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Last login: 3 hours agoMarkLeonGoldberg: Mark is a 27 year old guy from Washington, Washington DC, USA.; Likes 118 pages, 4 videos, 1 photo • 12 fans • Received 3 reviews; Member since May 06, 2008

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Racist e-mails of the Secret Service. - By Bonnie Goldstein - Slate Magazine: 10:02am 2 reviews politics, obama
http://www.slate.com/id/2191202/entry/2191207/; Really disturbing. Keep in mind, this is the agency whose officers protect the president and other dignitaries under threat, (ie Senator Obama.) Still, I've worked with secret service agents in the past and know them to be honorable people. I imagine this is just the work of a few bad apples.

Jeffrey Goldberg (May 12, 2008) - Obama on Zionism and Hamas …: 8:37am 2 reviews israel
http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/obama_on_zionism_and_...; A very good interview. I emailed it to all my jewish friends. One thing that folks often neglect when discussing the "Palm Beach" question (that is, to win florida a democrat needs good turnout from elderly jews that live in palm beach country) is that one of Obama's original and early supporters in congress is Robert Wexler, the jewish congressman from Palm Beach County. He's trusted and loved by his constituents and runs unopposed each election.

Amazon.com: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America: Ri…: 8:17am 1 review politics, books
http://www.amazon.com/Nixonland-Rise-President-Fracturing-America/dp/07432430...; I'm three chapters deep into this book. File it under really fucking good.

Convictions : Charges Dropped Against Detainee 063: 6:41am 1 review politics, torture
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/05/13/charges-dropp...; From the page: "And so, yet again, the decision to "take the gloves off" in prisoner interrogations comes back to haunt us. The prosecution of al-Qahtani should have been an opportunity for the government to prove its case against this defendant and Al Qaeda -- and to confer some legitimacy on America's war on terrorism through the legal process. Instead, the military commissions remain mired in a morass of legal problems. And this particular prosecution may never go forward, beacuse it was tainted by torture."

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/12/2008 | Obama sporting flag pin as he campaig…: May 12, 7:28pm 2 reviews obama
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/36725.html; Barack Obama, who labeled discussion of whether he wears a flag pin in his lapel a false issue in a debate with Hillary Clinton, was wearing one Monday as he campaigned in West Virginia ahead of Tuesday's primary vote there.

Matthew Yglesias (May 12, 2008) - When in Doubt, Blame the UN …: May 12, 5:44pm 1 review politics
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/when_in_doubt_blame_t...; From the page: "Fred Hiatt's descend into the worst kind of wingnutty foreign policy continues as we learn that we should blame the U.N. for the fact that SLORC is horrible and people are dying in Darfur. As Michael Cohen points out, this is senseless, the U.N.'s not a world government and it can't intervene anywhere unless member states want to. On Darfur, as he says, when Ban Ki-Moon said the U.N. needed to send more helicopters to Sudan, nobody ponied up the choppers."

Ali Eteraz: Obama Islam Smear Changes Stripes - Politics on The Huffington Pos…: May 12, 4:35pm 1 review obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-eteraz/obama-islam-smear-changes_b_101337.html; More on that Edward Luttwak Times op-ed I flagged this morning. From an actual Muslim who knows what he's talking about...

UN Dispatch: Archives: May 12, 11:47am 1 review un
http://www.undispatch.com/archives/2008/05/the_pop_becomes.php; It's nothing new that Iron Man, the latest in Marvel's pop-icon pantheon to hit the big screen, is coming to the rescue of the United Nations. In a specially customised comic book, Ol Shellhead and his costumed cohorts will battle that most terrible of supervillains, a tarnished public image, by demonstrating the UN's positive, proactive roles. Will it work? It's debatable: over the years these earnest, message-laden stories have not always been too effective as weapons of mass persuasion.

UN Dispatch: Archives: May 12, 5:55am 1 review politics, burma, blogginheads
http://www.undispatch.com/archives/2008/05/un_plaza_the_cr.php; I host a weekly web-video program about the UN and global affairs on BloggingHeads.TV. In this segment, UN blogger Matthew Lee and I discuss the UN's response to the unfolding crisis in Burma.