Juan Cole, a very well known author and owner of the Informed Consent blog, as an article today, Jan 04, 2009 that is comprehensive about the concept of the Iraeli-Gaza war, which he calls a micro-war. It has a factual recitation on the recent history of the area that it is a valuable read.
Juan Cole [...]
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“In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.”
– Sen. Joe Biden, quoted by NBC News, pressing Sen. Barack Obama’s challenge to Sen. John McCain for next week’s debate. Biden added a “personal touch to the idea that McCain wasn’t [...]
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by Rosemary and Walter Brasch
During the time that Bill Clinton was rocking the Democratic convention, ABC, CBS, and Fox were showing re-runs, NBC was showing the second hour of “America’s Got Talent,” and the CW was showing the second season finale of “Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious.”
Less than two decades ago, the networks gave the conventions [...]
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The passing of Tim Russert has left a great void in the Sunday morning news shows. NBC announced today that Tom Brokaw will anchor ‘Meet The Press’ through the general election season. Brokaw will begin hosting the show on June 29. He was the host for the Sunday immediately following Russert’s sudden death from a [...]
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I just got in a couple of hours ago from abut 8 hours on the road and not a lick of news, by choice. Needless to say, I was stunned to get back online and see that Tim Russert had died suddenly today. I bumped into Tim Russert, literally in the press area of a [...]
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There’s been a lot of news I haven’t had a chance to cover today, so here’s a few links and musings on it all.
Hillary Clinton Closed Out the Petraeus/Odierno Hearing with “Key Withdrawal Questions” today, adnvancing the “cause of Iraq withdrawal and redeployment.”
NBC News had a brief interview with Senator Ted Kennedy as he and [...]
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