Parliamentary inquiry to say anti-Semitism is "endemic", urges immediate action to counter the growing tide of hateful and violent acts towards Jews (often mixed with anti-Israel messages). … [Read more...] about Great Britain Sees Rise in Anti-Semitism

My earlier post talks about the serious reservations expressed by the Pentagon and members of the Congress about the Iraq war. Even the recent public opinion polls are showing that a majority of people oppose this war, says The Christian Science Monitor. "A series of polls taken over the last few weeks of August show that support for the war in Iraq among Americans is at an … [Read more...] about Opinion Polls Too Oppose Iraq War

If this is not another moment of crisis in American history then what would be. Here is the fighting/intelligence arm of the American nation virtually informing the lawmakers of the USA the futility of continuing the war in Iraq. Yet another report from the Associated Press highlights the failure of the U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan's massive drug trade. The … [Read more...] about Iraq & Afghanistan: Warning of A Serious Crisis Ahead

If this is not another moment of crisis in American history then what would be. Here is the fighting/intelligence arm of the American nation virtually informing the lawmakers of the USA the futility of continuing the war in Iraq. Yet another report from the Associated Press highlights the failure of the U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan's massive drug trade. The … [Read more...] about Iraq & Afghanistan: Warning of A Serious Crisis Ahead

Apparently, some folks are pissed at the kidnapped Fox News journalists for not taking a bullet in lieu of "converting" to Islam. … [Read more...] about Good God, Why Won’t You Die?

The New Republic has announced the end of Lee Siegel's "Culture" blog and has suspended him from writing for the magazine: After an investigation, The New Republic has determined that the comments in our Talkback section defending Lee Siegel's articles and blog under the username "sprezzatura" were produced with Siegel's participation. We deeply regret misleading our readers. … [Read more...] about Lee Siegel Suspended

A piece of impressive original enterprising reporting from journalist/blogger Michael Totten:KARNI TERMINAL, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER -- The Israeli Defense Forces found and collapsed a 200 meter-long and 12 meter-deep tunnel one kilometer inside the Gaza Strip that terrorists intended to reach all the way into Israel. The tunnel was located near the Karni Terminal, a now-closed … [Read more...] about Israel Finds And Destroys Terrorists’ Tunnel

From Cox & Forkum: … [Read more...] about Divine Intervention

The Moderate Voice occasionally runs Guest Voice posts by readers who don't have a weblog or have one and have something special to say here. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its co-bloggers — but they do add to our free-wheeling debate. This is the final part of a three part essay by one of our readers and frequent commentors, … [Read more...] about Guest Voice: Plagiarism, Clichés, Influence, And Google Part III

By moderate cartoonist Tom Briscoe: … [Read more...] about The Shrinking Planet Pluto

Slate via The Plank: As the mayor answered the last of the three questions from reporters, he talked about the root causes of terrorism: "oppressive governments that demagogue and blame and project their problems other places and do nothing to solve the problems of their own people." "Sounds like the Democrats," shouted a man. The crowd roared. It was the kind of stupid … [Read more...] about Giuliani Chides The Partisans

...and replaced by my daughter!" … [Read more...] about Donald Trump: “You’re Fired!…

If this latest USA Today/Gallup Poll holds up, the Democrats are likely to gain control of the House and pick up seats — but not gain control of — the Senate. The net result, if you strip away the partisan competition, is that if this happens the era of complete one party control of government will be over — and there will be some aggressive Congressional … [Read more...] about Democrats Seem Poised To Carry House But Not Senate

...as his Netroots Coordinator. But Republican politicos aren't the only ones who are recruiting bloggers to work on their campaigns (see final paragraph of linked post). The net result of this depends on your perspective. Some will say:This is good because it shows the importance of blogs, blogging etc to the political process. Readers can trust weblogs more than ever … [Read more...] about Senator George Allen Hires A Blogger

Once again, California is out front on the environment with an impressive effort to curb global warming. From the L.A. Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders agreed Wednesday on a plan to cut by 25% the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from California electric power plants, refineries and other sources by the year 2020. A 25 percent reduction wouldn't be … [Read more...] about Terminating global warming

[Note: This post got "lost" when we did some reshuffling, so I've temporarily bumped it to the top. --DS] Why is it that whenever a centrist gets angry at President Bush, it's assumed that they've gone liberal? Maybe centrists are angry at Bush not because they've radicalized, but because he has--that he's betrayed centrist values, not liberal ones. … [Read more...] about Centrist Anger

If you like TMV and would like to make a contribution to what we do, September is the month designated for it. No, our problem really isn't bandwidth expense: although TMV is personally QUITE wordy in his posts, we haven't reached that point yet and Powerblogs has been patient with us. A key problem is the way this weblog is done....on the run (mostly from readers..). Due to … [Read more...] about September Is TMV “Tip Jar” Fund-Raising Month

They have cheap labor...and we don't. Can we outsource them? I have my doubts. More here. … [Read more...] about The New Menace…India

I was on a 9 hour drive yesterday and talk radio was still buzzing about this commentary by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann: Bush critics were applauding it and Bush supporters were attacking Olbermann: … [Read more...] about Keith Olbermann Versus Donald Rumsfeld

The Moderate Voice occasionally runs Guest Voice posts by readers who don't have a weblog or have one and have something special to say here. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its co-bloggers — but they do add to our free-wheeling debate. This is the second part of a three part essay by one of our readers and frequent commentors, … [Read more...] about Guest Voice: Plagiarism, Clichés, Influence, And Google Part 2