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David Brooks journalist vs. David Brooks hack

Turnabout is fair play, Contact numbers of the GOP hacks providing contacts for Movie Theaters to urge them not show Fahrenheit 9-11. Also here. Or many people are using the contact numbers to urge movie theaters to show the movie.

Room 101 For his dystopia, 1984, his classic novel of totalitarianism, George Orwell created "Room 101," an interrogation room where a prisoner's deepest fears were to be realized and applied. Tier 1 in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, as the now-infamous photos indicate, was the Bush administration's Room 101 for the "Arab mind," and so the crown jewel of its global interrogation facilities.

9/11 Panel can find no evidence of al-Qaeda, Iraq link for attacks. Bluntly contradicting the Bush administration particularly the vice president.

Torture, Incorporated - Many US contractors for lucrative torture business.

US Poll - Iraqis angered by abuse, worried about safety, want us to leave. Winning the hearts and minds has failed.

A guest blog from the Max Sandlin campaign

Salon: Ron Reagan Jr. on Bush White House - "these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people."

The Reagan family feud with Bush. "What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?"

Amy Sullivan, who is becoming our best writer on liberal politics and religion, on Jesus Christ Current SuperStar. "Reclaiming some of the Christian market would cut into the profits of Tim LaHaye and Mel Gibson; provide a richer interpretation of Scripture; fatten the bottom lines of Hollywood and New York, and just might save American politics, to boot. Amen."

So Torture Is Legal? ...if the voters can't move the politicians, and the politicians aren't courageous enough to act alone, we may wake up one morning and discover that torture has always been legal after all.

A Moral Chernobyl - Prepare for much worst from Abu Ghraib.

Amy Sullivan - Democrats shouldn't be scared of religion. One-half of Democratic voters attend church regularly. And their platform is a good reflection of mainstream religious values. They just need to learn better ways to talk about it.

Lone Star Justice - Alberto Gonzales' strange parochial views of international law. Bush wants him for the Supreme Court.

David Winer cuts off 3,000 bloggers without warning.

The Bush two-step: moral clarity vs legal niceties. By their own words, this administration on torture.

The People's media reaches more people than Fox does. "We paid $3 billion for these television stations," said an executive with a Fox affiliate in Tampa. "We decide what the news is. The news is what we tell you it is." Thousands of hardy grassroots people have been working steadily and creatively over the years in every area of the media, and the result of their combined efforts is that a new media force is now flowering from coast to coast—a force consisting of hundreds of media outlets that are unabashedly progressive, fiercely independent, diverse, dispersed, and democratic. Collectively, they are a force to be reckoned with, celebrated, strategically deployed? and deliberately expanded.

Summer job hunt - Less than 37 percent of youths are expected to find work this summer, teenagers face the bleakest job market in nearly 60 years.

Dating in Manhatten, legal papers served for not going out on a second date.

GOP slipping Patriot Act 2 into law

Pressure Group Puts Heat on 'Fahrenheit' "Any time any organization protests against a movie, they ensure that the movie will do better at the box office than it would have done otherwise. If they have any doubt about this, just ask Mel Gibson."

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League of Women Voters drops support of paperless voting machines

Fair and balanced from the Right - Mike Savage: "Well there's a big difference between fighting for civil rights, and fighting for homosexual marriage, you moron. It's a big difference for fighting for the equality of all men, despite their race, and fighting for perversion, you idiot! You think people are stupid?" Just your listeners Mike, just your listeners.