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Just "evolution in action"
(updated below - updated again)Glenn Reynolds points to this article from The Independent which reports that a "leading Islamic doctor is urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against...
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Our little Churchills
We've now arrived at the point where the White House and its followers reflexively characterize any criticism of the Leader's war of any kind as aid to the Enemy and an attack on our troops. They don't...
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George Washington and the Middle East
George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address is an amazingly prescient warning to the U.S. to avoid certain dangers with regard to foreign policy. As we become more and more entangled in the intricacies...
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Andrew Sullivan and the hollow "Conservative Soul"
(updated below)There is a serious fraud emerging in the political landscape that, though easily predictable and predicted, is now being perpetrated with full force -- namely, that the so-called...
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Republicans and Congress' war powers -- then and now
Russ Feingold today is chairing a Committee hearing in order to demonstrate that Congress has the Constitutional authority to compel the President to withdraw troops from Iraq, a power that is not...
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Various items
(updated below)(1) NSA expert James Bamford makes a vital point in a New York Times Op-Ed this morning: regardless of what happens with FISA issues going forward, George Bush violated the criminal law...
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David Brooks, National Spokesman for "Americans"
(updated below - updated again)One of the most common tactics among pundits of all types, but particularly Bush-supporting and pro-war pundits, is to take whatever their own personal opinion happens to...
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Blog news
Beginning next Thursday, February 8, this blog will be moving to Salon, where it will be a featured front-page blog (full access to Salon is available by subscribing or for free, by clicking through an...
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Blogs, alternative political systems, funding
(updated below)There are several topics I was hoping to write about today (and I will), but there is a lingering issue which arose from my announcement yesterday about moving to Salon that I think is...
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Enforced orthodoxies and Iran
(updated below)On Thursday, the neoconservative New York Sun published a remarkable article reporting on an event to be held that night by AIPAC, at which Hillary Clinton was to deliver the keynote...
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How the super-smart, insider experts opine
(updated below)The New Republic has published an article by Benjamin Wittes, a "Guest Scholar" at the Brookings Institution, which argues that the issues surrounding the Bush administration's...
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Profile of the Neoconservative Warrior
Mark Steyn is one of the most extremistwarmongers in our country and is gripped by the fear that the European race will die out as Muslims breed too rapidly and take over. He has also been as...
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Angry, uncivil liberal bloggers
The National Reviewtoday promotes Byron York's article on Valerie Plame:The sheer hatred directed at Valerie Plame by Bush followers has always been intense, extreme, and deeply personal -- even when...
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Rudy Giuliani's compatibility with the Republican Christian base
(updated below - Update II - Update III)Kevin Drum voices what seems to be the prevailing sentiment regarding Rudy Giuliani: "I don't think Giuliani has the faintest chance of winning a presidential...
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A new Beltway term -- "Oversight"
It has been six long, dysfunctional years since it made an appearance in Washington, so one can be forgiven if one has forgotten what it looks like, but this thing called Congressional "oversight" over...
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Blog news
(updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V)In order to finalize a few remaining design and functionality issues, this blog's move to Salon, originally scheduled for today, will...
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Gen. Pace: they "don't have a clue how democracy works"
(updated below)That this is even notable at all, or that it has to be said, is by itself significant:A top Pentagon leader weighed in yesterday on the war debate and appeared to undercut the argument...
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Statement of the Edwards campaign
(updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV)Subject: EDWARDS STATEMENT ON CAMPAIGN BLOGGERS AMANDA MARCOTTE AND MELISSA McEWENFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 8, 2007EDWARDS STATEMENT ON CAMPAIGN...
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The significance of the Edwards story
(updated below)With the merciful (and generally positive) conclusion of the Edwards "controversy," it is worth examining the story's significance and the reasons it merited as much attention as it was...
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Calls to investigate the media's pre-war behavior
(updated below)A new report by the Pentagon's Inspector General documents what everyone other than the hardest core Bush followers already knows: namely, that "Intelligence provided by former...
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