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Free Judy Miller NYT — Permalink The New York Times reporter Judith Miller has now been in jail longer for refusing to testify than any reporter working for a newspaper in America. It is a very long time for her, for her newspaper and for the media. | |
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Arianna Huffington: Arianna Huffington: The Judy Tsunami: The Groundswell That Never Was — Reading the latest New York Times Judy Miller... Digby: But Arianna leaves out my favorite part of the editorial today: "As Jack Nelson, a veteran journalist for The Los... Jim Romenesko: Having Miller in jail is an embarrassment to US, says NYT — New York Times The Times editorial board reminds readers... |
Roger Ailes: I completely had forgotten about the sacrifices that Judy Miller is making for the good of our nation until last weekend. Jesse Taylor: There's a really simple way to make sure that the continual national embarassment of having Judith Miller be the... Stirling Newberry: Right Wing New York Times Wants to be Above the Law — This says it all. Permalink Stirling Newberry - Comments (4) |
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Restaurant boss in raw - tipsters NY Daily News — Permalink Is he subway flasher? Cops want to question a Manhattan restaurant owner after getting numerous tips that he's the subway flasher caught in the act by camera phone, police sources said last night. | |
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Ace: Okay, for legal reasons, and for truthful reasons, I'll just say that the guy that the NY Daily News is suggesting might... Ogged @Unfogged: Oh, That's Gross — It may be that the subway flasher has been caught. |
John Cole: Possible Flasher Caught Thanks to the Intertrons, the notorious NYC subway flasher may have been, ahem, fingered: ... Steve Bainbridge: I Just Can't Help Myself — Raw Food Restaurateur Allegedly Caught in the Raw |
Just Check the ID By / WaPo — Permalink Athletes do things that seem transcendental — and they can also do things that are transcendentally stupid. They choke, trip and dope. Nevertheless, they possess a deep physical knowledge the rest of us can learn from, bound as we are by our ordinary, trudging, cumbersome selves. | |
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Gary Farber: IT IS HEAD-BANGINGLY STUPID, at least. Greg @TheTalentShow: This really is one of the stupidest things ever written : [snipped quote] Now, there are some who might read this and... |
Radley Balko: Pastafarians — The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins — possibly the worst major daily sports columnist writing today —... Atrios: ID This Washington Post column is, perhaps, the stupidest thing I have *ever* read. |
More costly than 'the war to end all wars' By / Christian Science Monitor — Permalink Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (140,000), the war effort is rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive war in United States history. This conflict has already cost each American at least $850 in military and reconstruction costs since October 2001. | |
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Cori Dauber: The Logic Escapes Them — Okay, see if you can pick up the irony here. Taegan Goddard: More Expensive Than World War I — "Despite the relatively small number of American armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan... |
Steve Bainbridge: Iraq War and Cost-Benefit Analysis — It may be that the Iraq war is "rapidly shaping up to be the third-most expensive... Judd @ThinkProgress: The Iraq war is already more expensive than WWI, |
Katrina's floodwaters inundating Gulf Coast CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Parts of New Orleans are flooded with up to six feet of water Monday after some of the pumps that protect the low-lying city failed under the onslaught from Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin said. | |
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Holly: Update on Hurricane Katrina — CNN: New Orleans takes a beating [snipped quote] Apparently power is out in the entire city but some emergency generators are working. Kevin Aylward: Of course now it's just a horrific disaster, as opposed to an unprecedented one... Katrina pounds Louisiana, Gulf Coast... Judith Weiss: Extra! Extra! Bush causes massive flooding in New Orleans! Did you know Bush is to blame for Hurricane Katrina? |
Steve Bainbridge: (See CNN's regularly updated article.) Gene @HarrysPlace: Katrina strikes — Best wishes to any of our readers who live on or near the Gulf Coast of the US. I hope they got to a safe place in time. |
Campus Rads vs. Our Vets NRO — Permalink As college students hit campuses across the nation this week, a new generation of young veterans will step off the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and onto the ideological battlefield of our university campuses. | |
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McQ: "Hate the war, love the warrior", and other lies of the left — Can you name the era for this quote? Blackfive: Treatment of Vets on Campus — Wynton C. Hall & Peter Schweizer have written a must read article for the National Review... Jason Van Steenwyk: You can have more respect for your adversaries. NRO looks at what happens: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing. |
Cori Dauber: Campus Attitudes — The NRO puts up a piece detailing the experiences of returning vets who have been made to feel less than welcome on college campuses. Judith Weiss: A succinct rejoinder to all the "Iraq is Vietnam" crap, which might be especially useful to veterans attending college... |
See No Evil, Hear No Evil By / Weekly Standard — Permalink AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. | |
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Ace: 9/11 Commission Suppressed Evidence of Links Between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein — Since "everyone knows" there was no... Betsy Newmark: He hopes that now, with the attention on the 9/11 Commission and what they left out of the report, that people will... Scott @PowerLine: I missed the article by Stephen Hayes in the new issue of the Standard when the new issue was posted on Saturday: "See no evil, hear no evil." |
Lorie Byrd: It is a doosie. UPDATE - ADDITION: See No Evil, Hear No Evil by Stephen Hayes in The Weekly Standard. Andy McCarthy: WHY DID THE 9/11 COMMISSION BURY IRAQI TIES TO 9/11? Steve Hayes is asking over at that other magazine. A must-read. |
Ky. Gov. Issues Pardons in Hiring Probe By / AP — Permalink FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Monday granted blanket pardons to current and former members of his administration who have been charged in an investigation into alleged improper hiring. | |
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Michael Froomkin: But in Kentucky it seems they are either more stupid, more desperate, or more arrogant: via TPM we learn Gov. Ernie... |
David Schraub: Issuing a blanket pardon to your own flacks during the heart of a corruption investigation? |
Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name AFP — Permalink LONDON, (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly-named village. While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of F---ing are failing to see the funny side, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. | |
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Jan Haugland: AFP can't write "F**king", but they can go off their rockers in this hilarious piece. Ace: F---ing and You: Perfect Together — I'm completely sure this is a spoof, but damnit, it seems to have a valid URL. |
Gary Farber: I F**KING MUST POST. Where you live isn't work-safe. [snipped quote] I'm sorry, but I just had to. I'm really into F**king. Kathryn Jean Lopez: F***ING NONSENSE "LONDON, (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and... |
Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups By / Seattle Times — Permalink Starbucks says it was hoping to inspire old-fashioned coffee-house conversations when it introduced a campaign this year featuring the words of notable Americans on its coffee cups. But at least a few of those words are sparking more discord than discussion. | |
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Ace: Breaking News: Starbucks Is A Liberal Corporation — A Christian women's group is upset that most of the quotes on its... |
Cookie Jill: the way i see it... these women are freakin' nuts. |
Vigils take on higher profile Sacramento Bee — Permalink WASHINGTON - Since the spring, long before an angry mom named Cindy Sheehan set up camp outside President Bush's Texas ranch, anti-war activists have been holding vigils outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday nights, when many soldiers and their families venture off campus for steak dinners. | |
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Michelle Pilecki: Margaret Talev of the McClatchy Newspapers' Washington Bureau tries to sort through the story to get a little closer to... Atrios: The Anti-Military Anti-American Right — Lovely folks: WASHINGTON - Since the spring, long before an angry mom named... |
John Cole: The Anti-War Vigils at Walter Reed The controversy at Walter Reed is heating up: Since the spring, long before an... |
Journalist death toll exceeds Vietnam By / Globe and Mail — Permalink BAGHDAD — More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003, than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said yesterday. | |
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Jeralyn Merritt: Journalist Toll in Iraq Exceeds Vietnam — This is quite a sobering statistic: "More journalists have been killed in... Nick Gillespie: And more bad news: Journalist death toll exceeds Vietnam and Iraq violence will rise, Bush says. Remind me again: How do you spell cluster f**k? |
Gary Farber: IT IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE. But not a good war to cover. Laura Rozen: Journalist death toll in Iraq exceeds that of Vietnam. Update: The latest killed, Reuters TV soundman, Waled Khaled, 35, was killed by US soldiers. |
Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq By / NYT — Permalink WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - With lawmakers facing tough questions at home about the war in Iraq, Senator John W. Warner, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, says he intends to summon Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld quickly for a hearing when Congress returns next week. | |
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Thomas de Zengotita: John Warner, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (NY Times, p.9 8/29/05) There you have it. Gary Farber: As here: [snipped quote] Noting the anxiety level is always a useful measure in politics. |
Laura Rozen: Rumsfeld asked to testify before Congress about Iraq. |
Alive and Kicking By / Slate — Permalink We are all living constitutionalists now. But only some of us are willing to admit it. The notion of a Constitution that evolves in response to changing conditions didn't start with the Warren Court of the 1960s; it began at the founding itself. | |
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Jack Balkin: Synthesizing Originalism and Living Constitutionalism JB My defense of the idea of a living Constitution and my... |
Orin Kerr: Are We All Living Constitutionalists Now? Jack Balkin tries to make the case in a provocative essay over at Slate. |
Democracy works, but may not be enough By / Lebanon Daily Star — Permalink The Bush administration provided three major rationales for going to war in Iraq. Only one remains at all credible: the need to transform the Middle East through democratization and thereby undercut support for terrorists. | |
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Matthew Yglesias: Via Brad Plumer, a Joseph Nye column raises some of the issues that people need to be asking: "Nevertheless, we can... |
Brad Plumer: In the Lebanon Daily Star, Joseph Nye compares 'democratization' in Iraq with that in Japan and Germany fifty years ago:... |
Roberts Pushed for Reagan Policies By / AP — Permalink WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee John Roberts suggested a conservative Ronald Reagan supporter "go soak his head" after he criticized the White House for avoiding a friend's fight with immigration officials, new documents show. | |
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Jo Fish: French-Fried Apartheid — Our old pal Justice French Fry is getting to look more and more like the whitebread racist that makes the GOoPers orgasmically happy. |
Echidne: More from John Roberts — These are some of his thoughts during the Reagan era: [snipped quote] We are getting to know our John, better and better, even though slowly. |
City Questions Circumcision Ritual After Baby Dies By / NYT — Permalink A circumcision ritual practiced by some Orthodox Jews has alarmed city health officials, who say it may have led to three cases of herpes - one of them fatal - in infants. But after months of meetings with Orthodox leaders, city officials have been unable to persuade them to abandon the practice. | |
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Eugene Volokh: "Bloodsucking Circumcision," as Slate characterizes it; according to this New York Times article, "A circumcision... |
Spoons: A stark reminder that no religion has a monopoly on psychotic freaks: [snipped quote] What in the holy F**K?!? |
President Discusses Hurricane Katrina, Congratulates Iraqis on Draft Constitution White House — Permalink THE PRESIDENT: This morning I spoke with FEMA Undersecretary Mike Brown and emergency management teams not only at the federal level but at the state level about the — Hurricane Katrina. I've also spoken to Governor Blanco of Louisiana, Governor Barbour of Mississippi, Governor Bush of Florida, and Governor Riley of Alabama. | |
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Taegan Goddard: President Bush on Sunday. Link | Related News |
Judd @ThinkProgress: Bush Slashed Hurricane Funding For New Orleans — Yesterday, President Bush said [snipped quote] He's not one of them. |
Popinjay jibe triggers US brawl of the Brits By / Guardian — Permalink Not since the Rumble in the Jungle, when Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in Kinshasa in 1974, can there have been such an eagerly anticipated punch-up as the one due to take place in New York in a fortnight. | |
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Judith Weiss: If you are in the NYC Metro area, you can watch the pyrotechnics at Baruch College. Stefan Beck: We'll be there. Have you got your tickets? Even the Guardian is salivating about it. Norm Geras: An item on the upcoming debate between Christopher Hitchens and George Galloway. |
Cori Dauber: C-Span Should Charge — If this were pay-per-view they could make up their budget in one night, although you will notice... Andrew Sullivan: IT'S ON NOW: Hitch versus Galloway - live in Manhattan on September 14. |
Gretchen Wilson Pockets Skoal Controversy By / AP — Permalink NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music's "Redneck Woman" promises to keep her can of Skoal in her back pocket from now on. Tennessee's attorney general had asked Gretchen Wilson not to pull out a can of smokeless tobacco during performances of her new song "Skoal Ring" because it glamorized tobacco use. | |
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Jacob Sullum: As Nick notes, Tennessee Attorney General Paul Summers recently sent country music performer Gretchen Wilson a letter... |
Nick Gillespie: Skoal Scolds — Reader Jim Murphy, who blogs here, points us to the latest skirmish in the war against tobackey: [snipped quote] Whole AP account here. |
Critics hitting bull's eye: Top executive defends magazine By / Boston Herald — Permalink David Carey is shooting back at those who've stuck a bull's eye on the back of The New Yorker for making retailer Target the exclusive advertiser in the Aug. 22 issue. ''We've had people who say the New Yorker shouldn't do things like this,'' Carey, The New Yorker's publisher, told the Herald in an interview. | |
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Jim Romenesko: New Yorker publisher calls columnist Lazare "a crazy nut" — Boston Herald Care to respond to New Yorker publisher David Carey's insult, Lewis? |
Rex Hammock: Target marketing update: In today's Boston Herald, David Carey calls Lewis Lazare "a crazy nut". (rexblog flashback: I... |
Hurricane Lashes a City Abandoned By / LAT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Bill Rau, the 45-year-old owner of a French Quarter antique shop that sells diamonds and 18th century clocks, flew his family to Dallas on Sunday, not because he knew anyone there but because it was the only way he could get out of town. | |
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Gal Beckerman: Its lead article, headlined "Hurricane Lashes a City Abandoned," begins with mini-profiles of one Bill Rau, who was able... Susie Madrak: Landrieu pointed out that some people couldn't leave - they had no transportation, no money, no place to go. Kevin Roderick: Houston bureau chief Scott Gold appears to be on the ground waiting for Hurricane Katrina. |
Joe Gandelman: Meanwhile, the LAT Times notes that some people didn't leave the largely abandoned city — because it looked as if they couldn't get out anyway. RJ Eskow: "Some 9000 people have sought shelter there." the la times captures the class divisions among the struggling, as well as... |
Police Frustrated by Suge Knight Probe AP — Permalink MIAMI (AP) — When rap mogul Suge Knight was wounded during a party, hundreds of people were in the nightclub. But when police interviewed the guests, most claimed to have seen nothing. | |
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Jonah Goldberg: Well, here's the rapper David Banner on the shooting of Suge Knight at a party for the MTV awards: "I don't think that... |
T. A. Frank: Here's rapper David Banner, who looks like a thoughtful fellow, with a bit of perspective on the incident: [snipped quote] All too true. |
It's Not Just the Spending By / TCS — Permalink Before leaving town earlier this month, Congress approved nearly $300 billion in increased spending. But spending, supported through taxes, is not the only way the federal government diverts resources from the private sector to accomplish its goals. | |
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Andrew Sullivan: BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM: The Bush people spend like paleo-liberals; they borrow like paleo-liberals; and they regulate like paleo-liberals. Glenn Reynolds: SUSAN DUDLEY offers some depressing news: [snipped quote] Jeez. |
Matt Welch: Well, so much for that: "The FY 2006 Budget requests that Congress allocate $41.4 billion for regulatory activities, up from $39.5 billion in 2005. |
In Re Grammar, Roberts's Stance Is Crystal Clear By / NYT — Permalink John G. Roberts Jr. could have easily ignored the letter from E. F. W. Wildermuth that came across his desk in December 1982. The correspondent, an octogenarian lawyer from New York, made an obscure procedural point about the Senate's jurisdiction based on his... | |
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Betsy Newmark: I just love this story from the NYT about how he is so precise in his grammar usage. I look forward to reading his decisions. Dr. Steven Taylor: Via the NYT: In Re Grammar, Roberts's Stance Is Crystal Clear "In fact, an obsession with rhetorical precision is a... |
Ann Althouse: Stories like this, about John Roberts's attention to editing and writing style, have inspired me to hope for far better written Supreme Court opinons in the future. |
Cindy Sheehan's Radical Strategist NRO — Permalink Have you heard of Lisa Fithian? A veteran of the Seattle WTO riots and scores of other protests, she's been with Sheehan from the start. A notice on Cindy Sheehan's website, meetwithcindy.org, asks for donors who might be able to offer a camper, or an RV,... | |
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TheAnchoress: Byron York notes that Mrs. Sheehan will only be on her "bus tour" for two days due to "previous speaking engagements," but that she is sending some committed radicals in her place. Steve Antler: Save those bolt cutters for Washington, no? Byron York cannot suppress a smile. |
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Byron has the story. |
Katrina batters roof of Superdome CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — The Louisiana Superdome, where about 10,000 people have taken refuge from Hurricane Katrina, reportedly began leaking Monday as winds damaged the roof, letting daylight and rainwater in the darkened arena. | |
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Baldilocks: No Two-by-Two This Time — Flooding is still an issue in New Orleans and the report of Katrina tearing a hole in the roof of the Superdome sounded ominous. |
Glenn Reynolds: There's another picture here, along with a report that there are 10,000 people (not the 40,000 other outlets are reporting) inside. |
Hurricane Tears Holes in Superdome Roof By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina ripped two holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside Monday. The holes were in an area of vents some 19 stories above the arena floor. | |
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James Joyner: Related: Hurricane Tears Holes in Superdome Roof |
Dr. Steven Taylor: Katrina Blogging VII: The Superdome Roof — Not good. Via the AP: Hurricane Tears Holes in Superdome Roof. |
Green Light for Guzzlers WaPo — Permalink Maybe — but only barely. Under the proposed rules, average mileage for such vehicles would have to rise by just 1.8 miles per gallon over the 2008 to 2011 model years, reaching an average of about 24 mpg by the end of that time. | |
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Brad Plumer: The Washington Post chastises the Bush administration for not drawing up stricter automotive efficiency standards. |
Iain Murray: CAFÉ HAYEK — The Washington Post's sanctimonious editorial on CAFE standards today is just what you'd expect,... |
Did Time intentionally deceive its readers in Plame case? Media Matters for America — Permalink For some time, the central mystery in the Valerie Plame saga was which members of the White House staff leaked the undercover CIA operative's identity to reporters. | |
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Digby: Tim Russert For Best Actor — Following up on Michael Wolff's Vanity Fair piece, Media Matters points out that Time... |
Atrios: Journamalism — We now know that Time magazine is happy to print information it knows to be false. Blogger ethics panel, convene! |
Missing Able Danger 'Atta' Chart in 2002 Video NewsMax.com — Permalink A copy of the Able Danger chart that identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist operating inside the U.S. a year before the 9/11 attacks is clearly visible in a video of a 2002 speech by delivered by Rep. Curt Weldon to the Heritage Foundation. | |
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Leah A: More fun, if you try and guess. You can find out about he whole delicious story by clicking here. Kathryn Jean Lopez: ABLE DANGER — Chart is found? (See at Heritage, May 23.) |
Captain Ed: Able Danger: Chart Existed In 2002 — Newsmax reports that a chart shown at a Heritage Foundation event in May 2002 by... |
Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted By / NYT — Permalink A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance. | |
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Suzanne Nossel: Army Corps of Engineers' top civilian official Bunnatine Greenhouse has been demoted for complaining about bloated no-bid contracts for Halliburton. James Joyner: Update: The NYT story is here. (RSS) Josh Marshall: If you're hankering for a GOP corruption fix, don't miss this piece in today's Times about a twenty-year army... |
TChris: Her experience didn't prepare her for the consequences of asking questions that the Bush adminsitration expected to remain unvoiced. Gary Farber: You'll likely have seen this by now, or you'd see it anyway, but still: Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted. Attaturk: CORRUPTION!!!!! Just in time to be ignored because of a Hurricane and the so-called Iraqi Constitution is this story. |
| Also: Mark Kleiman | |
The Media Quagmire By / Weekly Standard — Permalink IF JOURNALISM were a profession, Peter Braestrup's 1977 book Big Story would be required reading in every journalism school. Braestrup's long subtitle is a little dry: "How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington." | |
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Cori Dauber: The Big Story — Blogger Scott Johnson mentions my favorite book in a piece for the Weekly Standard. Scott @PowerLine: Media quagmire — The Standard has posted my column on media coverage of the war: "The media quagmire." |
Hugh Hewitt: For more media criticism, see Scott Johnson's "The Media Quagmire" in today's Daily Standard. |
Witnessing Genocide In Sudan CBS News — Permalink (CBS) The United Nations has called it the greatest crisis in the world. The United States calls it genocide. It's happening in the African nation of Sudan, and 60 Minutes went to see for ourselves. What we saw and what you will see again tonight is evidence of a government-backed campaign to wipe out a race. | |
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Gary Farber: On the plus side, I watched the 60 Minutes broadcast last night, and it was excellent: unstinting in showing the horror... Norm Geras: The closed door in Darfur — Here's a report from 60 Minutes on Darfur: [snipped quote] The rest contains much direct eyewitness testimony. |
Steve Dillard: "Witnessing Genocide In Sudan": For those of you who missed the 60 Minutes report on Darfur last night, you can read the transcript from the program here. Laura Rozen: WTF? Update: 60 Minutes featured a long segment on the genocide in Darfur Sunday night. |
Politics vs. the Integrity of Research Chronicle of Higher Education — Permalink Global warming is happening now. Many of us can intuit that from our personal experience. And we have come to know it the same way people learned that E=mc2: based on compelling scientific evidence, arrived at through objective, transparent scientific inquiry. | |
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Chris Mooney: And in yet another promising development, the president of the University of Arizona recently teamed up with his... |
Henry @CrookedTimber: Scientific intimidation John McCain and Peter Likins (president of the University of Arizona) write an op-ed for the... |
Bush Decision on Oil Reserves Is Expected AP — Permalink WACO, Texas — President Bush weighed a decision on whether to release some oil from the nation's petroleum reserves to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina, administration officials said Monday. A decision was expected later in the day. | |
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Kevin Drum: KATRINA AND THE SPR...Associated Press reports that President Bush will announce later today whether he will release... |
Ezra Klein: SPR — I'm with Kevin — Katrina has really made it a necessity that we dip into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. |
Sunnis dissent as Iraqi parliament backs constitution By / Financial Times — Permalink Iraq's parliament yesterday approved a draft constitution but Sunni Arabs and radical Shia leaders vowed to defeat it in a referendum on October 15. "The constitution is left to our people to approve or reject," said Jalal Talabani, the country's Kurdish president, at a ceremony after the draft text was read to the National Assembly. | |
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James Joyner: Sunnis dissent as Iraqi parliament backs constitution (FT) [snipped quote] One step at a time. Glenn Reynolds: THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT has accepted the constitution over Sunni objections. |
Steve Antler: Angry opponents now say they will urge their supporters to vote against it in a referendum. Doesn't this all add up to "we've won"? |
I invaded the White House press corps By / Salon — Permalink On July 11, the story of Karl Rove's involvement in the Valerie Plame case broke, and the hounds got loose in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and whomped on the press secretary. | |
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Guest Blogger: Briefing Room Invasion — While the Brady Briefing Room may be quiet for one more week, save the jack hammering of... Jim Romenesko: Gregory has a lust for confrontation in WH briefing room — Salon That's one thing Cintra Wilson discovered after "invading" the White House press corps. |
Susie Madrak: Inside the Pack Salon's Cintra Wilson reports from inside the White House press corps. |
Katrina may be 'our Asian tsunami' CNN — Permalink (CNN) — Flooding expected from Hurricane Katrina could wreak catastrophe on New Orleans, overwhelming its water and sewage systems, damaging its structures and leaving survivors in a bowl of toxic soup, a top hurricane expert said Sunday. | |
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Joe Gandelman: New Orleans is basically a city poised on a natural disaster waiting to happen but — so far, at least — the very worst scenario has not occurred. Josh Marshall: But we're only hours away from the predicted landfall and the predictions, with all the most current data, really do sound catastrophic, as overused as that word can be. Jeralyn Merritt: Devastation from Katrina Will Be Catastrophic — Update: Katrina may be our "Asian Tsunami." |
Dr. Steven Taylor: Katrina Blogging V — Via CNN: Katrina may be 'our Asian tsunami' "Flooding expected from Hurricane Katrina could wreak... James Joyner: Expert: Katrina could unleash disaster (CNN) "Flooding expected from Hurricane Katrina could wreak catastrophe on New... Justin Gardner: This story from CNN about Katrina even likens it to the recent tsunamis. [snipped quote] This just reminds me that, in the end, we are so very fragile. |
| Also: Scared Monkeys, PGL, John @AmericaBlog | |
Ethics Case: We Erred, and Now We Are Taking Action By / Richmond Times-Dispatch — Permalink You can see for yourself that our Metro Business cover photo Monday about a Richmond-area candy company copied the Style Weekly cover of December 22. We conducted a review after the similarity in the covers was brought to our attention late Monday afternoon. | |
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Terry Heaton: Managing editor Louise Suggs apologized to readers. [snipped quote] I think this was more about simple laziness than the p-word. |
Jim Romenesko: Times-Dispatch fires photographer for visual plagiarism — Richmond Times-Dispatch The photographer responsible for the... |
Buffalo roams the battlefield to protect soldiers from mines By / Washington Times — Permalink COLUMBIA, S.C. — When U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Keith Kempke returns to Iraq to find and destroy land mines and improvised explosive devices, he'll be supported by a growing fleet of new armored vehicles such as the Buffalo and the Cougar. | |
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Blackfive: Coincidentally, today, W. Thomas Smith Jr. of the Washington Times has a story about the Buffalo. |
Kathryn Jean Lopez: "HUMVEE ON STEROIDS" — The battlefield is getting a lifesaver. |
Sheehan: Other moms of slain 'brainwashed' By / WorldNetDaily — Permalink After calling the terrorists in Iraq who killed her son "freedom fighters," anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan now says other mothers of those slain in the conflict whose views oppose her own are "brainwashed." | |
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TheAnchoress: It is very hard to feel sympathy for her, at this point, when she cannot find sympathy for her Gold Star sisters-in-grief if they - ahem - do not agree with her politics. |
John Hawkins: Daily News For Aug 29, 2005 — Foreign "Sunni Negotiators Refuse To Endorse Constitution" "Israel: A Suicide Bombing... |
Is Capitol punishment fact of Life? NY Daily News — Permalink Some long knives in Washington, D.C., appear to be out for glossy-mag mogul Jason Binn, a brash and flashy New Yorker who's stirring up rivalries with his soon-to-launch Capitol File magazine in the sometimes-sleepy nation's capital. | |
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Guest Blogger: Capitol Punishment for Life — Lloyd Grove notes in today's NY Daily News' Lowdown that some in Washington are greeting... |
Jim Romenesko: Additional items for August 29, 2005 > Long knives in DC appear to be out for glossy-mag mogul Binn (NYDN) > Send link... |
Romney predicts 'landslide' reelection By / Boston Globe — Permalink Despite polls showing him trailing potential Democratic rivals, Governor Mitt Romney is confidently predicting that he would trounce the competition if he decides to run for reelection next year. ''Well, I win by a landslide in Massachusetts if I run for reelection. | |
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Taegan Goddard: Romney Predicts Landslide If He Runs Again — "Despite polls showing him trailing potential Democratic rivals,"... |
Kathryn Jean Lopez: ROMNEY SOUNDING READY...FOR ANYTHING — On Hardball: "''Well, I win by a landslide in Massachusetts if I run for reelection. |
Greenspan and the Bubble By / NYT — Permalink Most of what Alan Greenspan said at last week's conference in his honor made very good sense. But his words of wisdom come too late. He's like a man who suggests leaving the barn door ajar, and then - after the horse is gone - delivers a lecture on the importance of keeping your animals properly locked up. | |
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Susie Madrak: Perfect Krugman: Most of what Alan Greenspan said at last week's conference in his honor made very good sense. |
Mary @LeftCoaster: Open Thread — Krugman believes that Alan Greenspan should take some of the blame for the upcoming housing bubble... |
Hurricane Could Leave 1 Million Homeless By / AP — Permalink When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries. | |
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Gal Beckerman: In its lead story, an AP dispatch from Matt Crenson, the danger to the French Quarter was lamented high up, where... Zoe Kentucky: Analysts have predicted that more than one million people will likely become homeless in a single day. That's unfathomable. |
Joe Gandelman: According to some experts, depending on how hard it finally hits, 1 million people could be left homeless due to the story. John @AmericaBlog: Katrina may be "our Asian tsunami" 1 million evacuated Katrina is a "once-in-a-lifetime event" Katrina could leave 1 million homeless. |
Powerful Storm Threatens Havoc Along Gulf Coast NYT — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 - Hurricane Katrina, one of the most powerful storms ever to threaten the United States, bore down on the Gulf Coast on Sunday, sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the approach of its 160-mile-an-hour winds and prompting a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, a city perilously below sea level. | |
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Gal Beckerman: In the space of two paragraphs, the paper quoted two people queuing up for the 'Dome. One was a British tourist, stuck in the city, unable to get out. Scared Monkeys: More Links Washington Post, II New York Times. |
Michelle Malkin: "There is an elevated paved deck that surrounds the Dome. It will most probably be above water but inaccessible until probably daylight Tuesday." Roger Ailes: Katrina and the Waves — [snipped quote] (link) Update: I'm not sure this post has/had a point. It also comes off as insensitive. |
In Camille's Deadly 1969 Solo, A Grim Prologue To Katrina By / WaPo — Permalink The problem with hurricane stories is that one uses up the adjectives on minor-league storms. Mail-order meteorologists and blow-dry weathermen have been inundating us for so long with evacuation hysteria for mere tropical disturbances — complete with... | |
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Joe Gandelman: The flooding may be related to unconfirmed reports of levee breaks along industrial canals in the area. — WDSU.com... James Joyner: Ken Ringle, special to WaPo, at least has a more realistic comparison: In Camille's Deadly 1969 Solo, A Grim Prologue To... |
Michelle Malkin: More on oil. The Washington Post remembers Hurricane Camille. Kevin Drum: But it has to hit just right for that to happen: [snipped quote] By the time I wake up in the morning, we'll all know if... |
Rushdie dismisses Galloway's claims Guardian — Permalink Salman Rushdie clashed with George Galloway yesterday in a debate about TV and religion and a hypothetical small-screen adaptation of the novelist's controversial book The Satanic Verses. | |
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Marc @USSNeverdock: Britain - Rushdie Clashes With Galloway — The Guardian reports "Salman Rushdie clashed with George Galloway yesterday... |
Harry @HarrysPlace: Galloway's Pre-emptive Fatwa — Salman Rushdie clashed with George Galloway yesterday in a debate about TV and religion... |
SciGuy Houston Chronicle — Permalink Damage estimates dropping this morning. A lot. The good folks at Kinetic Analysis Corporation and the University of Central Florida have updated their U.S. damage estimates from Katrina this morning. Their analysis jibes with what we've been talking about here. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Eric Berger, the SciGuy, has damage estimates—pegged at $30 billion plus—and notes the potential impact on oil production. |
Charles Kuffner: There's hope that it won't be the apocalyptic catastrophe it had (and still has) the potential to be - indeed, damage estimates are dropping - but it's still very early. |
Transcript for August 28 MSNBC — Permalink Please credit any quotes or excerpts from this NBC television program to "NBC News' Meet the Press." Guests: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; General Wesley Clark (Ret.) Fmr. NATO Supreme Allied Commander - Europe; | |
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McQ: On "Meet the Press" yesterday, Gen. Wayne Downing, former commander of the US Special Operations Command had this to... Dr. Steven Taylor: Generals on MTP on Iraq — On MTP this morning it was an ex-General-o-rama. Here are some observations. |
Ann Althouse: Here's an interesting part of Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" interview with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay... Lorie Byrd: I think Russert may be in for a major fisking for his comments in this segment. UPDATE: Transcript here. |
Storm aims for heart of U.S. oil industry By / al.com — Permalink Oil traders closed business on Friday confident that Hurricane Katrina would hit too far to the east to affect the price of oil and natural gas. That was before the National Hurricane Center shifted the storm's possible path to a more westerly track that... | |
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Joe Gandelman: But one of the biggest vulnerabilities for New Orleans that could have a big, fat national impact is on the oil... Chris Bowers: This is a big deal because Katrina could cripple the national oil industry: "If Hurricane Katrina holds true to... |
Michael DeBow: Here's a view of the economic impact a direct impact on those facilities would have. Scared Monkeys: II CNN, II BBC Looking for Live Reports Mobile Register on the impact on Gasoline NOLA is Blogging the Storm To discuss this story, click here. |
Iraq gamble as Sunnis left out of constitution deal Guardian — Permalink Iraq took a historic gamble yesterday when the ruling Shia and Kurdish coalition bulldozed over the objections of Sunni Arabs to finish a new constitution. | |
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Captain Ed: On the other hand, the Guardian reports that the Sunnis have asked other Arab nations to step in and block the draft... |
Andrew Olmsted: TOP TOPICS Iraq has a draft constitution ready for the voters, but it is one the Sunnis are not happy with. |
If the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey By / NYT — Permalink PROFESSORS at the best law schools are generally assumed to be overwhelmingly liberal, and now a new study lends proof. But whether the ideological imbalance matters - to the academic environment students encounter, to the kinds of lawyers the schools produce and to the stock of ideas the professors generate - depends on whom you ask. | |
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Justin Gardner: An interesting study that was just released suggests that most law professors are Democrats. Steve Bainbridge: An oldie but a goodie: Bias against conservatives in law school hiring — The NYT reports: "[A] study, to be published... Jim Lindgren: Adam Liptak has a fair account of it in the New York Times: [snipped quote] Although not mentioned in the NY Times... |
Amanda Marcotte: A new study has been released showing that yet another section of elite academia is (sorta) run by liberals. Ann Althouse: Nearly all are, per Adam Liptak, writing in the NYT: "[A] study, to be published this fall in The Georgetown Law... Betsy Newmark: What a surprise: law professors tend to be Democrats in this story with the great headline. |
| Also: Scott @PowerLine, Greg Ransom, Tom Maguire, Jonathan H. Adler, Pejman Yousefzadeh | |
How to Win in Iraq By / Foreign Affairs — Permalink Summary: Because they lack a coherent strategy, U.S. forces in Iraq have failed to defeat the insurgency or improve security. Winning will require a new approach to counterinsurgency, one that focuses on providing security to Iraqis rather than hunting down insurgents. | |
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Andromeda: I happened to pick up a copy of Foriegn Affairs, because it contained an article intriguingly entitled 'How to Win in Iraq'. Matthew Yglesias: WHEN ALL ELSE HAS FAILED... Andrew Krepinevich's widely discussed essay "How to Win in Iraq," which pushes the line that... Suzanne Nossel: Iraq - 10 things progressives ought to be saying — While the public has finally woken up to the Administration's... |
Gary Farber: The hot article of the past few days has been How to Win in Iraq, by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. I see good and bad in it. Jim Henley: Comments () » Damned Spot The two articles everyone has to read now are the much-discussed Andrew F. Krepinevich... Justin Gardner: Andrew Krepinevich, Jr., retired US Army lieutenant colonel, Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and... |
| Also: Kevin Drum, Ed Cone, Tom Maguire, Brad Plumer, Jason Van Steenwyk, Dale Franks, Andrew Sullivan | |
Winning in Iraq By / NYT — Permalink Andrew Krepinevich is a careful, scholarly man. A graduate of West Point and a retired lieutenant colonel, his book, "The Army and Vietnam," is a classic on how to fight counterinsurgency warfare. | |
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Andromeda: Lo and behold, this same article was referenced in that day's New York Times op-ed by David Brooks. So I set to reading it. Jim Henley: Finally, to the extent that chastened hawks accept Krepinevich's recommendations, they are conceding a great deal. Tom Maguire: Victory In Iraq — David Brooks did *not* write "I love the smell of victory in Iraq. It smells like... oil". But I just did! |
Andrew Sullivan: The job of the U.S. is to do a far better job of providing security. David Brooks' suggestion seems like a no-brainer. Steve M.: David Brooks writes about an essay in Foreign Affairs that recommends a new strategy for fighting the Iraqi insurgency. Justin Gardner: Even if it takes a decade to accomplish, it's a fight we need to be waging. (HT: David Brooks) |
| Also: Brad Plumer, Ed Cone, Matthew Yglesias, Cori Dauber, Cliff May | |
Are you affected by Katrina? BBC — Permalink Send us your experiences of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of people are leaving the low-lying Louisiana city of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches. Forecasters say the city could be in the eye of the storm when Katrina, now swirling over the Gulf of Mexico, hits. | |
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Laura Rozen: I've found two amazing sources of online first-hand info: — BBC Online's "Talking Point" reader's blog:... Joe Gandelman: The BBC is inviting comments from readers who have info about the storm. Norm Geras: Some comments from the area: "Our house is about 2 blocks from the levee that guards us from Lake Pontchartrain so we... |
Glenn Reynolds: causewaycam_320x240.jpg — THE BBC is running reader reports on Katrina. More blogging here and here. Justin Gardner: And more from CNN, NY Times and the BBC (who calls for stories from the experience). |
Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph By / AP — Permalink NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge. | |
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Joe Gandelman: Katrina's Winds 175 MPH As New Orleans Orders Evacuation — New Orleans sounds like it's a weather horror story about to... Kevin Drum: KATRINA....Can I join every other person on the planet in recommending that if you live in New Orleans, you should get out now? Jim Henley: Comments () » When the Levee Breaks Adding my voice to the chorus, best wishes and brightest hopes for New Orleans. |
Justin Gardner: From the Wash Post, comes news about Hurricane Katrina: [snipped quote] My thoughts/prayers/good-tho ughts are with them. Rex Hammock: New Orleans mandatory evacuation: A category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans is the worst conceivable scenario. John @AmericaBlog: 175 mile an hour winds heading for New Orleans — Jesus. I knew this thing was coming, but man it's big. |
| Also: Laura Rozen, Ann Althouse | |
From The Archives New Orleans Times-Picayune — Permalink The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bridge was closed Sunday at 10:30 p.m. An hour earlier, the Huey P. Long Bridge was closed. Access will resume when the weather permits, Causeway police said. | |
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Michelle Malkin: Jon Donley of NOLA.com says a New Orleans building collapse has been reported, possibly with people inside. Glenn Reynolds: NOLA.COM'S HURRICANE BLOGGER has a picture of the Superdome with the roof peeling off. Jeralyn Merritt: Katrina Casualties - 3 Nursing Home Patients Die — Three nursing home patients in New Orleans died while being... |
Jeff Jarvis: Blogging in the wind Nola.com editor Jon Donley is blogging from inside New Orleans, in the Times-Picayune's hurricane... Hugh Hewitt: The Damage Reports Are Just Beginning to Arrive — Expect more of this. |
An End to Polarization? By / US News — Permalink For 10 years American politics has been sharply polarized, with just about equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats arrayed angrily against one another. We have come to think of this as a permanent condition. Yet by the next presidential election that may very well change. | |
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: . . But I'm not sure that I can sign on to his thesis that polarization has come to an end. Patrick Ruffini: Michael Barone knows a thing or two about the polling industry, having worked in it for several years, and finds the... Paul @PowerLine: An end to polarization? The great Michael Barone wonders whether we are nearing the end of polarization in our politics. |
Justin Gardner: Michael Barone writes in US News & World Report that 2008 is shaping up to be the year where people are brought... James Joyner: Michael Barone thinks the days of the 50-50 nation may soon be behind us owing to the rise of comparatively moderate candidates for the 2008 presidential race. Betsy Newmark: Michael Barone, always an interesting observer of political trends thinks that there is a possiblity that 2008 won't be as polarizing an election as the previous few elections. |
| Also: Glenn Reynolds | |
New Orleans orders evacuation CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city as Hurricane Katrina churned toward the city with maximum sustained winds of nearly 175 mph. | |
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Michael DeBow: And there's a possibility that exact thing could happen. Here's a little of what CNN.com has to say about that. Kieran Healy: Light Relief Update: In the CNN story on this event, the mayor of New Orleans is quoted as saying [snipped quote] I'm... Oliver Willis: Katrina: Good Thoughts for New Orleans — This thing looks a nightmare come to life. |
Will Collier: Category Five — The top winds in Hurricane Katrina are up to 175 miles an hour, the third-highest hurricane wind speed ever recorded. John Cole: Tough Times for the Big Easy Looks like New Orleans is going to get hit hard: Emergency officials along the Gulf... Dr. Steven Taylor: Evacuation of NO Ordered — Via CNN: New Orleans orders evacuation |
Mandatory Evacuation Ordered for New Orleans as Storm Nears By / NYT — Permalink Threatened with a potential catastrophe, the mayor of New Orleans ordered people in the city to evacuate today as Hurricane Katrina gained strength. President Bush has already declared an emergency for Louisiana and Mississippi, which along with other parts of the northern Gulf coast states lie in the direction of the hurricane. | |
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Michael Bérubé: Next year, we want to become even more adept at this game: we're going to drop off Nick and drive back in one day,... Susie Madrak: Devastation Approximately 1/3 of the nation's oil and natural gas moves through the port of New Orleans. Skippy: the big uneasy if you're anywhere close to new orleans, leave! |
Kieran Healy: Six Feet of Water in the Streets of Evangeline The whole of New Orleans is being evacuated as Hurricane Katrina moves toward the coast. Matthew Yglesias: Hurricane — There are probably better places to go for coverage of the apparently imminent destruction of New Orleans,... |
Getting No Satisfaction By / US News — Permalink Mr. Answer Man, I see in the newspapers that Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones complained that "George Bush doesn't listen to us." What does he mean by that? Browse through an archive of columns by John Leo. | |
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Nick Gillespie: Brian Jones Confidential — Look, there's politics. There's stories about Hurricane Katrina. And then there's the things that really matter. Glenn Reynolds: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS about the Rolling Stones, from John Leo. Brian Jones was the real talent in that band anyway; they've just been coasting since he died. |
Matt Welch: I should point out that the occasion for Reynolds' observation is that columnist John Leo is making fun of them for criticizing the president. |
Church: God Punishing GIs Over Gays By / AP — Permalink SMYRNA, Tenn. - Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq. The church members were met with scorn from local residents. | |
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John Podhoretz: REPULSIVE — Fred Phelps, a wacko Kansas minister who will, I have no doubt, be going straight to Hell when he dies is... Champollion: Just so the King knows, some of his fellow travellers have figured out the cause of all the turmoil and what is getting... Julie Saltman: Hating America — These religious conservatives in particular aren't even being coy about it. [snipped quote] Utterly heinous. |
Mary Madigan: Example number 1,236,457 of bias in the press.. by Mary Madigan Via AP "Anti-gay protests at GI funerals SMYRNA,... Arthur Silber: SICK BASTARDS — This isn't exactly news, but it still should be noted just what loathsome bastards these people are |
Bronson: I can't get past the media force field By / Cincinnati Enquirer — Permalink Superman is invulnerable. Star Trek's Enterprise has invisible shields that stop photon torpedoes. Invisible Woman has a bulletproof force field. But those things only exist in comic books, science fiction - and the mainstream media, where you can only tell if it's there by the things that bounce off. | |
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Ed Driscoll: Via Betsy Newmark, Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer looks at the media's forcefield—somethin g I observed on... TheAnchoress: The Media Force Fieldâ Impenetrable. And it seems to thicken every day…and in every way. |
Betsy Newmark: Peter Bronson posits that there is a media forcefield and certain subjects just don't get through. He's right. |
Show Me the Science By / NYT — Permalink Blue Hill, Me. PRESIDENT BUSH, announcing this month that he was in favor of teaching about "intelligent design" in the schools, said, "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." | |
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Jan Haugland: Intelligent Design is a hoax — Daniel Dennet is definitely one of the clearest thinkers and writers out there, and you... Ed Cone: ID an "ingenious hoax"? Daniel Dennett in the NYT: "Is 'intelligent design' a legitimate school of scientific thought? |
Will Wilkinson: Dennett on ID — Daniel Dennett's NYT essay on intelligent design is spot on from beginning to end. Ezra Klein: And, via PZ, Daniel Dennett on the mechanism that makes this all possible: "the proponents of intelligent design use a ploy that works something like this. |
Iraq Negotiators Sign Draft Constitution WaPo — Permalink BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 — Shiite Muslim and Kurdish negotiators formally signed Iraq's new draft constitution Sunday, moving it toward a national vote over the strong objections of some Sunni Arabs in the talks, who rejected a final draft. | |
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Justin Gardner: From the Washington Post: "BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 — Iraqi leaders completed a draft of a permanent constitution Sunday after... Billmon: The Philadelphia Experiment — The Iraqi constitutional "process" (now careening towards a bitter and divisive... |
Steve Soto: Cole Predicts The Months Ahead In Iraq — Before I head out the door today, and with the Shiites and Kurds giving up... |
Rev. Jackson Lends Support to Chavez By / AP — Permalink CARACAS, Venezuela - The Rev. Jesse Jackson offered support for President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, saying a call for his assassination by a U.S. religious broadcaster was a criminal act and that Washington and Venezuela should work out their differences through diplomacy. | |
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Gateway Pundit: (AP) The AP tells a whopper in propping up the Marxist Chavez: In a speech to Venezuela's National Assembly, Jackson... Jonah Goldberg: HIGHLARIOUS — Jackson heads to Venezuela to suck-up to Chavez. I guess he really is the leftwing Robertson. |
Jayson @PoliPundit: From Parody to Farce — Jessie Jackson and the Associated de-Press-ed. What's next? |
John McCain to Chuck Hagel: Iraq Not Vietnam NewsMax.com — Permalink Sen. John McCain rebuked his Senate colleague and good friend Chuck Hagel on Sunday, saying that the Nebraska Republican was wrong to claim last week that Iraq was becoming another Vietnam. "Chuck Hagel is one of my dearest and best friends and will always be that," McCain told CBS's "Face the Nation." | |
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John Hawkins: 39% Said They Definitely Would Not" "John Mccain To Chuck Hagel: Iraq Not Vietnam" [snipped quote] Columns "Victor Davis... |
McQ: McCain to Hagle: Iraq not Vietnam — It'll be interesting how the left will react to comments by John McCain about the comparison of Iraq to Vietnam. |
A Conversation With the Standards Editor By / NYT — Permalink THE standards editor of The New York Times, ensconced in the midst of the newsroom, plays a crucial role in the daily process of publishing the paper. His responsibility is to maintain and police the paper's journalistic ethics, accuracy, fairness and accountability in the face of pressures ranging from deadlines to demands to hold down costs. | |
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Jim Romenesko: More editor/ombud columns: > Houma Courier editor gets hurricane news while on silent retreat (HC) > Siegal: NYT editors... Cori Dauber: This morning the Times' Public Editor uses his column to publish snippets of a conversation he had with the Standard's... |
Tom Maguire: Hearing Footsteps — Byron Calame, the Public Editor of the NY Times, chats with the standards editor of the Times... Jeff Jarvis: Followup question, please In today's Times, public editor Byron Calame interviews standards editor Allan Siegal and... |
Iraq's Sunnis reject constitution BBC — Permalink Iraq's Sunni leaders have rejected the Iraqi draft constitution and called for intervention by the UN and Arab league. The joint declaration by the team of negotiators representing Iraq's Sunni minority came as a final version of the document was presented to parliament. | |
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Justin Gardner: The BBC also reported on the new Iraqi constitution. "The Iraqi people will decide in a referendum, scheduled to take place by mid-October, whether to accept it. Jan Haugland: The draft constitution has now been presented to parliament, but as many feared the Sunni Arab negotiatiors have refused to back it. |
Dr. Steven Taylor: Meanwhile, according to the BBC: "Nonetheless the Sunni representatives vowed to not entirely disengage from the... |
Officials: Suicide bomber injures 21 in Israel CNN — Permalink JERUSALEM (CNN) — Twenty-one people were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in a suicide bombing at a central bus station in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Israeli officials said. The bombing occurred about 8:30 a.m. outside a bus during the morning rush hour when a man detonated himself. | |
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Captain Ed: A Palestinian bomber wounded 21 Israeli civilians in Beersheba, near Gaza, in a suicide-bomb attack on a bus this... John Cole: The Reward For the Gaza Pull-Out Was a suicide bombing: Twenty-one people were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in a... Forkum: From CNN: Officials: Suicide bomber injures 21 in Israel. |
Jay Tea: In the town of Beersheba, we have seen the first signs of moderation from the terrorists: a suicide bomber at a bus station only killed himself, while wounding 21 others. Roger L. Simon: Not more than a metaphorical ten minutes after the Israelis yanked their citizens out of Gaza, one of his is once again behaving like a certifiable homicidal maniac. |
In California Enclave, Cougars Keep the People at Bay By / NYT — Permalink ATHERTON, Calif. - You would think that if you plunked down $10 million for a home, including millions to buy three adjoining properties, you could count on a little freedom to roam. | |
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Glenn Reynolds: At least if someone can do something about the mountain lions. That's been a problem before. Ann Althouse: Afraid to go out in your own $10 million yard? Well, what do you expect? You moved into the ecotone. |
Tom Smith: Rich people get pussy cat fever — I think the overall message is, we will live forever because of nanotechnology, but only if the lions don't eat us first. |
New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation CNN — Permalink NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city as potentially catastrophic Hurricane Katrina churned toward the city with maximum sustained winds near 175 mph. | |
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Karl-Thomas Musselman: It Comes... Go Now — If you are anyone you know is near New Orleans or the coast where Hurrican Katrina (now Category... Susie Madrak: Pray For New Orleans. Wind gusts recorded at 200 mph. UPDATE: Bubble Boy will address the nation about the hurricane Iraqi constitution at 12:30 p.m. EST. |
Charles Kuffner: Katrina — I don't really have much to say about Hurricane Katrina that hasn't been said elsewhere, so let me join in... |
American Nazi Idol By / Front Page Magazine — Permalink LAST NIGHT THERE WERE 1,500 CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR CINDY SHEEHAN AND ONE BURNING CROSS. Sheehan has become the poster girl for the antiwar Left, because her status as a grieving mother renders the 48-year-old Vacaville, California, native more sympathetic than Medea Benjamin, Ramsey Clark, or Michael Moore (whose website hosts Sheehan's blog). | |
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Judd @ThinkProgress: Goldberg includes a link to an article on David Horowitz's website which notes "Cindy Sheehan's newfound, seemingly mutual love for anti-Semitic, racist, and neo-Nazi extremists." |
Jonah Goldberg: "See Ben Johnson's article. I predict that the poor woman will be soon dropped and forgotten by the mainstream..." |
Rove's role Boston Globe — Permalink SOME WHITE House sympathizers have attempted to portray Karl Rove's role in the Valerie Plame scandal as that of a statesman, seeking to provide President Bush with the best information possible on Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions so that Bush could set policy based on facts. | |
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Avedon Carol: Pamela Leavey at The Democratic Daily says Treasongate should be back on the front pages shortly. Jeralyn Merritt: Boston Globe Trashes Karl Rove — What an editorial! "Rove's record has been consistent. |
Joe @AmericaBlog: Boston Globe Smacks Rove HARD — I don't know what got the Boston Globe editorial page stirred up (besides the obvious)... |
Venezuela protest march turns violent AP — Permalink CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A street march by hundreds of Venezuelans opposed to President Hugo Chavez turned violent on Saturday, when people believed to be government supporters threw rocks and tear gas canisters at the protesters. | |
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WoW Team Monday: Protests held in Caracas turned violent as pro-government supporters attacked opposition protesters with rocks, tear gas, and bottles. |
Gateway Pundit: (Reuters) A protest against Hugo Chavez turned violent as pro-Chavez supporters threw rocks and tear gas at the... |
A guide to dating Jews earns author 'Nazi' tag Observer — Permalink Kristina Grish has been described as a 'Nazi' and little better than a prostitute. Her crime: writing a light-hearted, non-Jewish women's guide to understanding Jewish men. | |
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Harry @HarrysPlace: From a rather odd and quite depressing story in The Observer today comes a turn of phrase that makes me go: urggh. |
Susie Madrak: Meshuginah As a shiska who married a Jew, all I can say is, "Oy vey." |