Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERVIEWS TROOPS’ FAMILY MEMBERS WHO DON’T AGREE WITH BUSH! Okay, so yesterday I ranted at length about how oddly reluctant the big news orgs have been at this critical moment of national decision-making about Iraq to interview troops or family members who oppose a troop “surge” or even downright favor withdrawal. Well, credit […]
MoreVideo: The Prisoner In his first primetime interview on American television, a former detainee in U.S. prisons abroad tells NOW a disturbing story alleging kidnap, torture and murder. British citizen Moazzam Begg, who spent three years in captivity at American detention facilities in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gives us a rarely seen intimate view […]
MoreCAN THE WASHINGTON TIMES SURVIVE?: The Washington Times gets picked up every day on C-SPAN, and by other major news organizations when it scores a big hit. But for a paper that only has a daily circulation of just 90,000 with inflated numbers, can that marvelous respectability continue? The paper for years has been a […]
MoreSalon: Cinema to Savor (watch a short ad for site pass) Rolling Stone: Best and Worst of 2006 Movies via About.com: American Film Institute (AFI)’s Best Films of 2006 Time Magazine: 10 Best Movies of 2006 LA Times: Best of 2006 by Kenneth Turan MSNBC: Best of 2006; Worst of 2006
MoreOnce Upon a Time… Just STFU, Chait Oh, Jonathan Schwarz! Yoo-hoo! You, sir, are a prevaricator! That’s what I first thought when I read this post, and the excerpt from Jonathan Chait’s latest column that Jonathan Schwarz included. “No,” methinketh, “Chait couldn’t possibly have said that! That [to use Jonathan S.’s apt phrase] is dangerously […]
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