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Blogula Rasa (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
There’s a great picture associated with this story, but I won’t use it because it originates with the AP. However, this story is from the Washington Post’s own Foreign Service news desk, so it’s probably okay to quote more than 5 words. Context. It’s everything. By the way, the photo on the WP story shows Mugabe [...]
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Outsourced to Nate of FiveThirtyEight.com: > FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: Irresponsible Journalism Alert: It took more than four months, but something finally beat out the Vicki Iseman story for its sheer chutzpah and utter irresponsibility. The culprit is [Joe Stephens's] piece from the Washington Post, which alleges that Barack Obama received a "discount" on his 30-year...
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Althouse (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
It's absolutely right: The majority determined that capital punishment for child rape was unconstitutional, in part because a national consensus had formed against it. As evidence, the court noted that "37 jurisdictions -- 36 States plus the Federal Government -- have the death penalty. [But] only six of those jurisdictions authorize the death penalty for rape of a child." Actually, only two years...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Afghan Escalation - Washington Post editorial http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501360.html Each year since 2002, the number of US and allied troops in Afghanistan has grown. And each year, during the "fighting season" of spring and summer, the number of attacks by the Taliban has also increased, prompting commanders to conclude that still more troops are needed....
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The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Post, which supports the result in the Supreme Court's Kennedy v. Louisiana decision invalidating the death penalty for rape, concedes (in an editorial yesterday) that the case should be reconsidered in light of the error on which the ruling was based. Relevant to the issue we've talked about here and on Bench Memos, the Post says it takes the vote of five justices to rehear a case -- although...
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
I am very pleased to see that the Washington Post, in this new editorial, is encouraging the Supreme Court to rehear the Kennedy child rape case in the wake of the discovery that the Justices got a key fact about...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Indian Leader Rescues Nuclear Deal - Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post After months of political uncertainty, the Indian government appeared Friday to have saved a beleaguered civil nuclear-energy agreement with the United States. After a flurry of political meetings with allies and adversaries in the past week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gained the support of a regional political party that will not...
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Eschaton (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
It isn't to inform, so it must serve some other purpose. What exactly is it? Discuss.
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
After the Watergate scandal was over in 1974 and Nixon bundled off in disgrace to California, Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Company and employer of Woodward and Bernstein, cautioned journalists: ““The press these days,” she sternly told them, “should … be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. We had...
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http://www.dolbajao.com/rss.php (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Washington Post - 1 hour agoRussian President Dmitry Medvedev, below, visited Baku, Azerbaijan, reaching for control over supply routes to Europe for Caspian energy resources. Reuters India Trend News Agency
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Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Nearly two years ago on Newsbusters, I floated a proposal that newspapers require their editorial and other writers to police themselves for accuracy by requiring them to turn in footnotes with their copy. The process would force writers to check information they think they know that isn't so. Had editors at the Washington Post , Hartford Courant , Sacramento Bee and Raleigh News & Observer taken my...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Matthew Yglesias reads David Broder: > David Broder: I have not worried about the fundamental commitment of the American people since 1974. In that year, they were confronted with the stunning evidence that their president had conducted a criminal conspiracy out of the Oval Office. In response, the American people reminded Richard Nixon, the man they had just recently reelected overwhelmingly, that...
