Currently showing at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center 3900 Harewood Road, NE, Washington, DC 20017 (202) 635-5400 A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People

NOTE: This has been reposted from earlier. The long, drawn-out drama of Election 2005 has finally come to an end. For now. As I wrote in my last post on the German election, it was looking more and more likely that Gerhard Schroeder’s SPD and Angela Merkel’s CDU (along with the CSU, its Bavarian sister party) would form a so-called “grand coalition”. With the SPD-friendly Greens and the...

Australian researchers Robin Warren and Barry Marshall recently won the Nobel prize for medicine. For what, you ask? For discovering that most stomach ulcers are caused not by stress but by a bacterium, specifically by Helicobacter pylori. Warren and Marshall had been shunned by a skeptical medical community for about two decades. How did they convince it that they were right — so right that they won the...

No joke. Schoolgirls throughout Togo, a small West African country nestled between Ghana and Benin, were recently sent home to shave their heads because teachers had complained that they were wasting too much time playing with their hair.

This is an amazing post by Publius at Legal Fiction regardng, among other things, the impact of calling pro-/anti-war positions “hawkish” and “dovish,” respectively. These terms are filled to the brim with implicit value judgments and they color our perceptions accordingly. A bigger concern is that the terms themselves are arguments “for war” generally without regard to context...

Our linkfest of good reading from sites representing many different viewpoints. Links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV. Remember That “Non-Partisan” Group That Said Democrats Suppressed The Vote More Than Republicans? We ran THIS POST — the only one we apologized for within the same post…because it turned out that the group was actually a Republican front group. Now The...

The right-wing has loved to construct this myth of liberal blame-Americanism so they can continually bash it to pieces. They’re always on the prowl for an example–and when they find one, they’ll prop it up on a pedestal and proclaim to the world that this is what every Democrat feels about our great nation. It’s not true of course–the examples they give (when they’re even...

Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, on Hardball, says yes and says much of it revolves a certain key player whose initials are “K.R.” Watch the VIDEO HERE.

For those of you flailing in disorientated horror at yet another of my seemingly endless mentions of Critical Race Theory, social constructionalism, post-modernism, or whatever fringe leftist dogma I’m hopped up on at the moment, fear not. Well, fear less. I’m not abandoning these lovely jewels of philosophical progress (I do go to a liberal arts college). But over at Blackprof, Pittsburgh Law Professor...

Josh Marshall points to this AP piece that he suggests looks like a political obituary. It most certainly does. TMV wrote for and worked on newspapers and he can flatly say: this looks as if the AP is expecting something to happen soon involving Karl Rove. Like an indictment, perhaps? Newspapers don’t usually run this kind of timeline unless there is a news PEG. It is basically a fact-sheet SIDEBAR to...

Was it a rushed nomination? Did Miers herself want more time? Are conservative White House staffers upset and up in arms? Read this item on the conservative website Red State by Eric in full and you’ll get the full picture from a writer who seems to have inside sources. Here’s just a small taste: Part of the Miers pick seems to be a confused process and a rush job, which adds credibility to the rumor...

Each day it gets curiouser and curiouser, don’t it, Mommy? In two appearances before the federal grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative’s name, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, did not disclose a crucial conversation that he had with New York Times reporter Judith Miller in June 2003 about the operative, Valerie Plame, according to sources with...

A different actor….a different interpretation….a different color hair…

CNN is reporting that sources tell them it has now been confirmed that the “tip” about a terror threat to New York subways was a hoax: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Information that led to heightened security for the New York City transit system was a hoax, government sources said Tuesday. The sources said an informant in Iraq who provided the tip had told investigators there was a terrorist plot involving...

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Spencer Overton talks of his experiences selling a house. It’s a two-parter, for the first post, see here, for the second, see here. While the underlying legal question (is there any way the state can regulate racial discrimination amongst house buyers?) is interesting to a legal geek like me, the story itself should be thought-provoking for all readers. Go forth and read, young ones.

First Lady Laura Bush has waded into the controversy over her husband’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court — suggesting that there may be sexism at play in the opposition to Miers: Joining her husband in defense of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Laura Bush today called her a “role model for young women around the country” and suggested that sexism was a “possible”...

If Richard Nixon had his group of “plumbers,” George Bush may need a whole city of firemen to douse the political firestorm raging on his right due to his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court — and the question now becomes: no matter what happens on this nomination, does it signal some kind of party realignment? The answer: anything can happen and it’s hard to believe that...

Daniel Solove has fun with the Airline Screening Playset. Ha. Ha. Ha. Very funny.

We all get so bogged down in controversies, news and opinion we lose sight of the fact that other things matter, too. Like loved ones. A writer/journalist who has a blog loses a loved one. He remembers and honors HER HERE.

Via Hardball. Watch it on THIS VIDEO.

From Senator John McCain.

…at Crooks And Liars, the liberal video blogger website that just keeps evolving and evolving…and becoming a several-times-a-day addiction the more you read it because it just keeps getting better and better. We know that this site’s readers include thinking people from many different viewpoints and we MUST say this: it really doesn’t matter if you’re left, right, center —...

Say “adios” to Harriet Miers now — or if she is confirmed say “hola!” to an irreparable split in the Republican party…because now there’s the Hillary Connection: Harriet Miers’ political contributions to Democrats didn’t end in 1988 with her support of Al Gore. A Federal Elections Commission report obtained by WND columnist Jerome Corsi shows her law firm’s...

Attention, Pentagon: body armor isn’t only needed for the troops in Iraq but for Harriet Miers who just received a brutal punch in the gut from Wall Street Journal bigwig John Fund who is no longer urging conservatives to mute their skepticism: But that was before I interviewed more than a dozen of her friends and colleagues along with political players in Texas. I came away convinced that questions about...