Nightly Ramble: Big Airliner Edition

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This is the “Big Airliner” Edition

• AF One flies over NYC, Obama crashes: Rumors about the BitsBlog jet being the one circling Southern

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This is the LightHouse Edition

• Mother’s day alert:  First of all, let’s take time out for this important message: You do know

From the Washington Post:

U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by

Ben Smith, and Jon Martin at Politico:

There was Sen. John McCain’s daughter and his campaign manager who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – the most devoted modernizer among the party’s

• @jtlol Can someone explain to me how Perez Hilton’s nonsense is any different than that od andrew sullivan?  #
• Re: David Kellerman: Ron Brown, call your office, please #
• where is OwlGore today, anyway? #tcot #hhrs #

James at OTB:

Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, proclaimed yesterday that the United States must prosecute the lawyers who drew up the torture memos and that if we fail to do so it is the duty of

Founding Bloggers:

Yesterday, we officially filed our DMCA counter-notice in the matter of CNN’s censorship of Founding Bloggers’ coverage of the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party. A copy of the counter-notice is available at Ben Sheffner’s blog Copyrights & Campaigns,

Sometimes, the world is a smaller place than we ever imagine it could be.

A few years ago, used to work at a bank as an information technology person. (Hence the nickname, ‘BitHead’. I’m a tech, by trade, usually working

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This is the Garden Store Edition

• When government rises, true charity falls: This blog has pointed out for years, that

Clarice Feldman at Pajamas Media nails it cleanly:

As the president released the memos, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter to his agents:

In releasing these memos, the men and women of the CIA have assurances from both myself,

Dave Schuler at OTB:

Germany is concerned about the Taliban fighters nearing Pakistan’s Islamabad capital:

BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) – Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan’s capital and urged the government in Islamabad

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American Heroes

That’s what we ought to call the men and women who interrogated the worst of the worst. For those most committed to the ridiculous crusade for terrorist rights, “enhanced interrogation” is not only immoral and illegal, it’s ineffective.

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