Around The ‘Sphere

Our occasional linkfest. Links are NOT restriced to one viewpoint — and viewpoints don’t necessarily reflect our views.

The Bush Administration Is Fighting A War Against Pornography: Here’s Jazz Shaw’s take on it. (My view? Pornography? I don’t even have a pornograph!)

Is Hamas A Terrorist Group Or A Political Group? GeoPolitical Review explores the issue.

Walter Mondale And The Nuclear Option: Yes, the former Veep wrote a piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune opposing it — but Basie’s Jonathan Singer also did an ORIGINAL INTERVIEW with him. You can read about both here on Basie, a blog that increasingly breaks ground with fresh info.

WORKING FOR THE MOB: Some doctors helped the mob with stick ups.


Is Al Gore Eying 2008? The New Editor looks at it. Excerpt:”Will he pull a Nixon, when that former two-term VP who ran again in 1968 after losing a very close election in 1960? I don’t know, but two recent blurbs certainly indicate something might be afoot.”

POLITICAL OUTRAGE IN TEXAS: The Garlic’s headline:”Texas Bill Banning Cheerleading Causes Panic, Confusion and Exodus…Teens Flee State By Thousands, Causing Gridlock; See Bill As Ban On Being Teen” Read it in full here.

Has President Bush Turned A Political Corner? Democrat Ruy Teixeira doesn’t think so. Read in full his analysis here. His conclusion:”Turning the corner? Sounds more like running into a brick wall to me.”

IS THE RIGHT BECOMING THE MIRROR IMAGE OF THE LEFT THAT THEY HATED FOR SO LONG? Centrist Bull Moose thinks so. Just a small part of the post that independent thinkers should read in full:

The right has become the mirror image of all they dislike about the left. Both the secular and the religious right kvetch about their victimization while they control at least two branches of government and their penetration of the media is thorough and growing. They are crybabies who patrol the halls of power. The left has an opening to both appeal to Republican moderates who are repulsed by the direction of their party and to the religiously observant who reject the leadership of the Dobsons, Falwells and Robertson’s.

Al Gore Gets An Award For….You Guessed It…The INTERNET and Wizbang has the details and some vital links. (Remember: if it wasn’t for Al Gore you wouldn’t be reading this. So there.)

THE MINUTEMEN AT THE BORDER is the issue and you’d think a blog with the name like Latino Pundit would give you a predictable analysis. NOT! This blog is a mecca for independent thought. A small taste of this read-in-full-post:”In all seriousness, I wouldn’t consider them vigilantes but for whatever reason they are doing what they do it comes down to action not thought. And their actions are protecting our borders. Nothing more.”


LOCAL ENVIRONMENTALISM LIVES — IN OAKLAND and blogger Jerry Brown has tons of details about it. (PS: He’s also the Mayor of Oakland…and has a great blog)



CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT: This was a monster topic in many weblogs. We passed on it due to time constraints and the fact that we dealt with that issue in our own post extensively a bit earlier. Some of the blogtopia debate centered on a killer quote Hitchens got from the late Senator Barry Goldwater Read Ann Althouse’s concise post on it here (with links to Hitchens and a Bibical passage).