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 Thursday, April 5, 2007
Odds and Ends From The Morning Aggregator Rake

Surviving a warmer world: Global forecast is 'mostly dry'. Climate change is already being blamed for altered rainfall patterns and shrinking glaciers that provide water for drinking and agriculture. Part 1 of an occasional series.

Is this the end of organic coffee?. Thanks to a recent hush-hush USDA ruling, your clean-conscience, fair-trade, organic latte may soon be a thing of the past.

Day of reckoning. As "The Sopranos" enters its final chapter, Tony reluctantly faces his past -- and we reluctantly face the end of this brilliant series.

11:35:00 AM      comment []

Obama Bests Hillary

From ABC News:

...the $23.5 million Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., raised for his presidential campaign for use in the primaries is more than that raised by the Democratic frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

"We're really humbled by the amazing outpouring of support," Obama told WLS Radio today. "It is broad-based [~] we did it without taking PAC money, without taking federal lobbyist money, so we feel really good about it."


11:26:17 AM      comment []

Repugnantans

The following is from a report in the National Review about recent conversations between Ed Crane of the CATO Institute and Republican Presidential hopefuls Romney and Giuliani.

Crane asked if Romney believed the president should have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens with no review. Romney said he would want to hear the pros and cons from smart lawyers before he made up his mind. Crane said that he had asked Giuliani the same question a few weeks ago. The mayor said that he would want to use this authority infrequently.

Here's more on the matter from Glenn Greenwald.

Here's my latest V-Log entry where I discuss the matter a bit.



10:51:08 AM      comment []