President George W. Bush, undaunted by the controversy over his Veterans' Day Speech in which he suggested war critics (Democrats) were undercutting the war effort, has again gone on the offensive as a new Gallup poll shows his political stock going south as steadily as Long Island retirees in winter.U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday sought to counter Democratic critics … [Read more...] about Bush Again Blasts Democrats As New Poll Brings More Bad News

Read it HERE and be sure to watch the video... … [Read more...] about A Prediction On What Will Happen To Dick Cheney

Sounds like he was pissed off.. … [Read more...] about Michael Jackson Strikes Again, Too

Venezuela's President manages to make a significant enemy. … [Read more...] about Hugo Chavez Strikes Again

The controversy continues to simmer and fester over the Graham Amendment. Note The Hill: Several retired military leaders are urging Congress to reject Senate-passed legislation that would nullify a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that gives detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their imprisonment. The upper chamber last Thursday passed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s … [Read more...] about Graham Amendment: The Controversy — And Concern — Grows

TMV's Note: This ran yesterday afternoon and seemingly got buried quickly due to a slew of other posts. We're reposting it today. This site always applauds ORIGINAL REPORTING done on weblogs, of all political persuasions. Blogging can be more than extended op-ed pieces. On Saturday morning, I had the real honor of speaking with the 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee, Sen. … [Read more...] about My Conversation with George McGovern

Questions raised about U.S. handling of detainees aren't only arising in the United States: they're being raised and causing inquiries in Spain and elswhere, according to the New York Times:LONDON, Nov. 11 - On the Spanish island of Majorca, the police quietly opened a criminal investigation in March after a local newspaper reported a series of visits to the island's … [Read more...] about Spain Is Looking Into CIA Treatment Of Detainees There

Well, certainly no one can remotely call Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. a "stealth" candidate on abortion anymore:Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position, Mr. Alito wrote … [Read more...] about Alito Has Previously Rejected Abortion As A Right

Other people have been better at blogging the French riots, but I think there needs to be a bit more analysis on how French "universalism" is fueling the outrage we're seeing. … [Read more...] about French Assimilation Background

Press Release: NEW FILM RELEASED -- SACRED CHOICES AND ABORTION: TEN NEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Milwaukee, Wisconsin November 14, 2005 Contact: Ms. J Clements Outreach Director The Religious Consultation [email protected] (for copies for review) The Religious Consultation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has just released to the religious community the film Sacred Choices And … [Read more...] about SACRED CHOICES AND ABORTION: TEN NEW THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

Check out yesterday's discussion group topic at The Carpetbagger Report, one of the best liberal blogs out there: "Is the national media making a comeback? Are the days of passivity and stenography officially over? Or, conversely, is even the coverage we're now getting too timid?" "Has the news media turned a corner? Will it last? What prompted the change?" ********** Much … [Read more...] about The comeback of the news media

Not too long ago, I mentioned that al Qaeda was setting up shop in the U.K. If this story is true -- and there's no reason to doubt it -- the threat continues to spread even as Iraq remains a question mark and the war on terrorism, now a war against Islamofascism, proceeds in fits and starts against a nebulous enemy. ********** And now, in the same vein, we have this: The … [Read more...] about God save the Queen (from al Qaeda)

Some on the Left have accused NBC's Tim Russert of being a tool of the Right with a GOP bias. Now he's being accused of being a shill for the Left. (We don't know why, but that's deja vu to TMV...) … [Read more...] about About NBC’s Tim Russert

To some, it's a clear-cut issue: torture should be banned — period. To others, it's far more complicated: what if U.S. officials had someone in their hands who knew about an attack that could kill thousands or millions? But the White House made it clear today that its stand on torture is to oppose ruling it out-of-bounds because the U.S. could one day face a worst-case … [Read more...] about White House Refuses To Rule Out Use Of Torture

Is he being treated with kid gloves, and why? Oxblog's David Adesnik has some ideas HERE. … [Read more...] about John McCain And The Press

If you thought sauerkraut was just that stuff you put on a hotdog or a dish that means you no longer need a Whoopie Cushion, think again: New medical evidence suggests that sauerkraut may be to Bird Flu what chicken soup is to the common cold. And it's big news all over the world. England's Telegraph:Sauerkraut, the dish adored in Germany but much maligned in Britain, could … [Read more...] about Sauerkraut Could Battle Bird Flu

...at the new, redesigned Watching America. Watching America has always been one of TMV's favorite sites, and we have linked to it from time to time. There is no site quite like it on the Internet: it contains excerpts from newspapers and magazines, pieces touching on the United States from all over the world. Many of them are translations of articles that you can't get … [Read more...] about Take A Peek….

The assertion that some parties are "rewriting history" merits closer examination. Please make that examination rather than regurgitating the "talking points" which is the easy excuse to avoid the hard work of thinking. … [Read more...] about History, first draft, second draft, and rewriting

Just saw some of this program on PBS: Sunday, November 13, 8:00pm CHANNEL 48 (WCET) An examination of whether animals can sense impending natural disasters. The program looks at animal behavior preceding the Indian Ocean tsunami. … [Read more...] about Nature: Can Animals Predict Disaster?

John Cole of Balloon Juice, someone who leans to the right but thinks instead of mindlessly repeating talking points, is discovering that opposition to torture is apparently an attribute of "the left" according to some of his readers. … [Read more...] about A rumble on the right side of blog-world