A round up of recent posts by various bloggers who either attempt to strike a balanced note on heated debates and controversial issues, or improve our ability to find our own sense of balance by exposing us to new information and different points-of-view.
Libby Spencer revisits the potential value of tossing everyone out of Washington and starting over. Money quote from her concluding paragraph:
“We can fix it but not until we realize that the battle isn’t between Democrats and Republicans but is rather between all of us, the people, against the politicians who have become far too comfortable in their self-designed perpetual incumbency.”
(Can I get an “Amen”?)
Dennis Sanders longs for something in between Ron Paul’s “all is well” and George Bush’s “all is hell” views on foreign policy.
Was Graeme Frost “smeared”? Rick Moran thinks not.
Brian McLaren channels Bruce Springsteen on the subject of … torture? Yep, and chillingly so.
Patrick Joubert Conlon spotlights the loophole in Reagan’s 11th commandment.
Amba ponders the import of Craig Venter’s latest effort to “[throw] a monkey wrench into evolution.”