Specter elected chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee.
Following a drawn-out political melodrama triggered by his own intemperate remarks, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., was elected chairman Tuesday of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. The vote was 10-0 among fellow Republicans on the panel.
Watch him like a hawk.
Via Newsday:
Former Clinton aide Harold Ickes and former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk let top Democrats know Tuesday that they won’t be running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Ickes, a longtime Democratic activist, let party members know he would not be running.
“I just decided I probably did not have enough of the attributes (a chairman needs) to do the party justice,” Ickes said in an interview.
OK, that means Dean is practically a shoe in for the job. I think that’s the real reason Ickes got out. Besides, he wants to be clear of the implosion that will occur when Dean and the Deaniacs run the party into the ground. When that happens, Ickes will be available to ride Hillary’s rescue train ‘o love into the 2008 campaign.
Stop cutting your toenails.
BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.
How it all happened. Making great use of the web, the BBC provides a slide-show/animation of the tsunami disaster. (h/t Ace)
BREAKING: March 28, 2005 – New Southeast Asia Quake, 8.2 Mag. Tsunami Threat, Evacuations.
Arthur Chrenkoff has a complete update.
Via the BBC:
The recent Pew/American Life Project survey says…
Hopefully this isn’t just a rumor. Drudge says that al-Zarqawi has reportedly been arrested in Iraq.
Thanks to the great folks at the Media Bloggers Association, I’m back in the business of serving up tsunami amateur home videos. As some of you know, late last week I was forced to remove the tsunami videos I was hosting due to a rather onerous bandwidth overage
charge of $1,000. Because of problems like mine the MBA recently announced the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, a public service offered in response to concerns over bandwidth issues facing bloggers providing a public service by offering video of the tsunami to the world.
These people deserve our thanks. Please head on over to their site and let them know that they’re doing a great job!
New blog Cheese and Crackers is the focus of a Wall Street Journal article out today about the explosion of video blogging as a result of the disaster in Southeast Asia. My Tsunami video bandwidth saga was mentioned in the story too.
North America:
American Red Cross
Canadian Red Cross
Save The Children
International aid organizations:
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)
United Nations’ World Food Programme
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!)
CARE International
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
UK/Europe:
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) – comprises a raft of aid agencies
British Red Cross
Save the Children UK
Anders Jacobsen:
Webloggers: Give to tsunami victims and I’ll give too!