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Archive: Sep 2008

Weekly Review

The Treasury Department seized control of mortgage and loan giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, firing the companies’ chief executives and promising to provide as much as $200 billion to…

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Another Political Prosecution Fails?

Alabama U.S. Attorney Alice Martin’s efforts in prosecuting Democrat Sue Schmitz, previously chronicled here and here, were set back today when the judge overseeing the test case declared a mistrial.…

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An Alien Door

“Even before the knocker was lifted, he knew they had come: here were the wheels of the trap scraping on gravel, and the pony’s skipping gait, and a child’s angry…

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Stanley in Africa: Former Halliburton exec’s history of bribes and kickbacks

From ProPublica and PBS’ “Frontline” In the world of Big Oil, Albert “Jack” Stanley was legendary for winning billion-dollar contracts in Third World countries as the Halliburton (HAL, news, msgs)…

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Does McCain Campaign Chair’s Lobby Shop Share Skybox with AT&T?

There are two great American pastimes: baseball and sucking up to huge corporations. It appears that McCain Campaign Chair Rick Davis has found a way to combine the two. There’s…

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O Fortuna!

O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota…

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Plotinus: The Contest Between Drugs, Magic and Reason

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Weekend Read: Bearing Down on the Banks

At the Republican convention the city of New Orleans and the larger gulf coast received what was doubtless a salubrious and meaningful supply of fortifying lip service. One might suppose…

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Torture and Logic

A lot of prisoners had it much worse—a lot of—a lot of prisoners had it much worse than I did. I’d been mistreated before, but not as badly as many…

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Palin’s Vetting: Five Colleges, None Contacted by McCain

I’ve heard of the five-year plan to graduate from college, but this is the first time I’ve heard of the five-college plan. Yes, that’s the number of different colleges that…

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Alaska: More Diverse than G.O.P. Convention

Sarah Palin must have felt right at home last night during her speech to the G.O.P. convention: there were almost no black people. African Americans make up only 3.7 percent…

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Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Rove

Karl Rove thinks that a president who would pick as his running mate a former small-town mayor and state governor with little experience would be making “an intensely political choice”…

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She’s Not Just a Russia Scholar: Palin’s foreign-policy expertise includes Ireland

From the Boston Globe: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin got her first passport in 2006 and has visited just four countries, and she had little involvement in her state’s…

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Unconsumed Holes

“But can a novelist, or any writer for that matter, really notice too much or dwell too much on what he notices?” The question was posed a few weeks back…

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Three Cheers for Teen Pregnancy

From Lawrence Auster, about the “warm embracing response of Christian conservatives to the Bristol announcement”: Over and over, there’s no disapproval at all of Bristol’s pregnancy. To the contrary, there…

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Update on the Gonzales Report

I have now read the Inspector General’s report, which can be examined here. As with the other reports that have recently emanated from Fine’s office, it is well crafted. I…

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“A Blessing to America”: Joe Lieberman’s effusive endorsement (of Obama)

Joe Lieberman really knows how to heap on the praise: “He is a blessing to the United States senate, to America and to our shared hopes for a better, safer…

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Karl Rove to Chris Wallace: “I think I’m with you”

John McCain’s camp is attacking the media for having the audacity to question Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience, even though — as the GOP talking points go — her stellar…

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Talking with Jeremy Miller, Author of “Tyranny of the Test”

Jeremy Miller is the author of “Tyranny of the Test,” the September cover story. The article, which explains how No Child Left Behind has changed the structure of our schools–and…

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In Case of Palin, Hypocrisy Might Have Been Easier to Understand

Quite a few news stories and op-eds about the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter have touched on the issue of the alleged “hypocrisy” of the G.O.P. vice-presidential nominee. But…

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Has Fredo Dodged a Bullet?

Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine has released another report, this one looking into allegations that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled classified materials. The actual text of the…

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Free Hookers and Blow For G.O.P. Convention Revelers

From ABC News: As residents of New Orleans were fleeing Hurricane Gustav, top Republican party officials donned pink boas and swigged vodka shots at a wild whirl of corporate and…

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Weekly Review

One million people fled New Orleans to avoid Hurricane Gustav, which landed in Louisiana as a weakened category-2 hurricane and caused relatively little damage. Mississippi officials ordered people still living…

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What Would Newt Do?

From James Wolcott: Jake Tapper asks: “What would the response be if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, and his wife Michelle had a pregnant unmarried teenage daughter?” I can answer that.…

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