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August 26, 2004
Good Stuff
I feel sorry for those of you not in the Washington DC area, because you don't get the Times on your doorstep every morning. Honestly, I don't know how you do it. I moved from the Washington Post to the Times sometime in the late '80s and have never looked back. You can read it online, of course, but it's not the same thing. I realize that some of these stories have appeared elsewhere, but the Times is a good summary of what is going on, and I get it on my doorstep every morning.
A number of good stories in today's paper that I thought I'd pass along in case your paper missed them:
Unfit for Command
Excerpted in the Times in a three part series. If you're still waiting for your copy from Amazon you can parts I, II, and III, here here and here. Has your paper been covering this controversy?
Inside the Beltway
compiled daily by John McCaslin has good stuff in it today
Trousergate Update:
Rest assured, sir, President Clinton's national security adviser remains under Justice Department investigation after stuffing his stockings and britches with highly classified National Archives documents, some of which he proceeded to destroy.
Read also how Democratic strategist tells us of the campaign that "It's getting dirty". Guess she missed those moveon.org ads.
Inside Politics by Greg Pierce is a must read also. Find out why anyone who didn't serve in Vietnam betrayed their country according to a Democratic operative. And if you want to get really mad read what Christopher Matthews and Douglas Brinkly say about Michelle Malkin, who in my opinion is a national treasure.
Those 527's
Has your paper published a chart showing spending by left and right-wing 527 groups? I can't find it in the on-line version (another reason I am fortunate to get hard-copy every morning) but a summary shows that anti-Bush groups have spent 133.64 million, while anti-Kerry ones only 7.5 million. Article here. Funny how it only became a controversy when the swift boat controversy erupted.
Protesters reneg on deal
Big surprise, but a group that wants to protest the Republicans at the NYC convention reneged on a deal with the city. They're upset that a court has ruled against them.
An estimated 250,000 protesters yesterday were denied access to the grassy expanse of Central Park by a state Supreme Court judge, leaving the Aug. 29 marchers with a final destination of Seventh Avenue outside Madison Square Garden.
State Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline Silbermann turned down the legal plea from the demonstration's organizer, United for Peace and Justice, saying that the group was "guilty of inexcusable and inequitable delay" for filing a lawsuit last week with less than two weeks before the planned event.
United for Peace and Justice, an umbrella group for more than 800 like-minded enterprises, sued the city last week after backing out of a July 21 agreement with the city to hold the rally on a three-mile stretch of the West Side Highway. The group claimed that, after further investigation, staging the event there would be prohibitively expensive.
The complaint claimed that the city violated the state constitution by allowing cultural events such as concerts but failed to accommodate a political gathering. The city parks department said that the event, to be held on three sections of lush grass in Central Park, would ruin the park's lawn. Event planners anticipate 250,000 protesters during the event.
Justice Silbermann said in her 13-page ruling that, "at this juncture, however, plaintiff simply cannot be heard to bring a constitutional challenge to a march-and-rally plan it publicly and voluntarily agreed to on July 21, 2004 — more than one month ago. Indeed, even after plaintiff reneged on that agreement on August 10, 2004, it waited an additional week to bring suit, unnecessarily prejudicing defendants."
United for Peace and Justice promised that the rally will still take place, immediately posting to its Web site a message.
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Read the whole thing. It only gets worse.
Posted by Tom at August 26, 2004 8:28 AM
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