Monday open thread
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Hurricanes win game 5 in OT
They didn’t look great early on, but the Hurricanes eventually got it together enough to win game five 4-3 against the Buffalo Sabres.
BBC’s anti-Iraq war bias
Remember back in 2003 how the British Navy’s flagship switched the TVs onboard from BBC News to Sky News because of complaints about the BBC’s war coverage, which many said contained a distinct pro-Iraqi bias?
More strange bedfellows in the Jefferson case
First, it was House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issuing a joint statement condeming and calling “unconstitutional” the FBI’s seizure of documents from Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-LA) Congressional office in Washington, DC. Now, we’ve got Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill) taking more measured approaches to the ‘controversy’ – with Frist concluding that after Constitutional research as well as consulting with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that the FBI ‘acted appropriately’ in the search on Rep. Jefferson’s office and Durbin noting that this incident is not without precedent: