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5:10 PM ET, May 9, 2006

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Digital Lynch Mob  —  Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming.  I liked the film.  In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Lapfull of Dick  —  Richard Cohen got 2,000 mean e-mails and this signals the end of the Democratic party.  I'll leave you to figure out why that should follow.  In case Cohen hasn't noticed nobody on the f**king planet likes squishy faux liberal courtiers.  There's no political downside to hating Richard Cohen.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Rage Undo The Democrats?  —  Two items from prominent opinion journalists point to a meltdown in the Democratic base even as they close in on a vulnerable GOP in midterm elections.  Jonah Goldberg and Richard Cohen have one thing in common: irrational e-mail.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
STYLE POINTS:  —  Over at Tapped, Greg Sargent has an interesting take on my post from earlier today.  He writes, "it was Chait who threw down the gauntlet first and set an 'uncivil' tone in the initial column."  —  Ah, I see.  So before I wrote my column last Sunday …
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
LEFT-WING "DEBATE":  —  In my most recent column I argued that Joe Lieberman is annoying for all sorts of reasons, but beating him in the primary would be bad because 1) He would continue to play the role of Lone Democrat Honest Enough to Praise Bush, only now with the power of martyrdom behind him …
Bull Moose:
Karl Rove Invented the Internet
bizjournals:
HUD secretary's blunt warning  —  Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush  —  Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking government work may need to overcome the Bush barrier.  —  That's the message U.S. Housing …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Housing Sec. Canceled Contract Because Contractor Criticized Bush, Apparently Violating Law  —  Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alfonso Jackson publicly admitted that he canceled a government contract with a business because the CEO was critical of President Bush.  From the Dallas Business Journal:
Hindrocket / Power Line:
WHO'S WINNING?  THEY SAY WE ARE  —  I missed this when it was released by Centcom, but our friend Ed Morrissey is on top of it: … This quote from a captured document, for example, supports Ed's characterization: … So the terrorists say we're winning in Iraq.  Why is this fact so little recognized in America?
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Michelle Malkin:
OUR BORDER PATROL...OR MEXICO'S?  —  ***scroll for updates***  —  Who does the U.S. Border Patrol work for?  Apparently, not for us.  —  If you have high blood pressure, don't read on.  The Daily Bulletin reports: … To top it all off, Border Patrol agents are reportedly being told …
Tamara Traubman / Haaretz:
New U.K. attempt to boycott Israeli universities, professors  —  The largest university and college lecturers union in Britain is likely to decide shortly to recommend that its 67,000 members boycott Israeli lecturers and academic institutions that do not publicly declare their opposition to Israeli policy in the territories.
Discussion: Solomonia
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Jon Pike / engageonline.org.uk:   NATFHE: Chuck out 198C! - Jon Pike
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Iranian's Letter to Bush Emerges  —  In his letter to President Bush, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared that Western-style democracy had failed and that the use of secret prisons in Europe and aspects of the war in Iraq could not be reconciled with Mr. Bush's Christian values.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and The Moderate Voice
Agence France Presse:
Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts  —  It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.  —  The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced …
Washington Post:
Former Aide to Rep. Ney Pleads Guilty  —  Volz Will Be Third Abramoff Associate to Testify Against GOP Lawmaker  —  A former senior aide to Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) who left Congress to join Jack Abramoff's lobbying team pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to corruptly influence Ney's official actions …
Natalie Angier / New York Times:
One Thing They Aren't: Maternal  —  Oh, mothers!  Dear noble, selfless, tender and ferocious defenders of progeny all across nature's phylogeny: How well you deserve our admiration as Mother's Day draws near, and how photogenically you grace the greeting cards that we thrifty offspring will send in lieu of a proper gift.
Washington Post:
Another Possible Bump to the Debt Ceiling  —  A $2.7 trillion budget plan pending before the House would raise the federal debt ceiling to nearly $10 trillion, less than two months after Congress last raised the federal government's borrowing limit.  —  The provision — buried on page 121 …
Michelle Roberts / Newhouse News:
Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Jared Guinther is 18.  Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June.  Girls think he's cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there — silent.
 
 
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