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I'm still too busy to post much for a while, so here are a few recent things you might find interesting from elsewhere:
The WP denounces Bush's budget as "breathtaking" -- as either farce or tragedy. As to Bush's various promises to cut the deficit in half, the LA Times finds it just ain't in the numbers.
Steve Rendall has an interesting new piece on the history of the Fairness Doctrine and how it was killed. FAIR also has a review of the how higher-ups at the New York Times spiked their own reporters' major investigation into the electronic cueing device which likely caused the "Bush bulge" -- just days before the election.
Mother Jones reports
on the continuing impact of U.S. bombing on Iraqi civilians, including
eyewitness reports of the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. (If
true, this is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Not that
anyone bothers with such things anymore.)
Also at MoJo: an interview with Terry Jones of Monty Python, who now writes frequent scathing op-ed pieces for the Guardian.
Last week, Bush appointed convicted perjurer, Plame-leak figure, and Iran-Contra defendant Elliot Abrams to be his deputy national security advisor. (Abrams' conviction, incidentally, was scrubbed by Bush's dad.) So that's nice.
Scott McConnell's Hunger For Dictatorship from The American Conservative and Bill Moyer's column There Is No Tomorrow are disturbingly similar glimpses, written from two very different perspectives, of where Team Chimpy are leading us.
And finally, just for fun, here's Ann Coulter wrongly insisting to a Canadian TV interviewer, over and over, that Canada sent troops to Vietnam.
(Last three links via Cursor.)
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