http://www.davidcorn.com/ en-us Copyright 2007 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:13:34 -0500 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:27:47 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Here's some good news for Dick Cheney. Pollster John Zogby reports: A majority of likely voters--52%--would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that the U.S. will be... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/good_news_for_c.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/good_news_for_c.php Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:13:34 -0500 John Edwards is giving what his campaign bills as a "major thematic speech" at noon today in New Hampshire. Judging from the excerpts the campaign has passed out in advance, the address will be nothing he hasn't said before. Edwards... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/edwards_how_sle.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/edwards_how_sle.php Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:45:26 -0500 Is Fred Thompson a serious fellow? A few months ago, as I've previously noted, he joined the ranks of global warming deniers. On Wednesday, while campaigning, he described the conflict in Iraq in rather simplistic terms. Discussing why it was... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/a_simple_manelv.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/a_simple_manelv.php Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:20:33 -0500 I forgot to mention that in the latest PinkerCorn diavlog mentioned below, Pinkerton suggested--in all seriousness--posting a police officer in front of every mosque in the United States. To do what? To keep an eye on them, Pinkerton replied. A... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/by_the_way.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/by_the_way.php Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:48:37 -0500 I've asked a few times in recent weeks, Is Fred Thompson chicken? He seems to have a penchant for softball interviews with conservative talk-show hosts. Well, this just in from his campaign: Fred Thompson will discuss immigration on The Laura... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/is_fred_thomspo.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/is_fred_thomspo.php Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:10:48 -0500 The Pinkerton & Corn Show on Bloggingheads.tv is back--and it's gone big time. BHTV has cut a deal with The New York Times to feature segments of BHTV conversations regularly, and first at the plate is the PinkerCorn pairing. Watch... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/god_is_greatbut.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/god_is_greatbut.php Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:56:10 -0500 In the good ol' days--that is, before the age of the Internet, daily blogging and 24-second-long news cycles--you could chew on a news event for a few days and then comment upon it. Such punditing no longer seems to be... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/bushs_careless.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/bushs_careless.php Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:35:50 -0500 Here's my last "Capital Games" column for www.thenation.com.... Four and a half years ago, after reading the Robert Novak column that outed Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative specializing in counter-proliferation work, I wrote an article in this space... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/plamegate_final.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/plamegate_final.php Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:52:38 -0500 I'm traveling today. Will be posting later.... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/free_time.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/free_time.php Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:51:42 -0500 During the second day of his confirmation hearings, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush's pick to be attorney general, defended some of Bush administration's more controversial moves, such as using so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects (a.k.a. torture) and eavesdropping... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/meet_the_new_bo.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/meet_the_new_bo.php Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:43:03 -0500 Oh, family values.... Today Rudy Giuliani's campaign sent out a press release proudly declaring that Jeb Bush Jr.--son of the former Florida governor, nephew of the current president of the United States--has become chairman of Florida Young Professionals for Rudy.... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/rudy_nabs_a_you.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/rudy_nabs_a_you.php Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:44:21 -0500 Man of War Man of Peace That picture is from today's ceremony in the Capitol where George W. Bush awarded the Dalai Lama the Congressional Gold Medal....By the way, the Dalai Lama had this to say about the Iraq war... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/man_of_war_man.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/man_of_war_man.php Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:27:05 -0500 I used to have a poster that was put out decades ago by the British Labour Party that proclaimed, "Workers, Vote Your Interests." That's basic politics. And I'm surprised that wealthy Americans--at least of the GOP stripe--are not following that... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/republicans_and.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/republicans_and.php Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00:49 -0500 If you missed yesterday's Washington Post, you missed a fine example of a super-soft-ball interview. The op-ed page published excerpts of a Q&A Lally Weymouth conducted with Clarence Thomas. There was not one tough question posed to the Supreme Court... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/soft_balls_for.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/soft_balls_for.php Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:44:51 -0500 I'm on the run today. But (just about) everything you need to know about the Blackwater problem in Iraq can be found in these two first-person accounts. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Robert Bateman a U.S. Army officer who served... http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/blackwater_a_me.php http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2007/10/blackwater_a_me.php Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:27:36 -0500