Our famous linkfest offering you links to sites with MANY different viewpoints. Links to not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its cobloggers.
If You Like To Give Charitable Deductions Be Warned that IRS rules have changed for 2007.
The Mathematics Of Troop Strength is put under the microscope by James Joyner. Read his entire calculation but here’s a fraction of it 4 U:
The military establishment and the last two administrations genuinely do deserve criticism for the fact that the force is still way too short on Arab linguists, those with training in Middle East cultures, civil affairs personnel, Special Forces trainers, and other specialists needed for COIN and stabilization operations. Given that “9/11 changed everything,� it was especially incumbent on the current administration and military leadership to address those needs. That there has barely been a start toward that end–in the military, intelligence community, FBI, and elsewhere–is true malfeasance.
And If You Think A “Leftist Agnostic” Disses Christmas, then think again..
Has Great Britain’s Tony Blair Been A “Failure?” And, if so, why? Balloon Juice’s Tim looks at it. A tiny taste 4 U:
Please. Tony Blair didn’t fail to influence America as a single byzantine unit, Tony Blair failed to influence George W. Bush. Other Presidents have listened very carefully to British Prime Ministers for several reasons that distinguish them from our present leader. As skilled statesmen they recognized the value of diplomatic give-and-take. They appreciated the value of our British special relationship with the U.S. And as often as not they generally cared what other people think.
Read it all.
Are Anti-War Demonstrations At Places Such As Military Hospitals Smart Or…ahem…Unsmart (we don’t say “dumb”)? Citizen Smash has some thoughts as he recounts a party in DC he just went to in his present incarnation of on-duty Smash, serving in the nation’s capitol.
Why Bill Kristol Could Be A Viagra Salesman: He makes the case passionately here for a long surge.
There’s Another Big Blog Award Contest Coming Up and the people who run it need some help. If you go to THIS LINK it also given you a just-released You Tube video showing the living room of a TMV reader who has printed out a week’s worth of my posts and found them useful.
Comments On Blogs And Websites Continue To Be A Problem. We’ve had some here and had to institute rules and even ask some cobloggers to monitor comments for ones that go over the line (we state the line now when someone comments…via a policy underneath the comment box). Raw Story, an excellent site that produces news links as well as some original news reporting “scoops,” also now has to institute a comment policy. The irony is that before weblogs there was a time when people wondered if the printed and written word was going to decline. Now reading and writing is the vogue more than ever due to the Internet but…like anything else…some folks need to push the limits. And. There. Are. Limits.
Iran Throws Down The Gauntlet.…or, perhaps more accurately, the U.S. Dollar…
Hey, Governor Arnold: Next Times Someone Says “Break a leg!” they don’t mean it literally…
A Great New Blog To Keep Tabs On The Middle East: It’s called MEMRI Blog. And read Joe’s Dartblog HERE for details. (We’re adding MEMRI Blog to our working blogroll under OTHER VOICES right now. We know we’ll be linking to it often in 2007.).
An Example Of A REAL Flaming You-Know-What is HERE.
Who Is The Worst Newspaper Ombudsman? Is it her?
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.