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Call it the controversy that won’t go away…the controversy that has gotten attention here in the United States but is snowballing in Great Britain. Was President George W. Bush merely joking when he is reported to have suggested bombing Aljazeera’s offices in Doha, Qatar in 2004? Or was he serious and what we’re seeing now is a massive inter-governmental CYA operation — a fanny-covering bigger than what you’d even see on a Richard Simmons exercise video? Or, is...

People have gone nuts… >

Bull Moose thinks so and writes: On one day, his Administration excoriates those who argue for a withdrawal from Iraq. The next day, his Pentagon is sending out signals that they are embracing the notion. One day the Bushies sound like General Patton, the next day they resemble Michael Moore. The Administration’s defenders are understandably confused. What is the Party line? Is it “stay the course” or “cut and run”? It appears that the Bushies are spooked by the plummeting...

We always thought it was a terrible, unfair and inaccurate saying but perhaps in THIS CASE… “Those who can’t do, teach…” DENVER – Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job. “If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared...

Attention New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson: If you have presidential hopes, this isn’t the best way to launch them: Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record _ the baseball draft, that is, admitting that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas City A’s in 1966 was untrue. For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics. The claim was included in a brief...

Pajamas Media, the company that announced that it was going to revolutionize some aspects of the Internet in terms of bringing various bloggers together, offering a new advertising package, and earning bloggers more $$$$ for their mostly freebie writings, did some soul-searching on Thanksgiving Day. It came in the form of this “blogjam” discussion on where the concept is and how it can improve. The participants: members of the PJ editorial board. Today’s panelists, all members of...

WHAT THREE NEW MOVIES ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBERS GET WRONG. Box Office Bombs by Elbert Ventura Only at TNR Online | Post date 11.23.05 [snip] Four years after suicide terrorism became a fact of American life, the movies have caught up. In addition to Syriana, the fall has seen the release of two other movies with jihadists at their center, Paradise Now and The War Within. All three delve into the act of suicide bombing in different contexts. One takes place in the Persian Gulf, another in Israel, and...

King Abdullah II of Jordan has made his national security advisor the new prime minister and mandated a crackdown on Islamic terrorists: CNN: Jordan’s king urges war on Islamic militancy

If you put together today’s AMERICAblog post on Samuel Alito’s membership in a Princeton alumni group which sought to keep out women and minorities with the recent Diane Rehm Show interview with Professor Jerome Karabel, a sociologist who details the history of admissions policies at Harvard, Princeton and Yale, you see an very unflattering picture of racism, sexism, anti-Semitism and homophobia at the Ivies. Cross-Posted at Julien’s List UPDATE: New York Times review of Karabel’s...

If it had turned out that the defendant was a major stockholder in Sinclair Broadcasting, then there might have been a problem with this guy on the jury: BOSTON –Sen. John Kerry’s public profile and prosecutorial past didn’t spare him from performing that most mundane of civic responsibilities — jury duty. Kerry was not only chosen this week to sit on a jury in Suffolk Superior Court, but also was elected foreman. The case involved two men who sued the city for injuries suffered...

Self-styled “King of Pop” star Michael Jackson may have beat it out of the United States to live in Bahrain after being found not guilty of child molestation charges but ANOTHER self-created controversy has now placed him smack in the middle of a public relations debacle: anti-Semitic remarks, sparking calls from Jewish groups for an apology. This new controversy will likely get great play in newspapers and broadcast outlets due to: (1) Jackson’s role as someone who has (in the...

Our Around The ‘Sphere linkfest shamelessly renamed to exploit a holiday. Links are from DIFFERING viewpoints and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Moderate Voice. Thanksgiving Is A Holiday Where People Put Aside Politics. Right or wrong? WRONG. The PC Police never rest… Will Conservatives Abandon The Republican Congress? Bull Moose outlines an intriguing scenario. What The Democrats Are REALLY Up To: Donald Sensing writes about his interesting theory: the administration was...

When you look at the crises facing this White House and the bitter, raw controversy over the Iraq War the question becomes: what can the White House say to make its case better on issues? A new Harris poll gives the answer: it may not be able to say much at this point — since a huge chunk of the American public doesn’t believe it anymore: A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues, while fewer than a third of Americans believe...

The New York Times: WASHINGTON (AP) — Identified in new court documents as ”Representative No. 1,” Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio has become the poster boy in the Jack Abramoff bribery probe, a beneficiary of trips, tickets and campaign donations, allegedly in exchange for official acts.

Yesterday was the 42nd anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s murder. Most baby boomers can remember where they were (yours truly had just finished a speech in an unsuccessful run as Treasurer for the Amity Jr. High School student council, when a teacher got up and made an announcement — and everyone gasped, filing out of the auditorium quietly). People often wonder what JFK would have done with some of the problems today. One question: would he have have favored pre-emption? Here’s one...

You KNEW it HAD to happen: a site has been started to formally start a deathwatch for Pajamas Media. Read the introductory post HERE (some highlights below). Why did you KNOW it had to happen? Because the way it was set up has apparently irked so many writers of weblogs that an idea that was touted as something that could revolutionize the Internet has gotten out of the starting gate with hideous image problems, leaving a path of bitterness in the wake of its launching. The basic idea sounded cutting-edge:...

TMV is now in Florida and learned that his laptop has been recovered. If any “tips” were sent to help out, we’ll be contacting those involved and get your money back to you. (On this trip, TMV will be using a desktop from The Moderate Parents’ condo overlooking the Gulf Coast)

A couple months back, Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder launched the Fair Tax Book. More than six hundred thousand taxpayers have already signed on in support of the plan. Unfortunately, little was made of it in the mainstream media. Sure, Fox picked up the story and Hannity did quite a bit of promo with Boortz, but why are people not talking about it? Below is a sampling of questions people have about the Fair Tax: What really is the Fair Tax? The FairTax is a non-partisan proposal (HR 25/S...

Over at The Reaction, I’ve been doing an ongoing series on “The unbearable arrogance of Bob Woodward” — tracking the celebrity-reporter’s fall-from-grace and looking at reaction from around the blogosphere. The lengthy first installment is here. Part 2 is here — including 15 questions for Bobby W. from Arianna Huffington and one big one of my own. Part 3 is here — including a deconstruction of Mr. Woodward’s motives and a dismissive Post editorial. Part...