In which gender is discussed.
The DNC is happily picking away at Giuliani’s recently released numbers, and they have uncovered some fun facts. My favorite: Top Heavy: $10.3 million of $11.4 were itemized, meaning from people who have given at least $200. That’s about 90%. Fully 65% of this quarter’s donations came from individuals who have given $2000 or more [...]
As many Swampland readers know, Adam Zagorin broke new ground recently with his reporting on the Don Siegelman case and the seemingly partisan pursuit of justice in Alabama. Now the conservative editorial page of the Birmingham News, Alabama’s biggest newspaper, has weighed in with an editorial citing Time’s story and calling on prosecutors to explain [...]
MoveOn.org has gotten heavily involved in trying to save SCHIP, and they’re having a series of rallies in support of the measure tomorrow, including one right on the Hill at 5. It will feature an appearance, says a press release, by “two and a half year old Bethany whose life was saved by surgery her [...]
Over at the LA Times, Julian Barnes looks at an interesting question: WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by private security firms in Iraq, some officials are asking whether the contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under international agreements. The question is an outgrowth of [...]
This is a shameless plug: The Republican race has reached critical mass, with Thompson, McCain, Giuliani and Romney going after each other–and you can watch it on a minute-to-minute basis, almost in real time (and on real Time.com), at Mark Halperin’s new political redoubt, The Page.
Our colleague Mark Halperin’s new feature The Page debuts today.
News of the day that’s caught my eye. Please update and expand with your own catches in the comments. • GOP candidates violating Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment left and right. Mostly right. [NYT] • Al-Qaeada in Iraq: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Maybe. “‘It only takes three people’ to construct and detonate a suicide car bomb that can ‘kill [...]
Paul Krugman is absolutely right about the mouth-frothing wingnut response to Gore–or, in fact, to any other Democrat who begins to show some traction with the public. And Krugman raises an interesting point here: The sulfuric acid in America’s lakes mainly comes from coal burned in U.S. power plants, but the carbon dioxide in America’s [...]
