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 | O'Reilly: Rev. Wright 'came very close to bringing Obama down'
by David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
Fox host Bill O'Reilly called columnist and author Roland S. Martin the "chief apologist" for Sen. Barack's embattled ex-pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, leading Martin to an animated response at his website.Speaking with former award-winning CBS reporter Bernard Goldberg, well-known for his scathing attacks on what he perceives as liberal bias in the media, O'Reilly described Martin as "a race guy" and sought Goldberg's opinion on the Wright fracas, which Fox has focused on heavily in recent weeks. | Olmert vows to press on with settlements
by AFP
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Wednesday that Israel would press on with settlement building on occupied Palestinian land despite international calls for a halt to the activity.At a meeting with the foreign press in Jerusalem, Olmert also said he expected to reach only the framework of a peace deal with the Palestinians this year and warned of "painful" action against Hamas to halt militant attacks from the Islamist-controlled Gaza Strip. | The Uncle Al Election
by Gail Collins
When I was a kid in Cincinnati, there was a local children’s TV show that always featured a race. Little boys and girls ran around in circles for what seemed like a very long time, until the host threw up his hands and yelled: “Everybody wins!”“Uncle Al,” said my brother, Gary. | "Us versus Them" - The Money Party (part 5)
by Michael Collins
We have been warned again and again that seeing the world as an "us versus them" proposition is a fatal error. It's polarizing. It leads to "class warfare." It absolves "us" of the collective responsibility we all have in a democracy. Can't have it, not allowed. | Generation Squeeb: Barack Obama’s Reverend Wright controversy, and America’s squid-heart
by Matt Taibbi
The word "squeeb" is a crude mix of squid and dweeb, and by inventing it I mean no disrespect to the squid, which in most respects is an excellent and admirable animal. In the ocean there's almost nothing you'd rather be than a squid, one of nature's most perfect predators — fast, resilient, ruthless, more intelligent by leaps and bounds than your average fish, and able to squeeze into impossibly tiny cracks. In the ocean, there is no hiding from a squid, I tell you. | News of Rapid Glacial Melting Raises a Big Question for Presidential Candidates
by Dave Lindorff
Okay. Enough about race.We've got a bigger problem here than how to get along with each other, as important as that may be, and that's how to make sure that any of us--or our children and grandchildren--are around in another hundred years.Fast on the heels of reports about the increasingly, and unexpectedly rapid melting of Greenland's giant ice sheet, come even more scary reports about accelerated glacial melting in Antarctica, where there is a whole lot more ice. | Is Chicago Burning? Hillary Clinton, Superdelegates, and Playing with Fire
by Ted Rall
Will there be race riots if Barack Obama is denied the Democratic nomination?Despite the continuing fallout over his association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the Illinois senator has won the most state primaries, the most votes and the most delegates. Polls have him running between one and four percentage points ahead of Clinton. Four centuries after the first blacks came to America in chains, the prospect of seeing one of their own become president is so close that African-Americans can taste it. Will they sit quietly at home and change the channel if white America dashes their hopes? | Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late
by Ray McGovern
Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.Except for an inside-the-beltway tidbit here and there-for example, about how the pitiable secretary of state Colin Powell had to suffer so many indignities at the hands of other type-A hard chargers, Frontline added little to the discussion. Notably missing was any allusion to the unconscionable role the Fourth Estate adopted as indiscriminate cheerleader for the home team; nor was there any mention that the invasion was a serious violation of international law. But those omissions, I suppose, should have come as no surprise. | Sadr Offensive Shows Failure of Petraeus Strategy
by Gareth Porter
The escalation of fighting between Mahdi Army militiamen and their Shiite rivals, which could mark the end of Moqtada al-Sadr’s self-imposed ceasefire, also exposes Gen. David Petraeus’s strategy for controlling Sadr’s forces as a failure.0326 03 1 2Petraeus reacted immediately to Sunday’s rocket attacks on the Green Zone by blaming them on Iran. He told the BBC the rockets were “Iranian provided, Iranian-made rockets”, and that they were launched by groups that were funded and trained by the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Petraeus said this was “in complete violation of promises made by President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and other most senior Iranian leaders to their Iraqi counterparts”. | Rev. Jeremiah Wright Isn’t the Problem
by Gary Kamiya
Maybe we really are doomed to elect John McCain, remain in Iraq forever and nuke Iran. Nations that forget history may not be doomed to repeat it, but those that never even recognize reality in the first place definitely are. Last week’s ridiculous uproar over Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons proves yet again that America has still not come to terms with the most rudimentary facts about race, 9/11 — or itself.The great shock so many people claim to be feeling over Wright’s sermons is preposterous. Anyone who is surprised and horrified that some black people feel anger at white people, and America, is living in a racial never-never land. Wright has called the U.S. “the United States of White America,” talks about the “oppression” of black people and says, “White America got their wake-up call after 9/11.” Gosh, who could have dreamed that angry racial grievances and left-wing political views are sometimes expressed in black churches? | War of the Word
by Robert Scheer
Would God ever damn America? Is there anything we have done or could do as a nation that might court such severe judgment from an almighty, or is there a peculiar American exemption from God’s wrath? The prediction of God’s damnation for bad behavior is made in both black and white churches. | Study: Big belly could carry bigger dementia risk
by AP
Having a big belly in your 40s can boost your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease or other dementia decades later, a new study suggests. It's not just about your weight. While previous research has found evidence that obesity in middle age raises the chances of developing dementia later, the new work found a separate risk from storing a lot of fat in the abdomen. Even people who weren't overweight were susceptible. | Obama, Clinton vow to ease economic gloom
by Luis Torres de la Llosa
Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama Thursday vowed to clean up a "distorted" Wall Street, as his rival Hillary Clinton warned the US economy was heading for a Japan-style depression.The Illinois senator touted his plan to stave off a looming recession, as economics became the prime battleground both in his tussle with Clinton, and the Democrats' evolving general election showdown with Republican John McCain. | And there he ho's again
by Jaime Schram
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said. | Cheney Contradicts Facts and Findings Concerning Iran’s Nuclear Goals
by Borzou Daragahi
Vice President Dick Cheney charged in an interview released Tuesday that Iran is trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, though international inspectors and U.S. intelligence services have not found evidence of such an effort.0326 06“Obviously, they’re also heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade levels,” Cheney said, according to a transcript released by the White House of an interview done Monday in Turkey with ABC’s Martha Raddatz. | U.S. charges Puerto Rican governor, 12 others
by AP
Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was charged Thursday with 19 counts in a campaign finance probe, including conspiracy to violate U.S. federal campaign laws and giving false testimony to the FBI. The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo's Popular Democratic Party as a result of a two-year grand jury investigation, acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said. | Spokesman for Baghdad security plan abducted
by Raw Story
A spokesman for the Baghdad security plan, Tahsin al-Sheikhly, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home by armed men on Thursday, security officials told AFP.An Interior Ministry official told the Associated Press that three of spokesman's bodyguards were killed. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information. |
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