Bird’s-Eye View

Add this to the list of scandals during the Bush administration:
Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales broke the law by using politics to guide their hiring decisions for a wide range of important department positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department’s credibility and independence, an internal report concluded […]

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Saw “The Dark Knight” on Saturday. Un-flippin’-believable. Jack Nicholson who? Everything you’ve heard and seen about Heath Ledger’s turn as the Joker is true, and just try to get the movie out of your head after seeing it. Just try to fight the temptation to see it twice or three times. It’s superhero genre meets […]

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I don’t know whether to applaud or continue shaking my head in disbelief. From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON — President Bush signed a bill Tuesday allowing Nelson Mandela to visit the United States without the secretary of state having to certify that he is not a terrorist.
The new law removes from U.S. immigration watch lists the […]

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Returning to a topic I wrote about yesterday, Sen. Joe Lieberman said this to CBS, according to CNN.com:
“Our enemies will test the new president early,” Lieberman told CBS Sunday. “Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of […]

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I know many of you love New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd about as much as the smell of manure, but she makes an interesting point in her latest column:
Charlie Black crassly argued in Fortune that a terrorist attack would “be a big advantage” for John McCain … .
It’s hard to believe that if Americans […]

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