9-15-2009

Obama Orders Special Forces Raid in Somalia…You remember Somalia don’t you? It was the setting for that famous Hollywood movie BlackHawk Down!

Charlie Crist could be vulnerable in race for U.S. Senate: Charlie Crist is swimming in campaign money, and polls consistently show him to be among the most popular politicians in America. But something ominous and unpredictable is brewing in Florida

Richard Fernandez: They are two interesting points of view in the health care debate. Marxism is fundamentally a sad philosophy which takes the view that life is a brief opportunity to make hay between two endless stretches of darkness. Fogel’s attitude seems to be that Death is something that should be taken on and if possible, eventually defeated.

T’was Accountability That Led the Mainstream Media to Suicide: The rise of those who watch the Watchmen forced smart, savvy individuals to consciously choose between being tenacious, curious journalists who will hold the powerful accountable, or to finally come out of the closet and declare themselves the ideological warriors they really are. They have chosen to become the Palace Guards. They are also cornered, scared and armed with the mighty weapons of the unethical: lies and the inability to feel shame. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we must continue to do our best as they let loose their worst.

Jesse Walker on the Paranoid Center: Accusing Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly of validating right-wing violence isn’t so different from accusing pornography of validating rape, Ozzy Osbourne of validating teen suicide, or Marilyn Manson of validating school massacres.

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