I’ve been frustrated a bit, of late, by the soft news stories featured on the cover of Newsweek lately. Features on Bill Gates, Lord of the Rings, Women of the Bible, and a poorly-researched piece on “Lawsuit Hell” have all graced recent Newsweek covers, yet each issue had more pressing news covered inside. But if […]
A key national political figure was speaking from the pulpit of an African-American church in Columbia, S.C., recently, and offered the following comment: “In this house of the Lord, we know that the power rests in God’s hands and in Jesus’ hands for helping us.” This same figure said the power of government is “not […]
I noticed a couple of days ago that MSNBC has pulled Jesse Ventura’s talk show from the air and has no plans to bring it back. Apparently, Ventura has been the host of an hour-long Saturday evening show, called “Jesse Ventura’s America,” taped in St. Paul, Minn., Ventura’s home town. The AP described the program […]
In case you missed it, a federal appeals court issued an injunction on Christmas Eve against the Bush administration, blocking, at least temporarily, the president’s efforts to gut the Clean Air Act. The changes were due to be implemented today. State attorneys general from 12 states — Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, […]
I don’t imagine I’ll be getting many hits today, so I’ll take a day off. Check back tomorrow. In the meantime, Happy Festivus to one and all.
I was pleased to see that New York Gov. George Pataki announced yesterday that he was extending a posthumous pardon to comedian Lenny Bruce, 39 years after being convicted of obscenity for using profanity in a Greenwich Village nightclub act and 37 years after the controversial comic died. It would be even better news if […]
The Washington Post had an interesting item on the front page confirming what we’ve known for many months — Bush’s claim in his State of the Union address about Iraq’s attempts to acquire uranium for a nuclear weapons program was completely bogus. This time, the conclusion has been confirmed by the White House’s Foreign Intelligence […]
Howard Dean, as governor of Vermont, really was a moderate Dem. He governed from the center, was labeled a “Republican in disguise” by liberal critics, and irritated the state’s left wing so much, many of them broke away and formed a third party — Vermont’s Progressive Party — which now helps split the state’s left […]
Ordinarily, the White House will announce controversial news late on Friday so as to avoid negative media attention. Using the same logic, however, Christmas Eve is even better than a Friday. The administration announced yesterday that it would open up 300,000 acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest for logging and other development. The timing of […]
In Green Party circles, debates have been ongoing for months about what to do with Ralph Nader. Some want him to run a serious campaign, others don’t want him to run at all so they can focus on beating Bush, and still others want a half-hearted effort in states that are likely to be uncompetitive. […]