An odd sort of faulty economic impact analysis keeps leaving the lips of TV and radio talking heads. I suppose it is part and parcel of the often observed herd behavior of mainstream media’s first line reporters. High gasoline prices are keeping people home. Vacations will be shortened or limited to local travel. In the end, [...]
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I can’t resist, having seen a recent ad featuring the candidate himself, talking about his attitudes toward war. In it, John McCain refers to the five years he spent as a POW in Vietnam. For all that time spent there and his vaunted foreign policy experience, why can’t he pronounce the name of the country [...]
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I caught a bit of Good Morning America this AM. They featured a story about the seven month ordeal of Amanda Knox, an American student jailed in Italy without charges–apparently on suspicion of complicity in the death of her roommate. GMA painted a grim story, tugging at the heart strings of viewers by interviewing the [...]
As Earth Day arrives again (okay all you 20-30 year olds, have you even heard of Earth Day–no offense if you are so environmentally conscious, it has not been big news in recent years), an odd couple emerges in a commercial: Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich. Who would of thought? In the ad, the pair [...]
Let no one accuse the Washington Post editorial and news staff of fraternizing with one another or perhaps even of observing the same world around them. This is especially true when it comes to their respective observations of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
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Perhaps I should have noted it then, but in posting my comment on the passing of Martin Luther King and mentioning my mother’s teaching me about the evils of racism, I missed the fact that she died exactly five years before King. As I came to visit her in the hospital that day in 1963, [...]
What bothers me the most about the memos that this bozo (who actually is a law professor at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley; ugh, boy would I have some serious dialogue in his class) wrote saying essentially that whatever the president decides is OK during a “time of war” is legally OK. Rape, murder, Vlad the [...]
Forty years ago today, shots rang out in Memphis, killing the Reverend Martin Luther King. I was in Hawaii that day, on R&R from Vietnam. I returned to my unit in Bearcat, the 9th Infantry Division basecamp 25 miles east of Saigon after the riots had spread across America. Things were not much more wonderful [...]
Hyperbole is a customary part of politics. But calling Bill Richardson a Judas for endorsing Obama is way over the top. Carville defends his commentary in an op ed today by asserting, essentially, that Richardson fails to show sufficient appreciation for the Clintons making him the man he is today. Firstly, it was Bill, not Hillary that [...]
China is not alone in violating human rights. International Olympics Committee and world expectations were that their behavior would improve if the the Olympics came there. It doesn’t seem that way. Just as importantly to me is the fact that not a day goes by that one product or another imported from China must be [...]