A Canadian filmmaker is combining his love of science fiction with his alarm over the ramped-up surveillance in his native Toronto by putting a specially fitted Web cam into his prosthetic eye—he lost his own in a childhood accident—and filming everything he sees.
Parker Blackman: More Than a Rush Job Conservatives are feverishly working to rewrite the last eight years and distance themselves from George W. Bush. As progressives, we can’t let their current attempt at an extreme makeover go unchallenged.
Deane Waldman: Is This What You REALLY Want? Years ago for a lecture before the American Academy of Pediatrics, I made a slide titled “The Cheapest Solution To Congenital Heart Disease” that…
Accounting for California’s Suicide What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations. First, California is by nature the most richly endowed region in the world. Nowhere else is there so much fertile land, watered by gravity-fed winter runoff from the majestic Sierra. California has ample supplies of oil and natural gas. Millions of acres of timber abound in its coastal and mountain forests. Temperate climate and weather allow outdoor activity almost year round. The coastline is over 1300 miles long — with two of the great natural ports of the world at Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay.
Who Are The AIG Counterparties? Here Are Some… Over at TPM, Josh has been doggedly highlighting the refusal of both AIG and the federal government to reveal the identity of AIG’s counter-parties in its disastrous credit default swaps. And several lawmakers have in recent days pressed Tim Geithner…
The Scudder Memo: Half A Loaf Better Than None? Here’s one other key aspect of the Rove-Miers testimony agreement that’s worth noting… The agreement declares that the famous “Scudder memo” will be made available “for Committee review only”. In other words, the committee won’t get to keep a copy,…
Schloz-Backed Voter Fraud Lawsuit Bites The Dust Another nail in the coffin for those bogus GOP claims of voter fraud… Remember how Todd Graves was fired as US Attorney for the western district of Missouri, after he wouldn’t go along with a Bradley Schlozman-backed effort to sue…
Two things to remember on March 8, 2009 The first is easy. Change all your clocks because we’re about to have more light again and the days will suddenly gain a spaciousness we lost during the winter. Yes, it’s Daylight Savings again. The second is harder. It’s…
The New Media–Three Thousand Miles Wide and an Inch Deep? Greg and I will just have to disagree about whether the economic collapse did more to doom McCain’s candidacy than the nomination of Sarah Palin. (Though while we are on the subject of V for Viral I have to…
Judith Miller: Give Iran Talks ?The Good College Try? But ?Military Action? Needed If They Fail Last night on Fox News, the Special Report “All-Star Panel” discussed a new Washington Institute for Near East Policy report calling for tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Panel regulars Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes naturally argued that the U.S. should instead attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. But disgraced New York Times reporter turned […]
Last night on Fox News, the Special Report “All-Star Panel” discussed a new Washington Institute for Near East Policy report calling for tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Panel regulars Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes naturally argued that the U.S. should instead attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
But disgraced New York Times reporter turned Fox News analyst Judith Miller — a rare “All-Star” panelist — briefly broke ranks. “I’m with the president on this one,” she said. “I think that we had eight years of calling the Iranians names. … What we really need to do is give it the good college try to see if there is a deal to be done.” Yet, Miller quickly sank back into her neoconservative comfort zone, arguing that if all else fails, “military action” will be necessary:
MILLER: And let’s say it doesn’t succeed, and the Iranians continue on their merry way, trying to have a bomb and trying to have relations with the world. At least then America will be able to say we have tried negotiations without preconditions. We have done everything we can. And it will set the stage for really tough sanctions. And, if that fails, unfortunately, military action.
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It appears that old habits die hard when you’re hanging around the neoconservative crowd. As New York Magazine noted in 2004, “During the winter of 2001 and throughout 2002, Miller produced a series of stunning stories about Saddam Hussein’s ambition and capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction…almost all of which have turned out to be stunningly inaccurate.”
Miller’s neocon friends in the Bush administration (as well as Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi) fed her that false information, and she hung onto every word. In late 2002, citing unnamed officials, she co-wrote a New York Times article reporting that Iraq had “stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb.” Senior Bush officials then pointed to Miller’s story as justification for war with Iraq. Miller even claimed shortly after the invasion that WMD had been found in Iraq.
In Obama Tax Plan, A Shift of Wealth From the Top Down It has been called a Robin Hood budget: The spending plan President Obama sent to Congress last week would give the poor new tax cuts, new college loans and a new health care system by taking nearly $1 trillion from the rich in new taxes.
Court Puts Off Decision On Indefinite Detention The Supreme Court yesterday vacated a lower court’s ruling that the president has the right to indefinitely detain a legal U.S. resident as a terrorism suspect, and put off a decision on one of the most expansive legal claims of the Bush administration.
Recession Snags Plan for Wild Horse Sanctuary The gauzy dream of Madeleine Pickens, the wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, to save thousands of wild horses from government slaughter and turn them free in an “ecosanctuary” is crashing against the reality of bureaucracy and recession.
Obama Speaks at Police Academy Graduation in Ohio PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you so much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you, everybody. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) Thank you. Thank you very much. Please, everybody, have a seat. (APPLAUSE) Thank you so much. What a wonderful …
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