Hold Fast

I remember a time when Gail Collins was a columnist for the New York Times and didn’t use her column to do an impersonation of her colleague Maureen Dowd twice weekly.

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Well, I suppose you have to smell China’s “Harmonious” torch, because you couldn’t see the Olympic Torch Relay if you were in Delhi.
The Olympic torch made a strange and lonely procession through central Delhi on Thursday, with the event so overshadowed by fears of the anti-Chinese protests that marred its appearances in other cities that […]

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I didn’t watch last night’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC. Judging from the blogospheric reaction, I didn’t miss much. You know the debate was a disaster when the Washington Post’s TV critic Tom Shales rips ABC and their moderators like he does in this piece, “In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC.” Shales writes:
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Following in the footsteps of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s hard stance against the Olympic torch relay going through Tibet - a welcome move that was akin to closing the barn door after the horses had escaped - London Mayor Ken Livingstone now says that he made a mistake by allowing Chinese armed security forces […]

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Joe Lieberman is about to go fully Zell Miller on the Democratic Party. Though in fairness to Zell, he just retired and Joe is embracing the GOP while serving in the US Senate as a self-proclaimed independent-Democrat.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a […]

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The Chinese government’s paranoia is really reaching comic levels.
Just two days before the Olympic torch relay here, a paranoid Chinese delegation told the Indian authorities that it fears guerrilla-style assaults by militant Tibetans and sought foolproof security for the event.
A high-level Chinese team led by former ambassador Sun Yuxi, who has been specially sent to […]

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Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake and Erick Erickson of RedState have a very interesting discussion of what’s going on in Tibet and China on Bloggingheads TV. Erickson argues that Bush should boycott the Olympics, while Jane pushes for action ahead of that, including efforts to ensure that China does not violently crack down in Tibet in […]

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The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle thinks the Nuremberg Trials were “show trials.”
Mmmm . . . I am in no way unhappy with the outcome of Nuremberg, but my understanding is that most international lawyers regard them basically as show trials. I’m not sure they’re a great example to use.
There is an almost unfathomable level of ignorance […]

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Today I received a joint email from Patrick Leahy and John Conyers asking their supporters to contact the local newspapers and ask them to write in support of the House version of FISA reform legislation and against retroactive immunity for big telecom companies that helped the Bush administration spy on Americans without warrant. I always […]

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