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Dems’ Young Guns Launch Journal of Ideas

Jun 21, 2006
Two young Democratic intellectuals have founded Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly publication modeled after conservative publications like Commentary and The National Interest. Sen. Barack Obama is already lined up to write. This comes on the heels of Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's new publication.
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Bush: Sept. 11 ‘Ended on a Relatively Humorous Note’

Jun 1, 2006
In a 2003 interview with Ladies Home Journal, Bush told Peggy Noonan that during the late-night hours of Sept. 11, he and wife Laura were hustled around the White House in their bedtime clothes because it was thought a jet was going to crash into the building. "[T]he day ended on a relatively humorous note," he said. "We got a laugh out of it." "Bad taste" doesn't really seem to do this justice. (h/t: Daou Report. Also: full-text interview.)