This is why the separation of church and state is so important. The Roman Catholic bishop of Colorado Springs has issued a pastoral letter saying that American Catholics should not receive communion if they vote for politicians who defy church teaching by supporting abortion rights, same-sex marriage, euthanasia or stem-cell research. There is another view, …
All you Movable Type bloggers, go read Jay Allen’s thoughtful explanation of what MT is doing, and then breathe a little easier. As I suggested to Jay, maybe he should be an adjunct community relations advisor to Six Apart.
This news is not good for the multiple weblog owner. Movable Type has announced ver. 3.0, which is good, but it’s also announced a new pricing structure. As I read it, one blogger keeping up to three blogs can get a license for the special introductory price of $69.95; any more and the price goes …
Here’s about the easiest and cheapest way to help Afghan kids I can think of: send pens. That’s right, ordinary writing instruments. Here’s the address: Terry L. Welch 105th MPAD Kandahar Public Affairs Office APO AE 09355 From Nitpicker via Talk Left. On an unrelated note, I just downloaded and installed Ad-Aware and ran a …
If you, like me, often think you’re smarter than the Washington punditocracy, now’s your chance to prove it. This week Jeopardy has many of them as panelists. The lineup includes Ashleigh Banfield Maria Bartiromo Aaron Brown Gretchen Carlson Tucker Carlson Anderson Cooper Ari Fleischer Al Franken Kweisi Mfume Peggy Noonan Keith Olbermann Tim Russert Tavis …
General Clark has written a very good opinion piece in Washington Monthly. He discusses what he thinks is the false history the neoconservative movement (Perle, Feith, Libby, Wolfowitz, et. al.) believes, and how it led them to think that the Middle East could be democratized quite simply. The reaction of the Middle East to America’s …
You’ve probably heard about the editorial from the Army Times by now. Here it is: There is no excuse for the behavior displayed by soldiers in the now-infamous pictures and an even more damning report by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba. Every soldier involved should be ashamed. But while responsibility begins with the six soldiers …
Here’s a useful chronology of our leaders’ public statements while the abuse at Abu Ghraib was occurring. From Electrolite. Repeat after me: The cover-up is [politically] worse than the crime. In this instance, I’m not sure that aphorism holds up without the parenthetical phrase.
Today, May 9, is the 43rd anniversary of Newton Minow’s first speech as chairman of the FCC. That’s the one where he memorably said: But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without …
Well now. Back here I called attention to the Administration’s decision to count hatchery fish as the same as wild for the purpose of eliminating the need to regulate salmon fisheries under the Endangered Species Act. Now comes word that the guy who three years ago …was the timber industry’s top lawyer trying to overturn …