Mirror and Cache index - World and business: Political opinion
216 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 14:33:38 by libertyalways | 395 comments
Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center, claims that guns
are unregulated for safety. What he really means, though, is that he believes they have become far
too capable to be entrusted to civilian hands.
1100 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 02:45:55 by PhilPerspective | 360 comments
One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate
over health-care reform, & it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical
malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on
Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network ...
660 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 12:46:01 by Blinker1315 | 174 comments
Today, McCarthy’s heirs are more slick and glib than he ever was, yet their fundamental methods
are the same. When Elizabeth Cheney, William Kristol and their media friends slander Justice
Department attorneys as the “Al Qaeda 7” and malign the “Department of Jihad,” they are
engaging in the smear tactics that became synonymous with McCarthy.
197 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:52:00 by executex | 29 comments
In his balanced, and thus all the more disturbing, history of the CIA, Tim Weiner tells how an
agency intended to inform the President about the world became so mired in cloak and dagger politics
that the US now lacks the intelligence it needs to operate effectively on the world stage.
389 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:21:18 by daxxer | 34 comments
Some say showing grisly photos and videos of servicemen in distress -- or dying -- violates an
unwritten code. But the fact is, those people are serving in our name.
336 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 19:34:38 by rwbrinso | 47 comments
Do you care about America? And the good old days? Well, you SHOULD. So, if you don't, here's a quick
rundown.
862 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:02:10 by Mizzy | 395 comments
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners this week that hewould "go to Costa Rica" if
the Democratic health-care reform plan ispassed and enacted. Liberal bloggers greeted the threat
with frenzieddelight — urging Limbaugh to make good on his promise — while theirexasperated
conservative counterparts came to Limbaugh's defense.
224 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 03:22:02 by mattkatz1970 | 100 comments
Much of the past public diplomacy effort focused on America's own image, on how Americans are seen
by others. But today, in the war of ideas, our core task is not how to fix foreigners' perceptions
of the United States but how to isolate and reduce the threat of violent extremism. In other words,
it's not about us.
353 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 15:26:49 by PhilPerspective | 162 comments
Tom Friedman explains we should all forget about the death and suffering we caused because it's all
working out.
260 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 01:51:35 by amprather | 78 comments
I'll say it again: The party of Palin and Limbaugh can win in 2010 -- but not in 2012, and beyond
412 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 16:20:49 by Blinker1315 | 165 comments
Come November, the president and his party may find themselves succeeding most by failing the least.
436 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 19:21:04 by 0bamaclintobush | 16 comments
Let's face it. Words really are nothing more than sounds that east coast, big city, lesbian poets
make in coffee houses to get people to snap their fingers in agreement.
376 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 19:21:26 by RandomEyes | 55 comments
John McCain, who spent millions of taxpayer money chasing after baseball players he believed were
taking steroids, has once again buckled under pressure from the real distributors of steroids and
other illegal substances—the nation’s supplement makers.
364 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 17:12:59 by Bukowsky | 182 comments
A post by Jesse Ventura has been removed from the Huffington Post for violating a policy against
spreading conspiracy theories. Considering that the post identifies Ventura as the author of a book
called Conspiracy Theories, you'd think HuffPo would have known what to expect from the former
Minnesota governor. Apparently Not.
229 votes | submitted 2010-03-09 17:29:42 by PhilPerspective | 122 comments
A new Democratic poll claims Democrats are losing the Terrorism/civil liberties debate to Dick
Cheney.
343 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 03:30:32 by daxxer | 84 comments
I am neither sympathetic toward nor inclined to help sexual offenders. But we appear to be piling
on, so that those who successfully change their thinking and their behavior might never get going
again. When so many politicians, including the governor, exploit an issue such as this, that's when
I really get the creeps.
542 votes | submitted 2010-03-08 17:40:44 by MrBabyMan | 192 comments
Obama's stumbles atop the high-wire of running the federal government has created perhaps the
greatest danger to his presidency, and they are oddly reminiscent of the misguided practices which
tripped up his predecessor.