Friday, February 27, 2009

Bill Moyers Confesses He Asked FBI To Spy

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In Slate, in response to Jack Shafer's articles about FBI investigations of Jack Valenti's sexuality (ht Edge) : More "tips&qu...

Bomb Damages Caracas Synagogue

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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: (JTA) -- A Caracas synagogue was damaged by a bomb. The homemade grenade, tossed late Thursday night ...

The Chess Players (1977)

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The Oscar success of Slumdog Millionaire --IMHO, a manipulative phony British exploitation film about boarding school sadism pretending to b...

The Iraq War Is Over

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I've seen this movie before , when President Nixon began troop withdrawals from Vietnam. It doesn't end prettily, IMHO. On the other...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Russian View of America's Financial Crisis

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Sergei Karaganov's "The World Crisis – A Time for Creation" reads a bit like it might have been penned by Henry Kissinger, IM...

John LeBoutillier on Obama's Speech to Congress

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From Boot's Blasts: • Our new President is a nice guy. The more he loosens up and relaxes himself - and smiles that huge and friendly an...

Obama's Speech & Budget Plans: Another Double

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This photo on the White House website makes it look like the President is praying for something to turn up... President Obama's Tuesday...

Mary Eberstadt: Is Food the New Sex?

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George Will discussed this article from Policy Review in his column today. Her conclusion: THE MINDLESS SHIFT When Friedrich Nietzsche wrot...
Monday, February 23, 2009

David Forsmark: Save King of the Hill!

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From National Review Online: King of the Hill , unlike The Simpsons, has not suffered a creative decline, nor have its ratings plunged. Fox’...

One Oscar Pick That Seems OK

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James Marsh's documentary Oscar for Man on a Wire , about Phillip Petit's walk between the Twin Towers... to remind people that once...

Socks, 20

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According to the LA Times , the Clinton administration's "First Kitty" was 20 years old. He had been taken care of by former ...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

TPM Muckraker: Stanford Wooed Washington Power-Brokers

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TPM Mucraker has posted some photos of Allen Stanford meeting with members of the Congressional Caribbean Caucus at a Washington, DC meeti...

And The Oscar Goes To...

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My hopes (not predictions) for tonight: BEST PICTURE: ""Frost/Nixon" BEST ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, "Doubt" BEST ACTOR...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

One More Question: Who Protected Allen Stanford?

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The tremendous news coverage of the Allen Stanford scandal reminded someone I know that after we first saw his large bank buildings next to ...

Andrew Ferguson on Bill Moyers' FBI Spying

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From The Weekly Standard : The most surprising thing about the recent revelations concerning Bill Moyers is that anyone should be surprised....

What Did Bill Moyers' Know About FBI Spying, and When Did He Know It?

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From today's Wall Street Journal editorial page : J. Edgar Moyers The TV moralist's government record. One of the darker periods of ...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Obama's Russia Policy: "Turn Down The Temperature"

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That's the bottom-line, as far as I can figure it out from yesterday's Brookings Institution coming-out party for Steven Pifer's...

Glenn Garvin on Bill Moyers' FBI Spy Reports

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From the Miami Herald: Bill Moyers' Journal, gay-bashing edition Of all the second acts in American public life, none has amazed me more...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Christopher Hitchens v Syrian Nazis

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A brawl in Beirut shows Hitchens isn't just talk when it comes to confronting evil... From Ace of Spades HQ: (ht Michelle Malkin) Update...

What Was Bill Moyers' Role in FBI Spying on Jack Valenti?

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The more you learn about Bill Moyers, the more you wonder how his reputation could get any worse. I often wondered why Jack Valenti gave me...