I usually take everything Howard Kurtz says with a grain of salt, but in today’s Media Notes he seems to get it right with regard to Ben Domenech: A second major issue was whether hiring a conservative activist as a blogger was a reasonable stab at “balance” when there was no self-proclaimed liberal blogging away, [...]
How to deal with illegal immigration appears to be the question of the day. The Washington Post has an article about it, wherein the political tactics of both parties are analyzed, but the actual underlying issues are, in my opinion, given short shrift, like so: As the Senate begins debate on revamping the nation’s immigration [...]
For those of us in the reality-based community who have been paying attention, the increasing problem of global warming is not a surprise. The scientific community has been in agreement for more than a decade, with only a very few dissenters whose work seemed to be supported by fossil fuel interests. The problem has always [...]
Fred W over at The Mad Prophet draws our attention to the pathetic silliness of Tom Tancredo. You remember when Hillary Clinton said that the new immigration bill was un-Christian? Well, Here’s what Tom thinks of that: TANCREDO: I’m not really surprised that Hillary Clinton doesn’t know the first thing about the Bible. Her impression [...]
There is something eerie about this article on the Washington Post website. The article describes Iran’s recent, and intense, shift toward the political right. Reading through it, I sensed some similarities between the Iranian shift, and the political shift in this country in the last six to eight years. From the article: a senior cleric [...]
I often wonder, during discussions about tax policy, why some people don’t understand the logic behind progressive taxation. There are really, to my mind, three statements: The government requires some revenue to perform the functions that its citizens require of it. There exist certain necessities a person requires to live, and these necessities cost a [...]
Robert Scheer has pointed out, in this piece at The Nation, that people are beginning to get tired of Bush’s repetitive rhetoric on the War in Iraq. For example, take this episode from a Bush speech in Cleveland: Perhaps most on target was an elderly gentleman who cited what he said were the three main [...]
I know I link to him a lot, but that’s only because E.J. Dionne is a genius, as proven again in his most recent Washington Post column: Is President Bush the leader of our government, or is he just a right-wing talk-show host? The question comes to mind after Bush’s news conference this week in [...]
Since I’ve been critical of George Will in the past, I think it is only fair that I should highlight his recent column, which contains some points with which I agree. He writes about a Florida court’s decision to suspend a school voucher program, and this decision’s impact on students. While his language is peppered [...]
You’ll remember that a few days ago I wrote about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s speech, wherein she said she had been threatened by an “irrational fringe,” and she partially blamed Republican lawmakers who criticized the Supreme Court, and who tried to pass laws dictating what sources justices could consider in their decisions. The Washington Post has [...]