Orange Ukraine reports on how someone tried to sell Ukraine on eBay - and about the Sept. 30 vote: “The undecided, the casting of votes to smaller parties, the votes “against all”, will decide Ukraine's future.”
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) said his short list of names to replace Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was down to “less than five, but that could mean one,” the Idaho Statesman reports. Otter would not say who is on that list.
The only problem is that Craig has yet to resign. Otter “reiterated that he cant appoint anyone until he gets a letter of resignation from Craig. He did say that whoever is on his short-list has assured Otter that he will keep Craigs staff. Otter said that is important for continuity.”
ABC News notes the senator is seeking a court ruling to “allow him to withdraw his August guilty plea for disorderly conduct after he was arrested in an airport men’s room sex sting in June.” He “now seems to be waiting for the judge to make a ruling before deciding whether follow through on his resignation.”
As usual, Language Log cogently analyses one of the many disconnects between journalists and science (and math and linguistics and rhetoric…
Foreign Notes roundups a few news reports that reveal “the mess the country is in, which could endanger its democratic development.”
Bill Clinton said “that he will not reveal the names of donors to the Clinton Presidential Library unless he is required to by law, rebuffing pressure from his wife’s rivals for more disclosure,” ABC News reports.
At last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Clinton said “she was ’sure [the former president would] be happy to consider’ making public the names of donors to the library. But she refused to say whether she had asked him to do so.”
Mark MacKinnon writes about two unresolved cases that don't do any good to president Yushchenko's image at home and abroad: the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze and Yushchenko's 2004 poisoning.
Mark MacKinnon writes about the upcoming Sept. 30 vote: “Pity the ordinary Ukrainians who are trapped in this never-ending tug-of-war.”
M. A. Peel, recuperating from a subway platform spill, will be hosting tonight’s Newcritics jammy-party liveblog of AMC’s Mad Men, starting at 10 PM eastern. While at Newcritics, be sure to check out the essays on the 50th anniversary of…
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Matt Towery, a former senior aide to Newt Gingrich, had dinner with the former House Speaker and notes “it is clear that the presidency is now very much” on his mind “and that he remains convinced that none of the candidates in the current field has captured the imagination of the party.”
“It’s my guess, based on the laughs, winks and nods that the $30 million criteria is nothing more than either a self-fulfilling platform by which to claim a mandate or a good excuse to wait for a showdown with Hillary Clinton in four years. Either way, it’s pure theater. After all, who can verify ‘pledges’ to a candidacy?”
“The real question is whether Fred Thompson will continue to belly flop in his appearances and start to lag in polls… If that happens by late October, it’s my guess that Gingrich’s pledge collector will pull the old Jerry Lewis Telethon routine of meeting the magic number just in time.”
