Our famous linkfest offering you links to sites with MANY different viewpoints. Links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its cobloggers.
Is Saddam Back From The Dead? Maybe...
Quite Honestly, There ARE some who believe he is not dead…
FYI: We’ve Done Posts Raising Questions About Saddam’s Execution but let’s never forget what he represented.
More Blogosphere Controversy: Deja vu?.
Is Jeb Bush Part Of A Damaged “Brand-Name?” Speculation went wild when he made a comment in Spanish, and it wasn’t “Yo quiero Taco Bell” (which he might have wanted for Katherine Harris…) He said he had “no future.” James Joyner looks at Bush’s statements and his supporters’ efforts to keep pitching him in THIS IS A MUST-READ post. A small part:
Jeb Bush has some baggage, including a wife and daughter who can’t seem to abide by the laws of the land, that would complicate a presidential run even aside from his brother’s low approval numbers and the natural hesitancy of the electorate to elect a third Bush president in sixteen years. I nonetheless expect him to make a serious run at the White House at some point. He’s still a young man–a few weeks shy of his 54th birthday–so 2012 or 2016 are definite options.
As President George Bush Gets Ready To Announce A Big U.S. Troop “Surge” In Iraq, Larisa Alexandrovna argues the controversy over Saddam Hussein’s execution isn’t mere happenstance and has this bit of advice.
Big News In Europe where German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing hard to create a single transatlantic market for investors. Read Daniel Drezner here.
A Subject Alien To Weblogs: The blog Touchy Subjects has a whole series of posts on “logical arguments.” What are THOSE? (We’ve been listening to too much talk radio and changing explanations of Iraq policy to understand, you see.). Check the blog out and scroll down.
Former President Gerald Ford’s Funeral Was Yesterday and you can see some original photos of the funeral procession at Respublica.
A Great Way To Check Out TONS Of Blogs: blogger/journalism prof Jay Rosen has the details on Placeblogger, which lets you “discover, browse, and subscribe to local blogs,” over 700 of them.”
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.