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July 22, 2010
The Daily Wrap
Today on the Dish, Argentina sealed the deal for marriage equality. Andrew took a step back from the Breitbart-Sherrod scandal to revisit Obama's long game. Remaining race commentary from Josh Marshall, Adam Serwer, Conor Friedersdorf, E.D. Kain, and Ron Radosh. Drum pointed the finger at Fox. Andrew also shook his head at the latest Journo-list revelations and Fallows weighed in.
Newt slithered into the NYC mosque mess, Yglesias smacked him around, and Larison found higher ground. In other P...
Palin's Chances, Ctd
Noah Millman takes her seriously. His fear:
If Sarah Palin wins the Presidency, then she reshapes her party to suit
her preferences. And anybody who came out strongly against her will be
in the doghouse for years. She is not a "with malice toward none, with
charity for all" type of Republican.
Razib Khan gives her a 25% chance at the nomination while Larison continues to believe that "Palin has no chance of winning."
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Al Qaeda In Iraq
Building off analysis by Myriam Benraad, Joel Wing estimates the terrorist group's staying power:
Benraad believes that Al Qaeda in Iraq willstill be around for the foreseeable future. One reason is that thegroup is largely Iraqi now. At first, it was mostly made up of and ledby foreigners like Zarqawi and Masri. Today it is almost all locals. Another factor is that in June 2009 U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq'scities. That gave more room for the Islamists to operate in. TheAmericans are due...
The Ground Zero Strip Club
Friedersdorf extends Palin's logic:
The closest strip club to Ground Zero happens to be two blocks away, a fact that has nothing to do with our reverence for the place where so many Americans were killed by terrorists. As you've probably noticed, it doesn't even make sense to call it The Ground Zero Strip Club.
But it makes no less sense than naming an Islamic community center "The Ground Zero Mosque"--as much of the media have done--because it's going to be located a couple blocks away.
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Red Families, Blue Families, Gay Families, Ctd
Dreher, who is opposed to marriage equality, praises Rauch's article on the social forces fighting for and against same-sex marriage:
Gay marriage is the final act of the Sexual Revolution, the thing thatinstitutionalizes it. If you think the Sexual Revolution (which Rauchcannily defines as global information culture + birth control) was onbalance a good thing, you're happy with this; if not, not. What's soinsightful about Rauch's analysis -- and he's quite clear which sidehe's on -- is that...
Face Of The Day
Dogs, wearing hats and sunglasses, are used by their owner to beg for coins in Manila on July 22, 2010. The Philippine government said it would give money directly to poor families in an effort to fight a sharp rise in the number of Filipinos enduring severe hunger. President Benigno Aquino's new administration said it wanted to act after a survey released reported that about 780,000 families in the Philippines, 4.2 percent of the total, felt hunger 'often or always'. By Noel...
"They" Ctd
Larison's contribution to the NYC mosque "debate":
Anti-jihadists keep making the same errors over and over. Instead ofexploiting differences between jihadists and non-jihadists, amongdifferent kinds of Islamists, and between different groups ofjihadists, anti-jihadists have been perfectly content to roll all ofthem into a single "Islamofascist" menace. That artificially inflatesthe strength of actual jihadist enemies by lending credibility to theirpropaganda, and as a result it makes...
Top Secret America, Ctd
Softwar from Moustache on Vimeo.
Thomas Mahnken defends our intelligence agencies:
Although beginning the story with 9/11 makes a certainamount of sense, in doing so Priest and Arkin miss an important dimension ofthe story. During the 1990s the size ofthe U.S. intelligence community declined significantly because both the Clintonadministration and leaders in Congress believed that we were headed for a morepeaceful world. Indeed, the Clintonadministration made trimming the size of the...
The FNC News Cycle
Drum notices a pattern:
There have been three big conservative outrages
have choked the airwaves over the past couple of weeks. #1 was about a
bunch of scary black men, the New Black Panther Party. #2 was about a
bunch of scary Muslims who want to build a triumphal mosque on
sacred soil of Ground Zero. #3 was about a vindictive black woman
works for the government and screws the white people she deals
The running theme here is not just a coincidence.
Joyner expands on that...
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