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June 22, 2006

BREAKING:  “Seven Nabbed in Miami on Terror Charges for Plotting to Hit Sears Tower” (UPDATED & UPDATED MORE)

Currently, FOXNews only has the headline on its main page (no accompanying text), so I’ll update as more info becomes available. (h/t Sara, who notes in the comments that AG Gonzales has scheduled a news conference for the morning to lay out the details, and that undercover work was involved in nabbing the plotters). **** update:  From ABC News / AP: FBI agents investigating terrorism-related activities were conducting a number

The Company We Keep

Apropos of nothing, really, but why am I not surprised that maverick “conservative”-libertarian Glenn Greenwald is on the “Townhouse” list?  I sure do hope Mona had an invite.  Or else some champion of FISA I know is going to be losing a world-class sycophant, you can bet the unbugged farmhouse on that.

“Senate rejects calls on Iraq troop pullout”

From the AP: The GOP-controlled Senate on Thursday rejected Democratic calls to start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by years’ end, as the two parties sought to define their election-year positions on a war that has grown increasingly unpopular. “Withdrawal is not an option. Surrender is not a solution,” declared Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, who characterized Democrats as defeatists wanting to abandon Iraq before the mission is

variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief ‘progressive’ political awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

tic tic tic tic tic “Wait—we are still doing ‘tic,’ aren’t we?”*** tic tic tic

Markos “Kos” Moulitsas:  “They can take my life, but they can never take…my FREEDOM (TO TRY TO STARVE A STORY SUGGESTIVE OF IMPROPRIETY ON MY PART OF THE OXYGEN IT NEEDS TO GROW AND BURN, BURN, BURRRRNNNNN!)” – UPDATED

Drunk on his own “power,” Kos strikes back against The New Republic for daring to reveal a collaboration among several prominent leftwing sites.  From “TNR’s defection to the Right is now complete”: People talk about the need for the left to work together and have a unified message in the face of a unified conservative noise machine. So a google group was created called “Townhouse”, and it included many bloggers