Iran's nuclear crisis: Obama could play the human rights card
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - Today's announcement by President Obama and European leaders that Iran is building a secret underground nuclear facility adds fresh urgency to an issue that's been festering for years. Tensions will now be considerably higher among negotiators at the planned Oct. 1 meeting about Iran's nuclear program. Full Story | Top |
CO2 Is Green
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:49 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- An article in yesterday's Washington Post exposed the coal and oil industry interests behind recent national TV ads arguing against climate change legislation. Full Story | Top |
The Wisdom of the Public
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:00 pm PDT
The Nation - The Nation -- It's been a rough week for those of us who believe that only a tiny minority of Americans hold ludicrous and outrageous views. As this distressing survey by Public Policy Polling revealed, the belief that Barack Obama was born outside the United States is inching toward becoming a majority view among Republicans (43 percent are on board). The belief that George W. Full Story | Top |
The unseen bias in Middle East reporting
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - In journalism, there are three types of statements: objective facts; obvious opinions; and a third, hazier category that can be called "judgment terms." This last category, which appears often (but not exclusively) in Middle East coverage, challenges both readers and reporters by testing the boundaries between fact and opinion. Full Story | Top |
Preserve US national parks
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:00 am PDT
The Christian Science Monitor - More than a century ago, naturalist John Muir urged urban dwellers in bustling Eastern cities to look up from their labors and head west to a national park for a fresh perspective. Full Story | Top |
CHILDREN ARE AT RISK IN THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:57 pm PDT
Cynthia Tucker - For generations, the elderly poor were consigned to misery, spent after a lifetime of backbreaking labor yet with little security to show for it. Their plight led Franklin Roosevelt to institute Social Security (over the objections of conservatives, who denounced it as "socialism") and Lyndon Johnson to press for Medicare (over the objections of conservatives, who denounced it as "socialism"). Full Story | Top |
Nick at Nite Blight
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Brent Bozell III - During his 20-year reign at Disney, Michael Eisner's commitment to family values was viewed with suspicion by many. The worries apparently were well-founded. His animation studio, Tornante, has a new clay-animated cartoon on Nick at Nite called "Glenn Martin, DDS." Eisner and Nick at Nite executive Cyma Zarghami claim it's a show for the entire family. Full Story | Top |
Obama's Self-Worship
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Mona Charen - President Obama's speech to the United Nations has been called naive and even "post-American." It was something else, as well: the most extravagant excursion into self-worship we have yet seen in an American leader. Full Story | Top |
To Lose a War
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Pat Buchanan - While America was consumed this summer with quarrels over town-hall radicals, "death panels," the "public option" and racism's role in the plunging polls of Barack, what happens to health care is not going to change the history of the world. Full Story | Top |
Immigrant Values
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Linda Chavez - For the first time in decades, the number of foreign-born individuals living in the United States declined last year, according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Full Story | Top |
FDA: Kiss Those Kiddie-Flavored Cigarettes Goodbye
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Susan Estrich - It's hard to argue with the FDA's decision, announced this week, to ban the sale of flavored cigarettes. To be honest, I always thought cigarettes came in regular and menthol, not chocolate and strawberry. The legislation passed earlier this year giving the FDA authority over tobacco products specifically authorized it to ban flavored cigarettes, while protecting the kind that I got hooked on. Full Story | Top |
THE HARD CHOICE: WAR OR HEALTH CARE
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:58 pm PDT
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Strangely enough, I feel a growing sense of anomie -- an "Oh dear God, once again?" or a miasmic repeat of history -- hanging over our young president these days, when his ideas for social change should be prescient. Full Story | Top |
The Racist Truth About Beck and Limbaugh
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:00 am PDT
Joe Conason - With admirable calm, President Obama has sought to deflect the supercharged politics of race by expressing his optimism about American attitudes and ignoring the most extreme statements by his critics. For his own sake, as well as the nation's, he is wise to give a pass to the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. That is not, however, what they deserve. Full Story | Top |
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