dissent as potential terrorism

STUFF
* " Mark Silverstein, legal director of the ACLU's Colorado chapter. "It lends credence to what a lot of critics have said: that the FBI is starting to regard some forms of dissent as potential terrorism."" LINK

* "About 5,000 of (AIPACS) members will throng the Washington Convention Center to hear speeches by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the chairmen of both major U.S. political parties and the top leaders of both chambers of Congress. The banquet Monday night will be attended by half the Senate and a third of the House, AIPAC aides said." LINK

* ronnie earle, texas prosecutor, got some press for chasing DeLay. the attack dogs strike back. look out, ronnie.

* blinky's yalta speech was actually written by gerson (according to bumiller, anyway) - hasnt he gone yet?
she also gives us this toiletpaper: " the president typically gives his speechwriters big-picture thematic direction and then has a heavy hand in the editing" LINK

* "Nixon referred to conservatives as 'they.' He used to ask me, 'What do they want?' One time he said, 'Buchanan, you have to give the nuts 20 percent of what they want.'"" LINK
just cos its funny

* " As (Buchanan) later says, "I can't say we won the cultural war, and it's more likely we lost it."
The evidence? He says it was all over the tube, in prime time, at last year's Republican National Convention, which featured California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, New York Gov. George E. Pataki and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, all social liberals.
"They are indifferent to those moral issues because they see them — and correctly — as no longer popular, no longer the majority positions that they used to be," he says." LINK
shorter Buchanan: we are trying to impose our will on the majority

* " Senator Lieberman is a co-chair of the Committee on the Present Danger, and many of those who populate the list are 'friends' of John Bolton. But still, Lieberman should be able to maintain his objectives and interest in the national security agenda he cares about and still make the judgment that John Bolton will do more harm than good to American national interests in a UN Ambassadorship." LINK

* hearing ozzie voices on the teeve wrt kylie is soooo painful