"Ron Paul has some surprising news for the Tea Party: ou’re being taken for a ride. At least this is what many libertarians like Ron Paul believe when they see someone like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin trying to lead the Tea Party at the “restoring honor” rally this weekend."
In comment #1, Post blogger Teledog One points to the awkward situation facing News Corp., all because its second largest shareholder funds "radical madrassas all over the world."
Kevin Costner, Amory Lovins, Hugh McCormack, Edward Troy and other gladiators of the environmental movement have a few things to say.
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The rally drew white people like grilled cheese to white bread, all in the name of civil rights that barely got a nod from the madding crowd. Glenn Beck is presented to the public on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “Dream” speech and the March on Washington by marching out on a summer’s day to the bucolic strains of “Appalachian Spring” by Aaron Copland.
Spring, you see, is now summer. A Mormon who cares nothing for the poor declares himself a civil rights leader by accident. His fans worship in Mammon at the feet of a Mormon God and don’t even know it. A Presidential wannabe gives a speech “Restoring Honor” before she admits that no such restoration is possible.
Continue Reading August 29th, 2010
My good friends Richard Long and Ariane Zurcher have done a wonderful job doing everything they can to help Emma, their autistic daughter. This entry in their blog by Richard is particularly heartbreaking.
Continue Reading August 27th, 2010
Those unafraid to be called “Islamophobes” for criticizing the Ground Zero mosque now called Park51 have a new weapon: a translation of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf by a man who claims to be a former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist. If the translation holds up to linguistic scrutiny, then Imam Rauf’s claims for a mosque near Ground Zero will be seen as nothing more than religious sleight-of-hand, a form of Shariah subterfuge.
Continue Reading August 24th, 2010
As host of “the last of the liberal talk shows” and prognosticator without portfolio, I have been literally gobsmacked by the liberal reaction to the Ground Zero mosque now known so innocuously as Park51—hardly a mosque at all to hear tell from forces on the Left. Liberals to a man, woman, and child have decided that the argument against such a place of worship is “embarrassing” (Chris Hayes over and over again on the Rachel Maddow show). They say nay-sayers are Islamaphobes or worse—as if anything could be worse than being afraid of a religion that stones women.
Continue Reading August 19th, 2010
Worst weather forecast: Light smog with a chance of increasing smog. The first
few days we were here the skies were relatively clear and I considered that
perhaps the reports of China's air pollution were overblown. Not so. While we
never developed respiratory problems, most days heavy pollution hid buildings
and on-coming traffic about a quarter mile away, obfuscating promised views of
the Forbidden City from our hotel's 13th floor dining room. And it's bound to
get worse--China News reports 50,000 new drivers are added to Beijing's already
grid-locked city streets each month.
Best Lost in Translation: We had intended to visit Mao's mausoleum, a solemn
tomb where the former chairman's preserved body lies in state, but due to
various miscues we ended up in a line for the droll Museum of the Chinese People
which is also on Tienemen square, but not really worth visiting. Not realizing
our mistake, we bought tickets and followed the queue along the sidewalk and
into the stadium-sized lobby where the crowd dispersed. We asked several people
where Mao was, (excuse me.....Mao????) but everyone we asked pointed us to
different rooms and he was nowhere in sight. Finally, one man we had asked who
did not speak English was thoughtful enough to find another visitor who did who
told us we were in the wrong building. By the time we retraced our steps we were
too late to have an audience with Mr Mao, as his visiting hours end at noon.
Instead we found a place on the edge of Tienemen and sat and watched the
thousands of Chinese tourists who walked across the square holding umbrellas to
shield themselves from the burning sun. As we sat on a low curb about every 10
minutes a mother or father would approach me signaling their desire to take my
picture with their often reluctant offspring (she's a stranger!) When we
occasionally found someone who spoke enough English to have a conversation, a
crowd would gather to listen.
Best menu item: Cubs of Beer Tenderloin
Best views: The Great Wall. The section we climbed was two hours north of
Beijing and the air was clear for miles.
Best reason to visit Beijing: While it's not my favorite city in Asia, it does provide a unique fast-forward preview of the challenges many of this planet's cities will face in years to come.
August 14th, 2010
The Republican pretenders to the political throne in Colorado remind both wag and wonk of Abbott and Costello, one of the greatest tag teams in American comedic history.
Unfortunately for nominees Ken Buck for Governor and Dick Maes for Senator, politics as per usual is no joke in the Rockies, though the pair has long been an embarrassment to regular old Republicans. I know this from Right here in Pitkin County because Righty party types have been bemoaning B&M from the moment it looked as though they might squeegee the Tea leaves hard enough to win their party’s nominations. The word “crazy” has been summoned up by local Republicans more than once—albeit before Buck and Maes won their amazin’ primary victories.
Continue Reading August 13th, 2010
We spent the morning in the Chinese Military Museum, an immense five-story paean to Chinese military history and might. Although it's barely mentioned in the guidebooks, and very little of the explanatory text was translated into English, I learned more about the Chinese psyche here than anywhere else we've visited.
Continue Reading August 11th, 2010
To envision the size of the buildings here imagine a city block in New York on 57th street, but instead of 20 or 30 buildings per block as is the norm in Manhattan, there's only one building, and there are hundreds of others the same size up and down the street. It's unimaginably huge.
Continue Reading August 9th, 2010
How can we possibly get out of this disasterous state of media, Mr. Isaacson? Can corporate-owned media produce real news? Can govt.- subsidized media? Can philanthropists save it or will they have an angle they insist is inserted? I us...ed to mock BBC for being owned by govt. but how anyone can really watch/read any major news outlet in the U.S. owned by profit-driven people who are in a race to the bottom of the barrel to appeal to fear in humans is beyond me. Is there any hope to real news ever being reported by a major American journal? Interview sounds interesting, Michael.
Continue Reading August 8th, 2010
The state does not own all of the land. Homes and business can now buy, sell and trade land privately, acquired either from the State or other private individuals. Only couples in crowded cities can have one child and actually they can have more than one, but get heavily financially penalized for doing so. Country folk, depending on where they are and population, can have more than one up to an infinite number.
Continue Reading August 8th, 2010
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