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Guantanamo and the Geneva Convention

Andrew Sullivan has a blurb up on how “Guantanamo and Bagram and Tikrit and Basra and Abu Ghraib” have defiled the Geneva Convention for the U.S.:
Feldman’s deeper argument - and the superb essay is well worth re-reading - is that the administration made a simple decision after 9/11 to change for ever the way the [...]

Deep Throat revealed?

ABC News just announced that W. Mark Felt, former Deputy Director of the FBI, has admitted to being Deep Throat.
Old Slate article speculating:
Why Did Bob Woodward Lunch With Mark Felt in 1999?
Was it to ask if he could unmask Deep Throat?
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 7:29 PM PT
As Chatterbox noted yesterday, the [...]

Dems Hope Bolton Delay Brings Documents

Dems Hope Bolton Delay Brings Documents - Yahoo! News
Democrats said they hoped the Senate’s vote to delay confirmation of John R. Bolton as U.N. ambassador would force the White House to release long-sought classified information about the embattled nominee, or perhaps to pick someone else for the job.
In a renewal of intense partisanship, the Senate [...]

Nice

Andrew Sullivan:
WHAT’S COMING: We could also soon be facing the prospect of many more photographs coming out from the hell of Abu Ghraib prison. What we have seen so far - horrifying though it was - is the least of it.
Andy’s just drooling to see those pics, isn’t he?

Must read

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
I know a lot of you guys and gals don’t like Peggy Noonan, for various reasons, but good Lord the woman can write:
You’ve heard the mindless braying and fruitless arguments, but I’m here to tell you the facts, no matter what brickbats and catcalls may come my way. Lindsey Graham defied the [...]

Now this is cool

Rusty has a tutorial up on how to integrate Blogger’s Audioblogger service with WordPress.
I’m afraid I’m far more photogenic than I am audiogenic, and that’s not saying much…so there won’t be any audioblogging around these parts. It’s a cool hack, though, and implemented fairly easily.

Frist has to go…

Well, the Dems have handed Bill Frist his ass yet again.
WASHINGTON - In a major setback for President Bush, the Senate voted Thursday to delay a confirmation vote on John Bolton, Bush’s choice to be U.S. envoy to the United Nations.
Bolton opponents won on a vote to end debate on his nomination. Under Senate rules, [...]

What a week (and it’s still not Friday)

Had to rush home from work early this afternoon, our big dog was lying out in the yard breathing heavily, and the girls couldn’t get her to come in. She had a heartworm treatment on Monday, and is just now starting to get around a bit, so my oldest daughter took her out back [...]

Duh

The latest CBS poll:
Four months into his second term, President Bush is increasingly viewed as being out of touch with the American people, according to a CBS News poll.
Six in ten Americans say the president does not share their priorities, while just 34 percent say he does - the lowest numbers for Mr. Bush since [...]