Congressman Ryan holding it down

This video shows what Real Democrats ought to sound these days. I appreciate the reference to the college students... Good stuff. Rep. Ryan on the House floor recently.

links for 2006-09-22

• CEOs and CFOs Turning Bearish | The Agonist
  nearly 50 percent of CFOs are more pessimistic about the economy than they were three months ago. This pessimism is the highest it's been in more than five years, according to the latest results of the quarterly Duke University/CFO Business Outlook Survey
  (tags: economics economy)
• The Vanished Gardens and the War on Terror | The Agonist
  book review - pretty interesting
  (tags: Islam history middleeast mideast)
• Antiwar.com Blog: The Israeli-Kurdish Alliance - On Video!!
  Israel clearly is gaining by establishing military outpost in Kurdistan, semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq. Now the BBC has the pictures: stunning video of Israeli "ex"-military personnel training Kurdish pershmerga, setting up a base in Kurdistan.
  (tags: iran iraq kurds PKK Israel israel-palestine clandestine intel intelligence waronterror war)
• LewRockwell.com Blog: Podwar?
  Norman Podhoretz reassured a worried group that Bush would assault Iran.
  (tags: iran war waronterror policy pentagon)
• Special forces 'prepare for Iran attack' | News | This is London
  British and American intelligence and special forces have been put on alert for a conflict with Iran within the next 12 months, as fears grow that Tehran is building a nuclear weapons programme.
  (tags: iran war waronterror covert covert_ops CIA)
• Kill The Messenger: Sibel Edmonds whistleblower documentary video!
  Sweet: The targets of FBI wiretaps re not only foreign individuals supected of espionage and terrorism in the U.S. but also their accomplices, top officials at the State Department and at the Pentagon, engaged in espionage, nuclear black market, heroin t
  (tags: SibelEdmonds whistleblower 9-11 evidence FBI film video afghanistan heroin moneylaundering WMD ValeriePlame yellowcake)
• Kill the Messenger: Sibel Edmonds
  This blog is focused on the documentary about Sibel Edmonds called Kill The Messenger - the tale of an FBI whistleblower who claims to have stumbled on a vast moneylaundering-WMD-911 related conspiracy. a hell of a thing!
  (tags: conspiracy blog SibelEdmonds FBI whistleblower whitehouse wmd waronterror Turkey moneylaundering)
• Wot Is It Good 4
  Lukery's sweet blog - follwing the loose ends of neo-cons, Sibel Edmonds and other such affairs
  (tags: 9-11 blog blogs conspiracy political war whistleblower analysis SibelEdmonds)
• Daily Kos: The Tidal Wave Heading Straight for the Hall of Mirrors
  What I find particularly fascinating is the intricacy and careful calibration of the propaganda system that holds this whole structure up. Like a hall of mirrors, our political debate is, in every way, designed to perpetuate the status quo. But no hall of
  (tags: politics campaign2006)
• Sirotablog: Finally, the Media Elite Admit the Truth About Themselves
  arguably the most brazen admission of elite disdain for democracy that has ever been printed in a major American newspaper. Before you dismiss that as hyperbole, read the third line of Brooks' piece: "Polarized primary voters shouldn't be allowed to defin
  (tags: politics activism campaign2006)
• MyDD :: Don't Read This Book
  about Emanuel and Bruce Reed's kind of dumb book about how Centrist Democrats can fuzz their way to definition
  (tags: campaign2006 books politics political)
• Daily Howler: As we read George Allen's mind, we damage Webb's chance for an upset
  more of the fracas about Sen Macaca Allen and his quasi-Jewish grandmother - a dumb issue for Democrats to talk about, as the Howler notes
  (tags: campaign2006 senate politics)