I don’t know how many children’s books, if any, have been reviewed on The Moderate Voice. Additionally, I don’t know how many children, if any, read The Moderate Voice. But I do know that thousands of intelligent, dedicated, loving parents and grandparents, who deeply care about what their youngsters read, do religiously read these “pages.” Now that I have stroked your ego, let me tell you about a terrific new children’s book that I have gotten my hands on. “A...

Last week I posted an article from Iraq with the headline, Election of Obama a Chance to ‘Offset’ Iranian Influence. Continuing our coverage of Iraqi reaction to Obama’s election, today we have an article by Khadir Taahar, which is from the same newspaper, Kitabat. Readers of the Moderate Voice will recognize his name, since this is the tenth article the people of WORLDMEETS.US have translated by this author. In today’s article, Taahar warns his compatriots that they had...

You just wonder, is Old Scratch whispering to Mukasey: “Policy isn’t fitting the facts, it seems. Critical evidence has been lost? You’re thinking over what to do for the 44th time? Great tactics! Carry on.” But, a gaggle of muddy angels interested in the old fashioned definition of justice are asking: Hasn’t Mukasey known for many days now that ‘tapes have been lost/ destroyed’? Why hasn’t Mukasey shot out an immediate preservation order to all concerned...

The Sun in the Senate grows hotter. Gonzales flies blind, by claiming no memory about critical questions in hearings, a bad omen for a man who is charged with keeping track of important details for an entire nation. The wax holding the feathers in the fake wings, is softening… it appears to be a matter of time If anyone wonders why the entire Latino ocean in the USA is not pulling itself out to sea in preparation for a huge tidal wave of protest about Alberto Gonzales being treated unfairly...

Will Alberto R. Gonzales become the newest Icarus of this Administration, I mean, this ancient Greek tragedy, now? It can be a terrible thing to love a father so much that even though you are falling fast, your father only cheerily bids you to flap harder… The young Icarus so trusted his father Daedelus, that he believed him when his father said, “Here just put on this leathern harness and these sad feathers stuck into wax on this frail wooden frame of office, I mean, wings. Now, see,...

The Moderate Voice is pleased and honored today to offer our readers the first copyrighted co-blog post written for TMV by New York Times list best selling author Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. She will be posting most of her observations in a column titled I PUT THE CULTURE ON THE COUCH. You can read about her many books (and readers’ reviews of them) by CLICKING HERE. “If one were to look for the causes of those who fall from the sky, first look to who has fathered them in self-interested,...