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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a handy weapon for both sides to wield as his message continues to resonate today (sometimes for the wrong reasons) King's words claimed by many Today is a better, but oppression still remains
Certain politicians try very hard to be all party manifestos and all fashions at all moments in history - and the majority of them fail, some of the time (depending on which fashions and moments and policies they choose).
Gov. Schwarzenegger's bold four-point agenda: Fixing California The Austrian American who has a great gift for fiction would appreciate the reality Down Under ; Derailed Supremo of Supremos
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Left Hand, Meet Right Hand
The same human rights principles that once guided me in the Soviet Union remain the cornerstone of my approach to the peace process. I am willing to transfer territory not because I think the Jewish people have less of a claim to Judea and Samaria than do the Palestinians, but because the principle of individual autonomy remains sacred to me--I do not want to rule another people. Honoring Democracy ]
Typically we criticize our politicians as shortsighted, looking only to the next election, unwilling to take any short-term risk for the long-term nation-al interests. But today's politicians--notably George W. Bush but also some of his Democratic opponents--are fighting for long-term stakes. Sure, they make compromises and back and fill with the wind. But they are also acting with an eye to what America will look like 20, 30, even 40 years out.
• Hands and Eyes on the future [Journalism's vacation from the truth ; Paid to help, or paid to blog - there's a difference ]
• · You don't see headlines like that every day even though it happens in various forms often: Canada's immigration minister Judy Sgro has resigned over allegations that she agreed to help a pizza shop owner avoid deportation in return for free food Canada minister in garlic bread, pizza scandal; In public service, managers are addicted to giving Higher Duty Allowance to blood relations or characters who buy the large quantity of beer and vodka during Friday UnHappy Hours ... [It's worse than I thought. Web logs, or blogs, are the hot new medium for commentary. So many have sprung up that one can only tend to a narrow selection or a digest of highlights. Trying the hot medium]
• · · Sutherly Buster presents: Gay bombs: US secret weapon plan OR Planet Pentagon Bombards Earth with Sex Rays! Shingles are up at Titanic Newtown ; [Sex trafficking at its worst is the slavery of the 21st century, yet it has become one of the world's growth industries. ]
• · · · Titan's sea views are out of this world: Scientists are describing Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, as a frigid world of coastlines, wind, mists, and blocks of ice strewn about the landscape Titan site has orange haze, hints of a purring shoreline ; First Image from Titan: Titan may have icy lakes and cold rivers
• · · · · The United States is now rivaling those who burned the Great Library of Alexandria as cultural destroyers. Having deliberately built a base upon Babylon, a new report from the British Museum notes: damage to the dragons decorating the Ishtar Gate, one of the world's most famous monuments, from attempts to prise out the relief-moulded bricks
• · · · · · We say in Slovak, the more languages you know, the more times you are a human being. Jan Figel, the new EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism, will manage a budget of EUR 16 billion [Jan Figel’s father was a bitter anti-communist following the "disappearance" of Jan's uncle in 1953, which was linked to the Slovak secret police]. David Ferguson speaks to him for the Slovak Spectator ; [My baby wants to know if she is more / American than Czech, to which I say / that she is what has never been before, / a perfect blending of the two, the play / of what is best in both in one good girl. Prague Poetically Political ; Némirovsky's drama of the Exodus and the Occupation is low-key and human in scale and it has the kind of immediacy found in the diary of Anne Frank ]