The Watcher of Weasles Council has selected this post we did on CBS's Memogate report and Dan Rather as its winning council post. And we say Thank Yew! The other post that won the most votes in the non-council category is this post by Varifrank, "Today, I Was Unprofessional." It is ABSOLUTELY MUST READING -- dealing with the tsunami and U.S. response to it. Food for … [Read more...] about Weasle Watchers Select Moderate Voice Post On Dan Rather

The Royal Family is trying to do damage control on Prince Harry....and the VERY LATEST NEWS is that the Prince will  " make a private personal apology to the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth for wearing a Nazi costume with the swastika armband to a friend's fancy dress party." England's Prince Harry has been in a fix: being … [Read more...] about They’re Not Wild About Harry

At first we thought this game was about what Democratic candidates for President should do with Bob Shrum's recommendations for their campaigns. It apparently isn't (but it seems close). … [Read more...] about This Is Fun…

This ruling against an atheist who wanted to ban George Bush putting his hand on a Bible and a prayer at the January 20th inauguration did not come as any surprise -- since if the atheist was right our former U.S. Presidents were ignoramuses:An atheist who tried to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance lost a bid Friday to bar the saying of a Christian … [Read more...] about Judge Nixes Atheist’s Attempt To Ban Prayer At GWB Inaugration

Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is apparently rapidly failing, according to this report in the New York Post -- setting the scene for a massive battle within the sadly not-to-distant future over his seat on the court. This doesn't sound like someone who's going to be on the court for another year or two:January 14, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — One of the most … [Read more...] about A Supreme Court Chief Justice Draws Closer

This cartoon plus a ton more dealing with  Memogate can be found at RatherBiased.com   … [Read more...] about

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The Wall Street Journal reports the Howard Dean campaign paid two bloggers to hype their campaign -- but when you read this report it's clear that compared to the conservative commentator who took money from the Bush administration to hype its programs this is a case of apples and oranges. Why? Because the Journal report -- which truly seems framed to draw as close a parallel … [Read more...] about Dean Campaign Paid Two Bloggers — Apples & Oranges

Since early last night due to some apparent problems on Typepad we could not post on this site. We could not even log in. Our regular posting will resume today. We will be doing some postings soon and others will appear throughout the day today as usual. Thanks for your patience! … [Read more...] about We Could Not Post Due to Technical Difficulties

And I won't use the joke about "They drink in moderation" (since it's probably not true, especially given the polarization in this country these days). But moderates and centrists ARE around...and if you want to meet some in the New England area, here's this news from Rick Heller at Centerfield which we will run in full: Here is a chance to meet your fellow … [Read more...] about Yes…There ARE Moderates…And They Do Get Together

The Democrats are digging in their heels on Social Security, writes the New Republic's Ryan Lizza, but  perhaps another way of looking at it is that this just one more sign of  this administration's failure in the once-cherished art of developing bipartisan support via coalition building.Whether going it largely alone is by choice or due to Democratic … [Read more...] about Social Security: Another Failure In Coalition Building

Bravo to Michele Malkin for taking a firm, unbending, principled stand against the news that commentator Armstrong Williams got a nice, big fat paycheck from the Bush administration to shill its education programs (a fact we would not have known about had not USA Today reported it). We have to add this: Some months ago we lost a reader who was furious because we have Malkin … [Read more...] about Michele Malkin: There Are NO EXCUSES For Armstrong Williams

Did you ever want to create tasteful book covers? If you do, you might not want to copy these. And if your artistry is PLASTIC SURGERY, definitely don't duplicate this... Or you can just make sure you don't duplicate bad art. … [Read more...] about Sometimes Art Stinks

Ever have something happen where you just wanted to scream? (You're right, Howard, I do remember when you...) Well, I just learned that my laptop computer, gifted to me by my sister Nona Gandelman, is totally dead. It was virtually new but the freaky failure would cost more to fix than to buy a new one (and I never have the cash on hand to make replacement easy). Alas, The … [Read more...] about Laptop Is Totally Broken: I Could Scream

Democrats can start winning again: Bob Shrum is retiring:Bob Shrum, one of the dominant Democratic political strategists and speechwriters of the last three decades, said Wednesday that he was ending his formal consulting career and moving to New York, where he would write and teach at New York University as a senior fellow. "I wanted to reflect on what I've done, not … [Read more...] about BIG POLITICAL NEWS:

Believe or not someone got into legal trouble for telling a lawyer joke -- and we're going to test THAT ONE in THIS POST. So the PC garbage on the left and right -- led by people increadily insecure about their political icons, cultural icons, ethnicty, jobs etc -- continues in a speech-control jihad that may one day leave this country's humor as hilarious as jokes told by … [Read more...] about MORE PC GARBAGE: Being Arrested For Telling Lawyer Jokes

We just got this from reporter Andy Borowitz's website and it's breaking news:BUSH ACCUSES SADDAM OF TELLING TRUTH Evildoer Knowingly Came Clean on WMD’s, President Charges Just hours after confirming that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was over, President George W. Bush leveled his harshest charge ever at Saddam Hussein, accusing the former Iraqi … [Read more...] about THIS JUST IN!

The debate over whether HIV actually causes AIDS goes on -- and there is a MUST READ piece by Dean Esmay on Dean's World today. Here's part of his introduction:As of this writing, the CDC clearly shows the incidence of HIV infection in the U.S. today at between 850,000 and 950,000 exactly as described below. My own efforts to find the raw amount of HIV infection for earlier … [Read more...] about “Falsifying the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis”

Here's an example of a government's ideology blocking relief to its own people -- and an answer to the eternal question: How do you spell "Idiocy?" (Answer: G-o-v-e-r-n-m-e-n-t  o-f   I-n-d-o-n-e-s-i-a): Indonesia told foreign troops helping tsunami victims to get out of the country soon and defended tough new restrictions on aid workers, while rich … [Read more...] about Government Of Indonesia Orders Troops Out: Politics Trumps Tsunami Suffering

Our occasional round up of some interesting bits from around the Internet. The varying views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of The Moderate Voice. FOR A GREAT CROSS SECTION OF POSTS visit the Watcher Of Weasels today which has a list of posts up for this week's voting. It includes Council members and non-Council members (The Moderate Voice was asked to sit on … [Read more...] about Around The ‘Sphere

If you want to cut down on your cancer risk, the latest info suggests, you should be monitoring your intake of red meat:SYRACUSE - A major American Cancer Society study finds people who reported eating high amounts of red and processed meat were thirty to fifty percent more likely to develop colorectal cancer than those who eat little or no meat at all.The study of nearly … [Read more...] about Red Meat Linked To Colon Cancer