UPDATE: Members of the Southern Mississippi band are looking at disciplinary action after directing a racially insensitive chant at Kansas State point guard Angel Rodriguez who, by the way, scored 13 points to lead his Wildcats to a 70-64 victory against Kansas State. Southern Miss president Martha Saunders issued a statement after the game on the school’s Web site … [Read more...] about (UPDATED) Southern Miss Band Members Chant “Where’s Your Green Card?” at Puerto Rican Kansas State Player
Santorum: I Am your ‘Senador Puertorriqueño,’ But Don’t Talk to Me in Spanish (UPDATES)
UPDATE II: Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez, who represents Illinois’ 4th District in Chicago, was born in Chicago and later moved to Puerto Rico, his parent's birthplace, before returning to Chicago to attend college. He has led the fight to expand citizenship education and English language proficiency programs for newly-arrived immigrants. Gutierrez should thus know … [Read more...] about Santorum: I Am your ‘Senador Puertorriqueño,’ But Don’t Talk to Me in Spanish (UPDATES)
Uncomfortable Truths About The Violence Against Women Act
For years those of us who are concerned with the issue of Domestic Violence have noted disturbing flaws in America's so-called "Violence Against Women Act." Groups as diverse the Ms. Foundation for Women (founded by Gloria Steinem and other noted feminists in the 1970s), the Independent Women's Forum (formed by "equity feminist" Christina Hoff Sommers and other non-leftist … [Read more...] about Uncomfortable Truths About The Violence Against Women Act
U.S. Transcripts on Fukushima ‘Shame’ Japanese Leadership (Too Nippo Shimbun, Japan)
One year after one of the most devastating catastrophes in living memory, there seems to be no end to Japan's inner turmoil. According to this editorial from Japan's Too Nippo Shimbun, recently released transcripts from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission not only demonstrate America's proactive attitude in a crisis, they expose a deep-seated tendency among Japanese … [Read more...] about U.S. Transcripts on Fukushima ‘Shame’ Japanese Leadership (Too Nippo Shimbun, Japan)
Look At CBO Report From Two Media Outlets
Yesterday the Congressional Budget Office issued a new report on the cost of the Affordable Care Act. What struck me as interesting was how the story was covered by different media outlets. Over at CNBC the focus was on the report reducing the short term costs by about $ 50 billion. At Fox News they took a look at the aspect of the report stating that the long term costs … [Read more...] about Look At CBO Report From Two Media Outlets
Mitt Romney Sputters on Fox, Planned Parenthood & Schakowsky Unload
WASHINGTON - Who can forget Mr. Romney's disastrous interview with FNC's Bret Baier? After Santorum alleged Fox News Channel was being soft on Mitt Romney, he went on FNC and started tripping over his talking points. The bookend to that came on a conference call yesterday put together by the DNC for the media, where Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky called Mitt Romney the "most … [Read more...] about Mitt Romney Sputters on Fox, Planned Parenthood & Schakowsky Unload
Afghanistan Should Love Us
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Santorum vs. His Media Friends
The media narrative of Republican primaries keeps producing excited headlines of Rick victories that obscure a mundane reality of Mitt inching his way under the radar toward nomination. In Mississippi and Alabama combined, Santorum will take away perhaps four or five more delegates than either Romney or Gingrich each, with Romney picking up nine in American Samoa and 8 out … [Read more...] about Santorum vs. His Media Friends
Company Puts Obama’s, Pelosi’s, Palin’s Faces on Shooting Targets
Let's be very blunt. If over the next few years one of our politicians is gunned down then there will the usual hand wringing about violence and how we have to avoid anything that encourages nutjobs who can't separate snark, polemics or sick ideas not meant to lead to murder. We already went through that in the United States when Gabby Giffords was gunned down. And now here … [Read more...] about Company Puts Obama’s, Pelosi’s, Palin’s Faces on Shooting Targets
Rick ‘Ahmadinejad’ Santorum (The News, Switzerland)
Like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum continues his nearly perfect record of derision from the international press. In this latest example from Switzerland's News, columnist Patrik Etschmayer compares the elections in Iran to the Republican primary race and concludes that Rick Santorum is running for office in the wrong country. For Switzerland's News, Patrik Etschmayer writes … [Read more...] about Rick ‘Ahmadinejad’ Santorum (The News, Switzerland)
Is Conservative Talk Radio On the Way Out?
After nearly 30 years of rapid growth that saved the sagging AM radio format the question is being seriously asked: is conservative talk radio as we know it on the way out? According to reports, conservative talk titan Rush Limbaugh has lost 141 advertisers due to his three-day, bordering-on-slander verbal assault on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke. The … [Read more...] about Is Conservative Talk Radio On the Way Out?
How The South Can Rise Again: Immigrants (Guest Voice)
How The South Can Rise Again: Immigrants by Tina Dupuy In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the media noticed there was widespread devastation in the South. Watching it on television, as a person of Southern heritage, to me it was clear: "Some of that was like that before the storm." And it was. And it still is years later. Now since the Southern … [Read more...] about How The South Can Rise Again: Immigrants (Guest Voice)
Kony Atrocities
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Congressional Republicans Poised to Break Budget Deal
If you thought Congress' approval ratings were low, get ready to see them even lower. And Republicans: if you felt Republican House members' ratings were low get ready to see them lower. I suspect this will produce some quick Democratic Party campaign ads: Republicans in the House are ready to break the hard-fought budget deal: Republican leaders in the U.S. House of … [Read more...] about Congressional Republicans Poised to Break Budget Deal
A Menace To The Catholic Plutocracy
Those of you who have read these virtual pages over the years know that I don't believe the Catholic Church was ever a spiritual organization but a political one. It was founded to be the state religion of the Roman empire and was the corrupt king maker in much of Europe until the reformation. With 24/7 instant news it became difficult to hide that corruption when the victims … [Read more...] about A Menace To The Catholic Plutocracy
The Line Between a Communicator and a Crazy Man.
I spend a lot of my life in my head. Some of my longest conversation occur when I’m alone. When no one is present or in need of my attention I talk to God, I talk to myself, I talk to unreachable friends and foes. I question, plead, lament, and interject. I rehearse what I should have said, could have said, or will say if the opportunity arises. I follow thoughts to their … [Read more...] about The Line Between a Communicator and a Crazy Man.
Romney Meets “Peasants With Pitchforks”
WASHINGTON -- Political revolutions leave chaos in their wake. Republicans cannot shut down their presidential nominating contest because the party is in the midst of an upheaval wrought by the growing dominance of its right wing, its unresolved attitudes toward George W. Bush's presidency, and the terror the GOP rank-and-file has stirred among the more moderately conservative … [Read more...] about Romney Meets “Peasants With Pitchforks”
Horrific Tragedy in an Alpine Tunnel
Because of my links to both the Netherlands and Belgium and, in particular, because of the ages of most of the children involved, the horrific bus crash inside a tunnel is Switzerland has hit me very hard. Please read the details here and please keep the victims and their loved ones in your thoughts and prayers. … [Read more...] about Horrific Tragedy in an Alpine Tunnel
Romney and Santorum Play Catch-22
In my departed friend Joe Heller’s great novel, a character explains that "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing." Republicans are now applying this logic to the choice of a Presidential candidate, with each side offering indisputable proof that, depending on who is doing the figures (a) Mitt Romney is on a “path to getting the … [Read more...] about Romney and Santorum Play Catch-22
A New Adventure Of Selig Cartwright, Goldman Sachs Washroom Attendant (Selig Does An Op Ed Piece)
You look unhappy, Mr. B. Can I get you a warm moist towel? Bring in a company masseuse? No, but thank you, Selig. Just another bit of nastiness came along today that we at the top of the financial industry must endure. It's putting me a little out of sorts. You mean that piece on the Op Ed page of today's New York Times? The one from a former employee who says our … [Read more...] about A New Adventure Of Selig Cartwright, Goldman Sachs Washroom Attendant (Selig Does An Op Ed Piece)