A trigger lock for the gun lobby
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - After years of being pushed around by the pistol-packing gun lobby, many lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in state capitals are finally pushing back. They have successfully blocked efforts by the National Rifle Association to expand certain "conceal-and-carry" provisions. Now they must go the extra step and actually advance reasonable restrictions on firearms. Full Story | Top |
India-Pakistan rapprochement? Terrorists, beware.
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
 The Christian Science Monitor - This week's sit-down between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India may not have removed mountains of suspicion and hostility between these two rivals, but their meeting may have leveled a few foothills. Full Story | Top |
Around The Nation
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:52 am PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- Last summer, just hours after President Bush continued his dangerous expansion of executive powers and signed the "FISA Amendments Act of 2008," legislation that needlessly expanded the government's ability to spy on it's own citizens, The Nation joined with the ACLU in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the act. (Read our original post here.) We sued on behalf of ourself and two of our contributing writers--Naomi Klein and Chris Hedges--arguing vigorously that as journalists, FISA inhibited our reporting, and put at grave risk brave whistleblowers who seek to come forward and challenge authority. Full Story | Top |
Obama Allows US to See Color
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:00 pm PDT
RealClearPolitics.com - Barack Obama did not herald in a "post-racial America." In fact, the trope betrayed how we confine race to superficial terms. It's the same reason Stephen Colbert has made a standing joke of not being able to "see color." Color is with us. And we cannot get past race by not directly looking at it. Full Story | Top |
Compassion – even for 'monsters'
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - He was convicted of kidnapping and killing a young girl. A second narrowly escaped after he sexually assaulted her. Earlier this month, and two years after he died in state prison, authorities in California concluded he was responsible for the abduction and murder of another child in 1988. Full Story | Top |
THINGS NOT DONE, ROADS NOT TAKEN
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
David Shribman - FRANCONIA, N.H. -- We were going to climb Mount Pemigewasset, which juts out from the cliffs that form Indian Head and has a remarkable panorama of White Mountain summits at the top. Full Story | Top |
HEALTH CARE: A COMPACT BETWEEN GENERATIONS
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- After I turned 40, I wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine called "Breaking Down." It began with a description of me doing push-ups and collapsing because of a terrific pain in my shoulder. Pinched nerve, it turned out to be, between my fourth and fifth vertebrae. Then came back problems, loose teeth ... whatever. Full Story | Top |
Gatesgate
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - There were so many examples of presidential mendacity on view Wednesday night that I had planned to itemize a few in this column. Full Story | Top |
Ghoulish Science Plus Obamacare Equals Health Hazard
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Michelle Malkin - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to reassure citizens in New Orleans this week that Obamacare bureaucrats will make sound medical decisions for all Americans. She failed. Under the government-run plan, she promised, a team of health care experts will recommend what should be covered: "I think it would be wise to let science guide what the best health care package is." Full Story | Top |
Help Wanted. Not.
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - I got my first job when I was 15. Before that, I baby-sat, did piece work for a leather company that didn't care how old you were and worked at a dusty day camp. Full Story | Top |
No Cash For "Bruno"
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - When it comes to awful movies, Pat Buchanan once quipped he didn't have to look underneath a manhole cover to know there's a sewer down below. The smutty new movie "Bruno" can be read by its cover. In the midst of a barrage of crude sexual humor, master satirist Sacha Baron Cohen is once again exposing Americans for what Time magazine calls their "ignorance and prejudice, hypocrisy and primitive rage." Full Story | Top |
FUTURE IS MURKY IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF JOURNALISM
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- The strange thing about his recent death at 92 is that Walter Cronkite, who was the "most trusted figure" in America in life, may now come to be even more a touchstone for the national media in death. Full Story | Top |
HWB -- Home While Black
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Larry Elder - Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, retained a lawyer. Why? He claims cops in Cambridge, Mass., racially profiled him. Full Story | Top |
Blue Dogs: The Special Interest Pets
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:00 am PDT
Joe Conason - "Fiscal conservative" is one of those terms used by politicians of all sorts to describe themselves, without any real justification. Parroted mindlessly from one news cycle to the next by major media outlets, that phrase is often used to mislead the public about the priorities and policies favored by those who claim to embody budgetary prudence. Full Story | Top |
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