Wead Whacking And Gannon Fodder

Wead Whacking And Gannon Fodder: "The firm made approximately 8,000 'mistakes' while carrying out its task. It identified completely innocent people as convicted felons, with the result that those people were denied their right to vote. Most were black or Hispanic. In that election, about 90 percent of black/Hispanic votes voted for Al Gore. So it is safe to conclude that had the rejected voters been allowed to vote, Al Gore would have carried Florida and become our 43rd president. "

PressThink: Why Karen Ryan Deserved What She Got

PressThink: Why Karen Ryan Deserved What She Got: "There is no rational interpretation, professional ethic, or angle of vision in which the sentence, 'From Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting' looks like anything other than a simple lie."

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education: "Among the more high-profile governors who did not attend Saturday were two Republicans: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jeb Bush of Florida, the president's brother. "

MSNBC -

MSNBC -: "the late Senator Moynihan�s observation that we can all have our own opinions, but we can�t all have our own facts."

Rocky Mountain News: State

Rocky Mountain News: State: "'He gave his body everything it wanted.'"

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "The twelve-year-old kid in them remains constant till the day they close their eyes for the last time. It is that constant which gives them an insight shared by none of their peers. The purity of a prepubescent's vision carries with it far more bottom line consequence than those who spew their thoughts to conjure proprietary benefits."

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "shrinking 'Mickey' from royalty to rodent"

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "'Your Mouse has been 'slipped a Mickey'' "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "Go for the tin ring, that's easy. Boring, but easier."

Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM

Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM: "'I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviours of rock'n'roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from,' he wrote, adding, �I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times... I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.'"

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "'God didn't put you here to watch television! He put you here to be on television!'"

MSNBC - The Bush Deal

MSNBC - The Bush Deal: "The New Deal was about insuring against risk, so that disadvantaged people felt more secure in the knowledge that the government would help them stand against the vicissitudes of fate. The Bush Deal is about expanding risk, so that disadvantaged people feel more acutely than at any time since the 1920s that they are at sea amid unpredictable market forces, fending for themselves. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun: "With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs and replacing them with ringers. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun: "Does the Bush team love everything military so much that even a military-stud Web site is a recommendation?"

Yahoo! News - White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

Yahoo! News - White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs: "'Our government is on the wrong side of this issue,' said Jeffrey F. Addicott, a former Army lawyer and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. 'A lot of Americans would scratch their heads and ask why is our government taking the side of Iraq against our POWs.' "

Yahoo! News - Judges Say Reporters Must Name Sources in CIA Case

Yahoo! News - Judges Say Reporters Must Name Sources in CIA Case: "Rep. Mike Pence (news, bio, voting record) (R-Ind.), co-sponsor of the legislation and chairman of the House's conservative Republican Study Committee. 'Americans love to hate journalists almost as much as they love to hate politicians. But we are united in our understanding that a free and independent press is central to the survival of liberty.' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Love Lit 101

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Love Lit 101: "'A man has $100 and you leave him with $2,' she lectures a class of schoolchildren. 'That's subtraction.'"

Corporations painted in red and blue / S.F. man politicizes purchasing power

Corporations painted in red and blue / S.F. man politicizes purchasing power: "'We need to have a cathedral builder's mentality when we're doing these campaigns,' Mark said. 'We may not see the building completed in our lifetime, but if we finish the foundation, the next generation can build on that.' "

De Rerum Natura: Letters, We Write Letters

De Rerum Natura: Letters, We Write Letters: "Creationism is rife with hoaxed fossils. The difference is it takes evolutionists to correct them, and yet creationists continue to use them. Examples include the Paluxy footprints, the Calaveras skull, Moab Man and Malachite Man."

The media kerfuffle - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - February 15, 2005

The media kerfuffle - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - February 15, 2005: "When influential members of the media defame our troops, they should answer for it. If that's moronic, sign us up. "

CNN.com - Parents challenge weekly�Bible classes - Feb 12, 2005

CNN.com - Parents challenge weekly�Bible classes - Feb 12, 2005: "Beverly Ridell, who grew up going to the Staunton schools, teaches first- and second-grade Sunday school at church and opposes religious classes during school time.
'I asked them whether Jesus was a Christian and they said 'yes.' When I said, 'Jesus was a Jew,' one girl said, 'But Jesus was a good person,'' Ridell said.
'If Christians are good people, what are Jews? These are 6- and 7-year-old kids. This is an age where what's right and what's wrong are clear and unambiguous.'"

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title: "'I'd been concerned about the prevalence' of [bull], he continued, 'and the lack of concern for truth and respect for truth that it represented.' "

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title: "'It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth,' Mr. Frankfurt writes. 'A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.'
The bull artist, on the other hand, cares nothing for truth or falsehood. The only thing that matters to him is 'getting away with what he says,' Mr. Frankfurt writes. An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull] 'does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it,' he writes. 'He pays no attention to it at all.'"

While Limbaugh sees all things coming up roses, his scared satirist rushes to revise act

While Limbaugh sees all things coming up roses, his scared satirist rushes to revise act: "'In the middle of what's happening in Iraq,' Limbaugh said, 'for most Americans what happened at Abu Ghraib might as well be Romper Room.' "

An oral technique and a $25,000 movie that still has us talking

An oral technique and a $25,000 movie that still has us talking: "it's difficult to look at the repressed faces of these prosecutors and federal agents and feel anything but misery that they and their ilk are in ascendance in today's America. "

Google's big day unusual

Google's big day unusual: "'The company is going to have to discuss the numbers -- not open the kimono, but say more about where the profits are generated,' he said."

Google's big day unusual

Google's big day unusual: "Hammering the point home, Larry Page, who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, later added: 'We're trying to be ruthlessly efficient about running our business. We're trying to make a lot of money. But we aren't necessarily going to make money from everything we have.' "

My Way News

My Way News: "In the essay, later revised for a book, Churchill also said that World Trade Center victims could not be seen as innocent, calling them 'little Eichmanns,' a reference to German World War II criminal Adolf Eichmann.
'True enough, they were civilians of a sort,' he wrote. 'But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire.'"

USATODAY.com - With America at war, Hollywood follows

USATODAY.com - With America at war, Hollywood follows: "'For y'all, this is just a show, but we live in this movie.'"

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil' (washingtonpost.com)

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil' (washingtonpost.com): "Two days later, American political analyst Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative advocate of ousting the government in Tehran, described Halliburton's actions as 'disgusting.' In a Jan. 23 online chat sponsored by the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, Ledeen was asked about 'secret business deals between some U.S. companies, like Halliburton, and the Islamic regime.'
'What has happened is against U.S. laws . . . and the people involved in this transaction must be put in jail, according to American law,' Ledeen replied. "

My Way News

My Way News: "Paul Whiting, 67, took notes during the speech from his home in Billings.
He couldn't hide his reaction. 'I really don't trust him,' the semi-retired photographer said about Bush. He has voted for Democrats and lately some independents. He did not vote for Bush.
One of his biggest worries is foreign policy. Whiting is a peace advocate, who participated in local vigils leading up to the war in Iraq and said he'd like to see the United States adjust its foreign policy.
'I think we're working on a posture of fear and isolationism,' he said. 'I think we really have to examine why our policies generate so much hostility around the world.'"