PBS (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, who is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, break down the biggest stories of the week, including health care reform moves in Congress and President Obama's pondering of a new Afghan strategy.
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
MARCUS SETS GERSON STRAIGHT.... In his Washington Post column this week, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson makes some fairly predictable attacks against the Obama administration for, among other things, deciding to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in federal court. Gerson labels...
Safe Democracy (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Michael Gerson 11/25/2009 Robert Mugabe has made the people of Zimbabwe destitute and dependent. Magodonga Mahlangu and Jennifer Williams, leaders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise and recent recipients of the John F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, have lead and engaged in non-violent protests against social injustice. Protesters are organized via word of mouth so that their communications [...]...
Charlotte Observer: Viewpoint (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Michael Gerson, Washington Post Writers Group) As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings - in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe, cursed by Robert Mugabe. Magodonga Mahlangu and Jennifer Williams, leaders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, sit at a table at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights in Washington, quietly recounting...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Washington Post's Michael Gerson wrote the most cowardly chickenhawk op-ed I have seen in a long time. Perhaps he's really afraid a fair trial will reveal more than KSM's criminality?
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... or at all, on our Viewpoints pages. In their place, we've been running Charles Krauthammer and Michael Gerson, and more of David Brooks and Thomas Friedman. Starting today (on page E5), we are also launching the column of Cynthia Tucker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. You likely will see other new voices in the weeks ahead....
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... If Afghanistan Falls Who Will Pay The Price -- Sam Zarif, The Independent Obama the Undecider -- Michael Gerson, Washington Post The Real Reason Iran Can't Be Trusted -- Mamoun Fandy, CS Monitor Get Ready to Bomb Iran -- Washington Times editorial An Anti-pirate Policy that Works -- Washington Times editorial Iraq’s Election Law Morass -- New York Times editorial Travesty in...
Baseball Crank (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... credibly on these points by a 1-term governor like Romney and a half-term governor like Palin. Michael Gerson looks in more detail at the mess that is Obama's decision-making process in Afghanistan . * Another glorious victory for the stimulus : The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, after receiving about $1.3 million in funding from The American Recovery and Reinvestment...
Bitch. Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... what they're saying, and how we can dismantle their arguments. 1. It will be a "circus." Michael Gerson made this point in a Washington Post op-ed yesterday , where he said that Eric Holder "is asking them to make the case against five Sept. 11 conspirators, in a circus atmosphere." A quick google search for "KSM circus trial" will give you dozens of...
Alex Massie (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... some think it may be. Ruth Marcus happily spares one the job of dealing with a typically atrocious Michael Gerson column which alleges, ludicrously, that the ACLU is now running the Justice Department and that the Attorney-General's interpretation of the Constitution is, amazingly, some kind of "suicide pact". But in doing so Marcus also, perhaps unwittingly, undermines...
