The News Sieve

- Are the Daily Kos guys, Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong, involved in some kind of pay-for-play scheme in which politicians who use Armstrong’s consulting services get supported by Kos? (The New Republic’s The Plank)

- John McCain’s two-year investigative report into Jack Abramoff and the Indian-gaming scandals doesn’t name names.

- Congressman Alan Mollohan (D-WV) “helped funnel at least $179 million in U.S. government contracts over the last six years to companies that gave to the West Virginia Democrat’s family-run charity,” reports Bloomberg News.

- These are some of the words censored by Google for Internet users in China: admire, caramel, dwarf, fisherman, gymnastics, refreshments, rosemary, rhythmic, sausage, suburb, zebra.

- The reason that some annual reports are full of obfuscatory language and abstruse terms: company managers have something to hide. (Duh!)

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