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America and China Taken in By South Korean Media: Global Times, People’s Republic of China

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Has recent South Korean media coverage of U.S. military plans in the Yellow Sea forced Washington's hand - and triggered an overreaction in China's media? In this ironic article from China's state-controlled Global Times written by what is thought to be a fictitious People's Daily editor, Ding Gang, Chinese media should consider information in other media as a 'calculated ploy' … [Read more...] about America and China Taken in By South Korean Media: Global Times, People’s Republic of China

A New “Post American” Foreign Policy for Great Britain?

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Is Great Britain on the brink of a new "post-American" foreign policy? Soeren Kern, Senior Analyst for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group, looks at the issue in a piece on Pajamas Media. Here is how he frames the question: As British Prime Minister David Cameron makes his first official visit to Washington, … [Read more...] about A New “Post American” Foreign Policy for Great Britain?

Some Thoughts on Independent Voters

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Here at TMV we often link to posts that deal with independent voters, since our ranks of writers and readers include independent voters. So here's a must-read from a conservative perspective. My favorite section is this: Successful appeals to independent voters must begin with the understanding that, contrary to common media portrayals, they’re not all the same. The … [Read more...] about Some Thoughts on Independent Voters

The Mentally Obsessive Originalists

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Many on the extreme right and elsewhere on the political spectrum strongly advocate we return to some imaginary original Constitution, and that we should live by what the original framers thought or intended – as these advocates are only able to decipher. Of course, any political, economic, social or religious ideology expanded via rigid consistency will naturally lead to … [Read more...] about The Mentally Obsessive Originalists

Conservative Talk Show Hosts Aren’t the Only Ones Going After Obama

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Conservative talk show hosts aren't the only ones going after Barack Obama now. So are liberal progressive talk show hosts as you can read about here. But this is how the game works, folks. Earlier today I put up THIS LINK to my first weekly column on Cagle Cartoon's MSNBC site that dealt with the issue of talk radio. Since then, I got three emails insisting what I wrote … [Read more...] about Conservative Talk Show Hosts Aren’t the Only Ones Going After Obama

Everything Is the Same Thing

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A long time ago, I had a friend who had never cast a vote. In any election, ever. She just didn't vote. When I asked her why (which I did more than once), she would always answer my question the same way: "What's the point? They're all the same." I tried to convince her that there were differences even in the most unexciting elections. I tried to get her to see that not voting … [Read more...] about Everything Is the Same Thing

What’s Wrong With Elizabeth Warren?

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There is no such creature as an indispensable bureaucrat in Washington. Elizabeth Warren comes close. Yeah, we heard that before with the nomination of Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Warren is different. She’s on the short list to run the new consumer financial protection agency. Warren designed the damned thing. That’s what. To question her credentials is like … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Elizabeth Warren?

Arizona SB1070 Lawsuits: Judge Pushes Back On Federal Preemption

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A Clinton appointee, Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton has a reputation as a no nonsense jurist who leaves partisan considerations at the door when she takes the bench. As hearings continued yesterday in multiple lawsuits to overturn Arizona’s SB107 illegal immigrant law, she burnished that reputation as she actively challenged the U. S. Justice Department’s claims of … [Read more...] about Arizona SB1070 Lawsuits: Judge Pushes Back On Federal Preemption

New Media and a “Lack of Integrity”

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The best, concise short take I have seen on the issue of journalistic lack of integrity is HERE. Rather than recap it, visit it yourself. Journalistic integrity is an issue that goes back to the glory days of the old media and is becoming a major one now on several fronts in the new media -- even as the new media tries to use it against the old media. And it's coming into … [Read more...] about New Media and a “Lack of Integrity”

Sherrod Case: Defining Decency Down

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There is no Atticus Finch or Joseph Welch in all this. On the 50th anniversary of "To Kill a Mockingbird," we are back in a time when McCarthyism played on fears to spread hatred and destroy lives of people in public life. The President, who won an election by putting the Civil Rights era behind him, will have to revisit that time before his birth and make things right not … [Read more...] about Sherrod Case: Defining Decency Down

Breitbart A Modern-Day Hearst; BigGovernment.com As Yellow Journalism

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With video-enabled cellphones in every audience, there is truly no such thing as "off the record," as many a politician has learned. But what are the lessons to be learned from the Andrew Breitbart affair, where a public speech is selectively edited in such as way as to lie? The first is sobering: we have truly entered a new age of yellow journalism, "biased opinion … [Read more...] about Breitbart A Modern-Day Hearst; BigGovernment.com As Yellow Journalism

Battle Of Sexes: Yin & Yang Of American Labor Force

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NYT's Op-Ed Columnist, Nicholas D. Kristof, quotes the US federal Bureau of Labor Statistics that "for the first time in American history, men no longer inevitably dominate the labor force. Women were actually the majority of payroll employees for the five months that ended in March." Does this mean that in the battle of sexes women have finally emerged as the … [Read more...] about Battle Of Sexes: Yin & Yang Of American Labor Force

Technology, Objectivity, the Death of Newspapers and Fox News

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On The Media, new to Georgia Public Broadcasting and already a favorite find of a good many friends, spent an hour last week on the future of newspapers. In support of TMV Assistant Editor David Shraub's excellent Sherrod-inspired post on the true failings of the journalistic enterprise, a few select quotes... Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director … [Read more...] about Technology, Objectivity, the Death of Newspapers and Fox News

MISPLACED FEAR

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I was driving to a client appointment this morning in Phoenix, traveling north on 7th Avenue just south of Bethany Home Road, when I noticed a White SUV in front had a fairly unique bumper-sticker that appeared to have been professionally printed. It stated as follows: ‘I LOVE MY COUNTRY” “BUT I FEAR MY GOVERNMENT” I happened to pull up on the left of the same vehicle … [Read more...] about MISPLACED FEAR

Can America Get China’s Respect By Appeasing It?

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Can America Get China's respect by appeasing it? Steve Clemons, writing on The Diplomat while on a trip to Beijing, notes "Beijing's Fragile Swagger" - and American policy makers might want to take note of Clemons' piece. Here's the beginning: Confucius said ‘The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.’ From a Chinese perspective, the same can probably … [Read more...] about Can America Get China’s Respect By Appeasing It?