A former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire is having his legal bills paid — with a little help from his Republican party friends:Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush … [Read more...] about GOP Picks Up Tab For Accused Bush Official

It's enough to make me you-know-what... So it's time to repeat it. We get emails. Oh, boy do we get emails. And in a week we're called "a Bush-hating liberal.....part of the right wing cheerleading squad....really a Democrat...really a Republican." The only thing we haven't been called is a Michael Jackson look-alike. The next thing you know, someone will start a rumor that … [Read more...] about Time To Repeat It

Whether it's a case of cutting their losses or eating a bunch of good, 'ol fashioned crow, an anti-abortion group has pulled back a controversial anti-Roberts ad — a clear sign that the ad had created some backlash:WASHINGTON — After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion-rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking … [Read more...] about Abortion Group Begrudgingly Withdraws Controversial Roberts Ad

...at The Values Divide, a new and highly promising centrist weblog. Yes, there are indeed centrists out there. And in this day and age there are people who do believe in something called ETHICS. In fact, The Values Divide is written by Jason "The Wise Guy" Merchey. His site describeds him as "a philosophical thinker, author, speaker, and coaching consultant. Intrigued by … [Read more...] about Take A Peek…..

Readers and bloggers have had an impact on spreading the word about a site we posted about here. Read the cartoon by cartoonist/blogger Chris Muir above. In fact, it was Muir — who has a loved one touched by The Big C — who doggedly got the word out to bloggers, who helped get the word out to readers. His site can be visited here. Too often on these weblogs it's … [Read more...] about Readers Respond To An Item On The Big C

Thanks for being patient! This has been a tempestuous month for this site due to EXTENSIVE travel. Our co-bloggers have been helping to keep it going, amid logistical problems on our end. For two weeks TMV was in Wyoming and Montana. He returned to home base San Diego on Monday...but has barely been at home due to shows and being stuck in traffic jams. Thursday our own … [Read more...] about Thanks For Your CONTINUED Patience!

I thought she was doing that VH1 reality show, but I guess her network-hopping matches her boudoir activities. (For confused link-clickers: It shouldn't be a thinker's joke.) … [Read more...] about How the hell did Tammy Faye Bakker get on Comedy Central?

This was a long overdue project. Of course, Reagan's "11th Commandment" should be an anathema anyway--criticism and dissent are essential to any functioning body, be it a nation, community, company, or political party. But when one supports "the Party as an end rather than a means," blind loyalty is a very predictable consequence. Well, we'll see how this plays out. In the … [Read more...] about Better Late Than Never

...in a move that would have been unthinkable four decades ago, when they were the "bad boys" of rock and roll, now issue a statement: Stones deny song attacks Bush By Michael Rowland in Washington Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger denies one of the band's new songs, Sweet Neo-con, is an attack on US President George W Bush. The ageing rock group is about to start an … [Read more...] about In an irony all the more hard because of the need for denial, the Rolling Stones…

...it is of small comfort to understand that the know-how to make an atomic bomb isn't exactly secret (and you should know that this commentary comes from someone who has known the basics of how to construct a nuclear weapon for over 17 years). It's the separation of isotopes that's damn hard, and our only salvation, for now... … [Read more...] about In these days of fear of the nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea…

Cross-posted to Random Fate. --- When I was in graduate school, on an exam in my Classical Electrodynamics class, we were asked to re-derive the Maxwell Equations assuming that in addition to the existence of electric charge, magnetic charge also was present in the universe (aka magnetic monopoles, of the north and south variety, analogous to positive and negative charge, and … [Read more...] about Some thoughts… on weblogs and thinking outside of the box

A new, possible alleged motive for the killing of newsman/blogger Steven Vincent has emerged, according to the Scotsman: AN American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who knew he was intending to marry his Muslim interpreter, it has emerged. Steven Vincent was shot a week before the planned wedding to Nouriya Itais and had … [Read more...] about Was American Reporter/Blogger Killed Due To Wedding Plans?

The gloves have come off in Great Britain where the government has moved swiftly to grab 10 foreigners seen as a "threat to security" in pre-deportation moves.The foreigners, thought to include Abu Qatada, once described as the spiritual ambassador of Al Qaeda in Europe, were detained in early-morning raids across Britain by police forces in London, Leicester, Luton and the … [Read more...] about Britain Seizes 10 Foreigners In Security Crackdown

We all know that the conventional (which does not always mean correct) wisdom is growing that Hillary Clinton could be the Democratic nominee in 2008 but did you know that a famous journalist is now suggesting that you-know-who will get the nod on the Republican ticket? The famous journalist is Pulitizer Prize winning Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate … [Read more...] about Woodward Suggest Dick Cheney Will Run For President In 2008

Our occasional linkfest of interesting posts from all over the Internet reflecting DIFFERENT viewpoints. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of The Moderate Voice. The Cindy Sheehan Story: Due to logistics, we haven't done a post on this story about the mother of a killed serviceman demanding to meet the President. Crooks And Liars has lots of interesting … [Read more...] about Around The Sphere August 11, 2005

Britain and the United States have a message for Iran: get your nose out of Iraq:Britain formally protested to Iran yesterday over its growing interference in Iraq's internal affairs, citing the smuggling of sophisticated explosives that threaten to send coalition casualties soaring. The move came after British and American intelligence officials said they uncovered evidence … [Read more...] about Britain and U.S. Irked Over Iran Meddling In Iraq

The dear friends at Focus on the Family have brought us a helpful checklist to determine whether your pre-pubescent son is gay. Since our readers tend to be pinko-commie-liberals, and it's my patriotic duty to save their children from gayness (they of course, don't care, because non-Christian Fundamentalist hate children. And families. And puppies. And rainbows), I will share … [Read more...] about Please let this be a parody, please let this be a parody, oh God, it’s not a parody…

How power affects "black on white" racism--and why both "structural" and "individual" power are too simplistic to deal with the scope of the problem. … [Read more...] about From the Minority to the Majority

I don't know how many of our readers are interested in theology, but I've penned a Jewish response to a Christian interpretation of Ezekiel. Be warned--the second, "radical," half of my piece might be disturbing to some. … [Read more...] about Bible Chat

According to CNN, Iran today broke the seals at one of its nuclear facilities. Needless to say, that seems like awfully bad news, though Iran may be as much as a decade away from nuclear weaponry. But there's a bigger story out there, and it's not getting nearly enough coverage in the media: The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the real leader of Iran, has issued a fatwa against … [Read more...] about Iranian leader issues fatwa against nuclear weapons