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Thursday, November 03, 2005
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TalkLeft highlights Another Judicial Recusal in DeLay Case:
Two days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in his case, prosecutors on Thursday succeeded in ousting the Republican jurist responsible for selecting the new judge. Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub recused himself after District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a motion asking for his removal from the case. Y'see, the judge who got removed from the case gave a bunch of money to Democrats. But the judge who took him off the case gave a bunch of money to Republicans.
DeLay's tactic cuts both ways, and I think this is another example of why DeLay shouldn't have pushed for this particular precedent. It criminalizes political activity. Plus, it draws a rather bright line between criminalizing politics and his indictment for politicizing crime.
(Via Thoughts from Kansas.)
9:06:45 PM 
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While Frist was using Rosa Parks as a photo op to promote Alito as Supreme Court nominee, Bush was making some smooth moves of his own. With his poll numbers moving south he'll be longing for the sweet days of 35% approval soon. Via this diary at DailyKos:
How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.
It was Soul Food Thursday at Howard University last week, and many students were looking forward to their favorite meal: fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens and cornbread. At lunchtime, however, students discovered that much of the campus had been locked down and that the school's cafeteria was off limits.
Apparently, many of them did not know that President Bush and first lady Laura Bush had arrived for a “youth summit” at the Blackburn Center, where the dining hall is located. Stomachs began to growl, tempers flared, and, eventually, a student protest ensued.
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During the protest, dozens of students locked arms around a flagpole in the Quadrangle, a designated forbidden zone at the center of the campus, and refused to move despite warnings from campus security that Secret Service rooftop snipers might open fire on them.
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What might have been a public relations coup for Bush — a visit to a historically black college to show concern for at-risk youths — ended up as another Katrina-like moment, with the president appearing spaced-out, waving and smiling for television cameras while students were trying to break through campus security to get to the cordoned-off cafeteria.
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But the visit went from bad to worse. On a day when the U.S. Senate passed a resolution paying tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died last week, campus security guards were telling students that if they wanted to eat they'd have to come back when the president and first lady were gone, then go to a service door at the rear of the dining hall and ask for a chicken plate to go. Never mind that a student meal plan at Howard can cost as much as $2,500 a semester.
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(Via All Spin Zone.)
9:00:58 PM
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Any doubts about the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorist attacks from cells in Canada or Mexico, or the persistence of Al Qaeda to attack us, should be put to rest by the disclosure by the "National Post" that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service busted a cell of four men in Toronto. The four were Algerian GSPC members, and one of the men was an explosives expert "who studied bomb-making at Osama bin Laden's Al Farooq and Khaldun training camps in eastern Afghanistan." What is scary is that the men were "refugee claimants who had lived in Canada for as long as six years" - I wonder which Canadian immigration law they used to enter and stay in the country. What is scarier is that three of the men "entered from a U.S. border crossing." (!!!) The explosives expert was forced to leave Canada last year, and the other three were deported to the U.S. just this summer - where are they now??!!. The Reuters story on the case explains that the explosives expert couldn't be prosecuted because Canadian law doesn't "make it a crime to be a member of a terrorist group" (where is he now?). Congratulations to our neighbors up north on the bust, but here's hoping they change their laws to pursue members of terrorist groups.
Olivier Guitta posted on the GSPC's plans to bomb the Paris Metro - Evan Kohlmann has posted often about GSPC, its links to al-Zarqawi, and recently on GSPC's promotion of "the world war between Muslims and Christians" - and The Investigative Project's Lorenzo Vidino testified about GSPC before Congress.
(Via The Counterterrorism Blog.)
8:56:05 PM
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David Neiwert sets the intellectually dishonest Michelle Malkin straight once again
It isn’t Democrats who sprayed racist, pro-Bush graffiti on Democratic campaign HQ in Sacramento, or stole computers from Democrats in Ohio, or set campaign signs afire in Louisiana, or spread blood and innards around the front door of Bush critics. It isn’t Democrats firing workers for their presidential choices.
It isn’t Democrats, Michelle, who have denigrated the service of war heroes; it’s people like you. And it isn’t Democrats who are delivering a steady stream of “bestselling” books attacking liberals as subhuman scum: calling them innately treasonous, identifying them with terrorists, the “enemy within” with a “mental illness.” Going on talk shows and saying that the best way to talk to a Republican is “with a baseball bat, preferably.”
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
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