Were relief trucks held back to time with Bush tour?

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Friday September 02, 2005 · 6:48 PM PDT

2005/09/02 · 18:48

This post from Sadly, No! deserves attention:

Anyone with TiVo grab a copy of ABC News tonight? There's a brief segment with a truck driver outside of the Superdome. It might be on again during the late news.

Those are the guys we heard on the [New Orleans police] scanner. The one who was on ABC said that they were loaded and ready to go on Monday, and told not to leave. And then they arrived right as the President was doing his media circus.

This might be nothing, or it might put the lie (horribly) to the notion that it's the Left that's "playing politics" with the NOLA disaster.

Nuclear agreement commits Repubs to preserving filibuster

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Tuesday May 24, 2005 · 12:10 PM PDT

2005/05/24 · 12:10

Last night's agreement averting the nuclear option is, if you consider it carefully, nothing less than an announcment of an alliance of convenience between the Democratic minority and the Republican swing bloc that signed the agreement. It confirms, in no uncertain terms, that Bill Frist has lost control of the Senate for the remainder of the 109th Congress. The more I reflect about this, the more extraordinary a circumstance it seems to me: and since it's going to take me a few paragraphs to develop the thought, I want to highlight it here (I have a way of burying my leads when I'm writing in essay form). The logic of the agreement, and the goals of the players in it, absolutely require that the swing Republicans respect (and even enable) the Democratic filibuster. Read on, please. Read More

CIA siphoning Iraq money to fund Lebanese right?

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Thursday March 17, 2005 · 12:27 PM PST

2005/03/17 · 12:27

You may or may not have noticed some play being given, via the LA Times, to the story of Dale Stoffel, an American contractor in Iraq who was assassinated last December, just days after he blew the whistle on financial shenanigans related to the outfitting of a show-pony tank division for Iyad Allawi. (At least one dKos diary earlier summarized the story. A right-wing blogger has a good compendium of information from back in January, when the LA Times first broke the story.) But there's a great deal more to this—even as sordid as the story is, and the possibility opening now of some form of American military complicity in Stoffel's murder—than meets the eye.

Without seeming to realize it, the LAT reporters uncovered evidence, in the form of the name of a Lebanese "businessman" who appears in the murky background of the affair, that offers a tantalizing pointer to the possibility that money from the Iraq occupation is being siphoned off by American intelligence to fund political agitation in Lebanon ... Read More

Propagannon: Jeff Jarvis lies about Kos investigation

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Wednesday February 09, 2005 · 10:22 PM PST

2005/02/09 · 22:22

Jeff Jarvis, one of the blowhards who regularly goes on about blogging and the revolution in citizen journalism, finally notices the Gannon investigation on his blog today: and lies about it, contemptibly. Full story below the fold. Read More

Propagannon: Where are the blog triumphalists?

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Wednesday February 09, 2005 · 12:14 PM PST

2005/02/09 · 12:14

You know the guys I mean: the Instapundits, the Power Liners, the Hugh Hewitts and Jeff Jarvises; the passel of right-wingers who blow so hard so often about the power of blogs to displace and demolish the hated MSM. Cause it's all right here, isn't it, in the Gannon story? A bunch of bloggers, led by the Daily Kos community, undertake an extraordinary piece of collective citizens' journalism to expose a media fraud.

Another victory for the blogspace over the institutional media! Another example of how the massively-interlinked community of bloggers can gnaw at a story, refusing to let it drop, until they force accountability in the offline world! (I hyper-ventilate a bit, because that's the preferred style for Insty's boys.) And yet no word, not a peep, from Insty, Jarvis and the gang. Come on, Jeff, Hugh, the Daily Kos people have done exactly the kind of thing that always seems to get your rocks off. So why aren't you blog triumphalists joining the celebration?

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Sunday January 23, 2005 · 9:28 AM PST

2005/01/23 · 09:28

An article in the NY Times today reports on Jeb Bush's plan to infect Florida's Medicaid system with large-scale privatization. To my eyes, this looks like an attempt at advancing the national privatization front, even as Social Security "reform" is up in the air, and a stalking horse for Jeb's Presidential ambitions. Haven't seen this picked up yet in the blogosphere, so I'm crossposting from my discussion on my blog, Reading A1. Read More

Why I will refuse to mourn Ronald Reagan.

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Monday June 07, 2004 · 2:55 PM PDT

2004/06/07 · 14:55

Pardon me if I fail to mourn Ronald Reagan in the approved fashion this week. I'd rather give some thought to those who won't be mourned, but ought to be ... Read More

German TV claims secret 2000 meetings w/ Taliban on Osama handover.

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Friday June 04, 2004 · 11:18 AM PDT

2004/06/04 · 11:18

Did the Bush transition drop the ball on a potential Taliban handover of Osama bin Laden before 9/11? It seems entirely possible ... Read More

Toxic consequences

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Friday May 07, 2004 · 7:57 AM PDT

2004/05/07 · 07:57

Consider the scandal of Abu Ghraib—which, as is becoming apparent, is the scandal of an entire gulag—from another angle: as a toxic, but logical, policy consequence of the assumptions with which the Pentagon took us to war. Read More

"Assassination meeting" smear on NYT front page

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Sunday April 25, 2004 · 4:25 PM PDT

2004/04/25 · 16:25

The Times' David Halbfinger has given play to a bogus story about John Kerry's presence at a meeting of Vietnam Vets against the War where a "plot" to assassinate pro-war Senators may have been discussed. It's a clear signal that the NYT is going to be dishing up RNC oppo without abandon ... Read More

Propagate the meme!

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Tuesday February 24, 2004 · 7:28 PM PST

2004/02/24 · 19:28

Bush made a strategic mistake committing to a marriage amendment. Now's the time to hammer him on it, and three little words are all it takes. Read More

NY Times: Iowa Myths "Shattered"

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Tuesday January 20, 2004 · 4:09 PM PST

2004/01/20 · 16:09

Instant analysis is almost always worth the time it takes to produce it, and Todd S. Purdum's article today ("Shattering Iowa Myths") is no exception to the rule. Useful, though—you can watch the alimentary process by which the conventional wisdom reabsorbs a slightly off-kilter event: Read More

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