STEVEN DEN BESTE defends Michael Moore against charges of treason.

MORE ON THE MEDIA IN IRAQ. Is it Vietnam in reverse?

DIGITAL CAMERA UPDATE: The first inexpensive camera using Foveon technology is coming out.

THIS IS INTERESTING:

Almost 400 members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s ruling Fatah Party resigned Saturday to protest what they call corruption and bad leadership within the movement.

The former members sent a letter to Arafat and other movement leaders laying out their anger over corruption, mismanagement and a lack of direction in how the party is handling the conflict with Israel.

I wonder whether this constitutes enthusiasm for democracy, or merely a desire for more efficient terror and murder? It’s not quite clear from the article.

DOCUMENTS USED BY PAUL O’NEILL IN HIS TELL-ALL BOOK turn out to have been classified. It’s not clear that this is O’Neill’s fault, but it’s certainly somebody’s.

JOANNE JACOBS OFFERS advice on multicultural education.

JOHN TABIN thinks Bush did better yesterday than many pundits are saying, and also has some observations on the blogosphere: “the White House uses the resources of the Internet a lot better than Howard Dean.” He’s contrarian all around!

UPDATE: More here.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE offers a disturbing story of the radicalization of an American mosque, thanks to “Middle Eastern money” and a “wave of fundamentalism.”

THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS RESPONDS to SpinSanity’s charge that it was peddling an essentially bogus quote on “imminence,” and SpinSanity responds back:

The first argument is not only based on incorrect assertions about Bush administration requests for NATO involvement at the time, but was entirely absent from the newsletter we were criticizing, which presented McClellan’s statement in a blatantly misleading context. And the latter relies on a literal reading of McClellan’s statement that has nothing to do with the issue as CAP presented it.

Read the whole thing.

CORI DAUBER reprints an email on media coverage from a lieutenant in Iraq, and it’s full of interesting criticism. It should be printed out and posted on the bulletin boards of newspapers everywhere.