RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved. … [Read more...] about Super Saints
The ‘Beijing Consensus’ Displaces Washington: NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands
According to this sobering editorial from the NRC Handelsblad of The Netherlands, recent tension between China and the United States is the opening tremor of a tectonic shift in the relative influence of the world's two top two powers - and that shift strongly favors Beijing. The NRC Handelsblad editorial says in part: According to conservative estimates, it will be … [Read more...] about The ‘Beijing Consensus’ Displaces Washington: NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands
Iran’s Latest Defiance: Starts Higher Uranium Enrichment Process
Iran has again thumbed its nose the U.S. and other countries that want to halt its nuclear program with its latest defiant move: it has started the higher enrichment process: Iran says it has begun enriching uranium to a higher level, defying international efforts to curb its nuclear activity. Iranian state television quoted officials who said the process started … [Read more...] about Iran’s Latest Defiance: Starts Higher Uranium Enrichment Process
Sarah in Wonderland
RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved. … [Read more...] about Sarah in Wonderland
Quote of the Day: Meghan McCain on the Tea Party Convention and Tom Tancredo
Arizona Sen. John McCain's blunt spoken daughter Meghan McCain gives us our political Quote of the Day in her response to the Tea Party convention -- particularly former Rep Tom Tancredo's remarks that a lot of the voters who voted for Barack Obama couldn't spell the word "vote" or say it in English...and that it would have been worse if John McCain had won the … [Read more...] about Quote of the Day: Meghan McCain on the Tea Party Convention and Tom Tancredo
‘Avatar’: Nothing But a ‘Stupid Justification for War!’ – Le Monde, France
Avatar has turned out to be a politically explosive film. By and large, most writers see the film as a challenge to militarism/corporatism/fascism and a rejection of colonialism that extols the values of indigenous people. Chinese viewers see in the film a challenge to corporate interests that pay off corrupt officials to raze the homes of people unable to defend … [Read more...] about ‘Avatar’: Nothing But a ‘Stupid Justification for War!’ – Le Monde, France
Twin Awakenings and the Fate of Centrism
I read with great interest Rick Moran's post on Glenn Reynolds' comparison of the Tea Party Movement to the Great Awakening. While I disagree with some of the historical analysis of the First Great Awakening - the institutional church against which George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards railed was the Congregationalist Church, which represented New England authority and not … [Read more...] about Twin Awakenings and the Fate of Centrism
The iPad Touch
Some have been dismissing the iPad as just "a large iPod touch: a great device to draw your inspiration from, but perhaps not the seismic shift in technology that we were expecting." Hutch Carpenter sees it as much more; he's sensing a seismic shift. Writing at Blogging Innovation, Carpenter says it's Apple's skill with design-driven innovation that will make the iPad a … [Read more...] about The iPad Touch
Sarah Palin’s Palm Notes Were Actually Brilliant Ploy to Draw Attention to Obama Teleprompter
Or so Fox News now seemingly suggests. What truly is stunning is how in recent years partisans will jump through all kinds of mental hoops to try and excuse things that people on their side do that they berated others on the other side for doing. You could say "mind-boggling" but now this is the norm. Outrage and ridicule is only directed at those who you seek to politically … [Read more...] about Sarah Palin’s Palm Notes Were Actually Brilliant Ploy to Draw Attention to Obama Teleprompter
Hey Network Newspeople, America Doesn’t Really Want To Reach Out That Way
On The Media spoke last week with Don Corrigan, editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times, a small community paper published weekly. Two years ago in his Missouri town, reporters at that paper found themselves covering -- and in one instance witnessing -- the murders of some friends and neighbors: Probably the low point for me was a call about 1:30, 2 in the morning after this had … [Read more...] about Hey Network Newspeople, America Doesn’t Really Want To Reach Out That Way
Death And Politics
The old saying is the two things you cannot avoid are death and taxes but these days it seems politics are much more entwined with death and to me that is a sad thing. Certainly the death of a political incumbent has political aspects, especially where the district is marginal and thus subject to takeover. But you do not discuss such things while the body is still … [Read more...] about Death And Politics
Hopey Changey Thing
John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to appear on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved. … [Read more...] about Hopey Changey Thing
Some Advice for Marc Thiessen, from Matthew Yglesias
Dude. If you don't like being mistaken for Torquemada, stop acting like Torquemada (emphasis is in original): … [Read more...] about Some Advice for Marc Thiessen, from Matthew Yglesias
To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, elitism is good.
There was one thing that surprised me about this past weekend’s “news coverage” - it’s not that the Tea Party Convention was covered but the fact that it was covered seriously. I would even go as far as to say that I was shocked ...wait that’s too far... mystified to find that reputable news outlets were giving serious discussion and analysis to Tom Tancredo opening speech … [Read more...] about To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, elitism is good.
BREAKING: John Murtha Has Died (UPDATED)
I just saw the headline; don't have details yet. I'll post again when I do. … [Read more...] about BREAKING: John Murtha Has Died (UPDATED)
Republicans Have NOT Been Shut Out of the Process on Health Care Reform (UPDATED)
Ezra Klein makes what I think is an unassailable argument that the health care reform bill in Congress right now already does incorporate many Republican ideas: … [Read more...] about Republicans Have NOT Been Shut Out of the Process on Health Care Reform (UPDATED)
John Brennan: GOP Leaders Briefed on Handling of Abdulmutallab
Remember when Nancy Pelosi said she wasn't briefed about the C.I.A.'s use of waterboarding and other forms of torture, and C.I.A. officials provided documentation that she had been briefed, and there was this whole huge back and forth about what she knew and when, and whether she should have gone public with her knowledge? Remember how Republicans in Congress at the time … [Read more...] about John Brennan: GOP Leaders Briefed on Handling of Abdulmutallab
GOP-Tea Party “Fatal Attraction”
The image of a pet rabbit in a boiling pot arises after a night of passion in Nashville, with Sarah Palin auditioning for the Glenn Close role in a remake of "Fatal Attraction." If the GOP establishment was hoping for a one-night stand with the Tea Party, Palin evoked some serious stalking ahead by promising to campaign for challengers to traditional Republicans: "Contested … [Read more...] about GOP-Tea Party “Fatal Attraction”
The Tea Party Movement as Another ‘Great Awakening?’
Should the tea party movement be seen as a phenomenon as large and consequential as another Great Awakening? Glenn Reynolds thinks so: I attended this past weekend’s National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and I came away feeling that I had seen something important. The Tea Party movement is part of something bigger: America’s Third Great … [Read more...] about The Tea Party Movement as Another ‘Great Awakening?’
My Two Cents (Guest Voice)
My Two Cents Raging Moderate, by Will Durst I’m only guessing, but a major problem with being president has to be people around you being more likely to stick their face in a cast iron oscillating fan than tell you the truth. Let’s say you slip and fall and rip a hole in your pants down to your ankle while spilling hot coffee on a little blind girl in a wheelchair in front … [Read more...] about My Two Cents (Guest Voice)