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*** Adventures in Canadian health care. At least it's better than Cuba ...

*** A writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune takes a bizarre, dishonest swipe at blogger Charles Johnson:

Black’s article also didn’t mention ‘Little Green Footballs,’ a right-wing blog whose founder, Charles Johnson, claims that he and not John Hinderaker’s PowerLineBlog was the first to lead the charge against Dan Rather last fall.

Huh? I paid careful attention to how various blogs claimed credit for Rathergate (trust me, I'm only human), and Johnson never made any such claim.

*** The infamous Mary Mapes has cemented a book deal. My guess is fiction.

*** If you're interested in varying blogger reactions to the Terry Schiavo situation, Joe Gandelman has a good link round-up. James Joyner's compilation includes MSM news sources.

*** Yikes:

The wreckage of a large World War II-era Japanese submarine has been found by researchers in waters off Hawaii.
...
The [submarine's] mission, which was never completed, reportedly was to use the aircraft to drop rats and insects infected with bubonic plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases on U.S. cities.

(Via Malkin)

*** Stephen Green:

Senate Republicans - and Republicans in general - need to remember that no matter how rosy things have looked since 2002, things will change. Democrats will someday regain control of the Senate. When that day comes, Republicans will come to realize their mistake. And they'll realize it the hard way: Too late, when it comes back to bite them on the ass.

The filibuster is a frustrating rule, but it's a good one. Anything, almost anything at all, that slows down the never-ending flood of new legislation is, by my lights, a good thing. And do Republicans really want President Hillary Clinton being able to railroad judges past them?

*** And the Post delivers an approving editorial regarding Secretary Rice's recent tour of Asia:

IT'S NOT CLEAR how much Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice achieved on the six-nation tour of Asia she wrapped up yesterday. On issues such as North Korea and economic relations with Iran, her talks with government leaders yielded no substantial public results. But Ms. Rice did strengthen what has been a welcome development during her first months at the State Department: the emergence of the secretary of state as a forceful advocate of democratization and human rights. Wherever she went on her tour, Ms. Rice made the case for greater political and religious freedom -- to presidents and foreign ministers, journalists and students, in public as well as in private. Though she is only beginning, Ms. Rice has taken a step toward connecting President Bush's Wilsonian vision with the administration's day-to-day practice of diplomacy.

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Posted by: Karl Maher at March 22, 2005 11:13 AM

Posted by: Dave at March 23, 2005 09:41 AM