April 28


Interesting editorial on Kerry and abortion rights in the National Catholic Reporter, while there are some relevant themes on faith and morality addressed here.

This is worth knowing: The Open Park Project, a Washington D.C. non-profit, has launched the first public outdoor wireless Internet hotspot in the nation's capital.

According to the project, the free service will provides coverage in front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Visitors' Center site.

The Capitol Hill hotspot is the initial step in what Open Park says is a plan to provide free public wireless Internet service across the National Mall, using the popular Wi-Fi technology employed in home networks and coffee shops.

The group's free hotspot "will give the public outside the Capitol the same quick Internet access for research, email and news that their representatives enjoy inside their offices," said Open Park's co-founder, Greg Staple, a Washington communications lawyer.

Back out on the campaign trail, the Bush team is lauding a group of key fundraisers, while the Post's AdWatch evaluates the latest MoveOn.org ad, contrasting Bush and Kerry's Vietnam records.

As speculation grows over potential Kerry running mates, Clarence Page in the Chicago Tribune has an interesting proposition: Colin Powell?

Finally, the indispensible The Note from ABC News has moved into a web page format at Noted Now which is sure to become just as crucial reading as the agenda-setting daily briefing.

April 25

Meet The Press today had interviews with Bob Woodward and Saudi Prince Bandar about Woodward's book "Plan of Attack" about the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq.

One of the interesting things, as came out in the programme, was that both political camps appear to have been able to latch onto something in the book that bolsters their case.

The Washington Post starts a good three-part series on the nation's demographic and political splits.

On the GeorgeWBush.com website, which iyou can sign up to host a "party for the President" on Thursday...

The campaign's new 'Kerry Media Center' also takes the Democratic candidate to task over whether or not he owns an SUV.

With tens of thousands of people marching in Washington DC for womens' rights, Bush adviser Karen Hughes went on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show to say the President really cares about women.

And, yes, there was a September 11 reference...


"I think that after September 11, the American people are valuing life more and we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life," she said.

"President Bush has worked to say, let's be reasonable, let's work to value life, let's reduce the number of abortions, let's increase adoptions. And I think those are the kinds of policies the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy and, really, the fundamental issue between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life."