“God damn sportswriters” is a common expression often heard from the news desks of metropolitan newspapers. I thought of that today reading Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Dwyer’s mea culpa account of Pat Tillman who was killed in Afghanistan six years and two days ago. Dwyer admitted he was among the hordes of sportswriters and hard journalists who portrayed Tillman as a sports and...

All right, I’ll admit it. This isn’t going to end nuclear proliferation or result in a two state solution in the Middle East. But the original records from the Coroner’s Inquest into the shootout at the OK Corral have been found. Two Cochise County clerks, Bonnie Cook and Michelle Garcia, were assigned to clean out a storage closet of archived county records. Stuffed in a corner they found an old box...

As Jerry Remmers has noted HERE and as I also noted in our popular Around the Sphere linkfest, Nevada Republican senatorial candidate Sue Lowden wants to lower health care costs by adopting a barter economy to pay doctors. She gave a chicken as an example of something that has been given to doctors in past. It is true that some Americans do, indeed, tinker with the barter system. There are legitimate barter...

Inevitably, Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube… Oliver Hirschbiegel commenting on the Hitler parody memes made from his 2004 film, Downfall, for a January NY Magazine piece: “Someone sends me the links every time there’s a new one,” says the director, on the phone from Vienna. “I think I’ve seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the...

Our linkfest providing you with links to websites of varying viewpoints. Links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its many writers. WHY SARAH PALIN IS DANGEROUS has been a key narrative of Andrew Sullivan’s in recent months. Now Sullivan points out something most notable to those of us who worked in the mainstream news media or who do work there: Palin has set herself up now as being protected...

In a scene that could come right out The Sopranos or The Godfather, officials announced that 14 alleged members of the Gambino crime family have been indicted on a number of charges. But with difference: some have contended that the Mafia had a kind of unwritten law that they wouldn’t get involved in prostitution involving minors. If that was the unwritten law, it was allegedly broken. Here’s CNN’s...

And here we thought investments in weapons, hiring more intelligence agents, and hiring Internet investigators to search Craig’s List to see who’s trying to furnish caves in Pakistan were the key ways to fight terrorist chief Osama bin Laden and his murder corporation Al Qaeda. Now it turns out a new study suggests that other tools are need to be tossed into the life-and-death battle: satire and...

Mr. B. You’re early today. And forgive me for saying so, but you look terrible. Bad day in the markets? Europeans sniveling again about those Greek swaps? Bonus complaints? More bad A.I.G press? No, Selig. it’s those fraud charges, that witch hunt. You heard about them? I did hear something about that, sir. On the portable radio you let your washroom attendants listen to during work hours. No need...

Approaching Guinness Book of Records territory as he files for his eighth divorce, 76-year-old Larry King still has a way to go before dethroning the champion of serial monogamy, Tommy Manville, who married 11 women 13 times in the last century. Heir to an asbestos fortune, Marrying Manville became a cultural icon, but in those days, money alone was enough to make him appealing to “gold-diggers.”...

One of the most fascinating new books to come out is by A Time to Betray by Reza Kahlili (I will be reading it soon myself) — a book written by purported CIA Iranian informant. RealClearWorld’s Kevin Sullivan has an equally fascinating, must-read Q&A with him. Here’s how Sullivan intros it: RCW recently spoke with Reza Kahlili (a pseudonym), who claims to have served for over a decade...

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The golf at the Masters this weekend was as exciting as hitting a ball into a hole can be, but the morality play starring Tiger Woods was fascinating in more complex ways. The fallen hero did not achieve redemption with his clubs and came away unsatisfied, saying “I enter events to win–I didn’t get that done,” and now is taking “time off” to “reevaluate this.” “This”...

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Tina Fey was back in great form on Saturday Night Live doing her Sarah Palin impression. But this time the satire was not only about Palin, but Palin’s role as a media star – and the politicization of entertainment content. In these days of the politicization of news networks (MSNBC is the favorite of the left; Fox News is the favorite of the right; and CNN struggles to carve out a space in the center...

So who was the genius who thought it would be great to make a Nike ad for Tiger Woods (as if he needs the money) at this point where his image has not yet been restored? And who thought of the idea of using his dead father’s voice while Tiger sits there and contemplates? In one sense, if Nike wants to get its name out — and is THAT what it’s all about for a big company like Nike? —...

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God, I love the Pope! No, not in THAT way, I’m not even Catholic by Taylor Jones However tragic the story of what Pope Benedict XVI might have known, and when he might have known it, the fact is that the current pope has a GREAT face for caricature! Also, his personality and, thus far, his papacy, are a blessing for editorial cartoonists the world over. Regardless of religious persuasion, or lack thereof....

Just as the two merry murderers were fated to team up for the finale of the musical “Chicago,” Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are together now for a doubles act to machine-gun any remaining sense in American politics. Ticket prices are higher, $10,000 a plate for a Bachmann reelection fundraiser, but the performances are pure Zellweger and Zeta-Jones parody. Palin does her signature number about...

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In what may be a sign of the times, the Politico and other sources are reporting that “Stormy” Daniels, the former porn star, is switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party and will possibly run for Louisiana’s Republican Senator David Vitter’s seat. She will decide on this no later than April 15. Politico: We can thank Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele for...

One of the economy’s Terminators is back, bringing Ayn Rand and memories of mid-20th century movies with him. Preparing to testify before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Alan Greenspan reaffirms absolute faith in his mentor’s me-first market philosophy in “The Fountainhead” and adds a note from “Dr. Strangelove.” Asked if the meltdown disputes Rand’s theories,...

Today’s irresistible sports metaphor is the NCAA final, “Duke vs. Butler,” which sounds like a sequel to “Remains of the Day,” “Gosford Park” and all the upstairs-downstairs dramas juxtaposing lives of the privileged with those fated to serve them. On the eve of a confrontation between American biggies and little guys from nowhere, it’s tempting to translate that...

The French press seems to be more-or-less please with the visit of President Nicolas Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni to the United States. But according to Franck Nouchi of France’s Le Monde newspaper, they made one serious mistake: They gave the Obama daughters the wrong gift. Apparently, the French comic books the Sarkozy’s gave Sasha and Malia Obama don’t sufficiently reflect ‘French...

Here at The Moderate Voice we try to offer you much more than just politics. We try to offer you useful tools to apply in your daily lives. So here are two videos that will get you ready to welcome the Easter Bunny to your houses tomorrow morning — two renditions of the original Bunny Hop: And then there’s this version:

In past years, it could be said a singer “warbled” his or her way to the top, or sang like a bird to the top. But the question in the 21st century — a legitimate one, to be sure — is whether teen idol Justin Bieber Tweeted his way to the top. Our pop culture Quote of the Day is from a piece on The Daily Beast by Maura Johnston, American Idol columnist for Fancast.com and the pop critic...