Media Fatigue?
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank is expressing his fatigue with Barack’s presumptousness about crowning himself president before he has been elected in this excellent round-up at Blue Crab Boulevard.
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Fitting Tribute
Posted on July 31, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments
The MSM buzzed a lot yesterday about President Bush signing the housing bill in a “private ceremony.” However, they failed to report that the President had an equally important bill he was signing in a more public ceremony. Yesterday, the president signed into law the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against [...]
Good news on Iraq
Posted on July 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Bowing to political pressure (mostly from the U.S no doubt), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed two of Iraq’s four athletes to participate in the Olympics. Just a few days ago, I lamented on the news that the IOC kicked out Iraq from participating in the games because of undue political pressure by Baghdad on [...]
On Authenticity
Posted on July 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Jacob Stein in the July/August 2008 Washington Lawyer writes a fascinating piece on Authenticity and what it means for an attorney, particularly, to be authentic. Stein analogizes an attorney to an actor:
A lawyer has played as many roles as he has had clients. Each client is different. Each case is different. One case may require [...]
The Bookman from Archer City
Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Samuel Johnson once said:
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
And so it obviously goes for Larry McMurtry – author of classics such as the Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove, who recently published Books: A [...]
Ich Bin Ein Citizen of the World
Posted on July 26, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Senator Obama stood like a rock star before cheering crowds in Berlin and proclaimed himself a “citizen of the world.” Perhaps he was thinking the American presidency is not good enough for him, or maybe he was appealing to the multicultural elites who have transcended America and its profane sovereignty. But McCain shot back with [...]
Broder’s Balderdash
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment
David Broder writes today that July has been a cruel month for John McCain. As evidence of this cruelty, Broder writes:
He could not have known in advance that on the very day he [Sen. Obama] left Chicago, President Bush would suddenly reverse six years of policy and send a high-ranking State Department official off to a meeting [...]
Sad News
Posted on July 24, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)– an institution hardly above politics itself (remember Salt Lake?) — made the unfortunate choice to ban Iraqi athletes from competing in Beijing this August because of political interference from Baghdad.
The assertion by the IOC is:
The IOC suspended Iraq’s national Olympic committee in June after Baghdad dismissed elected officials and installed its [...]
An American Honor Killing
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
There is nothing honorable about the alleged acts of Chaudhry Rashid in his trial for murder. This Pakistani man supposedly strangled his 25-year-old daughter San-deela Kanwal with a Bungee cord in her bedroom because she wanted to end her arranged marriage. As John Avlon describes in his fine editorial in the NY Post, what distinguishes this case [...]
The Rules for Democrats and Republicans
Posted on July 23, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Doug Patton from Texas Insider writes a provocative piece exposing the hypocrisy between the rules the Republicans must use to win versus the Democrats. He writes:
During his days doing stand-up in the 1960s, Bill Cosby recorded a track for one of his comedy albums about the American Revolution. As only Cosby could tell it, he [...]
