memeorandum: Rangel's dumb and astronomically expensive idea (Donald Sensing/One Hand Clapping)

12:25 AM ET, November 21, 2006

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Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Key Democrats oppose renewing military draft

Discussion: Preemptive Karma and Blue Crab Boulevard

Fighting back: the city determined not to become al-Qaeda's capital — A power struggle is taking place in the Sunni triangle, with tribal leaders and coalition forces aligning against a common enemy — A convoy of five US military humvees, each with radios crackling and a machine-gunner poking through …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, The Jawa Report, Flopping Aces, Wake up America and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:

Olbermann Delivers A Special Comment Educating Bush on Vietnam — Keith gives us another great special comment, this time explaining to Bush the lessons he should have learned in his recent trip to Vietnam. — Video - WMV Video - QT — Keith: "It is a shame and it is embarrassing …

TMZ.com:

"Kramer's" Racist Tirade — Caught on Tape — WARNING: WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS PROFANE AND RACIAL — Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Althouse, Ace of Spades HQ, Taylor Marsh, Pam's House Blend, Shakespeare's Sister, Blanton's and Ashton's, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, King of Zembla, alicublog, The Right Angle, Gawker, Booman Tribune, Pajamas Media and Unfogged

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

Jose Padilla also rules Iraq — (updated below) — The New York Sun has a really, really scary column this morning about The Terrorists and how much stronger they are now because the Democrats won: … Democrats are soul mates not just with The Terrorists generally …

Discussion: NewsHog and The Sideshow

Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:

Rangel's dumb and astronomically expensive idea — Hey buddy, can you spare $800,000,000,000 for Rangel's mandatory-service corps? — Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964 as the Republican nominee. I was was not even 10 then so obviously didn't vote in that election.

Discussion: Macsmind and GINA COBB

Hindrocket / Power Line:

IS YOUR NEWSPAPER AMERICA'S WORST? — Scott recently suggested that the Minneapolis Star Tribune may be America's worst newspaper. That produced lots of emails from readers who nominated their own newspapers, or others with which they are familiar, for the honor.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin

Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:

McCain literally sticks to the script on Iraq — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stuck to the script yesterday during an appearance on ABC's This Week, repeating his desire to see more troops sent to Iraq. What's interesting, however, is that McCain seemed to need his notes quite a bit to get through the discussion.

Discussion: Firedoglake and The Gadflyer

Associated Press:

Iran Urges Summit With Iraq and Syria — Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region …

Discussion: The Adventures of Chester, Hot Air, Middle Earth Journal, Mensa Barbie Welcomes You and JunkYardBlog

Sam Dillon / New York Times:

Schools Slow in Closing Gaps Between Races — When President Bush signed his sweeping education law a year into his presidency, it set 2014 as the deadline by which schools were to close the test-score gaps between minority and white students that have persisted since standardized testing began.

Discussion: Cato-at-liberty, Eduwonk.com, JustOneMinute, Matthew Yglesias, CBS News and The Education Wonks

Deanna Bellandi / Associated Press:

Democrat urges gradual Iraq withdrawal — CHICAGO - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who is contemplating a run for the presidency, on Monday called for a "gradual and substantial" reduction of U.S. forces from Iraq that would begin in four to six months. — Speaking to the Chicago Council …

Discussion: Eschaton

David Herszenhorn / New York Times:

N.Y. Is Ordered to Pay $1.93 Billion for City Schools — New York State's highest court ended a landmark 13-year court battle over education financing today by releasing its ruling that an additional $1.93 billion must be spent each year on New York City's public schools.

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and JURIST