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Militarism Focus Photo May 23, 2009

Your Turn: Obama’s New Afghan Commander, Lady Liberty, Bucking Broncos (And Those Precious Bodily Fluids)

  I'm really fascinated by this single photo of Obama with new Afghan commander McChrystal (of black ops fame) in the Oval Office offered up by Pete Souza on the WH Flickr stream.

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Ship Shape

Tacking right at Annapolis just before Memorial Day weekend, Obama couldn't get better pictures.

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Uncategorized Photo May 22, 2009

Republicans And The New Yorker Cover: It’s Much Worse Than (How) It Looks

What's fundamentally off about the latest New Yorker cover (showing an elephant considering plastic surgery) is the notion that the GOP's problems are largely cosmetic.

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I Also Play The Terror War Architect On TV

The image, by WAPO's fine Washington photographer, Melina Mara, is one of the more insightful photographed yesterday of the supposed-debate between Obama and the former shadow-President.

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Uncategorized Photo May 21, 2009

Obama Vs. Cheney: Media’s Blasphemous Equivalency

Take a look at what CNN, and other media orgs are doing today -- especially visually. They are taking Obama's major speech on terrorism and Dick Cheney's speech at the American Enterprise Institute and putting both men a on level playing field.

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Learning For Life

Notice how the same toy guns that seem harmless in the photo alongside the bus appear threateningly dangerous in the bottom image.

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Terror Focus Photo

Fear Factor

It's a clever image on the newswire, showing FBI Director Meuller testifying before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday.

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Uncategorized Photo May 20, 2009

The True Dick

Right off the bat, how unusual is it to see Cheney without either the smirk or that smug little smile?

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"I’m A Uniter, Not A Divider"

It seemed noteworthy today Obama was having a moment of solidarity with United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger while Ford CEO Alan Mulally, far right, was clapping enthusiatically in response.

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Militarism Focus Photo May 19, 2009

Really, I Thought Things Were Going To Be Different

What makes me almost ill looking at this little boy playing with a Gatling gun during an Air Force air show is that I can't tell how much irony was intended.

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Putting Bibi In His Place

While Obama held the line yesterday, emphasizing the need for a Palestinian state and improved relations with Iran, Israel PR frames Obama as leaving Netanyahu in the lurch.  

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Faith Focus Photo May 18, 2009

Pregnant Moment At Notre Dame

Besides the white roses and those well broadcast pro-life mortarboards with the cross-separated infant feet (intended to signify an aborted fetus, I've repeatedly read) was the scene -- front-and-center at the so-called "alternative commencement ceremony" -- of the honest-to-God, tummy-tending, out-to-here Notre Dame pregnant student.

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Media Focus Photo

NEWsweek

Here's the first Newsweek cover after the post-newsmagazine, commentary-over-reporting, up-scale make-over.

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Uncategorized Photo May 17, 2009

G O P

I found this a clever visual commentary by Brooks Kraft, illustrating the Republican Party reduced to midgets.

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Militarism Focus Photo May 16, 2009

Anchor’s A Sway

  A few days ago, I warned of the Administration starting to visually mimic the militarist BushCo. out of concern for its image on national security and the Afghan war....

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Last Wednesday

Pope speaks during his visit to the Aida refugee camp with the Israeli separation wall in the background

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo May 15, 2009

Reparations

I found this photo (of an Afghan widow receiving reparation money for a U.S. air strike) just devastating

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Terror Focus Photo

Torture At Bagram: What Difference Would Photos Make?

Over the past two days, there has been a lot of debate about the pros and cons of releasing photo documentation of the Bush Administration's torture regime. My thought was to consider the issue in the context of a specific example.

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