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- Opinion · Aug 12, 2010Let’s Play ‘Spot the Democrat’!
Democrats only in response to reader complaints about the peculiar omission. Lots of news stories on the scandal in Bell used the word “Democrat” or “Democratic.” But that was only … might want to vote for that DEMOCRATIC attorney general who is apparently a great crusader against corruption ... despite his years of ignoring the public employee salary and pension looting that
- Opinion · Aug 11, 2010‘We Socialists’ vs. ‘We the People’
building danger derives from the fact that Americans now tend to self-select our news, opinion and entertainment sources based on our political beliefs and cultural and religious preferences … might buy in to plans to fundamentally transform America away from liberty, prosperity and greatness and toward security and a massive, protective state. At first, many of us were hesitant
- Opinion · Aug 7, 2010From The Comedy Store
there for Social Security. Cape Cod beachgoers were frightened out of the ocean by Great White sharks who appeared offshore. The beach completely emptied. Everyone swam out into the ocean … Texas Rangers will be sold at auction in Dallas where the bidders include Fox News. This would cause big changes at the stadium. Players will have to run the bases
- Opinion · Jul 28, 2010The New Journalism
state secrets: great journalism. The house Cronkite built did many fine and noble things. It also locked out competing points of view, buried inconvenient bodies, spun the news with centrifugal … fueled the rise of Fox News and the new alternative media. This pincer movement can be scary. But it’s progress. (C) 2010 Tribune Media Services
- Opinion · Jul 27, 2010The Left Hates Conservatives
Democratic administration is prepared to name are the Republican Party, tea parties, Fox News and talk radio. Third, the left’s utopian vision is prevented only by the right. From … Christians. This hatred will only increase if the left feels its programs to greatly increase the size of the government are in any way threatened in the forthcoming elections
- Opinion · Jul 21, 2010Small Signs of Sanity
posters at tea party rallies -- a pretty thin indictment. At the same time, Fox News obsessively played video showing two members of the New Black Panthers wearing military gear outside … Perhaps because the Constitutional Convention itself was a conspiracy against their rights. Perhaps because great historical wrongs are still comparatively recent. The last African-American born into slavery died only
- Opinion · Jul 16, 2010Business Knows More than Obama
creation. The clash between business and the administration has become the high-drama news story of the summer. Business leaders have slammed the White House over policies they regard … help with the business CEOs (and Obama’s pal Warren Buffett), it was a great shock when the White House could only manage to send a letter from Valerie Jarrett
- Opinion · Jul 16, 2010With a Cheer for Old Mizzou
having spent a year there writing editorials for the old Chicago Daily News. Ah, Lake Michigan. The Gold Coast and the Magnificent Mile. Maxwell Street and pastrami … State Street, that great street/ I just wanna say/ They do things/ They don’t do on Broadway.... Keep enjoying that toddlin’ town, Inky Wretch (c) 2010 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2010Name One Difference Between World Opinion and Left-Wing Opinion
combat something that may happen (if at all) sometime in the distant future. The great exception to all this is the United States. A vigorous conservative part of the American … unique to America, there is a vigorous conservative news and opinion media. Compared to the Leftist domination of virtually all mass news media -- newspapers, magazines and television -- the conservative media
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2010Oliver’s Ugly America
powerful conglomerates were actually entertainment companies: AOL Time Warner; Disney; Fox’s parent, News Corporation; Sony; Viacom; and Vivendi Universal.) Stone said the six represented “the new world order … presidential) election and the events of Sept. 11?” The United States has provided great latitude to filmmakers mocking our presidents -- even imagining the assassination of our last president -- and somehow
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2010The Declining Opinion
later, Justice Thurgood Marshall fumed about the Souter nomination in an interview with ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson. “When his name came down, I was listening to television,’’ Marshall said … Williams observed last month. It may have pained her to see a man she greatly admired cling to power well past the point when he should have
- Opinion · Jun 29, 2010Gun Control Laws
dissent against the Supreme Court’s gun control decision. But, as the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, his job was “to see that the game is played … make up our own minds, not slant and filter the news to fit the media’s vision. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2010So Much for ‘Core Conservative Values’
going to wash over the opposition come November. Polls show there is a great and growing dissatisfaction with Washington, which is not new, except the face this time around … causes in direct opposition to the core beliefs of social conservatives. Comes now the news that fiscal conservative leader Grover Norquist, a man who prides himself on forming grand working
- Opinion · Jun 23, 2010Government Aggravated Tragedy
Navigation Act was that name given to laws that regulated trade and commerce between Great Britain and its colonies. First enacted in 1651, and often amended, the law stipulated that … passengers who travel. The only good news is that the Gulf disaster is making the victims of such restrictions visible. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2010BP, the White House and Congress Are All Dirty
running in less than a month, to end this disaster. That would be great news for America, and her economy and stock market. Plus, he could have mentioned that … basically two months into this never-ending disaster. The gulf cleanup could have been greatly aided by at least 15 foreign countries that were instead spurned after offering their tankers
- Opinion · Jun 18, 2010This Is Rare Courage
elder daughter’s refusal to submit to an arranged marriage and by news that both girls had been secretly dating non-Muslim boys, the few stories about the case were … someone as warm, sensitive, intelligent, and insightful as Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a great gift. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Jun 14, 2010Random Musings to Ponder
consider the example of George Washington, who had a famous temper that he took great pains not to display. Washington kept a hand-copied list of 110 rules of civility … region — became the core of the country’s population. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that only 29 percent of Americans are prepared to reelect their incumbent representative
- Opinion · Jun 11, 2010Americans Not Fooled by Obama’s Israel Stance
what many diplomats, pundits and analysts are thinking -- that Israel does not have a great friend in Barack Obama. This makes things even more precarious than usual for the embattled … deaths of nine people on board a ship that purposely violated the blockade. Some news accounts of the incident reported that the blockade-busting ship had a crew of nothing
- Opinion · Jun 11, 2010Doomed?
Ollie North,” he said, acknowledging that my sunglasses and a black “Fox News” baseball hat weren’t much of a disguise. He introduced himself as a U.S. Army veteran … crisscrossed the Trail of Tears a couple of dozen times with this rig. My great-great-grandfather fought the Apach’es for better than 20 years. And Afghanistan is nothing
- Opinion · Jun 9, 2010Israel’s Gaza Blockade: It Works
Iraq in the box” -- the “box” being a stiff sanctions regime. What was so great about the sanctions against South Africa if they too were a form of collective punishment … prism, living in a world of symbolism and metaphors. It’s amazing to read news reports about how the blockade “serves as a symbol” of this or that. “You know