So the money that funded the 9/11 attacks has been traced to accounts in Pakistan. Very, very interesting.

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Yeah, Eric Alterman is pretty much a snob. But when he’s right, he’s very right:
This is total and complete nonsense. There can be no argument that Bush misled the country and the world. Iraq had no nuclear program to speak of, sought no nuclear weapons parts in Niger, and apparently did not have any so-called […]

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From T. Rex, the Terrorists Fantasy League. Too funny…

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The New York Times editorializes on the Boy King’s press conference:
Mr. Bush’s vague and sometimes nearly incoherent answers suggested that he was either bedazzled by his administration’s own mythmaking or had decided that doubts about his foreign and domestic policies could best be parried by ignoring them.
Mr. Bush will simply not engage the issue of […]

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Stop the presses! The Boy King takes responsibility for, um, stuff. And he says Condi’s really cool, so stop picking on her. Everything else is fine, so quit yer whining.

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From the well-known leftist house organ Fortune magazine, a look at Rumsfeld’s connection to the nuclear reactors in Korea. Unfortunately, it’s available only to subscribers but here’s a hint:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld rarely keeps his opinions to himself. He tends not to compromise with his enemies. And he clearly disdains the communist regime in North […]

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Garry Wills is such a remarkable writer, I’m still awed when I read him. In the New York Review of Books, he’s done a terrific job on Hillary Clinton’s “Living History“:
But we are told that a strong woman, a “true” feminist, can no longer put up with such humiliation. We are usually informed what the […]

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From Norbizness, it’s “MATCH THE TREASONOUS FELLOW TRAVELLER WITH THEIR DISGUSTING, PARTISAN, ANTI-AMERICAN QUOTE” GAME:
(a) “Because of some combination of bureaucratic inertia, political caution and unrealistic expectations left over from the war, we do not appear to be confident about our course in Iraq”
(b) “We just haven’t seen any proof of linkages between Saddam Hussein […]

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From Folkbum:
Cheney refused to serve in Vietnam. He received four 2-S draft deferments — granted to students — from 1963 through 1965 while he was a student at the University of Wyoming. He married Lynne in 1964, and was thus banned from the draft.
But in October 1965, the Selective Service announced that married men […]

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Digby is probably at least a minor deity. In this, he eviscerates the Democratic “Please Sir May I Have Another?” Leadership Council:
It seems that by the DLC’s calculation, the “far left” doesn’t consist of Green party members or anti-globalization protestors or radical groups like Earth First and Peta. According to them, middle aged, middle class […]

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CHUCKLE OF THE DAY
From Roger Ailes:
Tom “Bug Chaser” DeLay thinks he saw a flying monkey:
To gauge how “out of touch” the Democrats are, DeLay instructed, “close your eyes and try to imagine Ted Kennedy landing that Navy jet.” The crowd chuckled obligingly.
Now try to imagine Bush landing it. Now imagine the resulting carnage.

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Josh Marshall on cutting back airline security just as we hear of new hijacking threats:
Another TSA spokesman told the Washington Post that the marshal’s program “is not exempt from budget realities facing the TSA.”
Really? Can we make it exempt?

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WOLF TICKETS
MoDo on Wolfie vs. honesty:
Brazening out the failure to find the Saddam-Qaeda links and W.M.D. the administration aggrandized before the war, Mr. Wolfowitz has simply done an Orwellian fan dance, covering up the lack of concrete ties to the 9/11 terrorists with feathery assertions that securing “the peace in Iraq is now the central […]

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REMEMBER ‘BARBIE - QUEEN OF THE PROM’?
He’s such a Poindexter, isn’t he?

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‘CARPE DIEM’ PAYS OFF
Using statistical analysis, some august professors have turned their attention to risk-taking in sports.
Be it at Chicago, Duke, Harvard or the University of California at Berkeley, some of the nation’s top economists, psychologists and statisticians are coming to see sports as a subject that requires their attention. Trying to understand human decision-making, […]

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ANOTHER MATTER OF TRUST
I’m sure you’ve noticed the dominant theme by now: The Busheviks believe (quite rightly) the American public will never support them if they’re candid about what they’re up to. Here’s yet another example.
An internal analysis by Environmental Protection Agency economists has found that a Senate plan to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions […]

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Howard Dean is still a puzzle to the media bobbleheads:
But in building an insurgent campaign as a Washington outsider, Dr. Dean has gained fluency in the populist language of political revolution, constantly repeating the fact that half his contributors have never before donated to a candidate.
“The way to beat George Bush is not to be […]

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More on why we can’t read the whole thing.

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A MATTER OF TRUST
Remember when Bush was running for president? One of his biggest crowd-pleasing lines was, “I trust the people of the United States to make decisions about their own money!” (or words to that effect). Funny, how he doesn’t trust us now.
The report finds no such connections between Iraq and al-Qaida terrorists. It […]

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NOT FOR THE CRAYOLA SET
Complex New Yorker piece on how the CIA let bin Laden’s trail grow cold, why it’s likely he’s hiding in Pakistan and how the Monica Lewinsky deposition almost altered the course of history:
To the frustration of many of the people involved in the fight against Al Qaeda, the Bush Administration is […]

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RUSH EXPLAINS RACE FOR YOU
Rush Limbaugh on why blacks will never vote Republican. I wonder if he’s going to share these views with the NFL players on ESPN?
Why they do so is something you can’t say if you want to be around tomorrow. I’ve danced around this for 15 years, because people react to it […]

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FEAR AND LOATHING REVISITED
From Hunter Thompson’s ESPN column (with extensive disclaimers from the management):
Editor’s note: The opinions voiced below are those of the infamous Doctor Thompson and are absolutely not the views of this network or the editors. That is free journalism.
…The real shocker of the week, for me, was and remains the stunning […]

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WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW - THE SEQUEL
Here’s John Dean on his misgivings about the 9/11 report:
In sum, the 9/11 Report of the Congressional Inquiry indicates that the intelligence community was very aware that Bin Laden might fly an airplane into an American skyscraper.
Given the fact that there had already been an attempt to […]

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RENDER TO CAESAR
Imagine: He’s a Republican and a Christian. He makes his faith the priority, and the GOPers aren’t too happy with that.
Riley, a Southern Baptist, says Alabama has taxed its poorest too harshly for too long.
“According to our Christian ethics, we’re supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of […]

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WELL DONE!
Isn’t it cool? I can’t believe Howard Dean raised $500K this weekend in internet donations. Take that, corporate media whores! Take that, babbling pundits! And take that, DLC pimps! The American public ain’t buying what you’re peddling.
In case you’ve been in a cave: Dick Cheney was to raise $250K at a $2000-a-head luncheon this […]

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