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Iraq

Take that Dems: Insurgent leader caught in Iraq.

Red State Posted 3 hours, 55 minutes ago
[UPDATE by streiff] Maybe not. Reports this morning are saying al-Baghdadi was not captured but rather some other al-Qaeda leader. The AP is reporting that the leader of the insurgent group which calls its self the...

Why Rudy?

California Conservative Posted 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
That’s the title of Salena Zito’s latest column, a must read if ever I saw one. Salena starts her column by interviewing conservative heavyweight Rick Santorum on why Rudy’s leading at this point. Here’s...

Family values

Pandagon Posted 6 hours, 34 minutes ago
Salon has an interview up by Lindsay with Nina Berman, who took the award-winning photo of Ty Ziegel and his wife Renee on their wedding day, a photo that freaks out war advocates so much that when I ran it here, they...
   

Nevada

Fox News Nevada Debate Dead

MyDD Posted 6 hours, 31 minutes ago
Bumped from the diaries -- Jonathan Update: Here's MoveOn's statement. So reports the Politico and confirmed by the Huffington Post. Markos has his take over at DailyKos. You can bet we'll be discussing this on MyDD...

Ailes is a little touchy about Edwards dropping out of FNC debate

The Carpetbagger Report Posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
To update a post from a few weeks ago, Democratic presidential candidates and the Nevada state party continue to face questions about partnering with Fox News to host one of the season’s major Democratic presidential...

John Edwards -- the kowtow continues

Power Line Posted 7 hours, 51 minutes ago
John Edwards continues his effort to carve out a niche as the Democratic contender who will kowtow most cravenly to leftist bloggers. First, he kept on two over-the-top leftist bloggers even after they had been...
     
 

Edwards

Fox News debate is officially dead

DailyKos Posted 6 hours, 57 minutes ago
So it's official, though I'm still waiting for an official statement from the Nevada Democratic Party and maybe even Harry Reid. The Big Winner: the Progressive movement, which came together at all levels -- netroots,...

The Left and “Faggots”

Stop the ACLU Posted 7 hours, 21 minutes ago
More on the hypocrisy front. I’ll just paste the entire article and say no more. CNS News: Of Hate-Speech and Hypocrisy (CNSNews.com) - The left-wing Daily Kos blog has been driving a campaign to have companies pull...

Edwards Wimps Out Of Fox Debate -- Tries To Raise Money Off His Cowardice

GOP Bloggers Posted 8 hours, 40 minutes ago
Left wingers have been attacking Fox News for as long as I can remember, but John Edwards wimping out of the Fox debate in Nevada is just mere cowardice, and yet, as can be seen on Edwards' campaign blog, they're trying...
   

Information

Florida Jail pays woman $350,000 for death of baby

Progressive U Posted 4 hours, 1 minute ago
In Tampa, Florida, one of the prisoners, Kimberly Grey, began complaining of labor pains. After 12 hours of complaining and no help from the jail, she began going into labor. The woman finally gave birth to the...

Slashdotting the U.S. Patent Process

MyDD Posted 6 hours, 33 minutes ago
Is there anything more exciting than patent reform? Yeah, I think today, the answer is clearly no. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is testing a community-model...

Slandering and harassing women is just fine if you’re a man

Pandagon Posted 6 hours, 41 minutes ago
Well, it’s nice to see that members of the elite live down to their reputation as misogynist inbreeds. I realize we should all be weeping and gnashing our teeth over the Duke lacrosse players, who are of course!...
     
 

Washington

The ignorance of the United States

Progressive U Posted 4 hours, 5 minutes ago
If you asked an average person on the street about their opinion on the genocide in Darfur, they'll probably give you a blank stare and respond with a "huh?" Sadly, this is true. Our society seems too caught...

Two ACLU Leaders Causing Harm in Virginia

Stop the ACLU Posted 7 hours, 25 minutes ago
March 6, 2007 J. Michael Sharman In an ironic but very appropriate linkage, a Google search on the name “Charles Rust-Tierney” first yields the headline: “Former ACLU Chapter President Arrested for Child...

Bush sees himself as Churchill — only slightly better

The Carpetbagger Report Posted 7 hours, 40 minutes ago
Sidney Blumenthal shared an interesting anecdote about the latest meeting of the White House book club. As witnesses were trooping to the stand in the federal courthouse in Washington to testify in the case of United...
   

Giuliani

Giuliani’s firefighter front flap

The Carpetbagger Report Posted 34 minutes ago
Considering his 9/11 platform, Rudy Giuliani needs a fight with firefighters like he needs another sex scandal. And yet, his latest tussle with the International Association of Fire Fighters — and his campaign’s...

Jim Sleeper's Nonsense on Rudy

Talk Left Posted 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
In telling us that Rudy the megalamaniac should not be President, Jim Sleeper perpetuates the myth that Rudy was some kind of Super Mayor. Why must this myth persist? Sleeper writes: He forced New York, that great...
     
 

Rudy

NY Firefighters Blast Rudy Giuliani

Talk Left Posted 3 hours, 39 minutes ago
Rudy Giuliani takes more heat, this time from the bipartisan New York firefighters union which blasts his "egregious" treatment of them after 9/11. In a letter to its members Friday, the International Association of...

Okay, so we've...

Joshua Micah Marshall Posted 8 hours, 9 minutes ago
Okay, so we've made a little progress in solving today's mystery. We've managed to get just a little closer to figuring out what the deal is with this new group "Firefighters for Rudy." But only a little. Update:...
   

Libby

Cheney’s Suspected Role in Security Breach Drove Fitzgerald

911 Truth Ring Posted 3 hours, 30 minutes ago
In a small room on the third floor of the D.C. federal courthouse in late March 2004, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stood before I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and asked him three separate times whether his boss,...

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - preview

Red State Posted 3 hours, 48 minutes ago
For Sunday, March11, 2007 Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert becomes the first Sunday morning talk show host in what seems to be years to: a - Interview U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad...

News From An Indicted Perspective

DailyKos Posted 6 hours, 56 minutes ago
So according to the WSJ's John Fund, it appears Tom DeLay is fixin' to become a commentator on CNN. Think Progress: In today’s WSJ Political Diary, [Fund] writes: 'Despite his antipathy toward liberals, Mr. DeLay...
     
 

Fbi

National Security Letter Violations by the FBI

Concurring Opinions Posted 1 hour, 25 minutes ago
According to the a DOJ investigation, the FBI has violated the law on several occasions in connection with the issuance of National Security Letters (NSLs). A NSL is a demand letter issued to a particular entity or...

FBI's Abuse of National Security Letters Highlights Need to Address Possible Fifth Amendment Defect

Is That Legal Posted 7 hours, 3 minutes ago
The NYTimes -- the paper of record -- writes today that the DOJ-OIG has raised serious concerns about the FBI's use of National Security Letters, which functionally are administrative subpoenas. The NSLs are used to...

DOJ Inspector General Report Today

Booman Tribune Posted 14 hours, 2 minutes ago
David Johnston and Eric Lipton have a scoop in the New York Times about an upcoming report by the Justice Department's Inspector General. It deals with the FBI's use of 'national security letters'. Apparently, the FBI...
   

Cnn

March Madness

Concurring Opinions Posted 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
Mike Jarvis, former men's basketball coach at Boston University, St. John's, and George Washington, writes in his Yahoo! column about the academic costs of division 1 basketball, particularly at tournament time. He...

Low Information Elites and Fox News

MyDD Posted 6 hours, 30 minutes ago
Chris has noted that voters who pay a lot of attention to politics are different than voters who don't. That's true. There's also a subtle and less well-understood difference between leaders who understand and pay...

This … is CNN

The Carpetbagger Report Posted 7 hours, 37 minutes ago
Apparently, Tom DeLay’s criminal indictment, his resignation in disgrace, his record of vituperative right-wing hate-mongering, his demagoguery, and his multiple admonishments from the House Ethics Committee weren’t...

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