A round up of recent reporting and commentary by a few centrist, moderate, and independent bloggers.
A good post at Deafening Silence about Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil who was sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt’s President Mubarak.
The always hilarious Jon Swift wonders what kind of tree Scooter Libby is. What kind of what? Yes, what kind of tree.
Tully at Stubborn Facts that journalist Ivan Safronov was killed.
So do I.
Non-political: the Gun Toting Liberal is fed up with his server.
My good friend Libby Spencer on “the ongoing saga of the fired US Attorneys” which “just keeps getting weirder.”
The Demosophist at Winds of Change on extremism in America: America has always had its extremists and today’s extremists aren’t as extreme as they once were. For all the partisan bickering the ideological differences aren’t really that big (paraphrasing here).
Dave Schuler wrote an interesting article about the Etruscans… Know a lot about them? Neither did I… until I read Dave’s great post that is.
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