tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38177582025-09-06T02:53:12.019-05:00Because it's never too early...Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07281604383158987338noreply@blogger.comBlogger1669125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3817758.post-1123918495542023912005-08-28T21:00:00.000-05:002006-01-18T22:05:56.193-06:00

...to the all-new Decision '08 version 2.0. Please join me there, won't you?...

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Hey, welcome back to my old home - looks kind of lonesome, doesn't it? Here are the pics, as promised:

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Earlier today I linked to a small sampling of 9/11 audio clips released by the Fire Department of New York City; here, courtesy of the New York Times, is the complete set of records...

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...as Donald Rumsfeld might say. Our man AJStrata (see his latest here) gets some great pub from Jim Geraghty's TKS blog at National Review Online; Geraghty says Able Danger has got folks stirred up, and he's right there:I don't know about you readers, but I feel like the revelations about Able Danger have stirred a certain energy, anger, and analytical adrenalin in the blogosphere that we

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Few things in all bloggerdom are more fun than reading Mickey Kaus when he's on a roll - and he's on a big one now...reading his thoughts on the continuing debasement of CNN by the hopeless Jonathan Klein is hilarious enough, but all of his other recent items are quite good as well...If you've got the time, I suggest you follow the advice of this post title, here...

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I've commented before, and recently, on the pleasant surprises that can await a visitor to the Washington Post's editorial pages these days, particularly when contrasted with the farcical decline of the New York Times under Gail Collins. Once again, the Post has come out with an unambigious stance that would be almost unimaginable from its rival. Commenting on the despicable attempt by NARAL to

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...is not the latest crappy reality show from Fox, but rather a reality horrow show taking place at Erick-Woods Erickson's Confessions of a Political Junkie. Read the post, then look at the comments, for a picture perfect example of how a blog with open commenting can get hijacked by someone with an agenda (jeez, seems like something similar may have happened in these parts not too long ago, as

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By now, you've probably heard that the NYC Fire Department has just released a ton of new 9/11 recordings and documents. You can listen to some of them here...a chilling reminder of why we fight...

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A research scientist has just left $105 million to the NYU School of Medicine. $105 million dollars - a research scientist. Have I mentioned before that I've wasted my life?...

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Blair's government is keeping up the heat on radical Islamists by intituting a ban on the return of the hateful cleric Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, who fled Britain in haste to seek refuge in Lebanon. The details:In a statement today, the Home Office said that Charles Clarke, the home secretary, had written to Sheik Mohammed to tell him he no longer has the right to live in Britain. "The Home

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After 15 days of complete silence, the New York Times has finally noticed the Air America scandal. Leon H, who suffered no such lapse, has the scoop...

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Barring some totally unforeseen eventuality, this site will officially close this weekend, to be replaced by the new one, maybe tomorrow, maybe Saturday. I'm getting quite anxious, now that I'm almost there. Today, I solved what had been a really pesky obstacle, a Cascading Style Sheet problem that was killing me in Firefox (anyone who's ever banged their head in frustration at the different

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It's starting to feel like a blogswarm...thanks to utron, AJStrata (read his latest Able Danger news here) and Greg Bullock (whose latest delicious takedown of MoDo can be found here) for pointing out these links from Little Green Footballs, Captain Ed, Rick Moran, and Dr. Sanity, and just for good measure, I'm throwing in the great Tom Maguire. The upshot: people are really excited about two

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Our good friend and disastrous one-term president Jimmy Carter is telling a fib, and George Will ain't gonna stand still for it. Read the whole thing, but the intro is particularly delicious:A quarter of a century has passed since 44 states said "No, thanks" to Jimmy Carter's offer to serve a second term, yet he still evidently thinks his loss is explained not by foreign policy debacles, such as

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This Walter Pincus Washington Post story is linked from the front page. This is the conclusion:Two other sources appear to support the view that Wilson's wife suggested her husband's trip. One is a June 2003 memo by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). The other, which depends in good part on the INR document, is a statement of the views of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.),

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I think Mick Jagger is one of the great rock and roll stars of all time, but I'm gonna call 'em as I see 'em, and his current attempt to have his cake and eat it, too, isn't going to fly. Jagger has penned a song called 'Sweet Neo Con', as you may have heard, and as you may suspect, it's a diatribe against the Bush Administration. That's obvious to everyone but Jagger:The Rolling Stones' upcoming

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Leon H has the latest on the developing Air America scandal, and notes that it's finally penetrating some traditional media outlets two weeks in. Leon's been on this story like Garfield on lasagna, so be sure to look to him for the latest...

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Bob Woodward is predicting that Dick Cheney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee:If Bob Woodward is right, it will be The Old Man and the She in the 2008 showdown for the White House. Speaking in Colorado last night, the Washington Post journalist predicted that Vice President Dick Cheney and former First Lady Hillary Clinton would face off in the next election for president. Speaking

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AJStrata joins the MinuteMan and others in broaching the subject of Congressional Hearings into the Mohammed Atta / Able Danger breaking story. For once, I'm gonna ignore my usual cautious impulses and agree; let's look into this thing fully...UPDATE 2:01 p.m. central: Yet more from AJ here...

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On the heals of a New York Times story revealing that the 9/11 commission knew of, but ignored, the Able Danger/Atta angle, the always-excellent MinuteMan is now convinced, as AJStrata was from the beginning, that the Able Danger story represents a monumental intelligence foul-up:...At this point we ought to await a description of the one hour condensed briefing that, per Weldon, was given to Gen

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The quest to unearth something that might derail the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts is becoming increasingly desperate. Today, the Washington Post gives big play to this blockbuster: Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. once urged a previous nominee, Sandra Day O'Connor, not to tell members of Congress how she might vote in cases likely to come before the court. In a memo

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Scott Elliott looks at the latest Pledge of Allegiance court case and wonders if removing God from public life doesn't just enshrine the 'belief' of atheism...At Americans for Freedom, jp is wondering if the Plame investigation is heading in another direction. Calling AJStrata, come in, AJ...I'm calling it a night, but before I do, just a quick update. I have imported my Blogger posts into the

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Longtime reader Fred sends a link to this story worth quoting in its entirety: NEW YORK Apparently it's never to early to speculate on the 2008 race for the White House. Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night had an "Indecision 2008" segment and Gallup just released a new survey on various trial heats. And guess what: Rudy Giulani is in the early lead in the Gallup gallop. Its most recent

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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of a loss that hit me hard on a personal level; it was the day Jerry Garcia finally paid the price for his stupid lifelong love affair with heroin. The music of the Grateful Dead is an acquired taste; some can't stand the lengthy breathing room and sometimes aimless noodling that were the price of the occasional flashes of sheer brilliance.That's fine; to each

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Yeah, I know, that headline makes no sense whatsoever; see here for the details (hat tip to BSR, who, I have on good authority, is NOT the kid pictured with this post)...

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