Category: US Politics
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Colbert versus Kristol
Colbert wins hands down. Click here.
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Tyler Drumheller
Do you still believe the Bush administration? Click here. At that meeting, Drumheller says, “They were enthusiastic because they said, they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis.” What did this high-level source tell him? “He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program,” says Drumheller. “So in…
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US Discretionary Budget 2004
A very interesting picture.
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National Security Strategy 2006
It was released last week, and is worth a look.
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Bolton Watch
Steve Clemons has launched Bolton Watch over at TPM Cafe. It should be good. Steve talks about a story that gives you some indication of the style of Bolton over on his own blog: When he arrived at the UN, one of the first meetings he had with other Security Council principals had him stepping…
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Leo Strauss and the origins of Neo-Conservatism
I have been looking into the philosophy of Leo Strauss in more depth recently, and found the first episode of the BBC series, ‘The Power of Nightmares’ (60mins) quite helpful. It is worth a look. Some interesting stuff in there about the early days of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. This is related to a…
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The Perils of Primacy
Benjamin Shwarz has a thoughtful piece on how America must deal with it’s primacy. He argues that since the end of the Cold War, the United States has not fully dealt with its new position, and must seriously consider it’s position, and soon. He notes: Defense analysts have grown increasingly nervous about the convergence of…
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Oprah as journalist
The Daily Show do a great piece on how the journalists of America could learn something from Oprah’s grilling of James Frey. Watch the video here. I find the Random House blurb by Coates Bateman quite funny: What’s interesting is that the most affecting scenes (for me at least) are not gratuitously violent. They’re not…
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Wikipedia blocks Congress
Following wholescale rewriting of bios on Wikipedia by suspected staffers in the US Congress, Wiki have decided to block IP ranges. Congressional staffers have made more than 1,000 changes to entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the past six months, an investigation by the Lowell Sun has found. The Massachusetts newspaper highlighted changes made…
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Google defies US over search data
This is indeed a curious turn of events. The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. Google was asked for information on the types of query submitted over a week, and the websites included in its…