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Cheney knew

October 24, 2005 By David

Holy cow.  The NY Times, after months of playing catch-up on Novak-Plame-Rove-Libby-gate, has vaulted into first place with a truly blockbuster story: Scooter Libby's own notes show that his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, was the … [Read more...]

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Wurmser in the eye of the storm

October 24, 2005 By David

Wurm. … [Read more...]

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No unfunded mandates!

October 23, 2005 By David

Lynne, of the excellent blog Left in Lowell, left a comment over at the HCFA blog that I think deserves to be rebroadcast.  It sums up exactly why I think an individual mandate (a) is not going to solve the health care crisis, (b) is … [Read more...]

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Q: How do you get young creative people to leave Massachusetts?

October 23, 2005 By David

A: Force them to buy health insurance if they want to live here.House Speaker Sal DiMasi has in large part signed on to the Mitt Romney plan for addressing the health care crisis.  DiMasi announced his support for an "individual … [Read more...]

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October 22, 2005 By David

Byron Calame, the NY Times's "public editor," has published his long-promised column on the Judith Miller affair.  By and large, I found it to be disappointing.  A while back Calame posed four important questions that he … [Read more...]

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Fitzgerald goes online; Wilsons go to court

October 21, 2005 By David

The indispensable Raw Story points to two remarkable developments in Novak-Plame-Libby-Rove-gate today.First, WaPo's Dan Froomkin notes that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has launched an official web site on the Justice Department's … [Read more...]

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“The White House is so irrational that who knows?”

October 21, 2005 By David

So says one of the strategists working with the White House to shepherd the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination through the Senate, as reported by Byron York on the National Review's web site.  York spoke to several of these … [Read more...]

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Surprise! Brownie lied

October 20, 2005 By David

The WaPo reports that, according to a FEMA staffer who was on the ground in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, Michael "heckuva job, Brownie" Brown was informed personally, and repeatedly, about the disaster that was … [Read more...]

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Blue Mass. Group interviews John Edwards

October 20, 2005 By David

Yes, THAT John Edwards.  Charley and I just spent about 15 minutes in a conference room at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with no one but Senator Edwards and one of his staff members.  Edwards was at Harvard as part of a … [Read more...]

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Novak-Plame-gate update

October 20, 2005 By David

As is often the case when an important news story gathers intensity, there are lots of Novak-Plame-gate developments as the grand jury's expiration date of October 28 approaches.Recent stories claiming that Karl Rove falsely told President … [Read more...]

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