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• NY Times sees new bipartisan consensus on criminal justice, ignores old one

  —Grits for Breakfast

  A story by Adam Liptak published on the front page of the New York Times Tuesday has been getting a lot of attention: "Right and Left Join Forces on Criminal Justice." It described growing "signs of an emerging consensus on the right that the criminal justice system is an" [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:55am EST
  

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• Iran nuke program censured

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  One day after the director general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog castigated Iran for blocking inquiries into its nuclear program, the organization’s governing body voted on Friday to censure the country [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:46am EST
  

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• Kunduz shows whack-a-mole force to space problem

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  NY Times:
  
  Far from the heartland of the Taliban insurgency in the south, this once peaceful northern province was one place American and Afghan officials thought they did not have to worry about.
  
  

  Afghan officials cut the police force here by [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  

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• US looks to NATO to get surge to 40,000

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  The United States is scrambling to coax NATO allies to send 10,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s strategy for the [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:38am EST
  

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• Mau-mauing the gullibles: Sirkin on DDT (again)

  —Millard Fillmore's Bathtub

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  The hard core uneducables who make of the hard knot at the center of the anti-science and anti-environmental movement just refuses to jettison their adored myths about science, regardless how many times those myths are shown to be false. It’s a religious exercise with them, and their faith in error and [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:35am EST
  by Ed Darrell

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• Turkey Day Carving

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  For all you turkey carvers, check out the instructions above, this interesting article and this great NY Times video to get the most meat out of your turkey. Carve away!... [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• Obama's tricky message on Afghanistan

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  In declaring Tuesday that he would “finish the job” in Afghanistan, President Obama used a phrase clearly meant to imply that even as he deploys an additional 30,000 or so [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:56am EST
  

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• "People get put in jail for importing lobsters"

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  The disturbing trend of an increasingly powerful federal government criminalizing all sorts of conduct that should not be criminalized has been a frequent topic (see also here) on this blog. Adam Liptak of the NY Times, who has written... [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• Who fears freeing whom?

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  In this lengthy NY Times Magazine piece from this past weekend, Andrew Meier decries the Russian government's unjust prosecution and treatment of former Yukos chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Many can’t quite embrace an oligarch as a prisoner of conscience. He... [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• The Afghan troop buffet Obama is dithering over

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  Should President Obama decide to send 40,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, the most ambitious plan under consideration at the White House, the military would have enormous flexibility to deploy as many as [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:48am EST
  

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• Obama's war against Texas

  —PrairiePundit

  Kevin Williams:
  
  ‘You don’t have to hit us in the head with a baseball bat too many times,” says Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, “before we start to think you’re doing it on purpose.” And so Governor Perry has a question for the Obama administration: [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:35am EST
  

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• Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Restarted

  —The Ellis County Observer

  Wonder who defaulted on which loan and what bank currently holds the old Superconducting Super Collider (pictured below) — the deals for that facility in Ellis County have gone kaput so many times…anyone care to guess what’s going on with this? While people think, there’s news out of Geneva, Switzerland about [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:51am EST
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• Terrorist admit plan to exploit trial despite guilt

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  

  The five men the Justice Department has said will be charged in the attacks of Sept. 11 intend to plead not guilty so they can express their political and religious views during a trial, the lawyer for one of the men said on Saturday.

  The lawyer, [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:19pm EST
  

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• Glenn Beck to launch National Tour; will feature "libertarian" Speakers

  —Libertarian Republican

  

  Glenn Beck held an organizing rally/book signing at The Villages in Florida on Saturday. Thousands of his fans attended. He announced plans for the coming year, which centers around a "more activist role in politics."
  
  The NY Times noted one particular feature:
  
  Glenn [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 11:06am EST
  

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• Palin's passionate followers

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  When tickets to see Sarah Palin in Michigan ran out, people drove to her appearance here (Fort Wayne, Ind.), three hours away.
  
  

  Thousands had lined up overnight, starting nearly 24 hours before she was to begin signing books, camping [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:41am EST
  

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• Anti Taliban awakening in Afghanistan?

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  NY Times:
  
  American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban.
  
  

  The emergence of the [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  

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• Was stimulus too small?

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:59pm EST
  

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• Preaching mass murder for Allah

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:39am EST
  

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• Name that party--Impeachment hearing

  —PrairiePundit

  From the NY Times:
  
  House Considers Impeachment of Federal Judge
  Near the bottom of the story you find the judge was a Clinton appointee which suggest he was more than likely a Democrat. [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:20pm EST
  

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• 3 Democrats hold out on health care bill

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  NY Times:
  
  Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, says he is not sure he is ready to help a Democratic health care proposal clear even the most preliminary hurdle: gaining the 60 votes his party’s leaders need to open debate on the measure later this week.
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:51am EST
  

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• Wherein I take a moment to blog about something trivial…

  —Three Wise Men

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  …against my better judgment. But still, this NY Times article about Elizabeth Lambert, a soccer player for the University of New Mexico, bothers me for several reasons. I ran across the YouTube video of Lambert’s extremely aggressive (that is, downright dirty) play in a game against Brigham [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:03am EST
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• Disruption of Taliban in Pakistan

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
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  A month after the Pakistani military began its push into the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan, militants appear to have been dispersed, not eliminated, with most simply fleeing. That recurring pattern illustrated the problems facing the Obama administration [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:57am EST
  

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• Pakistan needs to expand operations against Taliban

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:01am EST
  

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• Climate not right for climate changers

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  NY Times:
  
  President Obama came into office pledging to end eight years of American inaction on climate change under President George W. Bush, and all year he [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:47am EST
  

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• Crist in trouble in Florida Senate race?

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  In retrospect, even Charlie Crist admits that “the optics” of The Hug are not great.
  
  

  It was in the glow of a new day in politics last February when Mr. Crist, this state’s popular Republican governor, took the [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:46am EST
  

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• 2009 Weekly local football review

  —Houston's Clear Thinkers

  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez; previous weekly reviews for this season are here) Central Florida 37 Houston Cougars 32 As I've noted many times, Houston (10-2/4-2) games over the past several seasons are just different. The game against Central Florida (6-4/4-2)...' [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:01am EST
  

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• It will be difficult to overcome smoking gun evidence against Hasan

  —PrairiePundit

  NY Times:
  
  Defending the man accused of premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shooting rampage at Fort Hood is the kind of test that many lawyers dread, and that some live for.
  
  

  How does Col. John P. Galligan, [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:55pm EST
  

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• Giuliani criticizes moving al Qaeda lawfare trials to New York

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  NY Times:
  
  Rudolph W. Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said on Sunday that the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:16pm EST
  

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• Newsweek: Dumber Than the NY Times

  —UrbanGrounds

  Though, I guess if you are a Newsweek reader, this will require a little unpacking: he's calling you Liberal kool-aid drinking morons. [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:55am EST
  by Robbie Cooper

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• Obama makes KSM dream come true

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  NY Times:
  
  Not long after he was rousted from bed and seized in a predawn raid in Pakistan in March 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed gave his captors two demands: He wanted a lawyer, and he wanted to be taken to New [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:40am EST
  

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