Destroying America to Save It
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:09 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- It's not only neocons who desperately need enemies, like Ahmadinejad, to succeed so that they'll have an excuse to bomb bomb bomb Iran, or any place they damn well please. It's also the paleocons and the concons (conspiracy conservatives), or whatever Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, could be called these days. Full Story | Top |
Politics Takes Chunk Out of White House Payroll
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
 RealClearPolitics.com - During his two months on the campaign trail as Barack Obama's running mate, Joe Biden was fond of sharing his father's witticisms with audiences to illustrate a point. One of the more common ones went something like this: "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." Full Story | Top |
Obama soars abroad, but America's PR doesn't
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama's speech to the Islamic world was a splendid example of public diplomacy at its best. His message was sincere, his words eloquent, and his quotations from the Koran pertinent as he reached out beyond governments and political organizations to millions of ordinary Muslims. Full Story | Top |
A 'coup' in Honduras? Nonsense.
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Sometimes, the whole world prefers a lie to the truth. The White House, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and much of the media have condemned the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya this past weekend as a coup d'état. Full Story | Top |
LATIN AMERICA'S NEW LEFTISTS
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- For decades, even centuries, the bane of Latin American democracy has been the military takeover. Democrats from Guatemala to Peru and from Argentina to Chile have fought valiantly to keep political power from falling into the uncompromising hands of the generals. Full Story | Top |
SO MUCH FOR WISE LATINAS
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:15 pm PDT
Ann Coulter - With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Full Story | Top |
ENCOURAGING DIVERSITY IS NO EXCUSE FOR INCOMPETENT EFFORTS
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:42 am PDT
Cynthia Tucker - According to the U.S. Supreme Court, several white firefighters were treated unfairly by the city of New Haven, Conn., when it refused to promote them despite their high scores on a promotional exam. In a 5-4 decision handed down on Monday, the court ruled that the city should not have scrapped the test just because black firefighters performed poorly. Full Story | Top |
DUKE CASE RAISES QUESTIONS
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:42 am PDT
Maggie Gallagher - Frank Lombard is a Duke University health official, a licensed social worker, a white, college-educated, legal father of two African-American boys, and according to federal authorities, a pedophile. Full Story | Top |
Suddenly, A Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Joe Conason - If Americans hope to discuss health care, climate change, green economics or public infrastructure with any degree of realism, then the time has come to acknowledge that hearing someone say "a trillion dollars" is no reason to panic. Full Story | Top |
Who Railroaded the Amtrak Inspector General?
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly "retired" this month — just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in financial audits and probes. Full Story | Top |
Thriller
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - Is there still a revolution about to happen in Iran? Full Story | Top |
Celebrities At The End
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - The surrealism of celebrity pop culture erupts when a major celebrity dies. The sudden, mysterious death of Michael Jackson caused a near-total eclipse of the real news. The cable-news channels blurred into 24-7 wailing walls for the so-called "King of Pop." Television ratings surged with a big ka-ching. Full Story | Top |
The System is Evil, Not Madoff
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Robert Scheer - How convenient for the judge and the media to paint Bernard Madoff as Mr. Evil, a uniquely venal blight on an otherwise responsible financial industry in which money is handled honestly and with transparency. Full Story | Top |
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