They just happen to look like dead Armenians When you're the U.S. and the biggest and baddest dog in the global junkyard, you can say whatever you damned well please. But when you're Japan and deny the Rape of Nanking or Turkey and deny that you slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians, you're going to catch a lot of flak -- and deserve to. It's yet again Turkey's to take heat … [Read more...] about Turkey: Between Iraq & A Hard Place
Nobel Peace Prize 2007
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It’s a Great Day for Noblesse Oblige. And Another Reason To Bash Al Gore
It was March of 1991 and John and Theresa Heinz stood on either side of me in my small office in the bustling newsroom of the Philadelphia Daily News. I was showing them page proofs from a forthcoming special section that I was directing on single mothers who had overcome poverty, abuse, addiction and other travails to lead successful lives. Women’s issues, especially … [Read more...] about It’s a Great Day for Noblesse Oblige. And Another Reason To Bash Al Gore
Al’s Nobel: Al Gore & UN Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize
BBC: Al Gore and UN climate panel are joint winners of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on … [Read more...] about Al’s Nobel: Al Gore & UN Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize
Burma: This Innocent Martyr Shall Live Forever
I am sorry to bring this picture to you again. But when I ran this sad, sad picture several days ago accompanying articles on the uprising by Buddhist monks and nuns against the illicit Than Schwe regime in Burma, I thought it was a picture of one of the holy people who had been murdered, and I thought it ought be run with dignity. But, something has been bothering me about … [Read more...] about Burma: This Innocent Martyr Shall Live Forever
Children’s Book Review: Little Skink’s Tail
From 1980-1982 I worked on Knight-Ridder's Wichita Eagle-Beacon as a general assignment reporter, and I had the pleasure of having my desk right next to a skillful yet always-nice reporter named Janet Halfmann. I later had the pleasure of meeting her family and she and her family were the embodiment of "family values," just as she was the perfect role model for anyone in the … [Read more...] about Children’s Book Review: Little Skink’s Tail
Firing Up the Base
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Ann Coulter And The Jews: The Agony And The Ignorance (Includes Blog Roundup)
Controversial conservative author, icon and columnist Ann Coulter is in hot water again -- and this time she's accused of being anti-Semitic. Coulter has been denounced before. In fact, most Americans are already free members of the Ann Coulter Outrage Of The Month Club, with a new edition of outrage usually shipped right around the time she has a new book coming out. … [Read more...] about Ann Coulter And The Jews: The Agony And The Ignorance (Includes Blog Roundup)
Creeping Authoritarianism
Cross-posted to Random Fate. --- Let us take at face value the nominal, stated reasons as why various office-holders claim they have for taking their various actions. So, President George W. Bush vetoes the recent renewal/expansion of the S-CHIP bill because he is concerned that it is "creeping socialism" that would ultimately result in publicly funded healthcare, … [Read more...] about Creeping Authoritarianism
Sabato’s Crystal Ball: THE LATEST CALIFORNIA TREND
Changing the Electoral Vote? It would not be surprising if the most important single primary in 2008 takes place in California. But don't look for it to be the presidential primary on Super-Duper Tuesday Feb. 5. Look instead to the state primary on June 3, up to now a low-profile event that could become fraught with significance if some California Republicans succeed in … [Read more...] about Sabato’s Crystal Ball: THE LATEST CALIFORNIA TREND
Note To Ann You Know Who
If being "perfect" means being like you, I'll pass on it, thank you... … [Read more...] about Note To Ann You Know Who
The U.S.-Sunni Conspiracy Against the Shiites of Iraq
Are the Iranians really meddling in Iraq as the Americans charge, or is Washington just looking for an excuse to attack Iran? According to this op-ed article from Iraq's Sotal Iraq newspaper, the charges are part of a U.S.-Sunni plot to take control of Iraq back from the Shiites. "Americans deal with Iraqi Shiites as though all of them were members or Iran's 'Quds Force' … … [Read more...] about The U.S.-Sunni Conspiracy Against the Shiites of Iraq
Al Gore: Nobel Swarming Toward Gore’s Global Warming?
Try to say that really fast ten times. UPDATE: The Nobel Peace Prize Goes to......... Tonight it was announced that Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPPC, are sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee says the recipients merit this award "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made … [Read more...] about Al Gore: Nobel Swarming Toward Gore’s Global Warming?
Media Mistrust: The Tipping Point
According to the latest Gallup Poll, Americans passed a milestone four years ago and have never looked back: More than half of us now have little or no confidence that mass media--newspapers, TV and radio--report the news fully, fairly and accurately. Thirty years ago, only 26 percent felt that way. The gap then between Republicans and Democrats was only 10 percent. Today it … [Read more...] about Media Mistrust: The Tipping Point
School Shooting, Warren Marks and His Home Movie Camera: Columbine Redoux
How it goes. After the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado in 1999 where 12 students and one teacher were murdered by high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (who then killed themselves)... many people in the community, in the nation and in the world wondered could more people have been saved? What happened to spread the alarm? Who heard it, … [Read more...] about School Shooting, Warren Marks and His Home Movie Camera: Columbine Redoux
How Much Chaos is Iran Exporting to Iraq?
Not nearly as much as they could, that's for sure. … [Read more...] about How Much Chaos is Iran Exporting to Iraq?
Time Magazine: Graeme Frost Was “Swiftboated”
The mainstream news media has been edging into covering the Graeme Frost controversy bit by bit - and today Time Magazine has come out and flatly said it: 12-year-old Graeme Frost was "swiftboated." And, indeed, welcome to the 21st century where politics seems to revolve around targeting those who disagree with you and working hard to slap negative labels on them so their … [Read more...] about Time Magazine: Graeme Frost Was “Swiftboated”
Take A Peek At “Government Is Good”
Take A Peek at the new website Government Is Good. The brainchild of Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College, Government Is Good should provide Democrats with lots of useful arguments and Republicans with lots of things to debate. And, of course, with bloggers with lots of raw material to become passionate and/or outraged about. Amy writes: Why a … [Read more...] about Take A Peek At “Government Is Good”
Klein vs. Malkin is so expired…
I don't get it. I don't understand why Ezra Klein would challenge Michelle Malkin to a reasoned debate about SCHIP knowing what he was going to get. And I don't understand why Michelle Malkin would even reply to Ezra's challenge knowing that she wouldn't debate him in, well, I'll just let her words speak for themself: But I’d just as soon share a stage, physical or … [Read more...] about Klein vs. Malkin is so expired…
Fred Thompson (UPDATED)
Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant TWO OTHER VIEWS: --Ten Things About Fred Thompson Participating In His First Republican Presidential Candidates Debate --The Elephant In The Room Has Stature UPDATE: TMV's Joe Gandelman did this post on Thompson and it almost sounds as if The Washington Post's David Broder read it. Broder writes: Fred Thompson did not … [Read more...] about Fred Thompson (UPDATED)