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Time mag: Pelosi probably is right
15 comments May 21st, 2009
 
 The more you look at the record, the more Nancy Pelosi appears to be right about the CIA misleading Congress in the matter of torture.
 HERE’s the latest from Time.
 UPDATE: On the other hand, some people seem to believe that ONLY REPUBLICANS are allowed to criticize the CIA, as if there were a law to that effect.
TV feetch on prom lottery at my alma mater
3 comments May 21st, 2009
 
 One of my fondest memories of Aquin Central Catholic High School in Freeport, from which I graduated long, long ago, is the school’s peculiar tradition regarding the annual junior-senior prom.
 For more than 80 years now, prom dates at Aquin have been determined by random lottery among the students. And as a recent feature story on Chicago TV station illustrates, the lottery process has become more elaborate than it was in my day. Today, they have skits and costumes and such (above).
Here’s a link to the TV piece:
My reaction to Dick Cheney’s speech? Larry O’Donnell beat me to the punch
8 comments May 21st, 2009
 UPDATE: Joe Klein also has a PRETTY GOOD TAKE.
 UPDATE II: Matt Yglesias has come up with THIS CHART showing that France, home of those notorious cheese-eating surrender monkeys, is far more popular than Dick Cheney among the American people:
Here are texts of speeches by Obama and Cheney
Add comment May 21st, 2009
 
 I’m going to be out for a while this morning, so I won’t be able to watch the big speeches by President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
 But here are links to their respective texts: Obama HERE and Cheney HERE.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say Obama’s policies moving country in right direction
2 comments May 21st, 2009
 
 A new CNN poll SHOWS that 63 percent of Americans trust that President Obama’s policies are moving the country in the right direction, while a majority think that Republican congressional leaders would take the nation in the wrong direction.
 Moreover, 57 percent of respondents approve of policies pushed by Democratic congressional leaders.
 ”That’s not good news for the GOP,” said CNN polling director Keating Holland, with a profound grasp of the obvious.
