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• Huckabee in Hot Water over Clemency for Tacoma Police Killer

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  All night long we’ve been hearing helicopters buzzing overhead and believe me this is not typical of Seattle.  We wondered what was going on and it seemed clear that there must be something serious happening nearby. Searching area of police killings this morning (Kevin Casey/NYT) Independently, but almost at ...
  12 hours ago

• Another Horror Story

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  Just a warning, for those readers who are bored of hearing about desperately sick Americans who could be successfully treated with surgery but can’t get the surgery done because they don’t have health insurance, and so are probably going to die : John is a sawmill worker from Yamhill County, Ore., where I ...
  18 hours ago

• SADDAM TV

  
  Population Statistic — Authority: 431
  Live (make that “posthumously”), from Baghdad (make that “Europe”, or more likely “location undetermined”), it’s the Saddam Channel, satellite-beaming into Iraq:The Saddam Channel debuted on Friday, the first day of this year’s Eid for Sunnis. The holiday started Saturday for Shiites. The station’s ...
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• StateGate Update: Reality Bites

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  I do hope Eddie knows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, because the title above was inspired by her Obama Foodorama post . Says Eddie, “It’s hard to imagine the details of the State Dinner Crashers getting weirder”: Rep. Edolphus “Ed” Towns (D-NY), the chair of the House Oversight ...
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• Jewdas: Radical Diaspora Voices

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  This post will attest to the benefit of bloggers checking their referral log to see who is reading and linking to them.  Had I not done this I wouldn’t have come across one of the most interesting web sites I’d seen in months.  It is Jewdas: Radical Voices for the Alternative Diaspora .  The website name ...
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• The Economic Crisis and What Must be Done

  
  The Cynical Economist — Authority: 146
  From here by Richard C. CookThe United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in ...
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• President Obama’s Strategic Miscalculations

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 632
  Fred Barnes, a Conservative political commentator for Fox News and the editor of the Weekly Standard magazine, wrote a straight factual piece in the Wall Street Journal that details Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington.To start with, Barnes reviews the president’s statements when campaigning for office: “Change ...
  2 days ago

• The Fruits of War are Death

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Tonight, I heard a riveting piece of documentary radio journalism, Boots on the Ground (part 5, Coming Home ), the story of those who come home from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Some return alive and some dead.  The segment I heard portrayed the work of an officer who informs families that their loved one ...
  2 days ago

• Iranians Confiscate Nobel Medal and Diploma of Shirin Ebadi

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 627
  The Nobel Prize Committee has issued a formal complaint against the Iranian government after the Nobel medal and diploma of human rights activist and lawyer Shirin Ebadi was taken by officials from her bank safety deposit box. Ebadi has been routinely harassed by the Iranian government since she was selected for ...
  3 days ago

• The Fair and Balanced Pie: Fox Finds 193 Percent of Voters Support GOP Candidates

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 627
  Now I understand how Bush won Florida in 2000. It appears that 193% of voters support one of the three leading candidates. It appears that math has been found to be another Obama socialist conspiracy.
  3 days ago

• Things You Never Knew about Aipac

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  If someone asked you what Aipac’s mission was you might say: lobbying for Israel; bringing politicians and journalists to Israel; promoting Israel’s interests in American society; strengthening Zionism among college students.  But would you ever in your wildest dreams answer that one of Aipac’s missions was to ...
  3 days ago

• What next for the West?

  
  The Ugley Vicar — Authority: 491
  Recently I have been revisiting Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence , and have been struck by the importance of his definition of decadence for what we now see happening in the Western world: All that is meant by Decadence is “falling off.” It implies in those who live in such a time no loss of energy or ...
  4 days ago

• Israel: the ‘Pause’ That Refreshes…Settlements

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  The N.Y. Times headline tells it all Israel Offers a Pause in Building New Settlements . A pause is not a freeze. A pause ends with a resumption of whatever you were doing before. A freeze is something that stops you dead in your tracks. We all know where this is going and it ain’t a pretty place. Maybe a ...
  4 days ago

• politicians should dress more like nascar drivers

  
  Notes From Off Center — Authority: 476
  Heres an idea. The biggest lie in elections is that we somehow think we are actually voting people into office out of a free choice. We are given a freedom to choose who we want to represent our individual and civic interests as law makers, enforcers, judges, and executors. Sure. That belief is like saying that ...
  4 days ago

• TV Interview on Resolving Iran Nuclear Crisis

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Watch Stopping War with Iran in News   |  View More Free Videos Veoh.com A few weeks ago, Bill Alford interviewed me about Iran for his Seattle community access cable interview show, Moral Politics. Our half hour show ranged over many topics including last month’s hawkish presentation on Iran hosted by ...
  4 days ago

• David Plouffe Book Tour: St. Louis

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  Friday night, my wife and I attended an event at the headquarters branch of the St. Louis County Library, featuring David Plouffe, the manager of Obama’s campaign for the White House. Plouffe was in town for the second to last stop of a tour promoting his book, The Audacity to Win , released earlier this ...
  5 days ago

• A State Dinner With Typos

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  Obviously not that big of a deal, but it seems to follow an odd series of silly blunders in the Obama White House. IE: Sending the British PM the wrong format of DVDs and similar small but silly mistakes that you’d think they would catch.
  5 days ago

• Dobbs for President…of White America

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  Lou Dobbs for president of white people! When Lou Dobbs took $8-million and walked out the studio door at CNN, I wrote that his parting comments sounded an awful lot like not just a politician announcing his candidacy–it sounded like he was running for president.  Turns out I was right (why is it so easy to ...
  5 days ago

• R.I.P. Samak

  
  More Bangkok! @ absolutely Bangkok.com — Authority: 465
  A year ago he was still going strong, Samak Sundaravej , dinosaur politician, cook, former prime minister. Liver cancer. That’s how life can be. Our humble little tribute to the controversial firebrand is a video below I shot not too long before his demise. A timely reminder that the old guard dies off slowly ...
  6 days ago

• The First Obama State Dinner: The Tent

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 725
  Obama Foodorama’s Eddie Gehman Kohan promises wall-to-wall coverage of tomorrow’s first state dinner of the Obama administration — “Tweeting & blogging just that for the next 48 hours…” The plucky Eddie snagged an invite, and kicked off today with a history lesson from First Lady Michelle Obama in ...
  6 days ago

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