tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61545302011-04-21T15:27:31.470-07:00if its any consolation, I don't begin to understandCaseynoreply@blogger.comBlogger5021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1502338208112305852008-12-09T12:10:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:04:58.001-08:00

Freddie and Fannie Edition.From the AP today and August 5, 2008.E-mails and other internal documents released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee show that former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd and former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron disregarded recommendations that they stay away from riskier types of loans.Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee around half the $11.5 trillion in U.S

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Krugman on why increasing the federal budget deficit is not a valid reason for opposing massive government spending to prevent economy from falling further (paraphrased).People who think that fiscal expansion (i.e., government spending) today is bad for future generations have it exactly wrong. The fact is that fiscal austerity will worsen the economy now and in the future.Deficit worries are

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Using Law To Justify Torture, Daphne Eviatar via Washington Independent:For months now, Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey has refused to investigate whether Bush administration officials committed war crimes by authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists. His reasoning? Any actions were authorized by the administration’s lawyers, and so cannot constitute a crime. As he wrote to Rep. John Conyers (

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Look No Further Than The Driveway, America. Via NYT:Over the last 25 years, opportunities to head off the current crisis were ignored, missed or deliberately blocked, according to analysts, politicians and veterans of the oil and automobile industries. What’s more, for all the surprise at just how high oil prices have climbed, and fears for the future, this is one crisis we were warned about.

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Milt Bearden, former career CIA, via The Washington Independent:Throughout this ugly drama, U.S. leaders have assured the public that the extreme interrogation measures used on detainees have thwarted acts of terrorist and saved thousands of American lives. The trouble with such claims is that professionals who know something of interrogation or intelligence don’t believe them. This is not just

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Via NYT:After the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush committed the nation to a “war on terrorism” and made the destruction of Mr. bin Laden’s network the top priority of his presidency. But it is increasingly clear that the Bush administration will leave office with Al Qaeda having successfully relocated its base from Afghanistan to Pakistan’s tribal areas, where it has rebuilt much of its ability

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-46134239197346720552008-06-18T13:40:00.000-07:002008-06-18T13:42:44.268-07:00

via McClathcy:WASHINGTON — The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn't the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.It was largely the work of five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers who, following the orders of President Bush and Vice President Dick

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-76111129745354061892008-05-30T18:00:00.000-07:002008-05-30T18:43:53.985-07:00

So many layers get uncovered with this story. Particularly striking, is the unsurprising reaction of the media to the claims that they were lapdogs in the lead up to the war. Most folks, I believe, figured the barn door was shut on this topic, but journalists, newsreaders and other hacks, just like the current administration and stand-up comedians, do not like to be criticized, no matter how

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AP via USA Today:BOSTON (AP) — A decorated Iraq war veteran, convicted as a boy for a pellet gun shooting, seemed like an ideal candidate for a pardon from then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.But Romney, now a U.S. Republican presidential candidate, said no — twice — despite the recommendation of the state's Board of Pardons.At age 13, Anthony Circosta was convicted of assault for shooting

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-69769244813629494362007-05-17T12:10:00.000-07:002007-05-17T12:11:38.687-07:00

via WashPost op-ed:As has happened with every other nation that has tried to engage in a little bit of torture -- only for the toughest cases, only when nothing else works -- the abuse spread like wildfire, and every captured prisoner became the key to defusing a potential ticking time bomb. Our soldiers in Iraq confront real "ticking time bomb" situations every day, in the form of improvised

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-74554508600060127982007-05-10T14:04:00.000-07:002007-05-11T17:26:32.241-07:00

Glenn Greenwald via Salon: The disconnect between, on the one hand, what Beltway media stars think about and care about, and the lives of most Americans on the other, is so vast that it is difficult to describe. One could argue that the complete disconnect between our Beltway power centers and the lives of most Americans is the single greatest deficiency in our political culture. Yet the preening

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Via NYT editorial:Suddenly, Mr. Bush is in a hurry. He has submitted a bill that would enact enormous, and enormously dangerous, changes to the 1978 law on eavesdropping. It would undermine the fundamental constitutional principle — over which there can be no negotiation or compromise — that the government must seek an individual warrant before spying on an American or someone living here

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-12856441320921583142007-05-02T14:23:00.000-07:002007-05-02T14:25:35.579-07:00

Ignatius via WashPost.com:Wolfowitz has failed at the World Bank not because his underlings were out to get him (though many probably were) but because he treated the organization itself as an enemy. He saw its professional staff as an impediment to achieving his goals, rather than as a potential ally. Instead of heeding advice to work with the prickly international staff and win them over, he

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-92113731728715381442007-03-28T15:18:00.000-07:002007-03-28T15:23:52.136-07:00

Gen. McCaffrey on the not-so-bright future for Iraq. Via WaPo:[His] bottom line is that the U.S. military is in "strategic peril" -- a sharp contrast to his previous views. In 2005, he concluded in a similar report that "momentum is now clearly with the Iraqi government and coalition security forces." In a 2006 assessment, he wrote: "It was very encouraging for me to see the progress achieved in

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-72172904757738277292007-03-28T14:54:00.000-07:002007-03-28T14:58:23.853-07:00

Veteran military correspondent Joe Galloway, via Military.com:No doubt the contractors who are bloated like ticks on the billions they've sucked out of the public trough will write the checks to build George W. Bush a really fine presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University. All of it will be a lie, just like the lies his administration told to beat the war drums five years

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-6392744178333544832007-03-19T14:54:00.000-07:002007-03-19T14:58:26.454-07:00

Or so says Prof. Krugman (via NYT):Why is there such a strong family resemblance between the Reagan years and recent events? Mr. Reagan’s administration, like Mr. Bush’s, was run by movement conservatives — people who built their careers by serving the alliance of wealthy individuals, corporate interests and the religious right that took shape in the 1960s and 1970s. And both cronyism and abuse

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-86039698804414053542007-01-29T15:54:00.000-08:002007-01-29T15:56:32.568-08:00

Scientists Gather to Finalize Climate Report via NYT:``We basically have three choices - mitigation, adaptation, and suffering,” said John Holdren, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an energy and climate expert at Harvard University. ``We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less

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Herbert via NYT:There are 93 million production and nonsupervisory workers (exclusive of farmworkers) in the U.S. Their combined real annual earnings from 2000 to 2006 rose by $15.4 billion, which is less than half of the combined bonuses awarded by the five Wall Street firms for just one year.Wealth, Income,

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Again.Bush signing statement undoes intended protections against spying on Americans through the mail, via Carpetbagger and the NY Daily News. President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned. The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a

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Pithy but strong quote from Digby:I am a liberal because it is the political philosophy of freedom and equality. And I am a progressive because it is the political path to a better future. And I am a Democrat because it is the political party that believes in freedom, equality and progress.Politics

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via The Independent: A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. In the testimony [to the Butler inquiry] revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq

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via NYT: Some recent images from George W. Bush’s war on terror: ¶Jose Padilla, the supposed dirty bomber, submitting while guards blindfolded him and covered his ears for a walk from his cell to a dentist’s chair. ¶Government lawyers arguing that a prisoner could not testify that he was tortured by American agents, because their brutality was a secret. ¶A judge dismissing

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-87736807385485664292006-12-18T12:57:00.000-08:002007-01-04T18:15:26.190-08:00

Mission BlandAnother bland oversized complex in Mission Bay. What fun. At least it's just rentals. Why would anyone BUY something in Mission Bay when the apartment buildings look the same as the condo buildings, and are on the same block? I don't get it. This should have been rethought a bit to insist that some smaller projects were put into the mix.San Francisco, Architecture

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via Booman Tribune:Only people trading clam shells for coconuts would have been unaware that any financial transaction moving through the international financial system--which includes SWIFT, FedWire, and CHIPS—was being scrutinized by the United States Government. As I noted earlier, Bush official, Juan Zarate, was telling Congress in February 2002 that Bin Laden and his crew were taking

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1151452332318014912006-06-27T16:50:00.000-07:002006-11-13T13:32:14.044-08:00

Kristof via NYT:Last month, the Asia Society published an excellent report, "Math and Science Education in a Global Age: What the U.S. Can Learn from China." It notes that China educates 20 percent of the world's students with 2 percent of the world's education resources. And the report finds many potential lessons in China's rigorous math and science programs.Yet, there isn't any magic to it.

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Cohen via The Post:Naturally, cable news was all over the story since it provided pictures . These included shots of the Sears Tower, the FBI bureau, the seven alleged terrorists and, of course, Gonzales dutifully playing his assigned role of the dummy. He noted that the suspects wanted to wage a "full ground war" against the United States and "kill all the devils" they could -- this despite a

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Frank Rich via NYT:In this favor-driven world of fat contracts awarded to the well-connected, Mr. Safavian was only an aspiring consigliere. He was not powerful enough or in government long enough to do much beyond petty reconnaissance for Mr. Abramoff and his lobbying clients. But the Bush brand of competitive sourcing, with its get-rich-quick schemes and do-little jobs for administration pals,

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1151366275126609322006-06-26T16:56:00.000-07:002006-11-13T13:32:13.180-08:00

Herbert via NYT:"Withdrawal is not an option," declared the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, who sounded like an actor trying on personas that ranged from Barry Goldwater to General Patton. "Surrender," said the bellicose Mr. Frist, "is not a solution."Any talk about bringing home the troops, in the Senate majority leader's view, was "dangerous, reckless and shameless."But then on Sunday we

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1151366013565503282006-06-26T16:51:00.000-07:002006-11-13T13:32:12.870-08:00

via NYT editorial:In the heightened state of emergency after 9/11, the government began examining the Swift records with the help of general administrative subpoenas, through which one part of the executive branch basically grants permission to another. Now it is nearly five years later, and nothing has changed. Investigators have examined the international money transfers of thousands of

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Robinson via washpost.com:In the past I've noted how Bush regularly stokes and exploits our fears to get Americans to accept the previously unacceptable -- not just intrusive domestic surveillance but also secret CIA prisons, abandonment of due process for terrorism suspects and mistreatment of detainees that international accords describe as torture. The most tragic example, of course, is how he

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Krugman on the right wing loon labelers: But now those harsh critics have been vindicated. And it turns out that many of the administration supporters can't handle the truth. They won't admit that they built a personality cult around a man who has proved almost pathetically unequal to the job. Nor will they admit that opponents of the Iraq war, whom they called traitors for warning that invading

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Dionne on Rove via washpost.com:Most astonishingly, Rove tried to make the case that Bush's tax cuts actually left the rich paying more. Everyone knows the Bush cuts in levies on dividends, capital gains and inheritances overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy. But here was Rove playing class politics by arguing that the wealthy now pay a larger share of total income taxes than they did before

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Not really. MPAA v Torrentspy. Via infoworld:In its filing Monday seeking to dismiss the case, Torrentspy argued that the MPAA might as well have sued Google, since Google does what Torrentspy does, only better. Torrentspy is a search engine that helps visitors find torrent files, which are often music or movie files stored in an easily shared file format."There is nothing alleged to

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via http://news.com.com/Google+keyword+infringement+case+to+proceed/2100-1024_3-6055768.html ">CNET:A court has ruled that a lawsuit over a company purchasing a rival's trademark as a search keyword should go to trial, in what could be the first case to scrutinize the trademark infringement liability of keyword purchasers.Edina Realty sued rival real estate company TheMLSonline.com, accusing it

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Via wired.com:According to "Anakata," one of the site's operators, subsequent MPAA lawsuits have continued to drive more users to The Pirate Bay, which today boasts 1 million unique visitors a day. The Pirate Bay's legal adviser, law student Mikael Viborg, said the site receives 1,000 to 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of its four servers.That's bad news for the content industries, which

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1141781023307570192006-03-07T17:17:00.000-08:002006-11-13T13:32:10.446-08:00

The Software Freedom Law Center just published a white paper dismissing accusations (particularly from Wasabi Systems) that distributers of open source code licensed under the GPL are at greater risk of violating the corporate compliance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act:Some have recently argued that corporate executives face increased risk of criminal liability under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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via CNET: A major revamp of the General Public License is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long and vocal debate over the key foundation of open-source programming.The Free Software Foundation will release and describe the first public draft of version 3 of the document on Jan. 16, at the First International Conference on GPLv3 at the Massachusetts

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"I have not come up here on an ego trip or to unwind. I am here to win matches."A few thoughts on RK16's arrival at Parkhead:It isn't just the players in the dressing room who will be delighted to see a player of genuine world-class ability come through the doors. Everyone, from the fans who go every week to those working in and around the club, will have a spring in their step today.">Tosh

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Krugman via NYT: The past quarter-century has seen the emergence of a vast medical-industrial complex, in which doctors, hospitals and research institutions have deep financial links with drug companies and equipment makers. Conflicts of interest aren't the exception - they're the norm.The economic logic of the medical-industrial complex is straightforward. Prescription drugs and high-technology

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via CNET: In his lawsuit filed Nov. 28 with the California Superior Court in San Mateo County, Calif., Virtual Jam owner Pernell Harris said he met with EA in late 2003 to discuss "Heart of a Champion," a football game he was developing in which players guide an athlete from high school to professional football.Among other things, players pick the athlete's parents and handle all kinds of daily

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1133548337205502542005-12-02T10:26:00.000-08:002006-11-13T13:32:09.199-08:00

via CNET:The British government has launched a review of the laws protecting intellectual property, an issue of growing importance to the technology industry. Chancellor Gordon Brown has asked Andrew Gowers, former editor of The Financial Times, to lead an independent review into intellectual-property, or IP, rights in the United Kingdom. The Labour Party manifesto in the last election included a

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via washingtonpost.com: "Good policy can make for good politics, and bad policy can make for bad politics. Republicans may be about to discover this truism with their Medicare drug benefit, passed by Congress in 2003 and scheduled to take effect in January. As policy, the drug benefit is a calamity. It worsens one of the nation's major problems (paying baby boomers' retirement costs) while

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via Technology News Daily: "If enacted, the proposed Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005 would enhance the Department’s ability to pursue crimes and protect the intellectual property rights of citizens and industries. The Act includes provisions to: Implement broad forfeiture reforms to ensure the ability to forfeit property, including illicit proceeds, derived from or used in the

Caseynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6154530.post-1132782875695600582005-11-23T13:54:00.000-08:002006-11-13T13:32:08.012-08:00

via Traceroutes: "Cyberlaw Clinic, we’ll have no shortage of claims to pursue against our chosen defendants. However, focusing on the data gathered will allow us the unique chance to establish some precedent for interpretation of the California Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, and the federal Wiretap Act (part of the

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via lifehack.org : "Do you want to be a fast writer? Do you want to write effectively? Does it take you hours to think of what to write and when you get something on paper, and then you tear it off? Well, if you’re interested in writing faster, more effectively and efficiently, then you have come to the right place."

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via some site: "In this increasingly hectic world, the phrase 'organized families' can seem like a contradiction in terms. But you know they exist: They're the ones who show up at school on time each day, remember the Little League coach's birthday, and file their taxes in January. And though they make everyone else look bad, you secretly wish you were more like them, together and in control.

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via Lifehacker: "As a computer programmer in a new apartment, I’ve taken the same approach to setting up my home as I would developing a software application: with a focus on usability. Like any good software package, my home should be a tool that helps me get things done, a space that’s a pleasure to be in and a launch pad for daily tasks as well as my life goals. Whether the task at hand is to

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via CNET News.com: "Concern has grown over the past year that Linux could be under legal threat from claims it infringes certain software patents. No court cases have been filed, but the issue is serious enough that several companies have pledged not to use their patent portfolios against the open source operating system. An industry consortium devoted to Linux, Open Source Development Lab (

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via brandchannel.com: "In May 2004 Gillette released M3Power, the first battery-operated shaver, and launched a global campaign with testimonial superstar David Beckham. Late November 2004, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, granted an interim injunction against Gillette and in favor of Wilkinson Sword. In the challenged M3Power advertising campaign, Gillette claimed that the new M3Power wet

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Larry Johnson via TPMCafe: "I think Dick Cheney has been watching too many Hollywood flicks that glorify torture. He needs, instead, to get on the ground and talk to the folks he is ostensibly trying to empower to torture. Unlike Dick I have spoken with three CIA operations officers in the last three months--all who have worked on terrorism at the highest levels--and not one endorses torture or

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via statesman.com :WASHINGTON -- Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of

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Unlikely. He's a moron.Out here in the real world, if you lose your job, you lose your insurance (if your previous job even offered insurance). If you get divorced, you often lose your insurance. If your employer's insurance company decides to raise premiums 50% in one year and your employer balks, you lose your insurance. If you're self-employed, you very likely can't get insurance for less

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Olberman via Sic Semper Tyrannis blog: "'Our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN, the guy was not only making it up, but by February of 2002, the government knew he was making it up. Al-Libi was the first al Qaeda big get, arrested in Afghanistan back in November 2001.Under interrogation, he reportedly told agents that al Qaeda was training in Iraq. In 2004, he recanted. He admitted he had made that

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via CNN.com : "'It's rather unusual that any prosecutor would pass up the opportunity to grab an absolute key, central witness that's in plain sight,' said Rep. George Miller, D-California. Miller said Democrats have asked the Justice Department and intelligence committees in both houses of Congress to subpoena Chalabi. He said Chalabi played an 'absolutely central' role in the U.S. decision to

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via San Francisco CITYSCAPE: "A skyscraper in the bay may even be likelier, as it's just one small element of a much greater plan (click here and here), and of an emerging, long past due, and not-at-all illogical alliance between developers and environmentalists who get that sustainability requires density. With development clustered around a cityside ferry landing — development intense enough to

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via TomPaine.com : "What is so disturbing about the Abramoff scandal isn’t just the way he fleeced his Indian clients, but how the apparatus for doing so was so neatly in place. Abramoff simply had to plug his marks into a circular web of money and influence that connected interest groups, lobbyists, Congress and the White House. When Abramoff told them to give money to this or that conservative

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via News.com.au: "THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally. Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis description of how God created the universe and Darwin's theory of evolution were 'perfectly

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via CNET News.com: "Open-source business models are booming in the software industry, a rapid rise that has some experts wondering if it's a bubble that will burst. Venture capital firms are pouring more money into start-ups that adhere to open-source practices, such as giving away technology for free. That rush could result in an investment bubble, similar to that seen in the early days of the

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via New York Times: "Representative Tom DeLay asked the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to raise money for him through a private charity controlled by Mr. Abramoff, an unusual request that led the lobbyist to try to gather at least $150,000 from his Indian tribe clients and their gambling operations, according to newly disclosed e-mail from the lobbyist's files. The electronic messages from 2002, which

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via Salon.com News: "'The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees,' Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. 'Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past

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via Austin Statesmen: "Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson late Thursday afternoon named a senior Democratic judge from San Antonio to hear the conspiracy case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, despite concerns that Jefferson had too many ties to DeLay's political committee to be impartial. The trial judge will be former state District Judge Pat Priest, a former

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via MSNBC.com: "President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fund-raisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals from the private sector who advise the president on the quality and effectiveness of U.S. intelligence efforts. After watching the fate of Michael Brown as head of FEMA and Harriet Miers as Supreme Court

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via CNET News.com: "NEWTON, Mass.--Eben Moglen, a prominent open-source software lawyer, argued that legal risks from using free and open-source software have been minimized by the General Public License. During a keynote speech at the Open Source Business Conference on Tuesday, the Columbia University Law School professor said that for users of open-source software, the 'risk perception has

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More evidence of our moral authority, via The Post: The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight

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via The Post:The first proposal, labeled a "simplified income tax plan," would reduce the number of tax rates for individuals to four from six and set the top rate at 33 percent, down from 35 percent. The second proposal, called a "growth and investment tax plan," would slice the number of individual tax brackets to three and set the top rate at 30 percent.Both plans would consolidate the

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Matt Yglesias via TPMCafe: "In case you're looking for examples of the sort of manipulation of intelligence Harry Reid is talking about, a few are remarkably easy to find and clear-cut. This is a report entitled 'Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs' released before the war as an unclassified document. It was based, we were told, on a classified National Intelligence Estimate. Over here,

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"This past weekend, we witnessed the indictment of I. Lewis Libby, the Vice President's Chief of Staff and a senior Advisor to President Bush. Libby is the first sitting White House staffer to be indicted in 135 years. "This indictment raises very serious charges. It asserts this Administration engaged in actions that both harmed our national security and are morally repugnant. "The decision

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via Washington PostTwo dozen Guantanamo Bay detainees are currently being force-fed in response to a lengthy hunger strike, and the detainees' lawyers estimate there are dozens more who have not eaten since August. Military officials say there are 27 hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay, all of whom are clinically stable, closely monitored by medical personnel and receiving proper nutrition.The

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So the fact that she's been undercover for three decades and that has been divulged is outrageous because she was put undercover for certain reasons. One, she works in an area where people she meets with overseas could be compromised. When you start tracing back who she met with, even people who innocently met with her, who are not involved in CIA operations, could be compromised. For these

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NYT reports that leaked internal memo confirms Wal-Mart's cynical (and just plain shady) attitude toward its own employees, erm, Associates:An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart's board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking to minimize damage to the retailer's reputation. Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers

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Many news reports from 1999 have this quote of George Bush at a 1999 news conference. (E.g. AP, 6/8/99, USA Today, 6/11/99, Dallas Morning News, 6/9/99, available on Lexis.com)">Nice catch by Jeralyn via TalkLeft: "Bush in 1999: Lies Are ImpeachableMany news reports from 1999 have this quote of George Bush at a 1999 news conference. (E.g. AP, 6/8/99, USA Today, 6/11/99, Dallas Morning News, 6/9/

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via Informed Comment: "So in this polluted information environment, in which Howell Raines's view of reality, which was perfectly correct, was constantly pilloried by powerful rightwing media as nothing short of treason, there was every incentive to give Judith Miller her head. Remember that the NYT is a commercial publication. All major newspapers were seeing their subscription base shrink.

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via Crooks and Liars: "If ignorance is bliss, then John Hinderaker is one happy fellow when it comes to talking about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. According to Hinderaker, who was appearing on Howard Kurtz's CNN show about the media, he trots out once again the big lie of Republican talking points by claiming that Joe Wilson lied in his July 2003 op-ed. Hinderaker says that Wilson, 'reported

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via NewDonkey.com: "Last week a sequel appeared to one of the great classics of political analysis--Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck's 1989 paper, The Politics of Evasion. The previous report was published by the Progressive Policy Institute; the latest, entitled The Politics of Polarization, by the folks over at the congressionally-focused group Third Way (which is friendly with the DLC, but is a

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via The Register: "There's every reason to be optimistic, now in 2005, that computer networks can begin to fulfill their potential. They can even start to be really useful - but it's only by dispensing with such utopian nonsense - so we can really begin to see what these tools can do for us. Here's a reality-based guide to what's happening - and if you hear a futurist omit more than one of these

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via Techdirt: "Innobase makes a key component of MySQL that it needs to compete effectively... and now Oracle owns it. While Oracle says they'll continue to support it, they're also going to 'negotiate' when the contract between Innobase and MySQL comes up for renewal next year. It does make you wonder why MySQL didn't try to buy them earlier, as it certainly looks like a big weakness hasn't just

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With President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers, it turns out that Republicans don't want to buy a pig in a poke any more than Democrats do. They were bluffing when they claimed not to know or care about Roberts's views, beyond a vague commitment to avoid "legislating from the bench." They did care, but they thought they knew. The surprising conservative bitterness about Miers rein- forces

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At present, companies that distribute GPL-licensed software must make the source code publicly available, including any modifications they've made. Though the rule covers many businesses that use GPL-licensed software for commercial ends, it doesn't cover Web companies that use such software to offer their services through the Web, as they're not actually distributing the software. GPL 3, the

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Editorial via New York Times: "Four years after 9/11, Katrina showed the world that performance standards for the Department of Homeland Security were so low that it was not required to create real plans to respond to real disasters. Only a president with no expectation that the federal government should step up after a crisis could have stripped the Federal Emergency Management Agency bare,

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via JohnKerry.com: "[T]here's every reason to believe the President finally acted on Katrina and admitted a mistake only because he was held accountable by the press, cornered by events, and compelled by the outrage of the American people, who with their own eyes could see a failure of leadership and its consequences. Natural and human calamity stripped away the spin machine, creating a rare

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It's a neat trick if you can pull it off. But if anybody needs a hint about just how hard it will be, the Army's budget for Iraq would be a good place to look. As the Wall Street Journal reports today, the Army's costs for Iraq are far exceeding estimates the Pentagon made just a few months ago, when Congress approved a supplemental spending bill for the war. Indeed, the Army is so close to

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via New York Times: "BATON ROUGE, La., Sept 16 - Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Katrina cut its devastating path, FEMA - the same federal agency that botched the rescue mission - is faltering in its effort to aid hundreds of thousands of storm victims, local officials, evacuees and top federal relief officials say. The federal aid hot line mentioned by President Bush in his address to the

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He said that leading up to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, for example, "there were reports on gender bias from the task forces in 21 states, and eight separate reports issued by Congress and its committees over a long period."In United States v. Morrison, the court's decision in 2000 that overturned the private-lawsuit portion of the statute, Chief Justice Rehnquist said that "

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via Hattiesburg American: "Shortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast. * * * "I considered it a presidential directive to get those pipelines operating," said Jim Compton, general manager of the South Mississippi Electric Power

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via steve gilliard blog: "We never found a resident who had ever seen even one FEMA official. No one had been able to successfully complete "Registration Intake" via the toll-free number. Most people we met still didn't have electricity or phone service. We finally heard of one man who got through to FEMA -- at 2:30 a.m. But when asked for insurance information he didn't have and didn't know how

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Evan Thomas via MSNBC.com: "How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less 'situational awareness,' as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century—is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace.President

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Dowd via NYT: "How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office? Given that the Bush team has dealt with both gulf crises, Iraq and Katrina, with the same deadly mixture of arrogance and incompetence, and a refusal to face reality, it's frightening to think how it will handle the most demanding act of government domestic investment since the New Deal. Even though we

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Friedman via NYT: "Speaking of Katrina, Sumiko Tan, a columnist for the Sunday edition of The Straits Times in Singapore, wrote: 'We were shocked at what we saw. Death and destruction from natural disaster is par for the course. But the pictures of dead people left uncollected on the streets, armed looters ransacking shops, survivors desperate to be rescued, racial divisions - these were truly

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via CNET News.com: "WASHINGTON--Legal music-download services won't be able to compete fully with their free- and illegal-download counterparts until copyright law changes, a Virginia congressman said Tuesday. 'The illegal services offer all of the songs, and the legal services don't, and therein lies the crux of the problem,' Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, said in a speech at the

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He invoked our national anger over terrorism to win support for a war in Iraq. But he failed to pay heed to those who warned that the United States would need many more troops and careful planning to see the job through. The president assumed things would turn out fine, on the basis of wildly optimistic assumptions. Careful policymaking and thinking through potential flaws in your approach are

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But Gould waited to seek a patent on his discovery, believing incorrectly that a working prototype was necessary. Eventually, two other researchers were awarded the basic patents instead. After a decades-long legal tussle, Gould finally reveled in victory when a federal court ruled that the patent application it had approved did not anticipate the common uses of lasers. The U.S. Patent and

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via NYT: "It might make sense to hold off on the criticism if this were the first big disaster on Mr. Bush's watch, or if the chain of mistakes in handling Hurricane Katrina were out of character. But even with the most generous possible assessment, this is the administration's second big policy disaster, after Iraq. And the chain of mistakes was perfectly in character - there are striking

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via New York Times: "It's not really all that surprising that the officials who run FEMA are stressing that all-important emergency response function: the public relations campaign. As it turns out, that's all they really have experience at doing. Michael Brown was made the director after he was asked to resign from the International Arabian Horse Association, and the other top officials at FEMA

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More than a third of the state's lawyers have lost their offices, some for good. Most computer records will be saved. Many other records will be lost forever. Some local courthouses have been flooded, imperiling a vast universe of files, records and documents. Court proceedings from divorces to murder trials, to corporate litigation, to custody cases will be indefinitely halted and when

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My favorite tonic for procrastination—which I have mentioned in passing previously—is what I call a dash, which is simply a short burst of focused activity during which you force yourself to do nothing but work on the procrastinated item for a very short period of time—perhaps as little as just one minute. By breaking a few tiny pebbles off of your perceived monolith, you end up psyching

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via SFGate: "My fellow Americans: First, I want to apologize to you, and particularly to the citizens of Mississippi and Louisiana, for my administration's failure to prepare for Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. I apologize for our excruciating slowness in getting life-supporting essentials -- food, clean water and medicine -- to the flood victims in New Orleans. Sadly, I realize that the

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via The Irish Trojan's blog: "If the braintrust running this country really thought that 'the water would drain away fairly quickly' after a direct hit on New Orleans from a major hurricane, then my God, our country is run by the most absolutely incompetent bunch of nitwits imaginable. The city is below sea level. Once it floods, there is nowhere for the water to 'drain away' to! Everyone knows

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via abanet.com: "“This (book) covers the waterfront of issues faced daily by solo practitioners. Even if you have one or more of the earlier editions, you will find fresh ideas and valuable insights for your practice and your life as a solo. It is an essential addition to your library.”James E. Brill, Solo Lawyer, Houston, Texas"

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South Carolina Trial Law Blog: "Evan Schaeffer recently wrote a post on How to Start a Deposition at his Illinois Trial Practice Weblog. It’s a good post for young lawyers on how to get started. That reminded me of the opening questions that I use to lock a witness down in the event that the witness needs to be impeached at trial:"

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via abanet.com: "Although these are important sources of work, it is the rare attorney who can count on these sources of work alone to fill out an annual expectation. This means that we have to go find work. Searching for, qualifying, and closing new or additional business is as important to building a successful practice as your numbers this year for annual hours worked, billed and realized. So,

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