If you've visited the Google home page today or caught any number of entertainment news pieces on what today is, you might have an idea what I've been doing with most of my day today and my evening yesterday. Today is the 50th anniversary of the BBC television show Doctor Who. Like many other Americans I discovered the show on PBS in the late '70s while Tom Baker played the 4th … [Read more...] about A Television 50th Anniversary Where the Show Goes On
Iran, world powers agree nuclear deal
Iran, world powers agree nuclear deal (via AFP) World powers on Sunday reached an agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme, their chief negotiator Catherine Ashton and Iran's foreign minister said. "We have reached agreement between E3+3 and Iran," Ashton's spokesman Michael Mann quoted her… … [Read more...] about Iran, world powers agree nuclear deal
A Fox Station Asks Why We’re Angry
I found it very, very humorous to actually see a Fox owned TV station reporter writing an article entitled "America's anger epidemic: why?". I'd have to guess that many so-called conservatives are angry because of the break between their delusions and the real world. For a clue as to how they feel about things you only have to read the comments on this article and realize that … [Read more...] about A Fox Station Asks Why We’re Angry
Brooklyn attack arrest: Is ‘knockout game’ a hate crime?
Brooklyn attack arrest: Is 'knockout game' a hate crime? … [Read more...] about Brooklyn attack arrest: Is ‘knockout game’ a hate crime?
Senate ‘nuclear option’: Within Democratic ranks, youth trumped experience
Senate 'nuclear option': Within Democratic ranks, youth trumped experience (via The Christian Science Monitor)Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) of Oregon defends the Senate vote to weaken filibusters and make it harder for Republicans to block confirmation of the president's nominees for judges and other top posts, on Capitol Hill on Thursday. The move was unanimously… … [Read more...] about Senate ‘nuclear option’: Within Democratic ranks, youth trumped experience
Our Moderate President
Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan argues for President Obama's moderate attempt at reforms on The Daily Dish. For now, though, we actually have a figure in the middle of this polarizing vortex still straining to forge a middle ground. He’s our president. If he doesn’t succeed, someone else more radical will follow him. That’s why I, as a conservative, continue to support … [Read more...] about Our Moderate President
They should have killed filibuster for legislation, too (Guest Voice)
They should have killed it for legislation too (via The Economist) REPUBLICANS from Charles Krauthammer to John McCain are now telling Democrats they will rue the day when they decided to use a simple-majority vote to change Senate rules and eliminate the filibuster for executive office-holders and federal judges (… … [Read more...] about They should have killed filibuster for legislation, too (Guest Voice)
Liz Cheney (Cartoon)
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MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK’s assassination
MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK's assassination (via PBS News Hour) JUDY WOODRUFF: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, shocked this nation to the core and rattled the world. Our own Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were both on the ground in Dallas, covering the president's visit that day… … [Read more...] about MacNeil and Lehrer remember the shock, special sorrow of JFK’s assassination
Hopes soar for Iran deal as Kerry heads to Geneva
Hopes soar for Iran deal as Kerry heads to Geneva (via AFP) Hopes soared Friday for a breakthrough in nuclear talks between Iran and world powers as US Secretary of State John Kerry and other foreign ministers flocked to Geneva to try to clinch a deal. Washington said Kerry's visit, the second in two weeks after… … [Read more...] about Hopes soar for Iran deal as Kerry heads to Geneva
U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt: America’s Spy Center in Germany (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung has begun publishing articles based on the book 'Secret War' - about Germany's central role in America's 'war against terror' initiated after the 9-11 attacks. This article, written by the book's authors, Christian Fuchs and John Goetz, and a number of other reporters, examines the very heart of America's secret operations in Germany - the U.S. … [Read more...] about U.S. Consulate General in Frankfurt: America’s Spy Center in Germany (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)
Breaking Real: JFK View from a Working Class Family
This poem was written in 1963. I was a junior in high school. We didnt know who the driver was. Back in hometown Indiana in the middle of nowhere, population 600, we had no idea how the 'govmint' really worked. We assumed those who worked for the president were like us... families of factory and field workers, tradesmen and tradeswomen, men and women who worked with their backs … [Read more...] about Breaking Real: JFK View from a Working Class Family
JFK Truthfullly from a Man from the Heartland
The truthful and heartcentered letter below is from poet Dana Patillo who is a born and raised Okie. He was 5 when President Kennedy was murdered. The thing about poets that is often far different than mianstream newsmedia, is many poets tell truths from the ground up, not from gilded ideals in the sky, heavily filtered down over the populace. My dad, from the Old Country, … [Read more...] about JFK Truthfullly from a Man from the Heartland
Had Kennedy Chosen Docking, McCormack Would’ve Become President
Historic Tidbit: 50 years to the day after JFK was murdered, a number Sports, theater, and virtually all other cultural events around the country came to halt when JFK killed but astonishingly, many Texas communities went on with their events That night, the Grand Prairie Gophers beat the Wichita Fall Coyotes 21-14 and the Nacogdoches Dragons beat the Kilgore Bulldogs 29-14. … [Read more...] about Had Kennedy Chosen Docking, McCormack Would’ve Become President
Hannity and Company Have Own Nuclear Option Facts
A very wise person once said, “I may not be able to stop hypocrisy but can do everything in my power to expose it.” In the aftermath of the Republican response to the Democrats decision to deploy the “nuclear option,” on most Presidential nominees, hypocrisy may replace crow at the Thanksgiving Day table. Instead, I may fast forward to Christmas, because that's how long it … [Read more...] about Hannity and Company Have Own Nuclear Option Facts
The Day The News Changed
Today of course we reflect on the legacy of the tragic events of November 22, 1963 and the many ways it has impacted our world. One thing not being discussed as much is how it changed the way we get news. Although certainly television was a presence in American society before 1963 most people still looked to newspapers for information. Nightly news broadcasts were often … [Read more...] about The Day The News Changed
‘Show Me a Hero and I Will Write You a Tragedy’: Remembering JFK After 50 Years
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life . . . it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I had just … [Read more...] about ‘Show Me a Hero and I Will Write You a Tragedy’: Remembering JFK After 50 Years
News of JFK’s assassination in real time
What was it like if you were listening to the radio or watching TV 50 years ago today? The Huffington Post has this superb collection of video embeds that allow you to see how the news broke and developed in real time. MUST VIEWING. … [Read more...] about News of JFK’s assassination in real time
That day in Dallas (Cartoon)
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The Old Senate Was Already Dead
Some are saying that that the Democrats just killed the old Senate but John Dickerson nails it here, The Old Senate Was Already Dead. In the old Senate, the rules and customs created a culture of comity and bipartisanship. Little can be done in the Senate without unanimous consent of its members. That is one of its bedrock principles, which means each senator has tremendous … [Read more...] about The Old Senate Was Already Dead