From MetaFilter : Yesterday, Mazen al-Tomasi, a reporter for Al-Arabiya, was broadcasting live from the scene of a carbombed Bradley Fighting Vehicle, which had attracted a crowd of locals. While making his report, a sudden noise came from behind Mazen. Two Apache helicopters flew in overhead, and one o
From whitehouse.org Matt Drudge is the founder, publisher, and tirelessly heterosexual editor of The Drudge Report, the Interweb's number one source of indisputably objective political news. Eschewing formal training and so-called investigating, this former CBS studio gift shop cashier has single-handedly
From the Associated Press : "What would you expect from a senator from Massachusetts?" Bush said, as a partisan crowd cheered the reference to Kerry's home state and its liberal leanings. If Kerry said something so dismissive of a Red State -- and its citizens -- Rush Limbaug
This is from Andrew Sullivan 's blog. Andrew Sullivan is a Republican: Here's a quote that unnerves me. It's from a Sunni insurgent who was once, he says, pro-American.
From the Guardian : First Bush, and now Putin, have picked up lessons for their wars on terror from Israel's campaign against the Palestinians. There has indeed been a dramatic rise in religious fundamentalism in the Muslim world. The problem is that under the Likud doc
The subtitle -- "it's a fake" -- is a Star Trek (DS9) reference. Probably no one will get it, and I've just outed myself as a geek. Oh well. Lots of sort-of news this morning, most of it indicating that the Killian documents aren't authentic. There's a fairly good roundup at Slate . CBS finally pro
Updated 8:45 AM EST A friend of mine pointed out the excellent Killian document coverage by the blog The Shape of Days . It has lots of photos of Killian signatures, although with a great comparison of typewriter text and the actual document... I promise, this isn't just the same analysis you've seen everywhere else... well, unless you have.
Updated 10:47 PM EST CBS News has finally named an outside "document and handwriting examiner" who says he believes the documents are real: Marcel Matley. He also warns against coming to conclusions based on photocopies, fascmiles, mimeographs, or camera obscura images. Of course, if CBS would just m
Updated 5:00 PM EST FactCheck has a good roundup of media/expert opinions on the authenticity of the National Guard records.
Top Scientists have discovered: Look at this enlargement from Section 2: Clause 4. If we magnify the image we see that the "h" in When and the are identical . This cannot be possible because at the time the
Updated 2:35 PM : Naturally, that "someone" was my wife, and she referencing The Onion .
From Slate : In the Bush-Cheney worldview, all foreign adversaries blur into one: "the enemy." All U.S. options simplify to two: "offense" or "defense." Going on offense shows "strength" and defeats the enemy. If the president starts running with the ball, and you criticize him, you show "weakness" and invite terror
Updated 5:37 PM, EST INDC Journal actually brought in a forensic document expert (hey, why didn't I think of that? brain to blogic: because you're a slacker, get back to writing!) to examine the National Guard documents in question. He's 90% sure they're fake . Updated 10:40 AM EST There's no new hard information, and barely any new gossip. The conservative Amer
From Yahoo News : President Bush, who accuses his Democratic rival of keeping his budget plans secret, has yet to offer plans of his own for funding his campaign promises and cutting the deficit in half, fiscal conservatives said on Friday. "While i
Quad-City Times : Indicators measure the nation’s unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says it misses the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay. “That’s a source that didn’t even
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From the Los Angeles Times : Pentagon investigators believe the CIA has held as many as 100 "ghost" detainees in Iraq without revealing their identities or locations, a much greater number than previously disclosed, a senior Defense Departm
From Rasmussen Reports : Electoral College: Bush 213 Kerry 175 As part of the Bush Convention bounce, Michigan and New Jersey have moved to the Toss-Up column in our Electoral College projections. Both states had been leaning in Kerry's direction. The first Rasmussen Reports state polling
For those who are interested, there's an enormous debate across the Blogosphere regarding the authenticity of the National Guard documents released by CBS yesterday (and highlighted in an earlier post of mine). The documents are supposed to be personal files of one of Bush's superior officers, showing unhapp
From the New York Times : Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the nation was more likely to "get hit again" by terrorists if John Kerry was elected was one of the toughest attacks launched in a presidential election in 40 years. But
From the Washington Post : President Bush failed to carry out a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to undertake a medical examination that was necessary for him to remain a qualified pilot, according to documents made public yesterday
From the San Francisco Chronicle : After weeks of media scrutiny of Democrat John Kerry's record in Vietnam, Bush was broadsided by several challenges to his account of his six-year stint in the air guard in Texas and Alabama, including: -- A CBS "60 Minut
From the Independent : The US army does not count the number of Iraqis killed since the invasion in March 2003. The most conservative figure for the number dead is 10,000 as calculated by private groups. It is rising every day. The US military claimed that on Tuesday a
From USA Today : The presidential campaign spiked to a new level of rhetorical heat Tuesday when Vice President Cheney warned that a vote for Democrat John Kerry could bring terrorist attacks on the USA. Speaking to supporters in Des
From the Boston Globe : In February, when the White House made public hundreds of pages of President Bush's military records, White House officials repeatedly insisted that the records prove that Bush fulfilled his military commitment in the Texas Air N
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