Our occasional linkfest from all over Blogtopia (thanks SKIPPY for the word!). Links represent VARYING viewpoints that don’t necessarily represent the opinion of The Moderate Voice.
America: Stay The Course is a plea made by a Lebanese blogger guest-blogging HERE on globe-trotting Michael Totten’s site. A small taste:
It’s hard to ask a country that already has 150,000 troops deployed in a single Middle Eastern country, has domestic terrorist threats, and is plagued by horrendous natural disasters to do more. It’s hard to ask a country that already donates billions of dollars to Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Israel, and Palestine to do more.
It’s even harder to ask when I know Middle Eastern regimes and citizens will violently oppose American action. It’s even harder to ask for more money when countries in our own neighborhood are profiting greatly at the expense of citizens driving to work in Macon, Syracuse, Lubbock, and Tacoma. But your support is all we have left.
People Can Accuse George W. Bush Of Many Things but not of going crazy issuing pardons…
Is Bush’s Wire-Tapping Legal? Here’s one legal view.
No More Mr. French Nice Guy: France has passed tough anti-terrorism legislation. Details at Jawa Report, which also argues that the Democrats are on the wrong side of the terrorism issue.
We Can’t Wait To See King Kong but some say the remake is just another “chick flick.”
Is The GOP Ahead In The 2006 Congressional Races? Republican pollster Frank Luntz flatly says it is but this Democratic analyst disagrees.
Christmas Greetings 2005 took many forms even this.
Pondering Brokeback Mountain: aTypical Joe’s post: “Being gay is a choice. A homosexual proclivity may not be.” Read more of his thought-provoking post HERE.
The New York Transit Site And Racism: Did racism arise raise its ugly head?
The Christmas Season didn’t go off perfectly in Orange County, CA….where vandals destroyed a public Jewish menorah. If the folks who did it celebrate Christmas they might re-read their Bible to find out a bit more about what Christmas is all about.
Because The Jew-Haters Who Vandalized The Menorah lose sight of the fact that, as some note, Christmas should be a unifying holiday.
Indeed This Year Bethlehem Made A Comeback — a shift after years of tourism being way down.
Katrina Revisionism: So why did all those people REALLY drown in New Orleans? Here’s one theory….
Is Samuel Alito, Jr. Facing A Stumbling-Block in his fight to become confirmed to the Supreme Court? Could this be it?
Good News Does Exist, You Know and is this it?
“Jews For Jesus” Is For Litigation, Too as it sues Google.
I HOPE THIS IS TRUE!!! This lifelong subscriber to Mad Magazine‘s hopes are up that there will be even more reading material…
More On Drilling In ANWR: Yours truly has made no bones about his opposition to drilling in ANWR (but then TMV is a PROUD MEMBER of this group). Others are greatly upset because drilling has not been authorized. Here is yet A DIFFERENT VIEW.
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.