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Kos reports on the 2008 DNC convention finalists:
Eleven cities want the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Anaheim Dallas Denver Detroit Las Vegas Minneapolis New Orleans New York Orlando Phoenix San Antonio

Take the poll of which city you think should get the convention. [...]

The controversial Sunday Magazine piece on Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, ex-Taliban spokesman who has enrolled at Yale to pursue an undergraduate degree, is pretty fascinating. After reading it, you start to root for the guy and eventually begin to think that this might be as good a way as any to pull f**ked up people with [...]

If memory serves, somebody around here seemed to make the same sort of argument Mickey Kaus is putting forward:
What if Congress eventually votes to kill the Dubai port deal, President Bush exercises his first-ever veto, and then Congress by a two-thirds vote overrides the veto? On the chat shows today, this veto-overrride scenario was treated [...]

So much for alienating allies with our unilateral arrogance:
The prelude to the Iraq war was a period of intense strain in German-American relations. In his 2002 political campaign, Gerhard Schröder, then the German chancellor, warned against an invasion and vowed that Germany would not participate. President Bush declined to make the customary congratulatory phone call [...]

Bruno and I and the rest of the blogosphere spent a lot of time today talking about Port-gate.
No wonder Bush is so confident that this deal won’t negatively impact security — he nominated Dubai Ports World executive Dave Sanborn to serve as Maritime Administrator within DoT. As head of MARAD, Sanborn’s responsiblities will include [...]

Nick Kristof, easily the most intellectually honest columnist in the NY Times’ stable, argues [Times$elect!] that the DP World deal shouldn’t concern us:
Critics of the deal seem to suggest that swarthy men in black turbans are going to be arriving to provide port “security” in Newark. But Dubai Ports World is run mostly by Western [...]

It’s fun to try and decipher the hidden codes in Drudge Report headlines. But This one’s got me stumped:

What’s the implication here? Why this picture? Is he implying that these soldiers are lining up to get in to “Soldier Costume Night” at a Baghdad gay bar?
In all seriousness, though, when you follow the link [...]

By the way, if you haven’t been to Wonkette recently, do check it out. It’s funnier than ever. There was a dry spell after Ana Marie Cox left, but they’re firing on all cylinders now. Good stuff.
LOLing here and here.

Yesterday’s Bruno in today’s New York Times op-ed page:
The chickens are coming home to roost. A White House that routinely brands anyone who disagrees with its positions as soft on terrorism is now complaining that election-bound lawmakers are callously using the ports deal to frighten voters. A White House that invaded Iraq as a substitute [...]