links for 2007-05-17 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!: In a speech to Latin American and Caribbean bishops at the end of a visit to Brazil, the Pope said the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. They had welcomed the arrival of Europ Impeach George Bush now: War and Piece: Laura Rozen: Stunning to think it's Gonzales -- the man who tried to coerce a semi conscious Ashcroft into signing a presidential order in his hospital bed against the wishes of the man formally, legally recognized Dana Milbank: Ashcroft and the Night Visitors: In hair-raising testimony before a Senate committee yesterday, Jim Comey, the former No. 2 official at the Justice Department, described what might be called the Wednesday Night Massacre of March 10, 2004. Go Peace Reigns Over the River: generally attributed to the Song Dynasty artist, Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145). The painting captures the daily life of people from the Song period at the capital, Bianjing (near today's Kaifeng). The theme celebrates Qingming Fest Marty Lederman: Josh Marshall is absolutely correct here that the implication that the President was on DOJ's side of the dispute, as against Card and Gonzales, is fundamentally mistaken. For one thing, the President (probably) took the extraordinary step The Next Hurrah: Bush Is a Shiny Object: I agree with Josh Marshall and David Kurtz that the NYT and the WaPo are grossly misrepresenting Bush's role in the hospital visit. Gonzales and Card only showed up to rough up Ashcroft in the hospital with Bush's Jeff Cohen: At the beginning of his rise 25 years ago, it was mainstream media complicity and gullibility that helped build Falwell’s Moral Majority and the myth of its clout. As documented in Tina Rosenberg’s 1982 Washington Monthly piece, “How the Gideon Rachman: I seem to have arrived in Pakistan at a lively time. On Sunday more than 40 demonstrators were shot and killed at an anti-government rally in Karachi. On Monday there was a general strike and the mysterious murder of a senior official of t James Fallows: Through the buildup to the Iraq war, the elder Bacevich has distinguished himself as a particular kind of critic of the policy that led to that war. His opposition arose from a conservative (as opposed to crusading) cast of mind, and from h Sam Knight: The 4 things Wolfowitz did wrong: WHAT actually happened in the northern summer of 2005 has now been mostly obscured under the lobbying and partisanship that has buffetted Paul Wolfowitz and his presidency of the World Bank in recent weeks. Bu Scott Macleod: The Palestinian Catastrophe: For several hours on Wednesday, Arab satellite channels carried live pictures from Gaza of dozens of journalists trapped inside a building and ducking to the floor to shield themselves a little better from the b Ibrahim Barzik: With gunbattles raging outside my building and my windows blown out by bullets, I sat in the dark hallway outside my apartment with my wife and baby. It's dangerous inside and out. On Wednesday, I saw several people shot in front of my bui
