Judgment you can trust: For the first time, Sen. Barack Obama put a figure Friday to the amount of campaign contributions that indicted political fund-raiser Tony Rezko raised for the senator’s campaigns, and the number — about $250,000 — was far more than he previously acknowledged. “We believe we have identified all money that is traceable. … It’s hard for me to know precisely. I don’t have the capacity to

Stephen Hayes has read the thing, and among the revelations therein contained  are: In 1993, as Osama bin Laden’s fighters battled Americans in Somalia, Saddam Hussein personally ordered the formation of an Iraqi terrorist group to join the battle there. For more than two decades, the Iraqi regime trained non-Iraqi jihadists in training camps throughout Iraq. According to a 1993 internal Iraqi intelligence memo, the regime was supporting a secret

Following up on TSI’s post:  The Chinese authorities blamed the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, for the violence and said the government would maintain stability in Lhasa. “The government of Tibet Autonomous Region said Friday there had been enough evidence to prove that the recent sabotage was ‘organized, premeditated and masterminded’ by the Dalai clique,” reported Xinhua, the Chinese government’s official news agency. Six Meat Brian exposes

Goolsby, Power, Spitzer, Wright, Rezko. Massive karma dump.  That was fun. UPDATE: And thanks, Pablo!  I forgot Ferraro! MORE: Obama Pastor’s Offensive Comments Cause Tornado to Hit CNN

The nutroots are all abuzz now that the House passed its version of the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, which fails to protect telecoms who assisted the government with the terrorist surveillance program after 9/11. Apparently, they missed — or forgot — this story from the Politico last week: After weeks of negotiations and no final settlement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled Thursday night that she is

At the HuffPo.  The man who doesn’t read blogs.  And it’s about as well as he could have composed it: Most importantly, Rev. Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life. In other words, he has never been my political advisor; he’s been my pastor. And the sermons I heard him preach always related to our obligation to love God and one another, to

Jay Rosen uses an offline essay by Walter Pincus to argue that the media should be more transparent about its politics.  That Rosen holds up the hypocritical Josh Marshall as a model of integrity, or holds up Keith Olbermann as “another” example (there may be some intentional ambiguity by Rosen on this point) — while ignoring counter-examples to be found on the Fox News Channel or the Excellence in Broadcasting network —

Dan Collins has already blogged about the new Pentagon report on Iraq and Terrorism, but the disconnect between the general media coverage of the report (all focused on the lack of a direct operational link between Saddam’s regime and al Qaeda)  and its actual contents (showing a “considerable overlap” between their activities which led to a “de facto link between the organizations”) raises a larger issue. Stephen Hayes opines that the

The wayThe Post is exploiting this poor young woman to boost readership. Dupre lives in a studio apartment in a Flatiron high-rise and is known to frequent hot spots like Viscaya, Pink Elephant and Retox. She’s hobnobbed with hip-hoppers like P. Diddy. I still don’t think it’s worth $1k per hour to have your hob nobbed on her hopping hips. Allah Pundit‘s on the story.

I mean, you’re not going to make me address these charges individually, are you?  Q: I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s all over the wire today (from an ABC News story), a statement that your pastor (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side) made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of singing “God Bless America,” black people should sing a