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January 18, 2009 - 02:00 pm
NEWS FEED: Red State

Dick, Armitage

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Speculation is running rampant over to whom, if anybody, President Bush will issue a last minute pardon as his time in office expires.  It is at least as likely that Bush will not issue any 11th hour reprieves, given that he has issued fewer pardons than any recent two-term president.  But everybody has their favorite candidate.  Even this guy:

“I hope he pardons Scooter [Libby],” Richard Armitage, a former Bush official, told the Financial Times.

How nice that Dick Armitage, former Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell and the original source for Robert Novak’s column, which identified Iraq War critic Joe Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, wants to see Libby get a pardon.

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January 18, 2009 - 01:00 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

By BarbinMD

Your one stop pundit shop.

Maya Angelou is ready for "the real deal":

Over the past five decades, our national spirit has ebbed, our self-confidence has waned. The presence of Barack Obama seems to return us to our national motto: "Yes, I can. I am an American."

Will Ferrell talks about playing George W. Bush on Broadway.

S.E. Cupp gives a young conservative's perspective on the soon-to-be inauguration of Barack Obama:

None of my conservative friends -- in New York we all know each other, since there are roughly 14 of us -- plan to attend the actual event, and very few of us are planning to rearrange our schedules to watch on TV.

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January 13, 2009 - 04:15 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

Newsweek Remains the Greatest Magazine of All Time

By LithiumCola

I guess Newsweek is trolling for readers. On their cover this week:

What Would Dick Do?

Why Obama may soon find virtue in Cheney's vision of power

Trolling for readers with outrageous cover stories is one thing. This cover story by Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas is something else. Charles Kaiser at Columbia Journalism Review quotes them and responds:

   The issue of torture is more complicated than it seems. America brought untold shame on itself with the abuses at Abu Ghraib. It’s likely that the take-the-gloves-off attitude of Cheney and his allies filtered down through the ranks, until untrained prison guards with sadistic tendencies were making sport with electric shock.

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