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Bush Timeline Gotta beat this obsession with the CEO, er, President. There’s more to media than this one story. Still, Semi Truths offers this cogent timeline.

Ex-Dictator Broke, Living With Mom (washingtonpost.com)

The Economist Worries about W. The conservative (but not insane) Economist is concerned about “the disappearing presidency”: First, politics is about momentum, and for the moment Mr. Bush is rolling downhill.

Doing God’s Work: The Daily Howler I don’t envy them, having to read Coulter’s puerile venomous ravings carefully, looking up and debunking her footnotes one-by-one, but I’m glad they’re doing this work. Coulter’s book is professional wrestling—a pathologically inaccurate work. And don’t forget the things we’ve shown you the next time she shows up on…

In his 7/29/2 opinion column in U.S. News, Gergen casually drops this into the conversation: Bush must also act swiftly to lance the boil forming around his own ethics and those of his vice president. Both Bush and Dick Cheney have proven records of honor, so they certainly deserve the benefit of the doubt. OK,…

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National Debt Clock Restarted

Harken/Bush SEC Documents

Failed Corporate Crook Turns Avenger

Get in a Neutral Corner As infuriating as Jane Galt may sometimes be to a left-leaning pinko like myself (OK, I think my views are more nuanced but, hey, I hang out on the Well where the two or three right-wing wingnuts – see I’m doing it again – are constantly clusterfucked by the hordes…

Bin Laden is dead – you read it here (ArabNews.com) first

More grist for the mill: Harken Hypocrisy – Bush’s corporate ethics: Do as I say, not as I do. By William Saletan

W.’s Thin Skin: “In the corporate world, sometimes things aren’t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.” (The Post says that the president “glared at reporters when he heard titters after that answer.”)

Thank gopod for Molly Ivins: Another chapter of ‘George in Wonderland’, calling Shrub on his hypocrisy re corporate malfea’ance.

ClearChannelSucks.org :: How many ways has Clear Channel sucked today?

More on WebRadio Fees (courtesy of mz> From today’s MacInTouch: >Wired News covers the new webcasting fees just finalized by the U.S. Copyright Office: >”The new rates, issued by Librarian of Congress James Billington, require webcasters to pay record labels .07 cents each time a song is streamed live and .02 cents for archived or…

Alan Keyes Is Taking Meds – If he’s making sense, then these TV shows are real. By William Saletan

Hey, These Guys Aren’t Conservative! German webzine Telepolis publishes a trenchant report on the false promises of neoliberal political/business/financial policies in Crony Capitalism Revisited.

Wanna See Rove’s Powerpoint It’s available in its original PPT format via Roll Call Daily, as well as via PDF from the New York Times and in other formats elsewhere on the Web.

Rolling Stone to Take After Maximor Whatever Rolling Stone will rock to a new beat with a British managing editor who specializes in bite-size articles and starlets busting out of their bikinis. Founding editor and publisher Jann Wenner announced yesterday he’s hired FHM editor in chief Ed Needham, who speeded the men’s magazine from an…

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