Cleaner Than Your Current Water
I've been remiss in not linking to Elizabeth Royte's New York Times Magazine article from this past weekend, about her visit to Orange County's sewage treatment plant, by volume the largest indirect potable reuse ("toilet-to-tap") program in th READ MORE >>
What Did We Tell Georgia?
As the conflict in Georgia may or may not be winding down, McClatchy's Jonathan Landay reports that, contrary to earlier READ MORE >>
What Penn Got Right And Wrong
To my mind, the most interesting tidbit in Joshua Green's big Atlantic story on the Hillary campaign isn't Mark Penn's incendiary "Obama-as-other" strategy (is anyone really surprised?). READ MORE >>
Freeing Hamdan
Amid the overheated rhetoric flying around in the wake of the verdict in Salim Hamdan's military commission trial, the Washington Post editorial comes closer to the mark: READ MORE >>
"i Know Hawaii Is A State"
Cokie Roberts, during the panel discussion on ABC's This Week: [G]oing off this week to a vacation in Hawaii ... does not make any sense whatsoever. I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time. READ MORE >>
Weekend Georgia Update
The Georgians have apparently cried uncle, withdrawing their troops from South Ossetia and calling for a cease-fire. Those looking to place the conflict in historical context would do well to consult James Traub's lengthy New York Times Week in Review piece from yesterday. READ MORE >>
Four Years Later, Victory For Kerry
Via Jake Tapper, the Bush administration's new National Defense Strategy (pdf) contains the following: READ MORE >>
Why Are The Dems Waiting On The Energy Compromise?
Nate Silver thinks it would be a political coup for Barack Obama to sign onto the "Gang of Ten" energy compromise bill in the Senate, and Joe Romm argues that even substantively, the bill is a good deal for Democrats. They both make strong cases. READ MORE >>
Mccain-hating Mccain Donors
Michael Luo in The New York Times has more information on the questionable McCain bundling that was the subject of yesterday's Washington Post story. READ MORE >>
Who Are These Maxed-out Mccain Donors, Exactly?
Matthew Mosk has a real eyebrow-raising article in the Washington Post today, looking into the activities of Harry Sargeant III, a Florida businessman whose oil-trading firm is being investigated for allegedly overcharging the U.S. military for fuel deliveries to Iraq--a contract that it somehow managed to obtain despite not having submitted the lowest bid for it. READ MORE >>
