Around The Sphere May 20, 2007

Our linkfest offering readers a guide to provocative and informative posts on weblogs representing many different viewpoints. Links to not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Moderate Voice or its writers.

Is Rudy Giuliani Following A Classic Political Textbook? One of the best books on politics is Hardball by Chris Matthews — the book that propelled him to more-than-just-a-reporter status. Dick Polman (another SUPERB newspaper writer) effective makes the case that Giuliani is following one of Matthews’ key political rules. But, he notes, there could be complications..

Melancholy And Meaning: A highly thoughtful and non-political post that deals with life (because, folks, YES there IS life beyond politics) — a MUST READ from Joshua Trevino.

The LAPD Versus The National Press Photographers Association: The photogs have issued a statement calling for the LAPD to have public relations training in light of the events surrounding the department’s response to a May 1 immigration rally.

MUST READ FOR JAMES BOND FANS: David Adesnik decided to go back and watch all of the Bond films and he reached some surprising conclusions (which yours truly shares).

Who Won Iraq? Was it everyone who stayed out?

First The Pet Food Crisis Now The Human Food Crisis: Is it time to legislate mandatory country of origin labels?

Last Week’s Republican Debate Was Fiery but what was it really about? Tom Watson wonders if it was a race to prove who was the King of Torture.

And Speaking Of The Debate… Controversy Continues Over GOPer Ron Paul, his pronouncements…and even what some pronounced about him. See Michell Malkin HERE. Prediction: The controversies won’t go away. In every campaign there’s someone who’s unique enough to generate a lot of buzz and it’s usually because their comments or attitude doesn’t fit into the cookie-cutter conventional wisdom mode of other candidates in their party. GOP debate viewership will likely be up next time around due to people tuning in who support and can’t stand Paul…but they’ll tune in because of the press coverage and blog controversies that have been raging about him. This IS 21st century America, you know…