Over the last couple of days, NRO has been swamped with newsletter subscribers complaining that they hadn’t received their Morning Jolt. Our man Russ noticed that all the complaints were coming from RoadRunner email addresses ( whatever.rr.com ); he called our e-mail distributor and they’re aware of the problem and have been working with Time Warner to resolve the issue. Jim Geraghty
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A Brief Technical Note on the Morning Jolt . . .
President Obama looks haggard and peeved and petulant at his White House press briefing on the tax deal, still underway as I type. Exuding his typical gracelessness, he pouted about being forced into negotiations, whined about “tax cuts for the wealthy” as the “Holy Grail” of the Republican Party, and yes, referred to the GOP as “hostage-takers.” “It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed…the hostage was the American people.” So much self-pitying stuff and nonsense packed into one plaintive wail. Have at it! *** More: Next up, Obama calls John Boehner a “bomb thrower” and preens that he’s “itching for a fight” with the incoming House GOP majority. And then: Obama spanks liberal critics of the tax deal for whining about his compromise. He cites their complaints over the “public option” in the Obamacare bill. Someone had Crabby-os for breakfast this morning… *** Here’s the hostage-taker video via The Right Scoop. And here’s a reminder that he’s used the same rhetoric before. Flashback July 2010: *** Save this video via Ian Schwartz: Obama vows the “unemployment rate is going to be going down.”
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So much for bipartisanship: Obama calls GOP “hostage-takers,” Boehner a “bomb-thrower;” attacks lib critics, too
AP – Complaints about security and its high costs forced the Obama administration to reconsider a decision to try the professed Sept. 11 mastermind in Manhattan, but the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee is moving ahead there anyway.
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Statements likely in Guantanamo detainee’s trial
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At LAT : On July 30, Kevin Morrissey printed a note, gathered his identification and called the Charlottesville, Va., police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a local landmark. When they arrived, it was Morrissey they found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, his papers laid out neatly beside him. Morrissey was the 52-year-old managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, an award-winning literary journal published by the University of Virginia. He had worked at the journal since 2004, handling accounting, payments, contracts and other administrative details. “Kevin’s job was his life,” said co-worker Waldo Jaquith. Morrissey’s death might have affected only his small circle of friends and colleagues, but it has also had an unexpected impact, spurring the university to conduct an audit of the finances and management of the VQR. And now, a month after Morrissey’s death, the Virginia Quarterly Review is on indefinite hiatus. The move follows a stream of reports and extended online discussion about Morrissey’s suicide. Those reports have focused on the VQR workplace and have been critical of the magazine’s editor, Ted Genoways. Genoways, who has been locked out of the office by university officials since Morrissey’s death, has been labeled a “workplace bully” in media reports with few actual details. The “Today” show reported that Genoways was “under investigation for allegedly driving one of his employees to suicide.” But although contributing editors, writers and associates found Genoways “professional, tactful and respectful” — as two dozen wrote in an August letter of support — it is clear from comments after Morrissey’s death that most of his five-person staff was, to some degree, unhappy. It is their complaints that have dominated media accounts of Morrissey’s death and the subsequent cloud over the VQR. RTWT.
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Suicide at Virginia Quarterly Review
