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Krugman.

Dionne.

UPDATE: The troops get it.

A debacle

CBS announces it was “misled” about the authenticity of documents it aired indicating Bush was the evader-in-chief. I don’t give a rat’s behind about the impact this has on the credibility of CBS or the media as a whole. I am appalled and disheartened that it overshadows and distracts attention from the facts: Bush was […]

Keeping America safe

From Friday’s Strib:

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport.

It wasn’t a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark.

Kathryn Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Florida, airport found […]

Accountability (Part II)

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 […]

Accountability

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 […]