A child whimpers Choked, deafened by blast Bleeding mother, father shredded By rockets or bunker busters The children of Abraham Tangled in anger and fear Some mourning homes lost To a 1947 decision by aliens Thoughtless of them Others fighting to navigate A brutal sea of cousins Ablaze with hate A world held hostage By violence unprecedented Among followers Of The Name, … [Read more...] about Progeny of a blameless servant

You KNOW you're in 21st century America where niceties are stripped away when you turn on cable TV talk shows. And, sure enough, Joe Scarborough (who seems to be one of the more independent talking head hosts on cable) actually began his show by asking in a segment "Is Bush An Idiot?" The segment was quite interesting and can be viewed at HERE at Crooks & Liars which also … [Read more...] about Debate Over “Is Bush An Idiot?”

Want to learn a about Home Security's Funding? Graduate school students from Columbia University’s School of Journalism participating in a unique program called News21 he produced an interactive flash presentation that is A MUST VIEW HERE. The News 21 program seeks to bolster investigative reporting and show how stories could be distributed outside of the traditional … [Read more...] about Homeland Security: The Money Trail (Interactive Presentation)

Our linkfest presenting you with interesting links from VARYING viewpoints. Linked views do not necessary reflect the opinion of this site. Guess Who's Al Qaeda's Candidate? If you thought Ned Lamont, well, no. Only Vice President Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman, and a few conservative talk show hosts have suggested that. So don't be confused. According to a GOP candidate in New … [Read more...] about Around The Sphere August 16, 2006

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz:U.N. To Send Peacekeepers; Hezbollah To Send Warkeepers 'Roadmap to Chaos' Still Intact, Says Hezbollah Leader Just hours after the United Nations pledged to send peacekeepers to Lebanon, the terror group Hezbollah pledged to send warkeepers to the same war-torn nation. At a press conference in Tehran, Hezbollah leader … [Read more...] about This Just In!

Like a zillion other weblogs, we've started posting some bits from You Tube. But for some reason the embeds have vanished and they're not working on this site when we try to put them back in. We'll keep trying but if this persists we'll pass on You Tube until we know if we offer it to readers it's still up there. We haven't been contacted them about any problems (we've run … [Read more...] about Our You Tube Embeds Have Vanished

Charles of Obsidian Wings has a great overview regarding their use and the law surrounding them. … [Read more...] about Human Shields

Support for Hezbollah "shows the diversity" of the anti-war movement. … [Read more...] about Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

The growing radicalization of the center-left. Incidentally, if you want an explanation for why Lieberman is running with an "I" next to his name, this is it. This is the reason why I could have seen myself voting for Lamont in the Democratic primary. It's not that the Democratic party is losing its center. It's that the anger and fury that once was contained to the fringe has … [Read more...] about I’ve Heard a Rant Like This Before…

According to Slate's John Dickerson, President Bush read Camus's novel The Stranger while on vacation this summer. According to Tony Snow, Bush "found it an interesting book and a quick read": "I don't want to go too deep into it, but we discussed the origins of existentialism." Which suggests that the president delved into Heidegger, or perhaps Nietzsche. I suspect he didn't, … [Read more...] about Existential malaise

Every year or so one of those polls comes out telling us how many more Americans can identify [insert pop culture reference here] versus how many can identify [insert historical, governmental or news reference here]. Well, it's that time again. Zogby International did the polling, on behalf of a new game show, "Gold Rush." Just over 1,200 Americans were polled, and the margin … [Read more...] about Bemoaning the State of Things

NOTE: The Moderate Voice occasionally runs a Guest Voice column by a reader who has some serious thoughts but may not have a blog or has a blog or website and wants to raise an issue here. Guest Voice columns do not necessarily reflect the view of The Moderate Voice or this site's co-bloggers. Here's the latest, by reader Jim Oliver. … [Read more...] about Guest Voice: A Second Iran

Hide the children. Foot-in-mouth-disease is back:Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) apologized Monday for what his opponent's campaign said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent. At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb "macaca." During the speech … [Read more...] about Senator Allen Apologizes For Unwise Wisecrack

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz:Mel Gibson Protests FAA's Ban on Liquids Actor Enlists Support of Billy Joel, Liza Minnelli Days after the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on passengers bringing liquids on board flights in their carryon luggage, actor Mel Gibson came forward to vehemently protest the FAA's new restrictions. At a press … [Read more...] about This Just In!

An all-star cast of liberal academics and scholars releases a call to greatly expand the types of relationships that should get societal assistance. Who would have guessed that the Washington Times would totally misinterpret it? … [Read more...] about Paranoia From The Right

While the jury is out on whether Israel or Hezbollah attained their war objectives, a quick anecdotal poll of Russian, Chinese and Indian analysts suggests that in the eyes of the wider world the real loser is the United States. Together with the bloody mess in Iraq, the mess in Lebanon is a set back for American prestige and influence. In India, where President George Bush … [Read more...] about For some, Bush has been outwitted

There are a few columnists out in the MSM I tend to read on a regular basis. Jonathan Chait of the L.A. Times is one of them (not least because he's also an editor of, and frequent contributor to, The New Republic, one of my daily reads and in my view an outstanding publication). Chait argued yesterday that Joe Lieberman "should drop out of the race" for Senate in Connecticut. … [Read more...] about Turning on Lieberman

Democrats went after Joe Lieberman in Connecticut and now Republicans are targeting Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island, as the AP reports here. The effort is being led by the 36,000-strong Club for Growth, which "spent around $1 million to help challenger Tim Walberg unseat first-term Rep. Joe Schwarz in Michigan's Republican primary on Tuesday". In 2004, the Club actively went … [Read more...] about Chafee is the new Lieberman

One of the main criticisms levelled at Democrats these days is that, no matter how badly Bush and the Republicans have screwed up (and continue to screw up) Iraq, they have no plan to deal with Iraq, that is, to fix the problem that Iraq has become. (From a Republican perspective, what this means is that a bad plan, or a plan proven to have failed, is better than no plan at all … [Read more...] about Democrats and Iraq

Here are some surprising things about his new blog. … [Read more...] about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s New Blog