Category: nation-building

Metro Section: Please Curb Your Curs Edition

• "Metro statistics show that compared with subway riders, bus passengers are more likely to be black women and people with lower incomes who are less likely to own a car." The Washington Post takes on Metrobus, and uncovers a motherlode of obviousness. [Washington Post]

• "Insurgent attacks level apartment buildings one week before election." "Reframe election discourse to focus on trivial social issues." "Photoshopped document surfaces of you sharing drinks with Ariel Sharon and Liberace." Family game night will never be the same after you've played the Third World Democracy board game! [Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset]

• We presents a late nomination for best lead sentence of a newspaper article. [Washington Post]— DCEIVER

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Daily Briefing: 'A Stick in McCain's Eye'

• Pentagon commits $300m to "psychological warfare operation" that "includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source"; bumper stickers and t-shirts are also being considered. [USAT, USAT]
• Army approves new, classified rules for interrogation. Official: "This is a stick in McCain's eye. It goes right up to the edge. He's not going to be comfortable with this." [NYT]
• Pentagon is reportedly monitoring the activities of "peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups." [NBC, Reuters]
• Administration is debating the need for new nuclear warheads; "the U.S. could someday spend billions of dollars replacing much of the current arsenal." [WSJ]
• Democrats press for subpoenas of White House officials regarding government response to Katrina. [WP]
• Texas prosecutors are investigating possible ties between Rep. Tom DeLay and lobbyist Brent Wilkes, who was linked to former Rep. Randy Cunningham. [NYT]
• House nears passage of tough border security bill. [NYT]
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce splits with Republican leadership over immigration bill. [WP]

• Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), vice chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, will return $67,000 in donations from tribes: "Even though those contributions were legal and fully reported as required by law, I will not knowingly keep even one dollar in contributions if there is even a remote possibility that they could have been the result of any action Mr. Abramoff might have taken." [WP, NYT, WT]
• Pentagon upgrades nation-building missions to the same status as combat operations. [WT]
• Sen. Frist signals that Congress will not take on the "so-called patch for the alternative minimum tax" this year. [NYT]
• Bush says registering for the new Medicare drug plan is a "daunting task" but "a good deal for our seniors." [USAT]
• Samuel Alito confirmation hearings "will pit [Sen. Arlen Specter's] deeply held political beliefs against his personal ties to the judge and his loyalty to the Republican Party." [USAT]
• Conservative Christians remain "on the sidelines while liberal Christians protest domestic spending cuts." [WP]
• Environmental groups announce opposition to Samuel Alito. [WSJ]

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