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Chris Hedges is on leave from the New York Times to write a book, but his anti-war rants keep on coming. Hedges first gained notoriety with his anti-war address at a commencement ceremony at Rockford College in Illinois, which resulted in his mike being unplugged and him being booed off the stage. Upon the capture of Saddam Hussein, Hedges has reappeared for an interview for the left-wing website TomPaine.com. The first question from senior editor Steven Rosenfeld regarding Saddam's capture delivers the far-left flavor of TomPaine.com (part of the Bill Moyers' family empire, run by son John). Note Rosenfeld's first...

Thom Shanker erroneously reported on November 14: "In his first trip to Asia since returning to the Pentagon for a second tour as defense secretary, Mr. Rumsfeld stressed that he was carrying no formal proposals for discussion in coming days with the leaders of Japan and South Korea." As the Times noted in a correction the next day, "[Rumsfeld] had previously visited several parts of Asia since joining the present Bush administration. This is not his first trip there." What makes this a particularly odd mistake for Shanker is that he accompanied Rumsfeld on at least one of his previous...