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The head honcho of The Moderate Voice tells it like it is:
The fuss over what comes next at the CBS “Evening News” continues. So who’s going to fill in the anchor slot? And shouldn’t it be someone who represents seamless continuity with the way the news has been done in the past?
Maybe not:
The [...]

They’re low, but will they stay that way?
Six of these surveys were in the field in both early December and last week. All but Cook/RT Strategies also fielded a poll in early January. Although the individual polls show what appears to be random variation, the wider view continues to be one of stability, [...]

Good for Wikipedia.
Majikthise has the whole sordid tale.

I love this, and keep in mind that I DO identify myself as a liberal:
18% of Americans identify themselves as liberals. Twice as many call themselves moderates. So, I have a message for the Kos Kids. It’s a message that I would have thought was self-evident. But apparently the barrel of liberal delusions is bottomless. [...]

The most: 8.
My prediction is that it’ll win 5, since none of the actors will win in their categories.
What are your Oscar predictions?

Jeezus, this is heartbreaking stuff.
“It was out of control,” [Col. Janis] Karpinski told a group of students at Thomas Jefferson School of Law last October. There was an 800 number women [soldiers] could use to report sexual assaults. But no one had a phone, she added. And no one answered that number, which was based [...]

The dangers of “getting the story,” in Iraq should certainly be reevaluated given this latest incident involving ABC newsanchor, Woodruff, and a cameraman.
A co-anchor of ABC’s “World News Tonight” and an ABC cameraman suffered serious head wounds Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Taji, north of Baghdad. They were stabilized at a military [...]

They questioned the torture justifications, the warrantless wiretapping and the whole “absolute power to do whatever I want” thing.
From Newsweek:
The rebels were not whistle-blowers in the traditional sense. They did not want�indeed avoided�publicity. (Goldsmith confirmed public facts about himself but otherwise declined to comment. Comey also declined to comment.) They were not downtrodden career civil [...]

If there’s one big reason why Bush said okay to giving Iran nuclear fuel, the threat in that title says it all…
From the Guardian:
Kona Haque, commodities editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said the worst case scenario of a shutdown of supplies from Iran would be ‘absolutely devastating … I wouldn’t be surprised to see [...]

Jeezus…
CARACAS, Venezuela â€â€? Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker’s support for the war in Iraq.
“She voted for the war. She continues to vote for the funding. [...]

From the AP:
“We need to recognize, because Judge Alito will be confirmed, that, if we’re going to oppose a nominee that we’ve got to persuade the American people that, in fact, their values are at stake,” Obama said.
“There is an over-reliance on the part of Democrats for procedural maneuvers,” he told ABC’s “This Week.”
[...]
“There’s one [...]

From the topic of Bush thinking he has the authority to go around the FISA laws to Rove politicizing the WOT, Chuck Hagel dismantles both in a great talk on This Week.
Here’s the clip. Definitely worth a watch.

Let it be known right off the bat that Bush’s “new” Iran policy is virtually a carbon copy of the one John Kerry talked about during the debates and campaign.
Now having said that, let’s see what the right thinks about it.
The following is from Ed Morrissey’s blog, Captain’s Quarters, back in October 2004. At the [...]

After many weeks of debate concerning the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping, I think the real facts have finally squirmed their way through the partisan spin. And I think the truth is: the program is wrong.
Now, I’m not a lawyer and so I’ll let lawyers hash out whether or not the program is or is not technically [...]

Yes, even with strict Islamic law, they still protect against unwarranted intrusion. I wonder if it’ll all go out of the window if they wage a “war on terrorism”.
From the document….
The freedom of communication, and mail, telegraphic, electronic, and telephonic correspondence, and other correspondence shall be guaranteed and may not be monitored, wiretapped or disclosed [...]

Recently we had a pretty spirited debate about religion at my post about Paul Hackett. Once you read the post, you’ll understand the title, but the comments about religion are certainly very interesting.
Now I read about one of Andrew Sullivan’s readers, and how he/she is speaking out…
I teach at a university that identifies itself with [...]

I have the solution.
Well, at least I have a link…
What we do at night affects everything we do during the day — our ability to learn, our skills, our memory, stamina, health and safety. Most of all, it affects our mood: Chronic sleep disruption appears to be the single biggest trigger for [...]

Scott Gordon recently interviewed me about at the mainstream media and how blogs fit into that world. Here are some excerpts that mention our humble little site…
The traditional media kept a watchful eye on political blogs during Judge Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings this month. Washingtonpost.com’s “Who’s Blogging?” feature tracked bloggers who linked to [...]

I didn’t see this poll from last week, and color me surprised…
…a poll released last week by Zogby International showed 52 percent of American adults thought Congress should consider impeaching Bush if he wiretapped U.S. citizens without court approval, including 59 percent of independents and 23 percent of Republicans. (The survey had a margin of [...]