Around The ‘Sphere

Links are from sites with varying viewpoints. Opinions expressed do not necessarily express the views of TMV or its co-bloggers.

Watergate Wars: Revenge Of The Nixonites: Pat Buchanan and Chuck Colson hopped in a time machine and showed Today viewers the mind-set of people who were around Richard Nixon. And some people wonder why Nixon went down? And, no, it just isn’t TMV who feels this way. View THIS VIDEO via Crooks And Liars of Tom Brokaw, after the former NBC newsman gets a chance to mentally digest the slash-and-burn performances (particularly of Buchanan) aimied at discrediting Watergate source Deep Throat. Watch it and judge for yourself.

Showdown In Texas? The New Editor has this intriguing piece on the likelihood that Kay Bailey Hutchison will challenge Texas Governor Rick Perry in 2006. Note the possible Karl Rove connection…

Ralph Nader Calls For Bush To Be Impeached: The details at Centerfield where Brian Keegan writes in part (read it all):

Left unanswered by Nader is whether or not he still thinks there’s no difference between Gore and Bush, an irony I am compelled to acknowledge that at least one other person noticed first.

… Feels to me like the public is willing to grant Bush at worst a post-9/11 mulligan because his actions had a serious national security goal. FWIW, I myself am probably willing to grant Bush a mulligan, if only he’d stop pretending his drive hit the fairway. Even if impeachment or additional investigation is warranted, I am extremely reluctant to join any call for a showy and divisive reprise of either the endless Clinton closet hunt or the ugly invasion debate.

Our first thought: Oh, God, if you gave me 1 month to live my last wish would be: will someone please make the tiresome, sanctimonious, inconsistent Ralph Nader just go away? Please God…

What Would Jesus Drive? John Cole files this one under General Stupidity and he makes the case quite well that it belongs in that category.

On Deep Throat: Bull Moose says this:

After years of keeping an eye on the left and assorted dissenters, Mr. Hoover’s FBI got its man – Richard Nixon. The revelation that a protege of J.Edgar, Mark Felt, was deep throat is mega-ironic. Nixon shared Hoover’s sentiments. But in the end it was neither the commies nor the liberals who were the source of the Old Man’s undoing. It was the FBI.

This revelation is a blow to the right’s version of Watergate. It was not a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy that engineered a coup. Rather, it was a button-down G Man who told the truth.

A Regular Clip Joint: Astronaut Neil Armstrong is threatening to sue a barber who sold some of his hair to a collector. There should be an investigation to get to the root of this problem that has gotten Armstrong’s dandruff up…

Before And After Photos Of The Mainstream Media via Tales of A Wandering Mind. Yep!

The Worst Sentence Ever Published In The New York Times is pointed out here by Ann Althouse. (I was out of breath by the time I got half through it!)

Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith: Here’s a great-read review by Little Miss Attila.

MORE On Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith: Stephen Green aka Vodka Pundit offers a characteristically lively and thoughtful take on it.

Separated At Birth? (Looks That Way) A MUST SEE at A Little More To The Right (this is a GREAT conservative blog with a wonderful sense of humor, one of TMV’s favorites!!)

Don’t Let Politicians, Amway Salesmen And Others Know About THIS: They’ve discovered a hormone that increases your trust in your fellow human beings…

A REMINDER TO READERS: If you haven’t visited Booker Rising do so immediately. This is a great blog that bills itself as a “News site for black moderates and black conservatives” but it is truly for anyone. It has superb excerpts from key blogs. It is a MUST READ each day — and a good read.