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Laura Clawson for Daily Kos

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Saturday March 31, 2007 · 12:52 PM PDT

2007/03/31 · 12:52

Fueling speculation about when he'll resign, Gonzales cancels an April 16 speech. And Nebraska Republican Rep. Lee Terry calls on Gonzales to resign. Resignation would be a good first step, but I hope they don't think it will be enough.

The Right's Field on the continuing Giuliani-Kerik saga:

Republican strategist Nelson Warfield is quoted in the WaPo piece with an accurate summary of how Kerik hurts Giuliani, "Kerik has potential to undermine his image as a competent leader and someone best fit to fight terrorism...Either he had fundamentally bad information about Kerik, or he was reckless in not knowing enough about a man who was that close to him."

As Kerik’s legal troubles continue to unfold, Giuliani is going to have to give a better explanation to the public of what he knew about Kerik and when he knew it.

In a major global inequality, poor countries will suffer more from global warming than the rich ones that have disproportionately caused it.

Glenn Greenwald:

But issuing detailed legislative proposals on specific, isolated issues is by no means the only way -- or even the most important way -- to run a "substantive" presidential campaign. Our political system and ruling Beltway culture are broken so far beyond any specific issue, and can be addressed only by ideas and critiques that far transcend any specific policy proposal. A truly "substantive" campaign will stand in stark opposition to the whole tone and mindset of Beltway orthodoxies.

All of the candidates, including Obama, are going to issue a detailed health care plan soon enough. But the political system in which those health care plans -- and every other specific legislative proposal -- are going to be assessed, debated and processed is profoundly corrupt and broken.

Thus, any candidate who does not address those systemic political diseases is not actually being "substantive" at all, no matter how many thick white papers they issue chock full of think-tank-developed "plans."

Letters from General JC Christian to William Donohue are always going to be worth reading. Especially when they're about naked chocolate Jesus.

Football is a socialist sport - and the U.S. should follow its lead.