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Cat-In-The-Box

Because it's Friday of a Holiday weekend:

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The Legacy Media And Torture, Ctd

Marcy Wheeler finds that the NYT's defense doesn't hold up:

Three years passed before the NYT started balancing those
waterboarding with quotations calling it torture in less than half
their articles discussing the practice.

So what explains the delay?...It'spossible the formal admission of waterboardingto Congress by Michael Hayden on February 5, 2008 changed things. It'salso possible that John McCain's presidential campaign–heating up in2007–offered a reason to consider calling...

In Breitbart's World

My lengthy response to unfounded charges of hypocrisy in my criticism of offering $100,000 to get emails written under the assumption of privacy got quickly buried by a fast blogging day yesterday. If you're still interested, here it is. Andrew has invited me to debate this with him in public. I hope we can do that soon.
















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Palin's War Story

Deborah Newell Tornello points to a double standard she finds "exceedingly sexist and unfair":

A man who says he has fought in combat--an act that is fraught with life-and-death decisions and details that would spin the heads of the more squeamish among his audience; that affects a person, both emotionally and physically, for the rest of his life; and the retelling of which narrative treads through extremely sensitive grounds--does so knowing he'll incur the admiration and support of a large...

Malkin Award Nominee

"We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal," - the new platform of the Montana Republican party.

A couple of things: "keeping" private homosexual acts illegal is impossible, since the Montana Supreme Court decriminalized them in 1997 and the US Supreme Court struck them down as unconstitutional in Lawrence vs Texas. And, really? This is 2010, and one of the major parties want to make criminals of 2 percent of the population...

What If Krugman Is Right?

Daniel Indiviglio:

We'll probably have to wait until we get rid of all the Census andseasonality noise to fully understand the way the labor market isevolving. But the narrative essentially sounds something like: jobgrowth wasn't quite as strong as we thought it was during the spring,and probably won't be as resilient as we hoped it would be during thesummer. With private sector jobs continuing to grow, though at a crawl,at least we're on the right path. It's just going to be a slow...

Is Iran Still Suicidal?

Kevin Sullivan compares American-Japanese relations at mid-century to the contemporary American-Iranian relationship:

Even history's most suicidal of states can - and have - changed. Iran is already one of them. So if Iraqis can trust a once suicidal Iran, why can't Americans and Israelis?

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Gaza's Tunnels

The Economist has a video interview with photographer Bruno Stevens:

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Osama, No Superhero

Robert Wright turns his attention to Afghanistan:

If you ask people — right, left or center — why we can't withdrawfrom Afghanistan, they start talking about the catastrophe that wouldensue: The Taliban would take over, provide bases for al Qaeda, andsuddenly it's 9/11 again. Now, the consequences of withdrawal wouldcertainly be messy and in some ways bad — and this subject is way toocomplicated to deal with in my remaining few paragraphs. But enoughholes have been poked in standard...

Chart Of The Day

Pew has a new report on the recession:

The work-related impact of this recession extends far beyond the 9.7%who are unemployed or the 16.6% who (according to the U.S. Bureau ofLabor Statistics) are either out of work or underemployed. The PewResearch survey finds that about a third (32%) of adults in the laborforce have been unemployed for a period of time during the recession.And when asked about a broader range of work-related impacts, 55% ofadults in the labor force say that during the...