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Ousted!

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

On Tuesday, Baghdad’s mayor was ousted by the Badr Brigade militia and replaced by a political rival. Today in Iraq, power is accruing to non-democratic militia groups, many of which are supported by Iran and impose conservative religious rule where they are active.

Ousted!

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, and author, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005),
and
Dan Murphy, Arab World correspondent ...

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Arianna in the A.M.

Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist, editor of the HuffingtonPost.com, and author, Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (Miramax, 2004),
-on Judith Miller, the drug war, and whether adultery should be a fireable offense in the US Army
» The Huffington Post

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Peering Eyes

Laurence Tribe, professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School

and
Douglas Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University
- on the origins of the implied constitutional "right to privacy"

» Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School)
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(Not So) Hip-Hop

MC Frontalot, AKA Damian Hess, "nerdcore" rapper
- on an emerging sub-genre in hip hop
» MC Frontalot

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Norm Siegel: Get On The Grass!

Norman Siegel has gamely accepted our offer to put up the link any public advocate's opinion piece (as we did earlier this week for Andrew Rasiej's Huffington Post piece). So, here it is, "It's the People's Park", an editorial that appeared in the Daily News ...

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Live Blogging Lehrer

We've think we have an admirer....or we'd like to, anyway.

The Local has been live blogging the BL Show commentary slams. Where can we send your t-shirt, local?

<a href='Tell us!

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Feedback: Nerdcore

Subject: Nerd Core Rapper
Your guest is just using "white ebonics". Of course, this will be all the rage for white kids and programs on MTV. However, when black people use slang, we are castigated in the media. But when white kids use "Valley Girl" talk, or "nerd rap", ...

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Photo File: MC Frontalot


I'm MC Frontalot and I'm here to say...

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Pirro + Hillary = Pillary?

The Polticker crinkles yesterday's Post into a terrifying new creation: Pillary.


The next senator from New York?

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New York Only the 21st-Most Liberal City In America

A listener sends us this study from the Bay Area Center for Social Research, ranking America's most liberal and conservative cities.

Summary: Detroit most liberal, New York is in place 21 on the liberal list, Provo most conservative, Allentown, PA 12th-most conservative and the nearest (geographically) in the ...

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