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- Opinion · Sep 15, 2010Our Man in Moscow
middle of the ceiling, meaning: Beware, we’re being recorded. The three great pastimes all Russians still seem to share are drinking, talking and secrecy. Those were the days … which is all too little -- was illustrated by a brief item in the news just the other day: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as warning any dissenters who didn
- Opinion · Sep 15, 2010Here Comes the Mud
comes from the alleged Great Uniter? No worries: The media are repeaters, not reporters. What’s really alarming is how eagerly the “news” networks take Obama’s liberal cues … their Democratic opponents, but from a very hostile media. Just as it seems that 2010 could turn out to be a bigger Republican tidal wave than 1994, it’s quite
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2010America Rising
trade center still stands, preserved in a climate-controlled capsule. It rests inside the great space that will be the memorial museum. It already has the feel of a cathedral … sound of the outside world penetrates only as a distant hum, like today’s news imposed on yesteryear’s horrific events. This last column of the old structure stands
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2010The Harsh Bigotry of Their Expectations
that Islam polls better today than the Catholic Church in 2002. At Friday’s news conference, President Obama was righteous when he said, “We are not at war against Islam … oppose putting a mosque near Islamic extremism’s great crime. For such people, Obama has no problem with odious stereotypes. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 11, 2010From The Comedy Store
deathbed conversion. He knows all about those. The anti-immigration-reform John McCain looked great after last week’s Senate primary win over the pro-immigration-reform John McCain. President … depression when the unemployment numbers came out. President Obama admitted on ABC News that if the November election is a referendum on the economy that the Democrats
- Opinion · Sep 8, 2010Victims on the Road to ‘Peace’
Gaza Strip and West Bank.” In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the bloodshed was celebrated; the news was broadcast from loudspeakers and there was a “victory” rally in the Jebaliya refugee camp … insisting that diplomacy can end the conflict, and that they are prepared to sacrifice greatly for peace. It was once Israel’s policy never to bargain with terrorists
- Opinion · Sep 8, 2010Iraqi Change Vexes Obama
ought to encourage American policymakers who campaigned on hope and change. Except Iraq’s great change traps Obama in an uncomfortable psychological and political vise. Hence his speech … tyrant or terrorist, the vicious ying-yang that has savaged the Arab heartland. Astonishing news, isn’t it, especially since three years ago Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., declared
- Opinion · Sep 2, 2010The Glenn Beck Rule: How to Out a Racist
does one discredit the massive back-to-the-values-that-made-this-country-great rally in Washington at the National Mall? Easy. Call Glenn Beck, the leader and organizer … presupposes the need for a reason. Ever heard of Journolist? Apparently, neither have network news anchors Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Brian Williams -- none of whom saw fit to spend
- Opinion · Aug 31, 2010ABC, NPR and PBS Hosts Equate Christian and Muslim Violence
Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on his television show and off air. How, then, does such a man equate … leftism, the way of looking at the world that permeates high schools, universities, news and entertainment media. Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of accurate moral judgments: They
- Opinion · Aug 31, 2010Kilpo
legendary biographer of General Lee, when Mr. Freeman retired as editor of the News Leader in 1949. Editor Kilpatrick’s dedication to his craft, his way with words and abiding … first published in 1984, came complete with a typically incisive foreword by the late great William F. Buckley Jr. His columns on language put other linguistic mavens in the shade
- Opinion · Aug 26, 2010Rare Sighting: Common Sense from the Bench
Adams used when he recounted a conversation he’d had with John Marshall, the great chief justice of the early Supreme Court whose opinions have yet to be matched … usual, a key piece of information may be relegated to an afterthought in the news coverage of this furious debate. The buried lede, it’s called in the parlance
- Opinion · Aug 23, 2010Stimulus and Health Care Have Democrats on Defensive
ordinary person. In his campaign in 2008 and as president in 2009 and 2010, he has hoped that those he characterized to a rich San Francisco Bay area audience … that government rationing may mean less supply for a product for which there is great demand. Greenberg and Lake recommend using personal stories to highlight the law’s benefits
- Opinion · Aug 20, 2010The Lost Promise of Barack Obama
engages in a daily hypocrisy. It attacks the sound and fury of the cable news cycle while being entirely captive to its rhythms. In the process, it often appears reactive … hero to his valet. But a nation of valets would lose its capacity for great purposes. So it should be a source of sadness that Obama, for many, has become
- Opinion · Aug 20, 2010China Wealthy? That’s Rich!
Japan as the world’s second-richest economy. Except, well, it’s not really news, it’s not really big, and it’s not entirely true. Let’s take … high school in 1987, historian Paul Kennedy published “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.” The original cover depicted the Japanese about to seize center stage, while Uncle
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2010The Media and the Mega-Mosque
Obama’s political fortunes are in serious jeopardy. His left-wing supporters in the “news” media are rallying to his defense. On ABC’s “This Week,” Washington Post columnist David … diversity, in private property rights for our Muslim citizens, I think that’s a great global message.” Left unsaid: George W. Bush often governed according to conviction and against
- Opinion · Aug 18, 2010The End of Books
books on the shelves at all.” News item, July 8, 2010: “The periodical shelves at Stanford University are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five … longer permitted to refer to them as the people) demanded more towers, more Breaking News and broken musik. Anything but silence. Silence was frightening. It might leave them with
- Opinion · Aug 17, 2010A Man in Full
public integrity?” As it turned out, it didn’t. Ted Stevens’ response to the news that he’d been cleared? It was a model of faith and restraint: “I always … that an election was affected by proceedings now recognized as unfair. It was my great honor to serve the state of Alaska in the United States Senate for 40 years
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2010America Free Falling
presses run out of green ink? The Federal Reserve has come out with the news that more than $1.8 trillion in capital is sitting idle because businesses are too uncertain … haven’t suffered a great recession. Technical language aside, we are in a depression. And not even the Heartbreakers can take away the pain. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2010Hugh Hefner’s Deep Self-Love
competitors -- and his prototypical leering pose with girls young enough to be his great-granddaughters is now just plain creepy. His 2009 Christmas card featured 83-year-old Hefner standing … subject’s cultural and political influence, she told one interviewer that when the news came out that Martin Luther King Jr. had cheated on his wife, Coretta, “that never affected
- Opinion · Aug 13, 2010Race-Card Payment Coming Due
recent hilarious exchange on “The Daily Show” in which Larry Wilmore, the faux news program’s “senior black correspondent,” reported that the race card is not only over its credit … Wilmore jokes, amounts to punishing Jefferson for “Legislating While Black.” Of course, Wilmore (a great comic talent) is joking, but not everyone is laughing. Waters, the representative for South Central