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Worth the time

If you haven’t seen or heard about it already, the Washington Post had a story Thursday on the Daschle-Thune race. (The Post noted, as I did elsewhere, that Thune managed to inject gay marriage into the recent ag debate). The Columbia Journalism Review has a couple interesting pieces. One explores the the media’s handling […]

Worth the time (catch-up edition)

Dahlia Lithwick’s excellent column in last Sunday’s NY Times regarding “re-activist judges.” David Ignatius’ column on the true dangers of politicizing terror. Not only does the Iraqi Olympic soccer team object to being used in Bush campaign ads, some of them say if they were not in Athens they would join the resistance. (Via […]

Catching up

Just back from a quick vacation squeezed (as usual) between the end of summer activities and the beginning of school-related activities. As a result, just starting to catch up on news, blogs, etc. A few items:

I have two e-mail addresses with a particular ISP — one is private (known only to certain friends […]

Worth the time

Lots of good stuff the past few days:

Walter Laqueur’s lengthy but excellent examination of sources of terrorism. (Via Arts & Letters Daily). William Watkins’ assessment of civil liberties this election season appearing at History News Network. Just for the sake of balance, I note HNN also has this slightly less recent column rebutting some […]

Worth the time

Bob Harris, guest blogging at Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World, tells us about National Preparedness Month. Isn’t it surprising the run-up and announcement are scheduled to coincide with the GOP convention and the anniversary of September 11? Juan Cole is indispensable on how we outed an al Qaeda double agent and the potential ramifications. […]