<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>----- Forwarded Message ----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Nick Burbules <burbules@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> todays-news@googlegroups.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, March 28, 2011 6:50:23 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [PBD - Progressive Blog Digest] 3/28/2011 06:47:00 AM<BR></FONT><BR>
<META content=off http-equiv=x-dns-prefetch-control><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">EXPLANATIONS</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">More from Juan Cole (thanks to David P. for the link)</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://www.juancole.com/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-the-left-on-libya.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.juancole.com/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-the-left-on-libya.html</A><BR>An Open Letter to the Left on Libya<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The GOP plan: higher unemployment AND lower wages</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028650.php" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028650.php</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/vote-republican-for-lower-wages/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/vote-republican-for-lower-wages/</A><BR><BR>Meanwhile: <A
href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/27/koch" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/27/koch</A><BR>The Weekly Standard now has a very lengthy defense of -- including rare interviews with -- Charles and David Koch, the libertarian billionaires . . .<BR><BR><A href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/27/irony-alert-koch-brothers-call-critics-extremists/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/27/irony-alert-koch-brothers-call-critics-extremists/</A><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Abortion: still their core organizing issue – and Michele Bachmann is taking the lead</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/27/marcotte_abortion_republicans" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/27/marcotte_abortion_republicans</A><BR><BR><A
href="http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/bachmann-tea-party-its-all-about.htmlhttp://www.americablog.com/2011/03/bachmann-tea-party-its-all-about.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/bachmann-tea-party-its-all-about.html</A><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Laugh out loud</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/gingrich-on-bill-clinton-its-not-about-personal-behavior/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/gingrich-on-bill-clinton-its-not-about-personal-behavior/</A><BR>Is Newt Gingrich a hypocrite?<BR><BR>The former speaker of the House was asked on “Fox News Sunday” how he could have led the charge in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about an extramarital affair when he himself was having an affair at the time. . . . [read on]<BR><BR><A href="http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-admits-double-flip-flop-libya-inter"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/gingrich-admits-double-flip-flop-libya-inter</A><BR>Newt Gingrich can't make up his mind.<BR><BR>The former House speaker explained Sunday that he was actually against using force in Libya before his March 23 flip-flop on the no-fly zone.<BR><BR>In a March 7 interview with Fox News, Gingrich said, "Exercise a no-fly zone this evening."<BR><BR>After President Barack Obama committed to using U.S. forces for enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya, Gingrich changed his tune.<BR><BR>"I would not have used American and European forces," Gingrich said during a March 23 interview on NBC's Today Show.<BR><BR>The Georgia Republican attempted to explain his flip-flop Sunday by telling Fox News' Chris Wallace that he had actually been against intervention in a February interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren.<BR><BR>"Some are saying that whatever the president does or doesn't do, you're against,"
Wallace noted. . . . [read on]<BR><BR><A href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/03/28/gingrich_says_nation_becoming_godless.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/03/28/gingrich_says_nation_becoming_godless.html</A><BR>Gingrich Says Nation Becoming Godless<BR><BR><A href="http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/spirited_atheist/2011/02/eye_of_newt_gingrich_focuses_on_faith_as_presidential_wannabee.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/spirited_atheist/2011/02/eye_of_newt_gingrich_focuses_on_faith_as_presidential_wannabee.html</A><BR>In a shameful lapse of attention, I missed Newt Gingrich's 2009 conversion to Roman Catholicism--a departure from his previous status as a somewhat lukewarm (by right-wing evangelical standards) Southern Baptist. [read on]<BR><BR>More hilarity: <A href="http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/brit-hume-if-health-care-law-had-incorpora"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/brit-hume-if-health-care-law-had-incorpora</A><BR>Brit Hume: If the Health Care Law Had Incorporated Some Republican Ideas, They'd Have Voted for It<BR><BR><A href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/healthcare-in-bizarroworld.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/healthcare-in-bizarroworld.html</A><BR>“Bizarroworld”<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Stop using them, now</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/tsa-admits-calculation-errors-in.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.americablog.com/2011/03/tsa-admits-calculation-errors-in.html</A><BR>The Transportation Security Administration is reanalyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results. . .<BR><BR>The flawed results showed radiation levels 10 times higher
than expected. . .<BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">In case you missed the Sunday talk shows</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/hillary-clinton-libya-missions-progress-demonstrates-really-remarkable-leadership.php" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/hillary-clinton-libya-missions-progress-demonstrates-really-remarkable-leadership.php</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/27/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_44_n_841098.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/27/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_44_n_841098.html</A><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Bonus item: NYT Editor equates Julian Assange with James O’Keefe (wrong!)</SPAN><BR><BR><A href="http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/03/26/bill-keller-true-false-but-better-false-than-left-or-right/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/03/26/bill-keller-true-false-but-better-false-than-left-or-right/</A><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">***If you enjoy PBD and support what we are doing, you can help by forwarding a copy of this issue to your friends (using the envelope link below) or by sending them a copy of its URL (http://pbd.blogspot.com).</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">I don't get anything personally out of this project, except the satisfaction of doing it (I don't run ads, etc). The credit really all goes to the people whose material I copy and redistribute. But if I do have a "mission," it is to get this information into the hands of as many people as I can.***</SPAN> <BR><BR>--<BR>Posted By Nick Burbules to <A href="http://pbd.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html#4704303278167215444" rel=nofollow target=_blank>PBD - Progressive Blog Digest</A> at 3/28/2011 06:47:00 AM </DIV>
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