Our linkfest taking you to some interesting posts from all over the blogo-you-know-what. Links refect various viewpoints that may not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice.
So Why Are Bush’s Poll Numbers Going Down? Some think it’s due to an intense hammering from the media, some think the country is veering a bit more left. But Punditguy vigously makes the case that the real reason is this.
A Present For Senator Arlen Specter: A delivery of rubber stamps gifted to him by progressive bloggers and progressive blog readers. The VIDEO IS HERE.
The Army Has Trouble Retaining Officers: Details (and an interesting update) are here.
Some Excuses Work In Court and some might not (or maybe it will in this case, who knows?)
So The Army Has Recruitment Woes And Immigration Is Now A Huge National Issue and The Garlic offers this exclusive report on one idea to deal with both issues…
A Pioneering Iraqi Journalist And Blogger Wants To Come To America and Jeff Jarvis tells you how you can help.
Conservatives Hate Earmarks — or do they?
If You Think No One’s Paychecks Are Getting Bigger BALONEY! Look here.
Gas Prices Are As High As Some Rock Stars so should there be a boycott (or girlcott…well, PERSONcott..OK??!)?
Immigration Reform And The Black Community: What impact will it have and what should the response be? Some thoughts here.
Jacques Chirac Is Not A Happy Frenchman and Dartblog has some thoughs on exactly why — and what it means.
Blog Posts By Iraqi And Afghani Bloggers can be found at The Carnival of The Liberated (read their accounts first hand…without foreign blog analysis or news media reporting..)
And We’ll Leave You With This Parting Throught from Balloon Juice’s John Cole, who points to the latest southwardly aimed George Bush poll and writes:
I really don’t know who is still defending Bush, but I am to the point (and have been for some time) that what this administration has not simply lied about they have bungled. It took a while to get there, as years of putting up with the normal hysterical opposition politics of the Democrats sort of steels a Republican to ignore criticism, but it is pretty clear to me now that where these guys aren’t incompetent, they are unethical and dishonest. I still don’t hold the Democrats in much higher regard, but I really can’t think of one good thing to say about this administration at the moment.
Other than that it is almost over.
And the same can be said about this edition of Around The ‘Sphere…
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.