• Just because you’re paranoid… New York will release “nearly 2,000 pages of raw intelligence reports and other documents detailing the Police Department’s covert surveillance of protest groups and individual activists before the Republican National Convention in 2004.” [NYT]
• Romney says his “sons are showing support for our …
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Somehow I missed this terrific op-ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post, in which Gian Gentile, who is apparently a Lt. Colonel on active duty in Baghdad (If so, he is one courageous fellow–to speak out like this and, of course, to do the work he does), describes the situation on the ground as what it is: a civil war.
Perhaps the …
Dems debate. Ish.
7:03 PM Hello, welcome to “one giant job interview.”
7:04 They are all sweating. A lot.
7:05 PM I don’t think they can hear Olbermann. There is no proof positive that Dodd heard a single word. He took a question about the infrastructure and, you know, talked about Iraq.
7:07 PM HRC hearts Chicago sports teams! And …
Ana: As it happens, I was in the audience when Rudy made his “surprise” comment yesterday, and I don’t think it’s such a surprise at all. He’s suddenly making a very serious move in Iowa, after many people figured he would ignore it. One of the reasons he senses opportunity: McCain’s fall, which puts potential independent-minded voters …
At a campaign stop in Iowa, Rudy took a question on repealing McCain-Feingold and turned it into one of the strangest endorsements of the cycle, saying of John McCain, “If I weren’t running for president, I’d be here supporting him… If for some reason I made a decision not to run, he’d be my candidate.”
Weird that Rudy would …
• What’s a reluctant union-buster to do? HRC pollster Mark Penn did not have labor relations with that firm: Penn said “he was avoiding a role in overseeing the part of the company’s practice that involved management-labor issues.” [LAT]
• Threat Level reports that the new FISA bill “gives the Bush Administration a six-month window …
I dialed into the conference call yesterday held by “senior administration officials” to brief reporters on the “FISA modernization bill.” There were lots of long pauses and repeated phrases, but very little light shed on what the new law actually does and why it was necessary to grant the executive branch sweeping new power to eavesdrop …
Maybe presidential candidates aren’t morning people. Those sharp-eyed folks over at FactCheck.org uncovered some particularly sloppy assertions by the Republican contenders during last Sunday’s “This Week” debate in Des Moines:
The Republican presidential candidates debated – and sounded some more false notes:
* Former Massachusetts
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No Al Qaeda down south in Basrah, but plenty of trouble. For years, a small sub-group of Iraq experts have been warning that rivalries amongst the Shi’ites could provoke more violence than the more publicized Sunni-Shi’ite dispute. This particular battle could have a major impact on who the ultimate “winner” is in Iraq. If Sadr wins, …
The Republican pollster responds to some of the questions and observations our commenters had regarding yesterday’s post, which dealt with his survey of the GOP electorate. His most striking finding was that the party has made a dramatic shift to the right over the past decade, and taken a far stronger interest in social issues over …
Just a quick run through the RSS feed…
• Biden, McCain, Tommy Thompson and Obama all line up to sit with Stewart this month. Pop quiz: Who’s had more of the contenders on more often this cycle, Stewart or Russert? Whose interviews revealed more? [AP/WTOP]
• Among likely Iowa caucus-goers, 53% of Dems are “very satisfied” with …
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The Republican debate yesterday featured one clearly pre-cooked zinger aimed at Barack Obama by Mitt Romney:
“I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies,” Romney said. “He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.”
This was a …
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I am stuck in the third circle of weather-related airline hell at O’Hare, which looks like a refugee camp this afternoon. As a result, I had to experience this morning’s GOP debate …
