Here‘s some video my daughter, Abby, shot of Obama’s entrance to a rally last night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. And here‘s a link to more of her photos from the event. It’s one of the things I like about Obama – in so far as I recall, this is her first real political passion […]
The Pastor Casts a Shadow Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media — this reverend is never going away. He’s found himself a national platform, and he’s loving it. It’s a twofer. Feeling dissed by Senator Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower while bathed in a spotlight […]
Warring factions to gather in Iraq UMass scholar sets new round of talks After a weekend of closed-door negotiations in Helsinki, a group of rival members of Iraq’s parliament and tribal leaders are set to announce today that they will gather in Baghdad for the first time for a further round of talks that they […]
For Obama, a Voice of Doom? The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Barack Obama‘s pastor […]
AL-KIBAR SYRIA The above picture is the suspected Nuclear Reactor site at Al Kibar in Syria, bombed by Israel [see below]. 425 miles to the Southwest is another one near Dimona Israel, also in the middle of the desert. It was built in the late 1950’s, and was kept secret until whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu […]
Jeremiah Wright just got through speaking at the National Press Club [watch it here]. I don’t know if it’s going to help Obama or hurt him. But it helped me. In the South, the black church is the best of things. It has always been a refuge for our Afro-Americans throughout our troubled history. It […]
The hardest part about the recent briefing on the Israeli bombing of a suspected Nuclear Reactor in Syria is that there have been so many half truths and outright lies that our index of suspicion is through the roof. Here’s a set if links to some of the relevant documents: The Briefing: The Video – […]
Ban Urged on Gifts at Medical Schools Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded. The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the […]
Hillary Strangelove … Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so Tuesday morning, the day of the Pennsylvania primary, when she told ABC’s "Good Morning America" that, if she were president, she would "totally obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel. This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in […]
Obama Stumps in Indiana … His sharpest words in Clinton’s direction did not mention her by name. On a day when her campaign was demanding that he take part in a "Lincoln-Douglas-style" debate, Obama decried the "ticky-tack" nature of the primary campaign. "If you watched the last few weeks of campaign, you’d think all politics […]