Odds and ends

As a follow-up to the post about the various rock artists evidently uniting against Bush, Juan Cole has a fine assessment of something that may disappoint them. It appears neither Kerry-Edwards nor the Dems as a whole are going to attack Bush on the Iraq war.
Steve Chapman at Slate takes a look at the states’ rights v. federalism issue I’ve mentioned in prior posts about the Gay Marriage Amendment.
Elaine Cassell, whose Civil Liberties Watch blog is linked at right, has a new book coming out. It’s called The War On Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. If it is based on or similar to April 2003 cover story, The Other War, in the Twin Cities’ City Pages, it will certainly be worth the time.

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