatively... |
14 Marines, Interpreter Killed in Northwestern Iraq WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 — Insurgents killed 14 U.S. Marines and their civilian interpreter in a roadside bomb attack in northwestern Iraq Wednesday, just one day after the military announced that seven U.S. Marines were killed in an unusual small-arms attack on Monday, the military said. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Good News — This is bad, and this is worse and this, though hardly surprising anymore, continues to be disheartening. Pudentilla: death throes — [snipped quote] that's getting to be a lot of blood on the hands of awol and his merry men. of course, as... Zoe Kentucky: (sigh) Let's hope that this isn't a preview of things to come. [snipped quote] My heart goes out to the families of these Marines and the U.S. journalist. |
Pejman Yousefzadeh: I hope that Steven Vincent's dream—and those of the soldiers—of a free and prosperous Iraq comes true. Kash: Personally, I haven't even been reading much or thinking much about Bolton, the Space Shuttle, the Roberts nomination,... Joe @AmericaBlog: 14 Troops Killed In Iraq today — Just horrible. |
Army Times reporter Matthew Cox describes attack By / Army Times — Permalink AL BU HARDEN, Iraq — I heard the two shots from a soldier's M16 rifle, but I had no idea he was firing at a suicide car-bomber steering straight for us. It was about 4:30 p.m. Aug. 1 and Army Times photographer James Lee and I were standing near the rear ramp of B Company commander Capt. Mark Ivezaj's Stryker combat vehicle. | |
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James Joyner: Army Times reporter Matthew Cox was wounded by a roadside suicide bomber Monday, although he was thankfully only received minor injuries. Jim Romenesko: "I knew something had exploded, but I was in a daze" — Army Times Army Times reporter Matthew Cox, who was injured... Smash: Combat Reporter — MATTHEW COX, reporting from Iraq for Army Times: [snipped quote] Read the rest. (Hat tip: Murdoc) |
Donald Sensing: Army Times reporter Matthew Cox (an Army veteran himself) was wounded Aug 1 by a suicide bomber near Al bu Harden, Iraq. Gary Farber: Or be an Iraqi living in Iraq. Yipes. Read The Rest Scale: 3 out of 5 if you want a first-hand account of being only mildly blown up. |
Mauritania officers 'seize power' BBC — Permalink Mauritanian army officers have announced the overthrow of the president and creation of a ruling military council. The military council said it had ended the "totalitarian regime" of President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya who has arrived in Niger. | |
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Smash: (Hat tip: J-P) More reports on Mauritania from Gateway Pundit, BBC, CNN, and Reuters. Gary Farber: It appears there's been a coup in Mauritania. Read The Rest as you wish. |
Dan Darling: Africa happenings — Looks like somebody borrowed a page from Qadaffi's book in Mauritania today, with soldiers seizing... |
American Journalist Found Dead in Iraq AP — Permalink BAGHDAD, Iraq — An American freelance journalist was found dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. Police said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier. | |
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La Shawn Barber: News: American Journalist Found Dead, US Journalist Killed in Iraq… Bloggers: Malkin, Lorie Byrd, Captain's... Susie Madrak: Silenced Freelance journalist Steven Vincent is dead in Iraq. |
Cori Dauber: American Reporter Killed in Iraq — As reported by AP, Steven Vincent was the independent journalist whose piece from Basra had appeared in the Times only days before. Joe Gandelman: The AP has this: "Police said Vincent, a writer who had been living in New York, had been staying in Basra for several months working on a book about the history of the city. |
Public Schools Begin to Offer Gym Classes Online By / NYT — Permalink MINNEAPOLIS - The nation's public schools are rushing to reconfigure scores of traditional courses from basic composition to calculus so students can take them via the Internet. One of the unlikely new offerings in this vast experiment is online gym. | |
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Joanne Jacobs: Gym online — In Minneapolis and elsewhere, students can take gym class online, reports the New York Times. |
Gary Farber: Of course. This would have saved a lot of humiliation when I was a kid. Read The Rest or I'll hit you with this dodgeball. |
S. Korean Researchers Create World's First Cloned Dog By / WaPo — Permalink South Korean researchers today said they have created the world's first cloned dog: a playful black, tan and white Afghan hound named Snuppy. The puppy, grown from a single cell taken from the ear of a three-year-old male Afghan, marks a milestone in the race to fabricate genetically identical dogs for research and as companion animals. | |
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Philip Chaston: First Cloned Dog — South Korean scientists have cloned the first dog, succeeding at a project where laboratories and firms in the United States had been beavering away for years. |
Orin Kerr: Man Clones Dog: The Washington Post has the story. Of course, it would be much more newsworthy if the headline were Dog Clones Man. |
Post-Postwar (PPW) By / WaPo — Permalink Former State Department counterterrorism official Larry C. Johnson reported on his blog yesterday that the Global War on Terrorism, or GWOT, or The WOT, "may still be alive." | |
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Cliff May: But the POTUS has deep-sixed GSAVE according to Al Kamen's column in today's WaPo. I complained about this name change here. |
Spoons: POTUS DEEP-6es GSAVE — Looks like it's still a war as far as he's concerned. |