Test it out. (I found his site by way of Yep, one other Goddamned blog .)John Aravosis has a superb response to the newest from the WaPo ombudsbeing, Washington Post ombudsman lets Woodward off the hook. God, it is disgusting. And, like John says, Woodward’s excuse for not exposing all this sooner, even to his boss, is a blatant lie that the alleged ombudsman shouldn’t be attempting to feed us. John Byrne. Via Peter David.Elayne Riggs has a few more photos of the autumn surroundings. During his last few months he gave the world a healthy style of his unique expertise. 4 October 2019 (Stock buybacks) When the SEC allowed firms to purchase again stock, it gave the stockholders a technique to drain the companies. 21 August 2019 (Cutting US donations to Israel) Israel’s refusal to admit Reps. Meyer, as we speak a instructor, remains within the extremely-Orthodox community in Melbourne, with ties to Adass Israel. Monday, 21 November 2005 My night newsI’m busy watching Dispatches. Sunday, 20 November 2005 Seen and heardBra of the WeekCharles Laquidara has a weblog, and his song of the week is Quicksilver’s “Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder”. What’s more, the man who survived the capturing — the one eyewitness — has recanted and informed the Chronicle that he felt pressured by police to finger Cantu as the killer.Mahabarb was watching Rummy speak to Steph: Rummy just advised George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” that he didn’t advocate the invasion of Iraq.
Anyone in Albuquerque who claims the honorable title of “police officer” ought to validate that claim by publicly denouncing these retaliation campaigns and affirming that thugs should not get away with homicide. If you run into anybody who still would not get the difference between the Murtha invoice and the GOP pretend bill to end deployment in Iraq, just level them here, where Gary makes it really, really simple. Lucy Dalglish, a lawyer and former reporter who is executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said, “The general public will need to have entry to reality as a lot as doable, however reporters can’t turn into agents of authorities prosecutions or civil litigants.” Most contributors felt there ought to be a federal law to shield reporters from having to determine their sources; most states have legal guidelines offering some safety. But with its unprecedented campaign to undermine and, where attainable, remove independent journalism, the Bush Administration has demonstrated astonishing contempt for the Constitution and considerable concern of an informed public.
Reporters testifying as witnesses aren’t “brokers of government prosecutions or civil litigants” when they are reporting to the general public – and in Plame and Wen Ho Lee cases, the court docket represents the general public – about serious criminal actions that the federal government is perpetrating towards individual American residents and against the American folks.If these reporters had been doing their jobs, these confessions in courtroom wouldn’t be vital, as a result of that criminality would have been exposed in the pages of The brand new York Times and The Washington Post when it truly mattered – before the administration lied us into battle, and earlier than the final election last November. And talking of PressThink, try Lisa Williams’ visitor post on being a citizen journalist (in a town in Massachusetts I’ve truly been to, even). And take a look at Blogenlust at the new tackle for more.Digby: To some extent civilization is nothing greater than leashing the beast within.
Via Liberalism with out Cynicism.Satan, the War in Iraq, and Richard Land – Bob Broughton discovers one other proper-wing crackpot on his radio.Moose and Squirrel asked me to alert people in regards to the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, who are activists for stem cell analysis.Paul Craig Roberts: Nothing extra effectively undercuts the image that Bush paints of America as the land of freedom, liberty and democracy than the Republican Party’s destruction of habeas corpus. Scott Lemieux on the curious phenomenon of “moderates” who like George Bush as a result of he’s a progressive liberal. David Neiwert is as much as half 4 of his sequence on Michelle Malkin, “Unhinged: Unhonest”, Hunting Liberals.The kids of Incurious George. Anne Zook makes a good point about that plan.Susie Madrak: You realize issues are dangerous when even the neocons are pushing for vitality efficiency.Steve Benen seems to be at the authorized homicide of Ruben Cantu and its implications for the most obvious argument in opposition to the loss of life penalty On this case, Cantu’s co-defendant, David Garza, who’d been reluctant to speak about the murder-robbery since his trial, has now signed a sworn affidavit saying he allowed Cantu to be falsely accused.