Our famous linkfest taking you to websites of many different viewpoints, all over the world.
There’s Huge Interest In Obama In Europe and The Brussels Journal has some thoughts on why.
How Far Have Newspapers Fallen In How Much Do They Really Value Reporters in a time of (limited) buyouts and (increasingly bigger) budget slashing? JUST READ THIS.
President Elect Barack Obama Wants Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano To Be Head Of Homeland Security and it seems to be a serious, workmanlike pick. Prairie Weather notes:”Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano’s name is in headlines this morning in connection with that unwieldy bureaucracy. Napolitano is said to be very knowledgeable about border issues. Is she sufficiently “robust” — another annoying piece of Bush-speak — for the job? She certainly appears to be more intelligent and knowledgeable than anyone the current administration has come up with. Time designated her one of the five top governors.”
President George Bush Is Seemingly Trying To Perpetuate His Administration for years by putting in a series of very hard to remove “midnight rules.” But there is apparently a way for a new administration elected by a public that wants change and not years of embedded Bush policies to dis-embed them.
Concern About The Economy Grows: The economy is a hot topical over the world, including in India.
India Is Being Hailed For Its Role In Fighting Modern Day Pirates who in no way resemble the old-time, romantic Hollywood image.
On Raising A Boy: A MUST READ by Dean’s World’s Celia Farber.
Is The GOP’s Christian Right The Key Or Barrier To The Party’s Future? Marc Ambinder writes:
Is there evidence that suburban independents chose not to vote Republican primarily or even pluralily* because they worried about what Kathleen Parker calls the Oogedy Boogedy sect within the party? (i.e., Andrew’s Christianists, Ross’s conservative evangelicals.)? Lots of people assume that there is. This assumption is common more to liberals and centrists than it is to conservatives, of course. It’d be good to see some hard numbers from either side of this debate.
The problem with Sarah Palin, at least according to pre-election polls, was not that she exemplified/amplified the Christian right. It was that voters perceived her to be incompetent and not able to handle the job of commander in chief. In any event, there might be evidence to support this claim; Barack Obama ( a self-described evangelical, it must be said) turned over a whole bunch of suburbs in fast-growing areas. Democrats tried mightily to make inroads with conservative evangelicals, and they failed.
Read it all.
The FHA: Is it the new Fannie Mae? Ed Morrissey has an answer..
This Will Be A Popular List On The Internet: The 10 Sexiest Everyday Men Of 2008. But this list is INCOMPLETE: I’m not on it…
The Next Political Trend? The rise of the gay conservative? Read Andrew Sullivan. And if there aren’t inroads politically, the gay community has made some inroads with eHarmony.
The Knucklehead Of The Day Award is gifted HERE by Wizbang...and as someone who interacts a lot with schools, I AGREE (most schools would never allow anything like that).
Yesterday The Award Belonged To The Big 3 Automaker CEOS who as we reported here flew their PRIVATE JETS to Washington to tell Congress they were out of money. One lawmaker is now insisting they sell their private jets. Perhaps the CEOs will return to discuss that and have their butlers carry the jet sale receipts.
Is Rush Limbaugh Hurting The GOP? Karen Harper on how conservative talkers could checkmate GOP moderates in the battle to reshape the party’s future:
Moderate Republicans are going to be hard put to find a venue to get their agenda across to the public in the coming four years…. There is some hope for moderate Republicans. Governor Jindal of Louisiana, one of the more moderate Republicans, and Newt Gingrich, one of the more conservative Republicans were on the CBS show, “Face the Nation” with Bob Schieffer……
However, Governor Jindal and other moderates must contend with Rush Limbaugh and others like him. Limbaugh, the Jerry Springer of radio, continues to encourage his listeners to support the right wing conservative wing of the Republican party as he trashes anyone who disagrees with him and that includes moderate centrist Republicans.
The party is split. But it appears that the moderate centrist Republicans like Jindal and the more socially conservative Republicans like Newt Gingrich are trying to find common ground to work with and to save their party. But for now it seems that Rush Limbaugh and others like him along with more mainstream conservative media outlets like Fox news will continue to push the ultra conservative right further to the right. If this is the case, the 2012 election will most likely go to the Democrats again.
May I say “Ditto” to that?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.