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Not that there’s a trend or anything but 28,000 US Navy and family personal records, including Social Security numbers, has been posted online. Why does Rummy hate the military? Why does Rumsfeld hate America?Another day, another personal data story

Mike’s Blog Round Up

THE NEWS BLOG: This is wrong

The New York Review of Books:??Afghanistan on the Brink

Facing South: “Tort reform” enacted last year in Georgia, isn’t helping doctors…or anyone else

Your Right Hand Thief: Hurricane Crime?
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PERRspectives Blog:

…Mike’s Blog Round Up

Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?

Steve raises a good point:

“Do you wonder like me why Santorum and Hoekstra chose this week to embarrass themselves, at a time when Santorum is heading for a huge drubbing in November? Guess who helped these two roll out this ridiculous claim this week? Our Director of National Intelligence.

So let me get this straight. Negroponte is now using his position to play a partisan role in the 2006 election? He is politicizing intelligence? Or does this go higher?…read on“

Who declassified Santorum’s Folly?

The Joe Lieberman we knew left the Democratic party years ago. It will simply be one more sign that Lieberman has lost touch with himself and his constituents.Speculation grows about Joe Lieberman leaving the Democratic party

I’ll have Springsteen on CNN soon…

I’m working on it now…

I’ll have Springsteen on CNN soon…

Josh Marshall has an open letter to Senate Democrats about their Iraq messaging:The Democrats have to be much more aggressive. But ‘more aggressive’ doesn’t mean a quicker withdrawal. It means making your point forcefully, on your own terms, repeatedly.But they’re not doing that.What I see is Republicans on TV repeating their ‘cut and run’ charges. And to the extent I see Democrats, it’s Democrats denying the charge. No, we’re not for cutting and running.Marshall’s advice is sound. I just want to focus on one small aspect of the Democratic messaging: STOP using Karl Rove’s language.I saw a snippet of Dianne Feinstein’s floor speech today on CNN. The first line was “Despite what may have been said these past few days, our amendment is not about cutting and running.” Now I know that wasn’t the first line of her full floor statement, but it’s what got picked up by CNN. Even Soledad pointed out to Carville that saying your opponent’s line was bad messaging.At the beginning of 2005, George Lakoff’s book on framing, Don’t Think of an Elephant, was all the rage. One of the most important lessons was to avoid using GOP frames. That’s the trap they’ve fallen in to on the Iraq debate. STOP IT. NOW.STOP using their language

Bruce Springsteen is one of the best advocates for progessive politics in America — and his smackdown of Coulter works, too: O?BRIEN: In 2004 you came out very strongly in support of John Kerry and performed with him - your fellow guitarist, I think is how you introduced him to the crowd. And some people gave you a lot of flack for being a musician who took a political stand. I remember??SPRINGSTEEN: Yeah, they should let Ann Coulter do it instead. Think Progress has the both the video and the full transcript.Bruce Unplugged

by Hale Stewart

Chief executives of U.S. corporations earned 262 times the pay of the average worker in 2005, the second-highest level in the 40 years the data’s been kept, an economic research group said this week.

Last year, the average CEO was paid $10.9 million a year, or 262 times an average worker’s earnings of $41,861, the Economic Policy Institute said Wednesday.

The research group also found a CEO earned more in one workday in 2005 than an average worker earned in 52 weeks.

The group includes salary, bonuses, stock options and other payments in its definition of CEO pay.

Income Inequality: Execs Make 262 Times More Than Employees

Geraldo Rivera: ” I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry”

And the insane hits just keep on coming. Geraldo, the man who mapped our troop movements in the sand, told O’Reilly on The Factor that:

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Rivera: …To withdraw at a date certain. I’ve know John Kerry for over thirty five years. Unlike me-he is a combat veteran, so he gets some props, but in the last thirty five years, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry…

How many medals did Rivera win? Do I really have to comment on the idiocy of his statement? Here’s another moment of objective journalism from Geraldo in Iraq. TV Newser too…

Geraldo Rivera: ‘I’ve seen a hell of a lot more combat than John Kerry