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via ezra klein via Think Progress:
39% of Americans believe that Muslims should be force to keep special ID. 49% say that Muslim citizens aren't "loyal" to the United States.
via billmon:
The bad news:
Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.
The good news:
While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks. (emphasis added)
“I’m worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don’t appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us — more evil, or as evil, as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War,” Mr. Lieberman said.
josh gives joe back class ring. tells girlfriends joes a two-timer.
And yesterday, after I saw Greg Sargent's update that Lieberman was going down the 'A win for Lamont will be a victory for the terrorists' track, I openned up our chat and wrote something to the effect of, "I've always liked Joe, but with this 'victory for the terrorists', it's enough. F--k him.
In case you missed Wednesday's Daily Show -- Opportunity Knocks
qana
boxer offers to campaign for lamont
-- I was all prepared to call up Boxer's office and give some random staffer/intern a talking to. Now I guess I should call to say "Thanks for seeing the light."
rice (like powell) not of the inner circle.
decent times editorial. gail collins has a pulse.
Good God, I can't believe that the Lieberman "hackers crashed our website" bogus story is the lead article on the NY Times website. Fucking major media, all they know how to do is lie and recycle spin for the bad guys.