Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
BHTV Opens Its Baghdad Bureau
My friend Eli Lake, on assignment in Iraq, calls in from Baghdad for a special international edition of Bloggingheads.tv with Bob Wright. Worth a watch.
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
Knowledge is Power
People sometimes like to argue that gender has no impact on how candidates approach women’s issues, and that all the Democrats are equally good and knowledgeable on reproductive rights topics. I present to you Bill Richardson, as described by Mark Kleiman, at the California Democratic Party 2007 Convention over the weekend:
Richardson…just doesn’t seem very smart, [...]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
The Jungle in China
Scary news about Chinese food scandals hopping the ocean to our shores and others:
The pet food case is also putting China’s agricultural exports under greater scrutiny because the country has had a terrible food safety record.
In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce [...]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Durbin on the Pre-War Intelligence
Crooks and Liars has video of Sen. Dick Durbin talking about how members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which John Edwards also sat on, received classified pre-war briefings that let them know that the the president was lying about Iraq’s nuclear program — the same nuclear program Edwards cited in 2003, based on his access [...]
