Phillipsburg soldier, Kyle Bohrnsen, was killed in Iraq. My condolences, and thanks, to his family.
Jon wins kudos for his independent streak in the Senate. Thanks, Jon, that’s why we elected you.
Baucus goes after tax cheats. While he didn’t mention the worst cheats – the rich — maybe he’ll pressure the administration to rehire of the IRS employees who audit the wealthiest Americans.
Meanwhile Baucus plunges on with his Internet censorship project: creating a virtual red-light district for sites with “racy” material and requiring operators of such sites to register with the government. Ugh.
Space financier and former INSA backer, Robert Bigelow, is back in the news with his inflatable space stations. He probably won’t be looking to Montana for investing, thanks to his getting burnt in the recent INSA scam.
Yellowstone county commissioner and Democrat Bill Kennedy to run for Montana’s House seat.
Brian Schweitzer adds stream access to a House Republican’s bridge bill. Republican angry; Montanans happy.
Montana Headlines is dismayed by the state budget proposed by the Senate, forgetting that the Democrats are in the driver’s seat in the legislature. But notice how the budget got passed without all the fuss and rancor and delay found in the House? Expect more Sturm und Drang from House leadership, and eventually a budget closer to what the Good Guv originally proposed.
The Chamber of Commerce on the state business equipment tax.
Mike Wheat, candidate for Attorney General, has put up his website.
Missoula House Authority’s basket of woes.
Larry LaRocco: the next Jon Tester?
Is the GOP losing support in Utah?
Shane points out that 64% of Americans think the government should guarantee health care for all.
End Times paranoia: “America, [they are told], is being ruled by evil, clandestine organizations that hide behind the veneer of liberal, democratic groups….The radical Christian right has no religious legitimacy. It is a mass political movement.”
Imus dropped from MSNBC.
Neocon Paul Wolfowitz abused his authority to get his girlfriend extra pay.
The Notorious Mark T points out that a nation very close to us, and that supports terrorists, is getting off without much scrutiny.
The Denver Post profiles Howard Dean: “Dean is on a self-anointed mission: to purify the Democratic Party by taking power from the governing class and returning it to the people.” (Hat tip to Julie Fanselow, who’s got some key info about the upcoming Democratic National Convention.)
Christopher Dodd challenges the Democratic presidential hopefuls to support the Reid/Feingold resolution to force withdrawal from Iraq.
Matt Yglesias argues that the GOP hasn’t learned from its 2006 defeat: “The truth, of course, is that this is all backwards. The Republican Party has been suffering not from a shortfall of Bush apologists in public roles, but from a surfeit of them; not from insufficient aggression in, for example, the politics of national security but from far, far too much.”
Fred Thompson has cancer. Our thoughts and hopes go out to him and his family.
DNC: Mitt Romney has hired John Rakolta – the *sshole responsible for the illegal push polls here last election – as a campaign chair. Classy.
I’m with Atrios: the “gotcha” attack on Giuliani about the price of milk is ridiculous. I buy gallons of milk all the time, and I couldn’t tell you how much it costs. I just put it in the cart among the squirming tots, and off we go!
Latest polls shows McCain slipping to third among Republican presidential hopefuls. (Clinton first among Democrats.)
Edwards, Clinton, and Richardson speak about Iraq.
Deadly attack strikes the heart of Baghdad’s Green Zone.
A “war Czar”? This is some kind of joke, right? No wonder no one will take the job.
The Pentagon is going to extend the tours of duty for all military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq.
There’s a rift between Sunni insurgents in Iraq and al Qaeda – which will take root only if we withdraw from the country.
It’s official: nobody loves Dick Cheney.
What’s with the Bush administration penchant for destroying effective government agencies? First FEMA and the EPA, now the FBI. Administration terror policies mean that billions in theft is being ignored.
Montana’s Bill Mercer testifies behind closed doors about the prosecutor purge.
Prosecutor purge scandal spinoff #1: Turns out that the use of non-governmental email accounts to conduct government policy by White House officials the law and White House policy, and has p*ssed off Senate Judiciary Committee chair, Patrick Leahy.
Prosecutor purge scandal spinoff #2: Despite cries of voter fraud for the past five years by Republicans, it just didn’t happen.
Jon Stewart on Imusgate.
And Colbert defends his anti-Hungarian comments — “paprika-snorting goulis” – from Matt Lauer.
The Missoula Independent gets an exclusive interview with director David Lynch.
Montana Jones posts his blog’s code of conduct.
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April 12, 2007 at 6:34 pm
That is odd. I get the funny feeling your long list of the important news stories of the week is missing something. Now, what was it? Something about phony rape charges, racism, white male privilege, a corrupt legal system, and a biased liberal media. Damn. Help me out here, Jay. You’re the news authority.
April 12, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Oh, the Duke rape case? Dude, you can go back and scour the archives, but I never paid much attention to that story. I didn’t blog about the blond girl missing in Aruba, either. I’m not big on sensationalism.
April 12, 2007 at 9:04 pm
My apologies. I was under the mistaken impression that the Duke rape case was about the integrity of our criminal justice system. But now I see what you mean: It is mere “sensationalism,” no different than the story about a girl who disappeared in a foreign country while on vacation.
I must also say, while we are on the subject of substantive news versus sensationalism, it is to your credit that you included two links to the “nappy-headed ho” story in your list of important news items.
April 13, 2007 at 8:59 am
The “integrity” of the justice system? The Duke rape case? *snickers* Man, that’s a hoot.
I do think the Imus show debacle is a bigger story, actually. It’s not the comment Imus made, it’s the legimization Imus received from DC pundits and political insiders. The cozy relationship of the empowered at the cost of good journalism. It’s part of the reason we’re in Iraq.
You know, no one’s stopping you from starting your own blog. “Set the Duke players free,” or something.
BTW, considering the Dukers got off, it appears that the system does work. Which is a shame. I was eagerly anticipating seeing all the “Free the Duke Six” tee shirts at the anti-abortion rallies.