The PETA Files (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Will some of the most politically powerful women in the world go vegan? cidse / CC Following a recent UN report that finds that women—particularly those in poor countries who make up the majority of agricultural workers and don't have other job options—are going to be most impacted by climate change, PETA has fired off letters to Hillary Clinton , Nancy Pelosi , Condoleezza Rice , and...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The National Security Archive has a large document dump on U.S.-Taliban relations and intelligence reports from the Clinton administration. It's worth wading through if you want to learn more about the challenges we're facing right now in Afghanistan. This excerpt is from the end: As a collection, the documents reproduced here provide an interesting illustration of the complexity of dealing with a...
Burnt Orange Report (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
As campaign season cranks into high-gear, heavy hitters are making their way down to Texas for a few marquee fundraisers in support of various Congressional candidates. Now, you can tell a lot about a candidate by whom they choose to draw in the high rollers. Seems to me that the Republicans down here in Texas are increasingly relying on the crazy fringe to bring out the checkbooks and media attention....
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
From the Wall Street Journal Asia : The Obama Administration is starting to worry about Burma's nuclear ambitions. That's the good news. The bad news is that the White House is taking the same failed tack it used with Tehran and Pyongyang and trying to cajole the generals out of their biggest potential bargaining chip. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell calls this policy "pragmatic engagement."...
Pine River World News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. (Bold font appears in original article.) Kosovo Needs To Put up Monument to Bill Clinton Hugging Madeleine Albright © Pravda By Sergey Balmasov October 15, 2009 A monument to former U.S. President Bill Clinton is to appear in Kosovo. The monument, erected by the Kosovo-America Friendship Association, will cost 45,000 EUR....
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
As FDR's Uncle Joe said, One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. This is a good thing for liberals, or they'd have a real PR mess on their hands. Here's Madeleine Albright saying the death of 500,000...
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
In 1996 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright admitted that Bill Clinton's policy that resulted in 500,000 dead Iraqi children was worth it . In a much forgotten exchange between Lesley Stahl and Madeleine Albright on "60 Minutes" back on May 12, 1996: Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died...
Noteworthy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
WSJ: "......(T)he Nobel citation declares that Mr. Obama's 'diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.' Now, the world is a big place, much of it run by despots and crooks, each of whom gets the same vote in the U.N. General Assembly as America. The Europeans...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
On his radio and TV shows recently, Glenn Beck has been positioning himself as an advocate for America’s mothers, who he says will be the “ ones who will save the Republic .” “When are mothers going to stand up and demand the respect they deserve? Beck said on Fox this week. But as Media Matters noted on Tuesday, Beck has a long history of disrespecting women and moms with sexist...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Nice way to talk about a 72 year old grandmother. I'm guessing his grandma gets the same treatment? Via Media Matters.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
For the second night, CBS devoted time in its “ Afghanistan: The Road Ahead ” series -- which consumed the entirety of Tuesday's CBS Evening News -- to stressing how the decision to go into Iraq undermined success in Afghanistan. Lara Logan, CBS's chief foreign correspondent, rued “the U.S. allowed Osama bin Laden to escape from the Tora Bora mountains” and then, in endorsing...
...I Know Why You're Single... (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
An example of why Mr.2young and I are not a match made in heaven: I was telling him about a dream I had. "I dreamt that Rahm Emanuel and Rachel Maddow came over for dinner at my house and they totally took my policy suggestions seriously!" Mr.2young responded with, "Oh. Are those people you work with?" Doh! Reminded me a bit of this week's "Parks and Recreation" where...
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Madeleine Albright reveals the secret of how she got on so well with the North Koreans: Want more? There is only one way Comrade Obama could make his administration any worse, which is why I'm expecting Half-Bright to be reinstated...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
This article describes to the core the the rot within the State Department and the Obama administration and his internal thrust. Liberals (to some degree accurately) accuse Bush of neglecting Afghanistan in deference to Iraq. I don’t see this as being entirely ingenuous on their part, because it only seems that the criticism gets directed at a Republican president. But when a Democratic President...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line . A White House reporter used the made-for-SNL-word "strategery" in a question posed to press secretary Robert Gibbs at yesterday's briefing. Funny man Gibbs, referring to the SNL newbie who dropped the F bomb this weekend,...
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