Morris hasn't just jumped it, he has leaped over it. I mean REALLY. Will she also eliminate Sunday as a day of rest, tap water and oxygen, too? (NOTE: This site today becomes Dick Morris Free Zone. We'll stick with Larry Sabato.) … [Read more...] about Fox News’ Dick Morris Finally Jumps The Shark
More than Half-Full
Steven Moore writes in the Wall Street Journal about how the world's cup is more than half full in Clear-Eyed Optimists He refers to the United Nations report called "State of the Future" that concludes: "People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, more connected, and they are living longer." Yes, of course, there was the … [Read more...] about More than Half-Full
Those Sunday Morning Talk Shows
Who needs psychics anymore? These shows feature the journalistic elite talking heads making predictions about what WILL happen. These shows are now an institution and those on them surely belong in one. Watch Jon Stewart's take on this HERE. … [Read more...] about Those Sunday Morning Talk Shows
The Israel Lobby – Mearsheimer and Walt Weigh In
I've yet to read Mearsheimer and Walt's book, The Israel Lobby, but I have been following the controversy surrounding its publication. Cries of anti-Semitism have, I'm afraid, been the major way that critics have attempted to discredit the work. Jeffrey Goldberg, in a 7000-word-plus article for The New Republic, provides a typical example. He argues that the book "represents … [Read more...] about The Israel Lobby – Mearsheimer and Walt Weigh In
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. -------------------------- Dan Radmacher, ed-page editor of The Roanoke Times, asks "What about the Middle?" [H/t … [Read more...] about Center of Attention
Fighting For Men’s Rights
Yes, men's rights is an issue, too. Read Dr. Helen. … [Read more...] about Fighting For Men’s Rights
Iowa Caucuses As Smoke-Filled Room
A minister, priest and rabbi walk into a 4-H club . . . I'll eat my straw boater if it turns out that the Iowa caucuses next January play a decisive role in determining who the Republican presidential sacrificial lamb will be, let alone who the Democrats nominate to be the next president. This is because some candidates -- averse to shoveling snow off of potential voters' … [Read more...] about Iowa Caucuses As Smoke-Filled Room
Hillary Clinton Proving Useful Bogeywoman For Republican Presidential Candidates
Forget about President George Bush being "a uniter, not a divider." The real uniter may be Senator Hillary Clinton -- among conservative Republicans. As The Politico notes, she's proving useful to GOPers running for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination in what seems to be a dry run of the campaign to come if she's the Democratic nominee: Sen. Hillary Clinton’s … [Read more...] about Hillary Clinton Proving Useful Bogeywoman For Republican Presidential Candidates
Spineless Dems
Mike Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons … [Read more...] about Spineless Dems
The Jumpin’ Jive
I just got finished watching one of my favorite musicals entitled Stormy Weather (circa 1943). I'm a big fan of the "back in the day" big band. Cab Calloway has always been one of my favorite performers. So vibrant and alive. Those performers "back in the day" flat out entertained regularly. Sadly that is a lost art among a sizable number of performers these days. Notice … [Read more...] about The Jumpin’ Jive
Professor Alleges Jews Monopolize American Foreign Policy
Oh, we're up to it again! And here I thought I was so busy writing about issues, reading, working on some long-range writing projects and driving hundreds of miles doing special programs in elementary and high schools. I KNEW I was forgetting to do something. And TimesOnline's Daniel Finkelstein has reminded me. Finkelstein (uh, oh..that name) has a post noting an … [Read more...] about Professor Alleges Jews Monopolize American Foreign Policy
Who Would Jesus Have Tortured?
NEWARK, Delaware -- The smell of autumn is in the air on this Sunday morning, that intoxicating aroma of decaying leaves, ripe apples and be-dewed grass brilliantly illuminated by the sun in a cloudless azure blue sky. But there is another smell as well and it is not so sweet – the smell of hypocrisy as the faithful file into a fundamentalist Christian church for their weekly … [Read more...] about Who Would Jesus Have Tortured?
Bloomberg For President Bandwagon Gets Flat Tire
It sounds as if the Bloomberg for President bandwagon boomlet, which was all the rage among the political talking heads, writing-with-authority newspaper columnists and ever excited bloggers has now fizzled -- even though New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his aides continue to give signs that he could jump in at the last minute. The reasons for the apparent fizzle: an … [Read more...] about Bloomberg For President Bandwagon Gets Flat Tire
That’s Not News
From moderate cartoonist Tom Briscoe: … [Read more...] about That’s Not News
Another Show Stopper From “The Producers” Recording Session
Some readers emailed that they really enjoyed the You Tube here a few weeks ago that showed a key show-stopper from Mel Brooks' Musical "The Producers" and asked for another. So here is a key scene: where producer Max (Nathan Lane) seeks to sign up the very worst director to direct the pro-Hitler play "Springtime for Hitler" to ensure that it'll flop. He goes to infamous … [Read more...] about Another Show Stopper From “The Producers” Recording Session
Republican Fred Thompson Rises In Two Polls
After weeks of getting tepid "reviews" from national political correspondents, bloggers, columnists such as Robert Novak and anonymous sources quoted in political news stories, former actor Fred Thompson is now getting some good news: his numbers have gone up in two key polls. The latest AP/Ipsos poll shows him within three points of front former New York Mayor Rudy … [Read more...] about Republican Fred Thompson Rises In Two Polls
Bolivian President Evo Morales On The Daily Show
Unlike some of Stewart's other interviews with foreign statesmen, this one achieves the right balance between humor and substance. … [Read more...] about Bolivian President Evo Morales On The Daily Show
Byrd-Watching and Sleepwalking
The senior Senator from West Virginia--and I do mean senior, he turns 90 next month--always gives me hope that, at 83, I can grow up to be as smart and outspoken as he has been in trying to keep American kids from being killed in stupid wars that should never be fought. In 2002, he tried to keep us from invading Iraq, and here he is again, warning us about getting caught up … [Read more...] about Byrd-Watching and Sleepwalking
Haggard’s Escort Alleges That Craig Visited Him Too
Question: What's harder to get rid of than a cold? Answer: The Republicans getting rid of Senator Larry Craig. It's a story with (wide stance) legs. And a new allegation: The male escort responsible for the downfall of Christian evangelist leader Ted Haggard is now alleging that embattled Senator Larry Craig also came to see him. While promoting his new book during a … [Read more...] about Haggard’s Escort Alleges That Craig Visited Him Too
Welcome To “The Nanny State”
Welcome to the Nanny State By Bill Steigerwald With his book “Nanny State,†Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi has thrown a conservative-libertarian rope around a disturbing political and cultural trend -- the nannification of America by moral busybodies and nitpicking maternalists who use government power to micromanage our personal lives and protect us from … [Read more...] about Welcome To “The Nanny State”