Do y'all know about http://www.cursor.org ???
I'm bringing it to your attention since its daily table of contents strongly resembles the material + links we're always sending to each other. Here, for example, are the first 9 items on this morning's list - the active LINKS are **'d: 15 July 2003 Media Patrol **Arianna vs. Arnold?** Calling the California recall election a foregone conclusion, Alternet's Don Hazen writes that there's "a huge opening for an independent candidate who has resources, visibility and populist credentials... That progressive candidate is Arianna Huffington." **Black Thursday** "If President Bush is not reelected," writes David Broder, "we may look back on last Thursday, July 10, 2003, as the day the shadow of defeat first crossed his political horizon." With the White House expected to project **off the chart** deficits of **$400-plus billion** for this year and next, the non-partisan deficit watchdog group, Concord Coalition, issues a report calling the first six months of the 108th Congress "the **most fiscally irresponsible** in recent memory," with the crux of the problem being a "schizophrenic pursuit of small government tax policies and big government spending initiatives." The Bush administration **doled out** $1.44 million to 470 political appointees in 2002, after lifting a 1994 Clinton administration ban that was imposed following "questionable payments" to some outgoing aides in the final days of George H.W. Bush's presidency. Paul Krugman describes the bogus uranium claims as part of a broad pattern of **politicized, corrupted intelligence,"** and Nicholas Kristof writes that "What troubles me is not that single episode, but the broader pattern of **dishonesty and delusion."** Kristof refers to a **memorandum** to President Bush from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), that fingers VP Dick Cheney in the Niger forgery flap and calls on the president to ask for his resignation. In late June, VIPS member and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who regularly briefed VP George H.W. Bush and other senior policy-makers during the 80s, said that **Cheney's visits to the CIA were unprecedented:** "During my 27-year career at the Central Intelligence Agency, no vice president ever came to us for a working visit." **Bush Didn't Know!** On Monday, the president said the decision to go to war was made after he gave Saddam "a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in." An assertion that the Washington Post says, "appeared to contradict the events leading up to war this spring: Hussein had, in fact, admitted the inspectors and Bush had opposed extending their work because he did not believe them effective." Josh Marshall on the newfound distinction that was drawn between **'accurate' and 'true'** during Ari Fleischer's final press briefing, and Michael Kinsley on the difference between **'said' and 'learned.'** [cut ...] They keep 1 week of active stuff on the page and previous weeks and months are archived & easily acccessible. Cursor.org is the best straight politics [USA mainly] list I know about. best wishes, Stephen Straker Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
