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Joe Conason calls an ad against Senator Max Cleland (D, Georgia) “[a]nti-American, unpatriotic and cowardly”: Speaking of Osama and Saddam, their images provide the backdrop for what may be the single most nauseating, cynical and un-American political advertisement of the midterm campaign. The ad promotes the candidacy of Saxby Chambliss, the Republican Senate candidate running…

Find here a point-by-point refutation of Bush’s big speech. An excerpt: Bush: In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq’s military industries defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents.…

Just passing this Political Parrhesia item along: The federal government’s fiscal year ended on Monday, September 30. So, it is appropriate to take a look at how much the national debt rose in the past year. $100 billion? You wish. $200 billion? Sorry. $300 billion? Still low. $400 billion? Getting warmer. The actual amount? Upon…

In an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jay Bookman suggests that the Bush administration’s ulterior motive in focusing on Iraq is a relentless expansion of American empire: This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as…

[from cjf-forshac-the foreign desk-chris forshay]: the [uk] observer, 2/17/02: by Terry Jones To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can’t think why no one has thought of it before. It’s so simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern Ireland, we wouldn’t be in…

Thanks to Textism, I’m now hooked on the political pontifications of The Poor Man: In revenge, I am hereby starting a movement to counter Front Page founder David Horowitz’s “Take Back Our Campuses” movement. Please donate to my project to start departments of, oh, I don’t know, Queer Islamic Post-Modern Environmentalism or something, in all…

Hear Bush the younger follow in his fathers tonguesteps with his version of “Fool Me Once.”

In The Bleat James Lileks tells his younger self how the next year will go: (Get this: the president will be quoted, second hand, as not “giving a shit what the Europeans think.” It’s come to that.) We realize we’re going to have to go it alone – and in most respects this feels right.…

Freeman Ng, of Progressive Schoolhouse writes: Shortly after Bush’s big address to congress last year a week and a half after 9/11, I did this “rewrite” of his speech. My intent was to show a completely different way we might have responded to the attacks on us, a completely different way that our nation might…

After all these years, a DNA test has confirmed a confession to the Central Park jogger rape that resulted in the addition of “wilding” to the urban lexicon and it appears the unjust conviction of five or six young suspects. This is being discussed at both Uppity-Negro and Metafilter. Says Aaron of U-N: Oh well,…

iBush: Artificially unintelligent Oval Office Occupant simulator What’s new in this version: even more eloquent ReadMe explains aim and meaning of the program now talks about gun control, too Latest User Reviews: Hiram – Sep 8, 2002 (freeLunch.apps CEO speaking:) I just discovered that iBush was silently removed from the MacUpdate website. They continue to…

In A letter to Coulter the editor of Pennsylvania paper Centre Daily explained why he’s dropping Coulter’s column from his op-ed page on Friday, concluding: And, Ann, you’re not helping. You do nothing to elevate our spirits, to celebrate the great bond that holds us this unruly people together and makes us a nation. Hate…

The actress outs her body in More: Because in 2002, more than three decades into the women’s movement, it is still a radical act for a woman to accept her body as it is. “We knew the article was important,” said Susan Crandall, editor-in-chief of the magazine, targeted to women in their 40s and 50s.…

In Talking Bull, The Guardian wonders why the journalists who pumped up stocks during the bull market are still heeded in this bearish downturn: Instead of being required to write, “I will not confuse libertarian hallucinations with practical investment advice” 36,000 times, he was indulged with a seat on President Bush’s 21st Century Workforce Council.

Thought-virus Thank you for financing global terror (via Metafilter sideblog)

In AlterNet: Connect the Dots With Rumsfeld, David Corn questions Rumsfeld’s out-front spokesmanship for the U.S. foreign policy: Most recently, he warned (at a public meeting with Army troops) that if Russia maintains its trading relationship with Iraq, the nation will be branded a pal of terrorism and global investors will steer clear of Russia.…

Fuzzy math? The New York Observer reports Ann Coulter as saying: here are 780 footnotes in the back of Slander, and so far, Ms. Coulter said, only two minor, irrelevant errors have surfaced. “?Do you realize what this means??” she said she told her agent. “This means the rest of this book is true! This…

The CounterRevolutionary suggests an ulterior motive for the takeover of the Iraqi embassy in Berlin: That leaves us with an intriguing possibility — that the raid was an intelligence gathering mission. Let’s assume that the Iraqis were a group of dissidents trained by the CIA or the German Intelligence to infiltrate the embassy. … I’m…

Reading about Bill Clinton’s negotiations with a major network for a daily talk show sent shivers down my spine. This must be some kind of Phil Donohue wet dream. I once said that Slick Willie would be the first ex-president to appear in a porn film (Nixon must have been the first to be portrayed…

We are re-branding this column of Mediajunkie, from Junk Mail to Bite Media. This column appears to work best as the king’s taster (you’re the king). If it is poison, we spit it out lest it kill us. I also like the hip-hop sample response to media barrage: bite off some for yourself and spit…