Another Thief Steals Military Valor

Tom Segel
 

Open Thread Friday

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Open Thread
 

Former NY Times Editor Says Murdoch Pushes Myth of Media 'Liberal Con

Greg Sheffield
 

David, Is That You

'Today' never showed us just who was holding that placard. But judging from his comments this morning, just how surprised would we be to find it was NBC's David Gregory himself?Did David perhaps rev up for his appearance by reading this all-out assault on Bush foreign policy from in the LA Times? In any case, he came loaded for Bush bear with a totally bleak tour d'horizon that included these…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Condemning Bush Foreign Policy, LA Times Columnist Manages to Overlook

Can you detect the leap in time and logic in these two passages from today's Bush's Burned Bridges by LA Times columnist Rosa Brooks?:"Things fell apart so quickly. At the beginning of this millennium, the Cold War was over, the prosperous United States was the sole remaining superpower and global opinion was largely sympathetic to U.S. aims. In the wake of brutal ethnic wars in Central Europe…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Palestinian Advocate Hosts Washington Post Web Forum

Eric Arr
 

Nets Stress How Bush Rejected NAACP Invitations, But Skip Group's Vici

Brent Baker
 

Bob Schieffer: Middle East Conflict Could Require Reinstituting The Dr

Michael Rule
 

Hollywood Making Large Donations to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Reelectio

Although many of them live 3000 miles from New York, and are certainly not her constituents, stars and dignitaries from Hollywood, California, are lining up to open their wallets and pocketbooks to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s reelection campaign. In fact, as reported by the Associated Press (hat tip to Drudge), the donors list reads like a virtual Who’s Who: “Top stars such as Tom Hanks, Jennifer…
Noel Sheppard
 

Wash. Post, NY Times Portray Wal-Mart Court Win as 'Setback

Both papers downplayed nationwide union-led efforts to tax large and small businesses more.
Ken Shepherd
 

The NY Times Recalls the 'Escape of Willie Horton,' but not NAACP's No

Clay Waters
 

Kaffiyeh, Or Just Another Cold Day in Madrid for Spanish PM Zapatero

Mark Finkelstein
 

The Great Firewall of China--Made in America

Internet giants Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft have come under fire today from Amnesty International for actively complying with the authoritarian government of China's attempts to censor the internet in that country. These companies came in for withering criticism as part of Amnesty's campaign to raise awareness of political censorship throughout the world by highlighting its impact in China…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Bill Maher Actually Says Something Nice About President Bush

Something very surprising happened on Wednesday: Comedian Bill Maher actually said something positive about America’s current president. Now, in fairness, his statements were written and published at The Huffington Post, which means that maybe only 500,000 people will read them as compared to his larger audience on HBO’s “Real Time.” And, it remains to be seen whether Maher will share such…
Noel Sheppard