Monthly Archives: November 2003

Linking the New York Times

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I might start reading the New York Times more frequently again. I had put them way down my list many months ago when they started breaking links to their articles.
Now, new to me, but apparently circulating in some circles since last June is a method for creating links to NYT articles that have some staying power though the process isn’t as simple as one might hope and might require a change your preferred Times reading method.
So, thanks to Kevin Drum for this tutorial (Hat tip to Lisa Williams who gave Kevin the pointer).
Via Outside the Beltway.
Update (11/25): Mary at Pacific Views adds this tip:

Aaron Swarz has a site that provides a link generator for NY Times articles after June 23. This utility is quite nice and provides you an easy way to take a standard NYTimes link and create the USERLAND link that will work forever when linked into a blog.

I have not tested this yet.

bush’s gulag

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Read all of this Newsday opinion piece:

What is the same in the Guantanamo cases, and those of Hamdi and Padilla, is the president’s insistence that he alone has the authority to decide who should be locked up and when, if ever, they will be released.
It’s not supposed to work that way in the land of the free.

No, it should not work that way in the land of the free.
Not only should the Golden Rule be operative here but also the simple fact that these detainees are human beings and vested with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness argues for different treatment.
At a minimum these folk should be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention. If any of them are to be charged with crimes then it should have been done long ago and they should have been tried in an open court and convicted or released.
Via Talkleft.

Getting Out Sooner

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While I have been mostly away from the b’sphere for the last two days there has apparently been quite a discussion going on regarding the idea of just getting out of Iraq.
Avedon Carol tells us:

It’s been clear for a long time that when the Bushies said they were going to run America like a business, we really should have said, “Which one?” I mean, the Mafia is, after all, “a business”, and so is every con game going. A business that is both corrupt and inefficient isn’t really the sort of thing people like to put their pension plans into. But now, apparently, they are running Iraq in much the same way…

The rest of the post is well worth the read and there are links to other well known folks talking about this in depth.

Challenging bush in 2004

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There are some conservatives (many of a libertarian bent) who are not happy with the bush administration. Those looking to unseat bush would do well to take a look at what these folks are unhappy with and figure out how to integrate some of their concerns into your arguments.
Many good examples of these issues (you won’t agree with everything) are detailed in this post by Josh Claybourn who tells us:

But over the past three years – essentially since George W. Bush has taken office – conservatism’s role in the party has come into question. I’ve listened and tried to understand the logic put forth by some in the GOP that Bush’s brand of politics is the best option available. After a few years contemplating this predicament I’ve come to the conclusion that that’s just not so. Here is a condensed list of complaints.

Go read’m in the post linked above.
Radley Balko adds another complaint here where he gives you the talking point: Why doesn’t bush support the constitution? Sure, you might think it is a good thing that bush signed the campaign finance reform bill, flawed as it was, but if he thought it was unconstitutional what principles led him to break his oath of office?