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WILL ARNOLD TERMINATE THE DEMOCRATIC LOCK ON CALIFORNIA ?

From SFGate.com

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, long mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for governor, told Esquire magazine for its July issue: “Yes, I would love to be governor of California … If the state needs me, and if there’s no one I think is better, then I will run.”

He said Schwarzenegger, 55, would decide whether to run after the July 2 release of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” and only if it becomes clear the recall will qualify for the ballot. Supporters need to collect nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make that happen.

He’ll be back.

FOR INTELLIGENCE JUNKIES, HISTORIANS AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

A marvelous online journal brought to my attention by the excellent Winds of Change blog. This one is now on my ” must read ” list. The monographs and articles touch on many issues debated daily on H-Net and in the blogosphere and the quality is high.

IN EVERY LIFE A LITTLE RAINES MUST FALL

Howell Raines and his campaign to make the New York Times the keystone of political and cultural opposition to the Bush administration is at an end. Undone by arrogance, slipshod standards, adherence to ideology over journalistic ethics and frustration that the blogosphere stripped Raines of the power to set the standard for ” legitimate news ” that the Times once possessed as the paper of record. Andrew Sullivan in particular deserves credit for hammering at the unreality and reflexive liberal orthodoxy that prevailed under Raines.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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A LITTLE HISTORICAL CAUTION FOR BUSH CRITICS

In the aftermath of WWI and a spirit of public disillusionment with the failure of the United States to secure a European peace, the American public turned very strongly against war and anything that smacked of militarism, to the point of destroying the United States army – a good description can be found in the recent Eisenhower biography by Carlo D’Este.

One of the causes of the hardening of public opinion against national security policies and favoring isolationism was the work of the Nye Committee led by Senator Gerald Nye, a Republican from North Dakota. The committee report charged essentially a conspiracy among arms manufaturers – big business – the so-called ” merchants-of-death ” to start WWI for their own profit margins. This highly effective piece of propaganda was largely put together by a key committee staffer, an ambitious young lawyer named Alger Hiss. It has taken approximately fifty years, the declassification of the Venona decrypts and the opening of Soviet archives but today most informed people on the Left will admit that Hiss was a communist spy. His mythology however lives on in the cry ” no blood for oil “.

Let’s take the charges of ” Bush lied about Iraqi WMD ” for the political spin and myth-making that it is from an opposition party that is intellectually bankrupt.