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Senator Dick Durbin Apologized for his controversial remarks saying what he read in a document about American treatment of prisoners abroad sounded like something out of Nazi Germany. But what did YOU read about it? Did you read that he cried? Didn’t sound sincere? Do you think he made a mistake? Or he meant it? Make up your own mind by CLICKING HERE to see a video of his apology via The Political Teen.
So Will His Apology Be Accepted? The always-independent thinking Citizen Smash (one of our favorite bloggers on the Internet) offers this advice:
Apology accepted. Show’s over, folks. Move along….It doesn’t surprise me at all that I represent the minority opinion. I’ll grant that it wasn’t the world’s greatest apology, but it’s probably the best we’ll get out of Durbin, and I don’t see any point in rubbing his face in it any more. Be gracious. Accept the apology, chalk it up as a victory if that makes you happy, and move on.
The Washington Post Is Still One Of TMV’s Favorite Papers but The News Dissector makes the case that it’s in serious decline.
Yes, Virginia, It’s Still Going On: The debate over reparations for slavery.
So, Virginia, You Need To Read More About That Issue by reading this thoughtful paragraph RIGHT HERE.
What Happens When Hostages Make Statements Blasting Their Own Governments’ Policies? Well, most don’t live to tell about it. This guy did — and repudiated his statement.
Is The Christian Right A Threat To The GOP And The US? CaliBlogger dissects the writing of a prominent Republican who warns against the Christian Right’s influence. And Caliblogger offers his own analysis. A small taste 4 U:
It is absolute certainty such as this which I find most frightening in the Christian right. It is the sort of certainty that leads to Crusades and witch-burnings, to jihad and suicide-bombings.The United States now faces the dilemma of all civilized nations when confronting an enemy so ruthless in its self-righteousness as are the jihadis: to risk, in the face of such evil, adopting our enemies’ tactics and in so doing destroy the thing we would wish to protect.
China And Blogs: Is China blacklisting certain blogs?
A Message To PETA: Tsk, tsk…
What does Frist think? Ask the White House, not him:Oh!pinion has a great analysis on Majority Leader Bill Frist, who yesterday apparently made the Guiness Book of Records for his speed in changing a position (on whether the Bolton nomination will again go for a vote). Read the whole long analysis (well worth your while) but here’s the beginning:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist better find a cure for his obvious case of Potomac fever. It’s becoming embarrassingly clear he’s not worth a damn when it comes to misleading and getting away with having done so. What’s more, he’s obviously a follower, not a leader. Both defects — fatal ones for a Republican president wannabe — have manifested themselves in recent days.
Guess Who Said This Department: Can you guess?
I would submit to you that people on the left are religious, too. Their God is just different. The left has a different God. There’s a religious left in this country. And, the religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else. They despise it because they fear it, because it’s a threat, because that God has moral absolutes. That God has right and wrong, that God doesn’t deal in nuance, that God doesn’t deal in gray area, that God says, “This is right and that is wrong.”
Visit The Hamster and find out…if you haven’t guessed already.
Can You Guess Who Wrote This Department? Even if you disagree with him, he’s quite thoughtful and uses ideas more than just mere name calling:
If Democrats understood the nature of the enemy, they would know that it is not only not unreasonable for us to hold terrorist enemies in perpetuity, but utterly mandatory. These people — those of them we can confirm through military tribunals are indeed enemy combatants — can never be released back into the world as long as this war continues, and there’s no reason to expect that it will end in the next 50 years.
I’m completely serious about this. Whether we like it or not, the war is going to continue as long as there are significant numbers of Muslim extremists in the world to prosecute it, and there will be, irrespective of whether we do everything we can — short of converting to a Muslim theocracy — to make them like us.
Besides, the Gitmo prisoners, in effect, have the keys to their own jail cells because it is their allies in terror who will decide when to quit waging war against civilization. Until that happens, we cannot afford to give them liberty and a license to come back and kill us.
In moral terms, there is no comparison between us and the enemy, and it would be most helpful if the minority party in the United States would quit feeding the lie that there is.
I’ll bet you haven’t guessed. So CLICK HERE.
An Ex-Klansman Convicted In Mississippi And Race Relations In General are the subjects brilliantly analyzed — again — by The Talking Dog. HONESTLY, folks, he is someone who always makes you think and right when people think they know what he’s going to say he throws them a curve. Read his long analysis in FULL. We do a disservice to him by quoting even this meaty section. He MUST be read in his entirety (even if you disagree with him, he does not write in “blogspeak.”):
Obviously, the issue is hopelessly politicized. We get some people who would probably never have even been permitted to attend law school but for the legacy of the Civil Rights Act and policies such as affirmative action, let alone find themselves on federal courts (yes, Justice Thomas and Judge Brown, I mean you) but who now feel it necessary to demonstrate that somehow they and they alone achieved everything in their lives by lifting themselves by their own bootstraps, of course, and believe that the continued existence of affirmative action will dilute their own “achievements” and hence, must be stopped. We have “civil rights leaders” like Jesse Jackson, who makes his living by being a racial shakedown specialist, or Al Sharpton, a demagogue who dabbles in politics and has helped assure defeat of Democratic candidates in everything from Mayor of New York to President of the United States. And we have the civil rights laws themselves, which, it should come as no surprise to anyone, are as subject to abuse in the hands of private litigants as any and every other law available to private litigants.
FOOTNOTE: The Talking Dog knows something about law.
Is Al Qaeda Gearing Up In Africa? It sounds that way.
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.