Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Daniel Pearl's Dad v. Bill Moyers

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In today's Wall Street Journal: Some American pundits and TV anchors didn't seem much different from Al Jazeera in their analysis of...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Tom Hayden Condemns Human Rights Watch--Wrong on CIA Rendition

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From today's Huffington Post: It is confirmed that one of the loopholes in the president's anti-torture orders allows the continuanc...

Historic Lake City, Florida

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In Lake City for a funeral last Friday, had lunch at Tucker's Restaurant in the historic Blanche Hotel (I recommend the fish fry with ...

Toronto Globe & Mail: Israel Did Not Shell UN School

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This article by Patrick Marting in January 29th's Toronto Globe & Mail about the Gaza crisis reminds us that in war, the first ca...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Michael Radu on the Gaza Crisis

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Also found this interesting analysis on the Foreign Policy Research Institute website : Certainly some women, and all infants, are innocent ...

James R. Kurth on Samuel Huntington

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From the Foreign Policy Research Institute: It is historically fitting that Samuel Huntington called upon Americans to conserve America. In ...

Will Be Offline For A While...

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Attending a family funeral in Florida...
Monday, January 26, 2009

I've Joined Facebook's "Dump Geithner - No Tax Cheat Treasury Secretaries Managing Bailouts"

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68 members, so far... Someone who didn't pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes until audited, and didn't pay in full until appro...

Doubt

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IMHO Doubt deserves all the Oscars that Slumdog Millionaire is in line to receive. I just couldn't get over what a terrific job direc...

Happy Chinese New Year!

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新年快樂 Today marks the start of the Year of the Ox in the Chinese Calendar...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

I Walked Out On Slumdog Millionaire

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Not that it will stop the manipulative roman-a-clef about English boarding school sadism from winning a bunch of Oscars. Danny Boyle's ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Frost/Nixon's Piano Concerto

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Finally saw Ron Howard's film adaptation of Peter Morgan's play Frost/Nixon yesterday afternoon. I was struck by the scene where Fr...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

FOIABlog on Obama's New Freedom of Information Policy

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Thoughts on FOIA Executive Order [NOTE: Corrected to "Presidential Memorandum"] Now that I've had some time to digest Preside...

Geithner's Record Raised Questions BEFORE Meltdown

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It's not just unpaid taxes, statues of limitations, and Lehman Brothers. In a Bloomberg article about his appointment to the NY Fed from...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery's Inauguraton Benediction

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Find an Inauguration Event Near You

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A couple of our friends have come from Chicago for the inauguration...they're at Union Station waiting for Barack Obama's Amtrak tra...
Friday, January 16, 2009

David Czerny's EU Art Unveiled in Brussels

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Kelly Hutchinson v Hans Hoffman

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Why pay more? I stumbled into Kelly's Art and Frame while on my way to art class in Alexandria, VA. Not only does she own the gallery a...

Yes, He Could!

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Yes, he did! Maybe this event will give New York City back some of its mojo lost after 9/11.... US Airways flight 1549 Captain Chesley B. S...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

Obama Wants Your Ideas

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Another email from the transition team: Dear Laurence, We wanted to tell you about a new feature on Change.gov which lets you bring your ide...