Our periodic linkfest to introduce readers to a WIDE VARIETY of views from all over the ‘Sphere. We do NOT restrict mentioned links to one viewpoint — and views do not necessary reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice.
Israel, Palestine and Hamas: A mess? Yes. But Ender at Swords Crossed tries to make some sense of it…
The Controversy Over The Cartoon Continues: We did two controversial posts here and here on how Virginia Democratic Senate hopeful James Webb got into hot water over a cartoon depicting his opponent that some felt was anti-semitic. Here are two other contrasting views. Read THIS and THIS related post and then THIS for a contrasting view.
SPEAKING OF POLITICS What If The Bilbray-Busby Race Was Typical? Would it be good news or bad news for the GOP? Here’s the answer.
The Gitmo Suicides are looked at here by The Talking Dog, an attorney who does a lot of original Q&A posts on detainee related issues. As usual you MUST read a Talking Dog post IN FULL since it is so meaty (a lot of his fans are people who don’t agree with him) and original and style and content. Here’s a tiny taste:
Which leads me to ask this question, now that Gitmo itself has finally generated its own body count: after nearly five years, what possible intelligence value does the place possess any more? Its detainees have been totally out of the loop the entire time– cut off from the outside world. Any “intelligence value” they have is completely stale. Also, after nearly five years, we should know, by now, what, if anything, these fellows are guilty of. So why haven’t they been tried, let alone not even charged? Or, if they were “picked up on the battlefield”, why are at least some of them not properly prisoners of war (suggested by, among others, former United States war crimes ambassador David Scheffer in my interview with him.) Or, forgetting the possible or probable illegality and immorality of it all… why are we wasting the resources on these old, forgotten bastards, instead of pursuing fresh leads and angles that might actually thwart still existing plots against us?
Gitmo was already a stain on the honor of this nation; we will look back on this along with the Japanese detentions of World War II as one of our less than finest hours. Now some blood has been added to that stain.
People Can Create Conspiracy Theories about anything.
Immigration And Social Disintegration is put under the microscope on The Conservative Voice in a debate-provoking post. The intro:
Wariness about the influence of immigration on society is neither racist nor paranoid. The message of this posting is not that immigration is bad, but that immigration without assimilation – linguistically and culturally – is disastrous.
Multi-cultural and PC education, along with the welfare state, could hardly have been designed more effectively (borrowing Walter Lippmann’s phrase) to dissolve American society in the acids of modernity and immigration. If these remain in power and if immigration continues at the pace of recent years, the United States will become a disunited crowd of people at each other’s throats and easy prey for Islamic jihad or any other foreign enemy.
Gas Prices Aren’t High ENOUGH Yet: You read that right so now read this.
Corruption In A Certain State’s Judiciary: I bet you five to ten you can’t guess what state it is.
Is A New Country Getting Ready To Be Added To The “Axis Of Evil?” Apparently its leader thinks so…
Controversy Over Zarqawi’s Death: Some think the official explanations are suspicious and not consistent.
Senator Arlen Specter: Watchdog or lapdog?
“Hardball” And Women: Is there a problem there?
Partisanship And Politics: We may think it has gotten way out of hand but some think it’s a highly positive thing.
Many Americans Forget but the rest of the world is now closely watching this big sports event.
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.