Where's my willow switch and that woodshed?
Grandparents see grandchildren without any rose colored glasses, so in my fantasy I became the imaginary Grandmother of McCain and Palin. This was not too much of a stretch, as they seem to be two...
View ArticleMy response to an anti-Obama letter in our local paper.
Flipping to the Editorial and Opinion section in my copy of Newsday Thursday morning, I found this in the Letters section:You asked your readers what Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers supporting...
View ArticleBackbiting in Barack Country
In our county, I was surprised the old retread relic ran so strong at 19.9%, putting him within 58 points of Barack. I was curious, out loud in a letter to the editor of our local paper, why in that...
View ArticleKristol: Conservatives could be out of power for decades
Check it out! Paul Krugman has the day off, so his New York Times page-mate, Bill Kristol, decided to be a good sport and write Krugman's column for him. I exaggerate, but not much. Suddenly, the...
View ArticlePresident Zardari(Pakistan) Has a Message for Kossacks
This is a message penned by President Zardari of Pakistan in today's New York Times. As it is an editorial by a world leader, and therefore basically a press release, I do not feel as constrained by...
View ArticleKumbaya and the "new and improved realities"
For more than five years, at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, the Iraq war has been shoved down our collective throats by George Bush, his followers, and his...
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Kids Know Best
If you have yet to read this new Op-Ed in the NY Times, you have been missing out. Dear Obama,I have grown up with a very liberal mom and a very conservative dad. Thank you for bringing my parents...
View ArticleObama goes directly to the Post
It looks like President Obama has finally decided to take the gloves off and go over the media pundits. He published an op-ed in today's Washington Post, outlining why the stimulus plan is necessary...
View ArticleEgyptian blogger: I love America. It's the country of dreams ...
but I wonder if I will ever be able someday to declare my love."An op-ed in the New York Times by ALAA AL ASWANY took my breath away in it's clarity. So clearly illustrating the attitudes in the Middle...
View ArticleConventional Wisdom?!?!
So this isn't exactly an "original" diary. It's actually an op-ed I wrote for The Brandeis Hoot, my school's newspaper. It's part of a weekly column I write. Usually my articles are of a more...
View ArticleCivil Ignorance
Hi everyone,I'm back again, with another one of my op-ed pieces to share. Here's hoping that its reasonably insightful and informative, or, failing that, fun to read.Feel free to comment to your...
View ArticleSwine Flu 2009 vs. NASA's 1979 SkyLab Reentry
If you want to find an example of extended mismanagement, the SkyLab Project is close to perfection. Chicken Little, indeed.The Skylab 79-ton satellite was launched in 1973. Those were the days of...
View ArticleThe News and I Are Getting a Separation
The news and I are separating. It's been coming for a while now, but think I can make the break without tears.I still occasionally think about the news; after all, we've been together on DK for a...
View ArticleThis is Their Reality. . .
I'm sure most of us have been following the situation in Iran as closely as possible. Outside of DailyKos, I find that the Huffington Post has a great article on its site that is constantly being...
View ArticleMeet The WaPo's New Expert on Cap & Trade
This will be brief, but the Washington Post's edition for tomorrow has turned over Op-Ed space to one of the nation's leading experts on science, technology, and global climate change for an in-depth...
View ArticleWSJonline Must Read: "The [GOP] says its own mistakes prove government can't...
In an Op-Ed that I'm surprised to see in the WSJ(even online), writer Thomas Frank clearly and concisely makes a point that we occasionally make over here. The GOP is a near insurrection force in the...
View ArticleAbout Time; Perlstein calls out the Media On "Death Panels"
Rick Perlstein had a must read Op-ed in WaPo yesterday on "The Rise of Right Wing Rage " he also called out the Media for their lack of courage to label lies and hate speech as such.Sarah Paling...
View ArticleNewspaper Columnist Eviscerates Creation Museum [Updated with LTE response]
My lo cal paper, the Bowling Green Daily News is an unabashedly conservative paper. From the editorials to the chopping of headlines, to the op-ed columnists [Goldberg, Krauthammer, Reagan, et al.]...
View ArticleInaugural diary: The end of Op-Ed
I thought I'd begin with a posting copy from today's Pundit Round-up, particularly Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed "Connecting Nature's Dots".http://www.nytimes.com/...I began to wonder about Op-Ed readership...
View ArticleHow To Disarm a Wingnut and Other Tidbits
Ambrose Bierce once said, "If you leave your mind sufficiently open, sooner or later, somebody will come along and through some garbage in it."If your not familiar with local online suburban...
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