We have heard the scare before, “We are one election away from losing our independence and freedoms.” I dare say that fear has given way to probability.We in this nation already suffer at the hands of an oppressive government; A government whose boot is on the very throat...
"Yes, you read my title correctly. Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece by Benny Morris, a Professor of Middle Eastern history at Ben Gurion University. He claims Israel will most certainly attack Iran...
Laura Ingraham Locked out of Talk Radio for 3 Weeks and The Fairness Doctrine tries to rise from the Dead.By Albert N. Milliron, OP-EDLast week, Politisite wrote a story to NowPublic about the most popular woman in...
"Congress and the president have spoken: ethanol is America’s new renewable fuel.
Yesterday, President Bush signed into law energy bill H.R.6, which establishes a new renewable fuel standard in the United States...
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Many who know me have thought of me as a Conservative Christian, but really I am much more moderate. Call it my "dark night of the soul" or just changing with maturity. But as I see it Conservative Christians have...
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The beauty industry is in the eye of the beholder. Behold the blowback...""Onslaught," from Ogilvy, Toronto, has amassed about 1 million views on YouTube since its Oct. 1 debut, still well under the 12 million...
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"Stephen Colbert on Race: "On race: “While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad.”"" Recently, Stephen Colbert went on a rant about the horrific evil that is the New...
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"Against these real-world pressures, NEWSWEEK's "denial machine" is a peripheral and highly contrived story. NEWSWEEK implied, for example, that ExxonMobil used a think tank to pay academics to criticize global-warming science. Actually, this accusation was long ago...
Put your hand up if you called it. "N.Y. Times to end paid Web service
Reuters
August 7, 2007 at 1:14 PM EDT
NEW YORK — Access to columnists and op-ed pieces on a section of website known as TimesSelect to be free, N.Y. Post reports
The New York Times Co. plans to...
I read this piece on Truthout by Ray McGovern, a former CIA Analyst, in March. I thought there would be some follow-up in the mainstream news. The insinuation that Dick and Lynne Cheney are somehow connected to the Iraq-Niger-yellowcake forgery that led to the infamous "16...
"Last week, President Bush appointed a “war czar,” Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, to oversee everything we’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan — which raises the question: Who was doing this job up to now? The answer, amazingly, is no one. We’re like a fine restaurant that has...
"Back in my days as an editorial-page editor in New England, I would eat breakfast in the same diner each morning. And, each morning, the diner regulars and not-so-regulars would grace me with their learned opinion of my bylined commentary or editorial of the day before..."
"SOMEHOW it’s hard to imagine David Halberstam yukking it up with Alberto Gonzales, Paul Wolfowitz and two discarded “American Idol” contestants at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Before there was a Woodward and Bernstein, there was...
""Why the Imus-Couter disparity?" asks Robert Wright, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who runs the Web site Bloggingheads.tv, in a guest column in Saturday's New York Times.
A few days after radio host Don Imus was fired by CBS, Wright notes, "There has to be an...
"WASHINGTON - You've got to love Washington's foreign-policy wonks, always ready for the next battle between the pundits with either a profound Kissingerian piece of thought to catch the eye of the op-ed page editor ("Multipolarism can only be sustained through a...