Cheney vs. Obama: Banking on Fear
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:18 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- As rational, soaring, and adult-ready as Barack Obama's speech before the shrine of the Constitution in the National Archives was--and, in contrast, as full of retreaded lies as Dick Cheney's Personal Prosecution Protection Plan before the rightwing American Enterprise Institute was--the former vice was already hanging ten on a fear wave. Full Story | Top |
A Call For Universal Voter Registration
Fri, 22 May 2009 07:57 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- This is the third in a series of posts concerned with just democracy. The first was an overview of the current state of our electoral system; the second a look at the prospects for a national popular vote for president. Full Story | Top |
White House: Closing Gitmo a 'Hasty Decision'
Tue, 19 May 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - Updated: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said closing the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was a “hasty decision,” in his daily press briefing with reporters. But he later backtracked in the briefing and clarified that he was referring to decisions made under George W. Bush. Full Story | Top |
Despite Bad Economy No Big Shift in Values
Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - There has been no dramatic shift in Americans' view of Wall Street, big business or the role of government despite the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, according to a wide-ranging Pew Research Center study of American values released Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Letters to the Editor
Fri, 22 May 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Journalists deserve respect – and a decent wageIn regard to the May 19 Opinion piece, "Why journalists deserve low pay": I am amazed by author Robert G. Picard's argument that "journalists are not professionals with a unique base of knowledge such as professors or electricians." Full Story | Top |
When in Doubt, Blame Bush
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Linda Chavez - Listening to President Obama this week as he tried to defend the decisions he's made on closing Guantanamo, you have to wonder what he would do without George W. Full Story | Top |
Dick Cheney?
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Come on, my Republican friends, you can do better than this. Full Story | Top |
The Jihadi Virus in Our Jails
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - President Obama's speech on homeland security was 6,072 words long. Curiously, he chose not to spare an "a," "and" or "uh" on the New York City terror bust that dominated headlines the morning of his Thursday address. Did the teleprompter run out of room? Full Story | Top |
Is It All About Britney?
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - In his book "The Enemy at Home," Dinesh D'Souza shows little patience with the leftists who reacted to 9/11 by declaring that America had it coming. And yet, his book is a variant on that theme. It was our cultural decadence, our foul popular movies, music and pornography, D'Souza argues, that enraged traditional Muslims worldwide and moved some to violence. Full Story | Top |
Hollywood Buys "Antichrist"
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - It isn't easy to shock the jaded audiences at the Cannes Film Festival, but Danish director Lars von Trier achieved that with his new movie, "Antichrist." It wasn't really the title. It wasn't the weird scenes with a talking fox. It was the graphically portrayed sexual mutilation. Full Story | Top |
Did Bibi Box Obama in?
Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - On Sept. 20, 2002, as the War Party was beating the drum for preventive war on Iraq, lest we wake up to "a mushroom cloud over an American city," The Wall Street Journal introduced an eminent voice to confirm that, yes, Saddam was driving straight for an atomic bomb. Full Story | Top |
LESSONS TO LEARN IN SRI LANKA
Thu, 21 May 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Covering the guerrilla movements of the post-colonial world was never easy, but in most cases, foreign correspondents at least knew where to start. Full Story | Top |
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