THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE ‘ADMONISHES’ TOM DELAY FOR 2ND TIME in five years. According to the Washington Post‘s Charles Babington: The report’s conclusion marked the second time in five years that the ethics committee has chastised DeLay.
KERRY WORE A RED TIE. BUSH WORE BLUE. The phrase, “War on Terror,” was mentioned 17 times — 7 by Kerry and 10 by Bush, although Bush’s references were frequently repeated in a single sentence. Bush said his job is “hard work” 11 times.
I JUST GOT BACK FROM WATCHING THE DEBATE WITH JAMES FALLOWS, Deborah Fallows, Michael Lind, Peter Bergen, Jenny Buntman, Andrew Oros, Deborah Fallows, Ted Halstead and about 40 other people. Josh Marshall has an interesting quick reaction to the debate, untainted by hearing the views of commentators.
THE PROJECTED ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE HAS ACTUALLY NARROWED. I check out www.Electoral-Vote.com as often as possible as the proprietor of the site has excellent commentary on the latest polls as well as very informed commentary on the increasing unreliability of these polls.
I HAVE A REAL PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE LIKE JAMES WOOLSEY who rake in the bucks from a war they helped promote while soldiers risk everything on behalf of their country.
IT HAS TAKEN A WHILE FOR JOHN KERRY TO ARTICULATE his strong opposition to the Iraq War, but he finally got there. Tony Blair may be following his lead in an effort to win back the support of angry Labor Party members.
CHALMERS JOHNSON AND DANIEL ELLSBERG are roughly the same age of slightly more than 70 years. They both worked for America’s military-industrial complex, Johnson as a CIA consultant and Ellsberg as a Marine and then an an intelligence analyst and strategist.
MICHAEL FROOMKIN HAS HELPED GET THE GUTS OF THE RNC MAILER posted. I couldn’t get the images to load, probably because I left spaces in the file names — according to Froomkin. Many thanks, Michael.
THE BUZZ CONTINUES ABOUT THE RNC MAILER saying that the Dems would ban the Bible and that Arkansas and West Virginia would turn into bastions of sinful homosexual marriage — or “selfish hedonism” as Alan Keyes called it when referring to Mary Cheney.
PHILADELPHIA HAS JUST ANNOUNCED FULL ACCESS, FREE WIFI in a two-year project covering 135 square miles of the city. Connectivity is one of my pet issues — broadband deployment, the rural/urban digital divide, the information commons, all of that. As the U.S.
