Keeping Priorities in Order
Let the rest of the world worry about Haiti. It's Superbowl Week.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Some More)
Why another cover (this, from the New York Times Magazine, about the domestic terrorist threat of Islamic terrorism -- especially the same week when Terrorist and Pro-(unborn)Life activist Scott Roeder is convicted of killing an abortion doctor?
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Haiti: As We Approach Week Four
From the pictures and reports of continuing ineptitude distributing food and water, many Haitians -- far from any opportunity to "get in touch" with their despair -- continue to be traumatized.
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Shining a Light On the Whole Lot of Them
As Obama continues to train his focus on the pettiness in Congress and right-wing obstructionism, it's just too bad the traditional media -- because it thrives on the conflict -- is so hesitant to train its eye on the GOP hostility and presumptuousness Obama is exposing.
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Haiti: Convoy to Nowhere
How FUBAR is the process of delivering aide accumulating at the Port au Prince airport? And, why -- after seventeen days -- isn't there more basic coordination taking place between the US Military and the UN? The slideshow at WSJ by Peter van Agtmael is a must see.
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Obama-eye View
Because Obama won a weekly news cycle for the first time in ... I don't remember, and because I don't recall seeing this State of the Union angle done before, here you go.
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More SOTU: Framed for Hanging
More Obama State of the Union: Small-mindedness, timidity, pettiness and self-interest. Obama won the night (and aligned himself perfectly with Main Street) by doling out the shame to DC's "untouchables."
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The Look for Winter, Spring and, especially, Fall
W previewed mid-term voter sentiment back in November.
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What the White House has to do with English Waffles
I thought the takeaway from the Scott Brown debacle was to finally line up behind a progressive agenda and attack the recession and job losses. Well, that lasted about a week — until the Administration dropped that brick about a spending freeze. The Administration — if you watched Jared...
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What The Haitians Did With All That Stuff They "Stole"
I can't help wondering how many of those scenes in which Haitians were construed to be stealing might have had something to do with the near-miraculous overnight tent cities they've been lauded for constructing.
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Haiti, 1915: …Or, I Have Often Walked Down These Streets Before
Given America's 20 year occupation of Haiti starting in 1915; it's hand (not so publicized these past two weeks) -- through Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2 -- in ushering in and out the various dictatorial, military as well as democratically-elected regimes; and the push now to take a...
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Now What, Mommy? — (Updated)
If, at the end of the week, the White House was already framing Obama 2.0 as more populist, pointed and accessible, TIME begged to differ.
Continue ReadingCoke's Olympic Spirit: War is It!
Playing on the notion that the world community exist to tear itself to pieces, Coke imagines it's own little world war.
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Your Turn: Those Haiti Cruises — The Fun Is Just Beginning
You knew the newswires were bound to publish photos like these soon enough. They involve passengers from a Celebrity Cruise ship docked Friday in Labadee, Haiti, enjoying themselves while, to the south, the country has been devastated by a massive earthquake.
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Obama: On The Progressive Front
Whether or not Obama is taking a progressive turn, the White House seems fully engaged in prompting the suggestion.
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Seeing the Haitians
Of course, what the photo raises, as much as anything, is the uneasy role of aide provision and how much America (captured in the vector of this soldiers gaze) can actually see the Haitian people at all.
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