memeorandum @ 10:05 PM ET, April 21, 2006

10:05 PM ET, April 21, 2006

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John O'Neil / New York Times: N.Y. / Region — WORLD - U.S. - N.Y. / REGION - BUSINESS …

Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Hu's Big on Democracy?

Discussion: Wampum

Michael J. Totten:

Back to Iraq Part VI - Smuggling My Way Out of Iraq — This is the sixth and final installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay. Don't miss Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five. — ZAKHO, IRAQ - Getting into Iraq was easy.

Discussion: Brainster's Blog and The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta

Digby / Hullabaloo:

True Romance — Via Tristram Shandy I see that TIME's in-house faux liberal is at it again, this time giving Hugh Hewitt a private lap dance instead of dancing around the pole for everyone to see: … . And people wonder why liberals are popularly perceived as being cowards.

Discussion: TAPPED and Ezra Klein

John W. Dean / FindLaw's Writ:

If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President — President George W. Bush's presidency is a disaster - one that's still unfolding. In a mid-2004 column, I argued that, at that point, Bush had already demonstrated that he possessed the least attractive …

Discussion: In Search Of Utopia, WTF Is It Now??, Pam's House Blend, State of the Day and skimble

The Majority Report:

KATHERINE HARRIS GIVES EVERYTHING SHE HAS TO YOUNG REPORTER — Scribe and friend-of-show Stephen Elliott snapped these photos while traveling with Katherine Harris this week. Harris is fawning over Justin Richards of the University of Florida, Gainesville student newspaper.

Robin Lloyd / Yahoo! News:

Emotional Wiring Different in Men and Women — Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different. — An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear …

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Paul Elias / Associated Press:

Court says high school can enforce dress code against anti-gay T-shirt — SAN FRANCISCO - A suburban San Diego teenager who was barred from wearing a T-shirt with anti-gay rhetoric to class lost a bid to have his high school's dress code suspended Thursday after a federal appeals court ruled …

Discussion: The Mahablog, Los Angeles Times, Clayton Cramer's BLOG, Sister Toldjah and All Things Beautiful

Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:

Disinhibition Nation — When blogs rule, we'll all talk like — Kevin Ray Underwood, the repressed Oklahoma cannibal, kept an Internet "blog" of his compulsions for years before kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old neighbor last week. On his blog, Kevin wrote a lot about Kevin …

Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Mudville Gazette, The Huffington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy, Blue Crab Boulevard, Eschaton, Think Progress, aaron and Swords Crossed

Paul Kiel / TPM Muckraker:

Conrad Burns - Another Earmark to Remember — Another Conrad Burns earmark - maybe the best one yet. — Burns tried to push $20 million in federal funds to a company in which Ed Buckham, Tom DeLay's former chief of staff and a close associate of Jack Abramoff's, had a financial stake.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:

The Generals' Dangerous Whispers — Last time around, the antiwar left did not have a very high opinion of generals. A popular slogan in the 1960s was "war is too important to be left to the generals." It was the generals who had advocated attacking Cuba during the missile crisis of October 1962 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Instapundit.com, TAPPED, CorrenteWire, Think Progress and Blue Crab Boulevard