Wednesday, May 04, 2005

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Censorship of the Web in Italy My Translation with comments in []. Pope - The magistrate Marco Patarnello has ordered the [temporary] preven...

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Smoking Gun ? Douglas Jehl reports on leaked transcripts of interviews with the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "Foley...

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Social Security Reform I think that Matty Yglesias is 90 % right here I particularly like "Next best, raise the FICA cap so that it co...
Tuesday, May 03, 2005

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Now will CNN cover privacy/identity theft issues ? Reuters reports "Time Warner Inc. on Monday said data on 600,000 current and former ...
Monday, May 02, 2005

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Kudos to Rep John Conyers for this letter extra kudos for using a phrase from Orwell "memory hole" The memo is in the Times (no n...

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Matthew Yglesias is over at www.talkingpointsmemo.com which doesn't allow comments. This post is excellent, as usual. It demonstrates th...

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Al Gore Claims that Right Wing Zealots Invented the Internet. Digby Quotes and comments While gingerly tip-toeing through the dreck [at Litt...

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Why did Bush feel the need to denounce Kim Jong Il just now ? Is he insulting the craziest nuclear armed dictator in the world in order to o...

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The Nelson Report or The Onion ? Steve Clemons, who certainly seems to be a extraordinarily honest and scrupulous but who did serve as ...

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Cherif Bassiouni update. On April 26 I wondere d why prominent US nes sources didn't mention that Cherif Bassiouni was removed as the he...

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The Defence Department has released a report on the death of Nicola Calipari. This is the report which Italian representatives in the binant...
Saturday, April 30, 2005

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Picking on Matt Yglesias to take revenge for him scooping me on picking on Jonathan Weisman (see below). Yglesias writes "Grassley Want...

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Getting closer but not close enough to satisfy Brad DeLong The Press is rapidly de-bamboozling itself on press conference day plus 2. The W...

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Oh My Gosh. I mean Goss's Gosh: Ken Silverstein reports in the LA Times Last week, the CIA sent an executive jet here to ferry the chi...

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Tax rich survivors to pay poor survivors. I am gettting a little tired of advocating saving Social Securty by eliminating the ceiling on FIC...

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Conservative Craziness quoted by the Boston Globe. OK I know it is cheating, since Nina J. Easton probably chose the dumbest things conserva...

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Richard Stevenson has an excellent article in the NYTimes on Social Security and Bush. Within the limits of hesaid/he said Furman manages t...

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Jack Abramoff can think of something worse than this ? WASHINGTON, April 28 - The government of a United States territory in the Pacific sai...
Friday, April 29, 2005

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Unspinning the Press Conference ? Todd Perdum's analysis of Bush' Press conference is very harsh. A normal essay is designed to s...

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George Orwell Might Say Remember when Mao Zedong and Chaing Kai Shek called each other bandit traitors, running dogs and even pigs ? "T...