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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Globespan follow-up, attack on Glasgow airport |
| Published: June 30, 2007, 7:29 pm |
| Tags: Kingston, Globespan, Glasgow Airport Attack, First Nation |
| Well, (see posting below) Globespan wasn't as bad for me as it could have been. We did not crash. Our plane departed only an hour late, because too few stewards and stewardesses bothered showing up for work (no kidding, we were waiting for replacements to drop in so we could finally leave Glasgow). The food in Globespan's business class and the |
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| More Gonzales |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 12:28 pm |
| Tags: Nation, Civil Liberties, Politics |
| lie: A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program that led top Justice Department officials to threaten resignation involved computer searches through massive electronic databases, according to current and former officials briefed on the program. Therefore, he can technically claim that it was not about TSP |
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| FISA |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 2:53 pm |
| Tags: Nation, Civil Liberties, Security, Politics |
| pass this bill, so that our national security professionals can close intelligence gaps and provide critical warning time for our country.” This might even be true, but if the administration is unwilling to completely talk about the current program why does he think it should be allowed to be expanded? Republicans, of course, will go |
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| More Gonzales |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:53 pm |
| Tags: Nation, Politics |
| Here’s a nice analysis of AG Gonzales’ testimony. It seems the options now are he lied or the TSP program was worse than what was revealed. My guess is for both to be true. |
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| Oromocto First Nation's Young Heroes |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:07 am |
| Tags: Oromocto First Nation, Autism Disorder, Maliseet, Police, Fire |
| (Wel-A-Mook-Took) First Nation is uplifting. They are a credit to themselves, their familes and their community. The url for the web site for the Oromocto First Nation:http://www.oromoctofirstnation.com/pages.asp?pid=1The story, as reported by CBC New |
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| Wall Street Journal |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 1:03 pm |
| Tags: Reporting, Nation |
| Via Kevin Drum, the NY Times is reporting that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has reached an agreement to buy Dow Jones and Co. (and so the Wall Street Journal). This is a very bad thing. The editorials in the Journal are some of the craziest, but the reporting is some of the best in the country. I hope the reporting won’t change, but |
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| Good News |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:45 pm |
| Tags: Nation, World, Miscellaneous |
| been charged under the international tribunal Cuba seems to opening up a little bit under Raul Castro a UN team says that North Korea ‘cooperated fully’ with the team that monitored the shutdown and sealing of the lone plutonium-producing nuclear reactor in the country congress is at least partially moving on ethics reforms |
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| Supreme Court Redux |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:19 pm |
| Tags: Craziness, Nation, Supreme Court |
| who lost the sex discrimination case against her employer that was decided by the Supreme Court on May 29 of this year. I wasn’t blogging at that time, so I’ll use this an excuse to talk about the case. It seemed pretty obvious that there was sex discrimination involved (she made significantly less than all her coworkers in the |
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| Jonah Goldberg |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Tags: Craziness, Nation, Politics |
| Gee Jonah (via here), I can’t see a reason why we wouldn’t do this: Instead of making it easier to vote, maybe we should be making it harder. Why not test people about the basic functions of government? Immigrants have to pass a test to vote; why not all citizens? A voting test would point the arrow of civic engagement up, instead of |
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| More Tweeter |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 8:48 pm |
| Tags: Nation, Wealth |
| The execs at Tweeter are so noble (from July 26): “The management incentive program is being withdrawn,” Hunt said. “It didn’t seem like the right decision to incentivize management when the creditors would get so little.” And feel the workers pain: Hunt said Tweeter didn’t intend to mislead employees who were |
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| Lenovo aims for 'rural market,' announces $199 desktop for China |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 11:50 am |
| Tags: Business, Cheap Pc, Cheappc, China, Chinese, Developing Country, Developing Nation, Developing World, Developingcountry, Developingnation, Developingworld, Industry, Lenovo, Rural, Vista, Windows |
| Looks like Lenovo won't be the one to get left behind in the pursuit of the "poor rural Chinese market," as the firm has just announced a basic PC that it plans to sell in that neck of the woods for between $199 and $399. While there are currently "no details" with respect to processor choices or other internal hardware specifications, we do know |
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| It's Expensive Being Rupert Murdoch |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:09 pm |
| Tags: Company Town, Blackstone Group, China, Cravath Swaine Amp Moore, Dow Jones, Hendrik Hertzberg, Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Milberg Weiss, Morgan Stanley, News Corp, Oscar De La Renta, Philanthropy, Rupert Murdoch, Skadden Arps, Steve Schwarzman, The Nation, The New Yorker |
| MEDIA • Did Dow Jones cost Rupert Murdoch an extra $1 billion just because he’s Rupert Murdoch? [Slate] • Rik Hertzberg to blog for The New Yorker. From YearlyKos. And without fact-checking. [ |
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| Schieffer Slams Ted Stevens and Applauds Ethics Reform |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 6:40 pm |
| Tags: Ethics, Face The Nation Bob Schieffer |
| commentary on Face The Nation, Bob Schieffer applauds the Democratic majority’s attempt to clean up Congress (although you won’t hear him credit them) and uses Ted Stevens’ recent raid as an example of the dangers of not enacting reform. Download (184) Play (193) Download (70) Play (115) |
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| FISA |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:24 pm |
| Tags: Craziness, Nation, Civil Liberties, Politics |
| I get back from the weekend and find that the congress has caved on the FISA bill. I didn’t think I had to worry about this because: this bill takes spying out of the FISA court if the subject of inquiry is foreign even if one (or more) of the parties are inside the US oversight is now in the department of Justice–AG Gonzales the bill |
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