1. New Yorker: Immigration and the GOP
Ryan Lizza’s covering the campaign for The New Yorker. In 2004 that position was held by Philip Gourevitch, who now edits The Paris Review. Lizza used to be at the New Republic. He’s hardly Gourevitch when it comes to narrative, but he sure nails the politics. This week he jumps on McCain’s Straight Talk express and explores the war against “illegals.”
Unfortunately, it’s not online. But here’s what I took from it. Most Americans know the economy is fucked. So is the war on terror–despite recent gains in Iraq, that war is still bloody and endless. GOP candidates obviously can’t come out against their own party, so they’ve invented a boogie-man distraction. Too bad it’s racist.
2. Another Political Assassination in Lebanon
Ugh, more political violence in Beirut. Brig General al-Hajj and three others died today when a car bomb exploded as his convoy sped past. Hajj was expected to take over Lebanon’s Army–the country’s only institution not divided on sectarian lines–when its acting leader, Gen Michel Suleiman, is named president.
The photos are vivid and depressing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/middleeast/13lebanon.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
3. Huckabee Gets Minuteman’s Endorsement
Jim Gilchrist, the head of the Minuteman Project, a paramilitary anti-immigration organization, has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Gilchrist is an uber-cool bro:
Gilchrist has used the term “invasion” to describe the increase in illegal immigrants in the country…
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/11/minuteman-project-founder-endorses-huckabee/
4. Bumout Iraq Violence Of the Day
FROM THE AP WIRE:
Gunmen on motorcycles fatally shot the head of Iraq’s largest psychiatric hospital as he was returning home from work late Monday, police and a Health Ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisal. Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Ajil, believed to be in his 50s, was the head of Rashad hospital, Iraq’s largest and well-known mental institution, which lies on the outskirts of the sprawling Sadr City district of Baghdad. According to figures from the Iraqi Health Ministry released earlier this year, 618 medical employees, including 132 doctors, as well as medics and other health care workers, have been killed nationwide since 2003.
NOTE: Aside from damn illegals and political assassinations, today’s a slow day. No notable news or gossip in media, Hollywood, sports, etc.
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