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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
The Firestorm Over My Column — Nothing in my 50-year career prepared me for the thousands of flaming e-mails I got last week over my last column, e-mails so abusive and many so obscene that part of The Post's Web site was shut down. — That column praised The Post for breaking the story …
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The Kos is Either at Your Throat or at Your Knees — A NEW ARRIVAL IN THE SYCOPHANTS' HALL OF FAME TODAY IS Markos Alberto Moulitsas ("Screw 'Em") Zuniga, the hyperthyroid Janitor and lead ranter at The Daily Kos. (Am I the only one who thinks that "The Daily 'Koz' " sounds like some sort of rough and clensing Serbian high colonic? )
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
BeKos Kerry Says So — Massachusetts Senator and failed Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, writing on Daily Kos: … Right. Because had George W simply strapped on the chaps, cowboyed up, and put a slug in bin Laden's belly as promised, al Qaeda would have dried up and blown away …
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Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israeli Hints at Preparation to Stop Iran — JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister hinted Saturday that the Jewish state is preparing for military action to stop Iran's nuclear program, but said international diplomacy must be the first course of action.
Verena Dobnik / Associated Press:
Belafonte Continues Tirade Against Bush — NEW YORK — Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar. — "We've come to this dark …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment:
What journalists can learn from software developers — One result of the whole Washington Post comments debacle is that, as Jay Rosen puts it, "We're going backwards in our ability to have a conversation with the Washington Post." The Post circles its wagons against the barbarians …
William Baude / New York Times:
States of Confusion — IT'S no longer just anti-abortion advocates who oppose Roe v. Wade. These days, Roe's traditional critics are joined by a surprising and increasing number of people who are pro-choice but willing - in fact, eager - to have the ruling overturned.
Lawrence Messina / Associated Press:
Rescuers Find Bodies of 2 W.Va. Miners — MELVILLE, W.Va. - Two men trapped in a West Virginia coal mine made a "valiant effort" to escape, but were blocked by scorching heat and thick smoke from a conveyor belt fire that also prevented rescuers from finding their bodies for two days, the director of the state mining agency said.
The Left Coaster:
Rove's Strategy is Out, What's Ours? — I'm in a bleak, weary mood laced with caffeine, but nonetheless I will press ahead in some self-absorbed quest of futility: I want to know how the Democrats are going to win Congress in 2006. Yes, both the House and Senate.
Zachary Goldfarb / Washington Post:
As Elections Near, Officials Challenge Balloting Security — In Controlled Test, Results Are Manipulated in Florida System — As the Leon County supervisor of elections, Ion Sancho's job is to make sure voting is free of fraud. But the most brazen effort lately to manipulate election results …
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Shakespeare's Sister:
A Million Dollars Worth of Irony — Back in June, I mentioned a reality show called "Welcome to the Neighborhood," in which three white, self-described "Christian" families in Texas got to pick their new neighbors from among a group of minority families, including an African-American family …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Medicare Woes Take High Toll on Mentally Ill — Stephen Starnes, 49, has paranoid schizophrenia and is a resident at Dayspring Village, a Florida assisted living center for the mentally ill. — HILLIARD, Fla., Jan. 16 - On the seventh day of the new Medicare drug benefit …
Daily Kos:
The Real Truth About Bush's "War On Terror" — Karl Rove, who himself is a threat to national security, revealed that the GOP will make national security a central issue in 2006. Who better to reveal the Republicans' Orwellian plan that the man who probably leaked highly classified national security secrets …
Jill / Brilliant at Breakfast:
Now I am 100% convinced that the "Bin Laden Tape" is a fake, put together by Rove & Co. — Think about it. — What is the archetypal Karl Rove strategy? … The timing and content of this so-called "New Bin Laden" tape has Rove's fingerprints all over it.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Liberal Misstep On Anti-Americanism — Canada may suddenly be hip with Americans, but it might surprise people on both sides of the border that Americans still retain some popularity among Canadians. The Washington Post reports on the upcoming Canadian election today by covering the backlash …
David Ammons / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Returning Abramoff cash 'taints' tribes, Murray says — OLYMPIA — Sen. Patty Murray said Friday that returning contributions from Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff would "taint" the tribes. — The state's senior senator, a Seattle Democrat, said there was nothing wrong with accepting …
MB Williams / Wampum:
The 2005 Koufax Awards: Best New Blog — Here we go! — This is the category for best of the new crop of bloggers who bore their progeny blog sometime after January 1, 2005. The closest I personally have ever come to receiving a Koufax Award was when I was runner up in this category …
Lewis Libby Indictment / TalkLeft:
PlameGate: Libby and the Government At Odds Over Discovery — The Government and lawyers for Lewis "Scooter" Libby filed a discovery status report today with the court. Here are the items in contention (from the court filing): — 6. It is the position of the defense …
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David Kamp / New York Times:
Male Like Me — Don't judge this book by its cover. It features two photographs of the author, Norah Vincent. In the first, she's a brassy, attractive woman with short, upswept hair and a confident smirk on her face. In the second, she's done up in man drag, with poindexter eyeglasses, a day's worth of stubble and a necktie.
Associated Press:
Activists Seek to Evict Souter From Home — CONCORD, N.H. — Angered by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with a Connecticut city that wanted to seize homes for economic development, a group of activists is trying to get one of the justices who voted for the decision evicted from his own home.
World O'Crap:
News Flash: Unhinged Liberals Post Factious Amazon Reviews of Kate O'Beirne's Book — National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez brings us the story: … No, I would never think that Kate should be pretty, no matter her emotional state. [Okay, that was a cheap shot, but as a deranged liberal, I was compelled to make it.]
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Daniel Holt / Publius Pundit:
CODE PINK QUIETLY REMOVES PHOTO, REPLACES WITH ANOTHER FRAUD — Earlier A.M. Mora y Leon had a post detailing a badly-done and horribly misguided photoshop of brave Iranian women into mindless shells of the Code Pink cult. It appears that they quietly took down that image after Mora drew attention to it.
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