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Among the items crossing my desk/monitor in the last 24 hours: Newsweek tells us It’s Worse Than You Think. The New York Times confirms, reporting that a late July National Intelligence Estimate “spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq.” Meanwhile, The Guardian has a Sidney Blumenthal column to the effect that many senior […] For the last few weeks I have been amazed that much of the American electorate seems to refuse to hold Bush accountable for how his administration took us into war in Iraq under demonstrably false pretenses. I am also stupified by the fact Kerry and the Democrats seem to be afraid to hammer that fact […] Two stories appearing next to each other in this morning’s Argus made me wonder: Is it any wonder Iran, North Korea, etc., think they need to develop nuclear weapons or that we have no credibility when it comes to these issues? At the top of page 3 was an Associated Press article that “the United […] John Thune does not believe in evolution so probably doesn’t pollute the minds of his young teen daughters with such a concept. He prefers they learn Christian values: “I’m training my daughters on how to use a semiautomatic handgun.” On September 11, Jonathan Schell lived six blocks from the World Trade Center. He then began a series of columns in The Nation called “Letter From Ground Zero.” Some have been collected in A Hole in the World, which I’ve been reading off and on over the last week or so. Last night, I read […] |
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