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Privacy, Then and Now

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Tiger Woods, who named his yacht Privacy, was born half a century too late. As he laments the exposure of "matters that are intimate and within one's family," Woods' pain recalls a time when two of the world's most famous actors lived together on and off for decades with the full knowledge of and complicity by the media to keep their private lives private. As a magazine … [Read more...] about Privacy, Then and Now

Is Palin A Birther Who Thinks Obama Birth Certificate Is An Issue? Or a Serial Gaffer?

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With former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who was ahead in polls of GOP hopefuls now either seriously injured politically or facing bigger obstacles now due to his having given clemency to a prisoner who later became a cop killer, all eyes are now turning to former Alaska governor and best selling author Sarah Palin. Will she continue to consolidate her talk radio political … [Read more...] about Is Palin A Birther Who Thinks Obama Birth Certificate Is An Issue? Or a Serial Gaffer?

What He Said

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David Brooks on Obama's governing style: The election revolved around passionate rallies. The Obama White House revolves around a culture of debate. He leads long, analytic discussions, which bring competing arguments to the fore. He sometimes seems to preside over the arguments like a judge settling a lawsuit. His policies are often a balance as he tries to accommodate … [Read more...] about What He Said

Did Obama’s Afghanistan Speech Play Well with NATO?

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It looks like it might have. Even as popular opinion has begun to sour on the war both at home and abroad, NATO is going to answer the President's call for escalation and pony up some more troops. Responding to American entreaties for more soldiers in Afghanistan, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, announced Friday that the alliance had agreed to contribute a … [Read more...] about Did Obama’s Afghanistan Speech Play Well with NATO?

Those Socialist Canadians

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Ask fire-breathing right-wingers which countries are more "socialist" than America, and they might list Canada, among others. Interesting: In Canada on Friday, the government reported that the country’s economy added more jobs than expected in November, erasing the losses in October. Statistics Canada reported a net employment gain of 79,000 in November, topping … [Read more...] about Those Socialist Canadians

Tone Deaf American Royalty

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As long time readers will recall, I was no fan of the Bush administration for a number of reasons, among which was the insulting lack of transparency and accountability to the public on many matters which had little or nothing to do with national security and should have been exposed to the sunshine of public scrutiny. I wanted to know which members of the energy industry were … [Read more...] about Tone Deaf American Royalty

The “Horror Story” That Wasn’t

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By C. L. Smith aka "Leonidas". C.L. Smith is a frequent right-of-center commenter here at The Moderate Voice and is a regular guest voice. *************** Not long ago an account of a sawmill worker named John was reported suggesting that he was doomed to death due to no healthcare based on a NYT op-ed by Nicholas Kristof entitled "Are we going to let John Die?" Well … [Read more...] about The “Horror Story” That Wasn’t

Of Adding Troops, Mapping an Exit Plan, and Writing Headlines.

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I don't know anything about the intricacies of publishing a newspaper, or about the relationships or sequence and timing between the on-line and printed versions of a major newspaper such as the New York Times. Although I am not a journalist, I remember from my Journalism 101 class that newspapers pay a lot of attention to their headlines---to every word and every … [Read more...] about Of Adding Troops, Mapping an Exit Plan, and Writing Headlines.

Huckabee’s Political Career On Life Support

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I feel sorry for Mike Huckabee. Nine years ago as governor of Arkansas he commuted the sentence of a man who this past week killed four police officers in Lakewood, Wash., and the next day was gunned down by police. To hear Huckabee tell it, Maurice Clemmons was not the murderer and rapist he commuted but an impoverished black at the age of 16 unjustly sentenced to 108 years … [Read more...] about Huckabee’s Political Career On Life Support

How the Free Market Kills Job Growth

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There's a title I bet you never expected to see over my byline, did ya? But the advent of President Obama's highly touted "jobs summit" seems like an excellent time to open a discussion which I believe is long overdue. As with many of these big ticket items, I'm afraid I have some observations which won't sit well with partisans on either side of the political divide, but they … [Read more...] about How the Free Market Kills Job Growth

The $45 Billion Man

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The headline reads "Bank of America pays off $45 billion in TARP Money to The Government." That's the headline. Dig a little deeper, though, and you get the real story. Why is the BofA paying off this money now, where is it getting the money to make the payoff, and how is this payoff being regarded by Wall Street? That's the real story. BoA is paying off TARP at a time it is … [Read more...] about The $45 Billion Man