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Friday, January 13, 2006
Candide's Notebooks

From the left, the right, the in-between: we include the political, the social, the cultural and the undefinable.

• Rightank on Alito’s past two days of misery
• TPM on the Abramoff money trail
• Brendan Nyhan on how Bush attacked dissent at VFW speech
• Huffington on Jack Murtha’s answer to Bush war road show
• Ezra Klein on progressive health care reform in W.Va.
• Ezra Klein on the cost of a deportation offensive
• Digby on Republican corruption and Democrat responses
• James Wolcott on Mrs. Alito’s craven crying game
• TalkLeft on Federal Crack sentences actually getting shorter
• Kim Hynes on Lieberman and an Alito filibuster
• RedState wants John Shadegg for House Majority Leader
• Bradford Plumer on the NRA’s global lobby
• M. Yglesias on a new Bush administration colonial office
• Ruy Teixeira at Donkey Rising on Hispanics bailing from GOP
• Memento Moron on Parenthood cliches
• Ruminate This on the wiretapping scandal
• Andrew Sullivan on James Frey, the “factually challenged” memoirist
• Booklust wonders why Oprah is defending the memoirist
• Althouse on the Alito hearing
• Belgravia Dispatch on Brzezinski
• Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy on Swiftboating Alito
• Grumpy Old Bookman finjds something to like in Chabon's The Final Solution
• Terry Teachout in About Last Night gets snippy about his space