Our famous linkfest taking you to posts and news articles of varying viewpoints. Links do not necessarily represent the viewpoints of The Moderate Voice or its many writers.
HE’LL BE PAINTED AS A DISGRUNTLED FORMER EMPLOYEE FOR SURE: Florida’s Ex-GOP chair says many in the GOP have “racist views.”
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SEEMS TO BE ON THE POLITICAL ROPES and is there a lesson here for his advisor David Axelrod? Pajamas Media’s Roger Kimball thinks so.
THE POLITICS OF FEAR AND HOW IT IS PRACTICED BY BOTH PARTIES is put under the microscope by Glenn Greenwald in a must-read.
A BIG DAY FOR NEW AND OLD MEDIA JOURNALISM: If you care about journalism and it’s future read Jay Rosen’s Press Think piece on “The Virtual Assignment Desk and The Launch of the Local East Village” — about a ” daily news blog that covers the East Village neighborhood in Manhattan, The Local East Village—or LEV, as we call it…a New York Times site produced in collaboration with NYU faculty and students.” (Rosen is a must read for media junkies…on both his site and his lively Twitter page).
A TWEET OF TWO BUSHES: Hart Williams looks at the controversy surrounding Reggie Bush.
A BIG WIN FOR TURKEY’s PRIME MINISTER but what does it mean?
IT’S GOP POLITICAL MAVEN KARL ROVE AGAINST DEMOCRATIC SENATE MAJORITY HARRY REID in terms of $$ — and the bad feelings to back many years, The Politico reports.
WHAT IS THE ‘AFTERLIFE’? No, I don’t mean the GOP’s life after the Tea Party Movement deep sixed establishment candidates, but what happens after death? Steven Hawkins has something to say about that..
THE DILEMMA OVER THE UNITED STATES BALANCING ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS AND GOALS WITH VALUES AND INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST comes into focus again with the saga of a Saudi Arabian who’s gay and apparently had a relationship with a Jewish woman. Details about the story and the underlying issue at RealClearWorld HERE.
A BLOGGER PONDERS BLOGGING, WHY HE DOES IT AND THE FUTURE OF HIS BLOG. Dean Esmay is pondering blogging and how he doesn’t want to be — and what he wants his blog to be in the future. FOOTNOTE: He mentions Michelle Catalano. I was a HUGE fan of hers even though I didn’t agree with her on a lot of issues. There is this dilemma about blogging that many people grapple with. Here on TMV we have many people signed up who blog only once in a while, if at all. There is burnout and an internal debate about why people blog. One former top blogger told me when he blogged he slept better at night. I also note that writing my posts helps me sleep (just as I am told by readers that reading my posts helps them immediately fall asleep…)
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS or is it really fair to say that?
THE “BACKLASH OF THE NEW RIGHT WING”: a book review by liberal talker Thom Hartman.
THE CONTINUING GOP ESTABLISHMENT TEA PARTY SPLIT: The NRSC reportedly (right now) doesn’t plan to spend any money on electing the Tea Party’s surprise victor in the Delaware GOP Senate primary Christine O’Donnell (a favorite of tea party members, conservative talk show hosts and some conservative bloggers). PREDICTION: In the end Republicans will come together to elect every, single solitary candidate identified with their party that they can — while many progressive Democrats will stay home to teach their party a lesson (and will wake up with themselves having been taught a lesson as it will not result in razon thin victories for the Demos but most likely more victories of Republicans than would happen if both parties’ members voted on election day).
WHAT IS PROGRESSIVISM? Definitions of it vary…and one conservative thinks its a form of “snobbery.”
MORE ON TUESDAY’s PRIMARIES. I did an extensive roundup and analysis HERE but be sure to read Prairie Weather’s HERE.
A LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE and those who deny it is taking place HERE.
THE DEMOCRATS’ BIG PROBLEM: A poll shows their only popular accomplishment has been financial reform.
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.