Center of Attention
A Newer World links to a post at the Political Wire quoting Giuliani speaking out in favor of public funding for abortion.
Munaeem spends some attention to the Saudi peace plan for Israel – Palestine. Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval denounced it as “an attempt to get Israel to commit suicide.”
Pete Abel on ‘the soundbite syndrome’: that’s when “someone takes a brief remark out of context, considers it inflammatory in its extracted form, and then attempts to trump it with an equally brief and inflammatory judgment of his or her own.”
An interesting post at Booker Rising about Africa: “Ayanda Khumalo, deputy chairman of the Free Market Foundation (South Africa) and libertarian, argues that a solution starts in admitting that most of Africa’s problems lie in Africa and are caused by Africans…”
The always hilarious Jon Swift endorses former NY City mayor Giuliani because, when Giuliani is president… every day will be 9/11.
Libby Spencer wonders what ever happened to political responsibility.
In the Netherlands we have the following concept: it’s not about being personal responsibility, but about political responsibility. It’s not about whether one knew what was going on, but whether something happened under one’s watch.
One hour earlier or later… does it really make a difference at all?
David Adesnik favors Giuliani, but defends Rudy Giuliani quite well anyhow.
A very interesting post at Winds of Change by Adil Zeshan. From the intro:
ENGLAND. THE YEAR, 2007.
My name is Adil. I have been born and raised among dutiful and obedient Muslims, and I aim to misbehave.
Already I have fallen from grace. I am no longer one of them, a reason sufficient for their delicately-placed wrath to have me consigned, in this world and the next, to the most grievous of penalties; for what else should the reward be for those who behave like me, they would say if they knew, but disgrace in this life? So no matter where I go in the realms of Islam, I am a hidden traitor to my people, a renegade without honour to be executed. And for them to know of my apostasy is to know of their fear.
