articles 2/11

CNET
House approves electronic ID cards
Driver's licenses and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag... States would be required to demand proof of the person's Social Security number and confirm that number with the Social Security Administration. They would also have to scan in documents showing the person's date of birth and immigration status, and create a massive store "so that the (scanned) images can be retained in electronic storage in a transferable format" permanently.

NY Sun
Crisis at Columbia
Winning or Losing? An Inside Look at the War on Terror
Speaker: Michael Scheuer, a.k.a. Anonymous, author, " Imperial Hubris"
Presider: Nicholas Lemann, dean, Hubert R. Luce professor of journalism, Columbia University
Previous remarks by Michael Scheuer

Give Iraq's Voters The Nobel Prize For Peace
Yasser Arafat never did so much for peace in the Middle East.
by Daniel Henninger

Democracy and the Bush Doctrine
By Charles R. Kesler

The War on Speech
by Ryan Sager
Free-speech looks to have no defenders left in Congress.

Belmont Club
All for One and One for All 2
I Lied
Well how about that? Kim Jong Il actually lied to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Who would have thought it possible?

On Message
by Joseph Braude
What Al Qaeda's rebuttal to Bush really means.

American Cities of Aspiration
and the decline of Euro-America.
by Joel Kotkin

The Limits of Globalization and Hegemony
In the nineteenth century, Great Britain found out that economic globalization does not guarantee peace.
by Michael Brandon McClellan

AP
Rumsfeld Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq

Getting the Purple Finger
What's being ignored is that the Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to throw out the US.
by Naomi Klein

LA Times
World Weighs N. Korea Nuclear Weapons Claim
U.S. and foreign officials are unclear if the move is a diplomatic bluff or the beginning of an international crisis.

Why Did North Korea Admit it Has Nukes?
by Michael Hirsh

On North Korea: Don't Blame Bush
by Ben Johnson & Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu

Hannity & Colmes
Karl Rove Talks Politics (transcript)

W. Times
Carter ends silence, praises Iraqi voting
Former President Jimmy Carter, who predicted that elections in Iraq would fail and in the past year described the Bush administration's policy there as a quagmire, this week ended 10 days of silence to declare the historic Iraqi vote "a very successful effort."

Bush's Clark Kent
by By David Ignatius

Pro-growth budget
by Lawrence Kudlow
The central defining aspect of George Bush's budget submission is that it is pro-growth.

Chilling for thee, but not for me
by Jonah Goldberg
If you're a liberal who's still moping like a dog whose food bowl has been moved, thanks to all the conservative victories of late, I have some words of encouragement for you: You guys are still way, way smarter than us about some things.

Mind the Gap: Revisiting 'The Pentagon's New Map'
by Dean Barnett
Ignored by some, Tom Barnett stands vindicated.

Beginning of the End for Embryonic Stem Cell Research?
by Michael Fumento
"...therapies which appear to be of most use to my patients.'

The little Injun that could
by Ann Coulter
If Ward Churchill loses his job teaching at the University of Colorado, he could end up giving Howard Dean a real run for his money to head the Democratic National Committee.

The Day We Defeated Fear
by John Negroponte & George Casey

A tenuous truce begins
by Charles Krauthammer
It is now conventional wisdom that the new opening to a Middle East peace is a result of Yasser Arafat's death. This is only half true, and it misses the larger point.

Newsweek
U.S. Vulnerability to Cyberterror

LA Times
Democrats Strike Assertive Posture
Party chooses confrontation over conciliation in early responses to Bush's second term.

US and Europe, Closer Together
by James S. Glassman
'Mr. Bush is more widely and deeply despised than any U.S. president in history.' Is he really?

Shoot the Stupid Consumer
by Arnold Kling
Clearly, a lot of my fellow consumers are falling for the mail-un-rebate game

The Hill
Some red-state Democrats facing balancing act with Dean at DNC

W. Post
Democrats Put Faith in Dean
Choice for party chairmanship leads some to fear red-state blues.

Retirement Account
A guide to Joyce Rumsfeld's formula for her husband's retirement.
by T.A. Frank

NY Times
Marketing of Vioxx: How Merck Played Game of Catch-Up
Merck staged a long-running campaign to enlist the support of doctors for Vioxx, to "neutralize" them, as documents put it.

Off Target
The U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal is not really a scandal. It worked exactly as expected. And that's the problem.
by James Traub

A Little Trim
by Jonathan Cohn
Not all Republicans are corporate shills who grab from the poor at every turn. Then there's Haley Barbour.

A Lot of "Liberty," Not a Lot of "Prudence"?
President Bush and the Western Rhetorical Tradition Dialogues
by Terrence Moore

Editor & Publisher
In a Surprise, E&P Voters Pick Rehnquist as 'Deep Throat'

Contract Omission Says It All
by Murray Chass

Giambi Apologizes, but Doesn't Say Why
No Juicy Details

Sorry Seems To Be Giambi's Easiest Word
by Jayson Stark

AP
Canseco says injecting teammates with steroids was 'something so common'
``The first time injecting them in (McGwire's) buttocks,'' says Canseco, ``it wasn't like you gave it a lot of thought. It was something so common.'' Canseco wrote that he and McGwire injected steroids together ``often,'' but told Wallace that he remembered injecting McGwire only a couple of times. ``Well, I think it was more inject ourselves,'' he said. ``I think I injected him -- I mean, this is a long time ago -- once or twice for sure. I didn't keep track.'' Canseco's book also names former teammates Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez, all of whom have publicly denied using performance-enhancing drugs. ``I injected them. Absolutely,'' he said in the interview.

AP
Parents Protest Student Computer ID Tags

Wired
School RFID Plan Gets an F
A California elementary school tags students with RFID badges to test the technology for a local company. Parents and students are not happy. By Kim Zetter.

W. Post
When Blogging Is Risky
What may look like a personal entry, can mean something else to a boss.

WDSU.com
Protesters Dressed As Slaves Gather Outside Bank One Office