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Addendum
If I had a time machine and could wind back the clock to the point when I was compiling today's CoA installment, I'd add just one more post to the list, for our readers' collective consideration, namely, this one by Jim Wallis, "Dinner with the Antichrist." An obviously great title (if your goal is to hook readers) ... plus an extremely encouraging prediction: This dramatic … [Read more...] about Addendum
U.S. Congress Decides, While Iraqis Go ‘Beep … Beep Beep’
Is the U.S. Congress trampling on the rights of Iraqi leaders? According to this tongue-in-cheek op-ed article from Iraq's Azzaman newspaper, the only sovereignty that Iraqi officials have left is to force people to listen to their car horns, while all the real decisions involving nationhood are made on Capital Hill. "The vote in Congress to divide Iraq is the final proof … [Read more...] about U.S. Congress Decides, While Iraqis Go ‘Beep … Beep Beep’
Good Intentions, But Badly Directed
In most cases - and this one is no different - it's better to leave history to the historians. Via The Washington Post, it looks as though a House panel has ignored that advice and passed a non-binding resolution to recognize the label of "Armenian genocide." Turkey is pissed, of course, and they've withdrawn their ambassador to Washington. While its goals are undoubtedly … [Read more...] about Good Intentions, But Badly Directed
CIA Investigates Its Own Whistleblowing Inspector General
In a highly unusual -- and perhaps without precedent -- move, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency has ordered an investigation of the CIA's own Inspector General whose findings have not been pleasant for the agency in recent months: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has ordered an unusual internal inquiry into the work of … [Read more...] about CIA Investigates Its Own Whistleblowing Inspector General
Center of Attention
A round up of recent posts by various bloggers who either attempt to strike a balanced note on heated debates and controversial issues, or improve our ability to find our own sense of balance by exposing us to new information and different points-of-view. -------------------------- Libby Spencer revisits the potential value of tossing everyone out of Washington and … [Read more...] about Center of Attention
Turkey: Between Iraq & A Hard Place
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