links for 2007-04-20 Nader Sees a Bright Side to a Bush Victory (tags: 20070419 politics moral_responsibility) Michael Bérubé: I presume that Dixon and Trettien are referring to this post, in which I noted that Ralph Nader himself said that he would prefer Bush to Gore in 2000. All I did was quote from this June 2000 issue of Outside magazine: 'If California ti (tags: 20070419 politics nader gore bush) Byron York: It has been a disastrous morning for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The major problem with his testimony is that Gonzales maintains, in essence, that he doesn’t know why he fired at least some of (tags: 20070419 attorneys bush gonzales impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment) Ezra Klein: Watching Robert Samuelson contort himself over economic inequality is actually sort of fun*. In a column that accurately diagnoses the problem, it's remarkable how studiously he dodges identifying any causal mechanisms that could suggest the e (tags: 20070419 inequality economics journamalism) Cbs5.com - Bay City News Wire (tags: 20070419 neighborhood) Bruce Bartlett Is Shrill!:A domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush, Bartlett assailed Bush's "big government conservatism" and said he was surprised at Bush's policies, despite his campa (tags: 20070419 economy politics bushisms fiscal_policy) Gary Farber watches Monsignor Antonio Franco not get the "the alien, the orphan and the widow shall come and eatwith you" stuff: The Vatican's ambassador to Israel, Monsignor Antonio Franco, confirmed Thursday that he would not attend Yad Vashem's annual (tags: 20070419 jesus_christ moral_responsibility)