From the WSJ: Two bastions of liberalism are discovering the nasty side of campaign finance reform now that it has landed in their own backyards. On Sunday, a spokeswoman for the New York Times admitted it had “made a mistake” when it charged the radical group MoveOn.org a special discounted rate for an ad accusing General David Petraeus of betrayal in advance of his Congressional testimony. Meanwhile, DailyKos’s Markos Moulitsas
September 25, 2007
September 25, 2007
"Court Advances Military Trials for Detainees"
From the NYT: A special military appeals court, overturning a lower court ruling, on Monday removed a legal hurdle that has derailed war crime trials for detainees at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba. The ruling allows military prosecutors to address a legal flaw that had ground the prosecutions to a halt. The decision, by a three-judge panel of a newly formed military appeals court, was an important victory for the government in
September 25, 2007
Propaganda 101: Iran 1, USA/Columbia University 0
From the Islamic Republic News Agency: Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon. The American media establishment, hostile to free speech, stacked the deck against our brave President. But stalwart in spirit and confident in his convictions, Mahmoud perservered. On second
Peter Fonda comments on President Ahmanihoweveritsspelled's visit to Columbia University
Fonda: “There was a time in the late 60s when Morningside Heights was like, a total hotbed of political activity — a place where the Black Power movement met up with cultural aestheticians, avant garde artists, young intellectuals, and far east gurus, to form a kind of intense porridge of love, idealism, and militant activism. “Which never really amounted to much politically, in retrospect — but at the time, that’s