Our periodic linkfest pointing you to interesting posts from DIFFERING viewpoints. These viewpoints do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Moderate Voice or its co-bloggers.
What Would Be The Impact If Journalists Blogged? Tom Watson (moonlighting on The Huffington Post) tells you here.
Terri Schiavo’s Autopsy is put under the microscope by Eros Colored Glasses in a post called The Blind Spot. NOTE: Eros is looking for a blog that’s willing to host and engage in a debate with it over the Schiavo case.
Stephen Pearcy Speaks Out: Remember the case of the couple who stirred up controversy by hanging a display of soldier in effigy on their property in Sacramento? Then followed the controversy of them contacting bloggers to ask for corrections and/or retractions. Diggers Realm carries Pearcy’s side of key aspects of the story.
You Can’t Please Some Of The People ANY Of The Time No Matter What You Do The New Editor notes.
Some Truly Rotten Poetry: I mean, truly rotten…
The Supreme Court’s Decision On File Sharing: Some thoughts here.
Does the Palestinian Cease Fire Mean Anything? Ace of Trump makes the case that it doesn’t. Read it all, but he writes:”Tell me again how the PA wants peace and is doing everything they can to promote it. Obviously they’re not even close to being ready for their own state.”
People Underestimate George Bush By Suggesting He’s A Dummy (that’s a very sensitive word for TMV): Matt Sheffield has this fascinating personal story.
Hong Kong Disneyland Will Open In September but it’s coming under fire — for serving shark fin soup. FOOTNOTE: To many people in Florida that seems like a GOOD IDEA.
Did You Know That The Tourist Video Used For Years At The Lincoln Memorial Is Too Liberal? We’re sure you (and millions of American’s didn’t). But then a notably right-wing group complained to the administration…and man…is some scurrying going on. Details here.
The U.S. Should Disengage From Most Of The World according to Victor Davis Hanson. Winds of Changes’ Cicero looks at that concept here.
Hillary Clinton Is Coming Under Fire From Some Democrats and here’s one of the arguments against her.
Nader Voters, I Told You So writes Russell Shaw. Read the entire post. A small part:
I, and so many others like me, tried to warn you Nader voters in 2000 that this day would come. We didn’t know how it was going to come: after an exhausting tennis game by elderly Justice John Paul Stevens; during a press conference by an out-of-remission Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or a resignation by a balance-tipping Justice….So, Nader voter, be not proud. Due to your foolish action back in 2000 be assured that in those warrens, those pulpits, those pews, where abortion is seen as tantamount to murder, the grape juice and apple cider will be pouring tonight.
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.