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TheHill.com: Feinstein’s Cardinal shenanigans”

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“1.5 billion in government contracts”

“no major publication”

This is a “story” that would otherwise be written in flaming letters above the fold…..but it’s not a story.

Duke Cunningham was a piker.

Information Warfare: We Support the Stupid Mercenaries

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A little fact-checking would avoid a lot of this trouble, but who needs facts when you have conviction?

The Nation: Is Global Warming a Sin?

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This seems as good an explanation as I have seen.

Strategy Page: The Twisted Lessons of Vietnam

Ray Kurzweil: The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth

Reason Magazine - Hollywood’s Missing Movies”

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A significant proportion of our society would consider this to be outright redbaiting. I believe it is more like a gust of fresh air blown across material, that while available, is mainly unaccessed .

Victor Davis Hannson: Works and Days — The Crazy Middle East

National Review Online: Planet Gore

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Backseat Driving: Why David Evans bet against Brian Schmidt over global warming

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American Thinker: Hypocrisy has a Human Price on the Streets of Baghdad”

Media bias

Media bias. It has now been some weeks since a small alternative paper in San Fran published the story about Sen. Diane Feinstein. She sat on the subcommittee which had oversight over Pentagon building and services contracts.

Her husband, in the same time period, owned companies which received hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the Defense Department.

Private companies.

She recently accepted a reassignment to a less powerful subcommittee. Given the great amount of attention (no link needed) to HALLIBURTON, and its connections, in recent times, it is a little puzzling that none of the great news organs has pursued this.

It’s simply not a story. Now I don’t know that anything illegal has transpired. Maybe I’m not enough of a lawyer to use “recusal” in a sentence. Maybe there’s a teaching moment to be had about public service and ethics. But, it’s simply not a story.

If you Google it, there is coverage. On the first page, however, the only large media entry was the SFChronicle. No large media organs with vast resources. And certainly no references to Halliburton. I’m not surprised at the number of entrees, because this story is of quite some interest to bloggers.

But it’s not a STORY. No daily, above the fold WPNYT treatment.

IS SHE GUILTY?

WHEN WILL SHE RESIGN?

MAJORITY MAY BE IN PERIL.

Over to you, Katie.

AP: Japanese Mayor Killed by Mobster

Victor Davis Hansson: The Post-west — A civilization that has become just a dream.

Arab News: You Can’t Appease Them

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This is all after a brutal ten year civil war with 2-300,000 dead.

The Belmont Club: No Dial Tone

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No, it’s the Joooz.

Captains Quarters: Jimmy Carter, Arab Front Man

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Big toothy grin, if you too hate the Jews.

James Lewis in the American Thinker: Europe — Let Uncle Do it.

FIRE: University of Rhode Island Student Senate Dumps College Republicans

Power Line: Do do the wudu that you do so well, part 3

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I could title this “The Fall Of The West” or some such pretentious stuff.

Or just leave it at a snarky little — “Wingnuts sometimes have their uses.”

Jack Kelly: Feeling Safer vs. Being Safer

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My experience is that both sides in issues like these tend to bend the numbers, but it does feel somewhat persuasive to me.

It’s really small solace to ID and catch a killer, after his victim has bled out.

Volokh Conspiracy: What Exactly Is the Reason Not To Allow Professors To Carry Guns?

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This guy is pretty hard to argue with.

. Zuhdi Jasser: The Mainstream Media — Islamist Facilitators

New York Post: Harry Reid’s White Flag

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Gee, I thought Reid (and Pelosi) had been pretty clear on this for a while. Apparently, he went back on the floor of the Senate to add a weasel qualifying statement, so maybe he thought he had misrepresented his position a little.

I’ve seen a few blogs with pages of comments in outrage. Given my perception, I’m surprised at their surprise.

Michael Barone: Swift Boat Veterans Spoke the Truth

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I don’t think you’ll catch Michael Barone appreciatively quoting too many “wingnuts”. Also a few more interesting words on Harry Reid.

I guess from now on, when I hear “swiftboating” as an operative term, I’ll have to label the user as not credible.

neo-neocon: Only The Shadow (Sy Hersh) knows. Or doesn’t know. Or something like that.

Power Line: A prophet with honor at his alma mater

Michelle Malkin: Lieberman slaps Reid: “We should not surrender in the face of barbarism”"

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I dunno , but it seems as though there is a strange asymetry in the nomination races. The dems can’t seem to work up any interest in any centrist candidates. Hilary comes closest, but comes with big baggage and is tacking left for all she is worth, right now.

The repubs credible candidates all are quite centrist, and they can’t seem to bring up any guys reasonably to the right.

Here comes Fred. We can’t be missing Allen and Lieberman that much!

Captain’s Quarters: Canada — Bush Might Be Right

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I have NO idea of actual magnitude, but, I imagine that 10 cents spent in China for emissions abatement would go a hell of a lot farther than a dollar spent in the US.

PowerLine: Is the Iraq War “Lost”?

Iraq the Model: End the war — Right message sent to the wrong address.