Day November 13, 2004

How blogs spread news

Our Wednesday posting about armored personnel carriers at the antiwar demonstration in Westwood got picked up by many, much larger sites. PoliZeros got 11,000 hits on Wednesday and 7,000 on Thursday – way up from the current average of about…

The danger *I* see here is fascism

Aschroft: judges shouldn’t uphold the Constitution. John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General of the United States of America, has given a public, blistering critique of judges who strike down the Bush administration’s policies as unconstitutional. “The danger I see here is…

Iraq insurgency spreads

U.S. forces meet fierce resistance in Fallujah Mosul has exploded Kurds fighting as proxies for the US are attacking Arabs in an attempt to stop the open revolt in Mosul, a city of one million. Sharp thinking there, neocons, I…