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ZZZZZZZZZZZ OOOK! EEEEEK! AAAAAAAK! ZZZZZZZZZZZ (to self: already promised Bucky last word. Must not respond. What are all those angry chimp noises I hear?) ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ OOOOOH! OOOOOH! EEEEEEEEH! OOOOOH! EEEEEH! (must not read Bucky's last post. If I do, I'll respond and Lord Jim will emerge from a Joseph Conrad novel and start posting editorials in breaking. Must not. Willpower. Do not read. Must not) ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Oh, Bucky! So much is completely beyond you---NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What? Wha? It was all a dream, wasn't it?

Shoot it down: Senate must kill amendment that would dangerously gut gun laws Tuesday, July 21st 2009, 4:00 AM The pistols-for-everyone-everywhere crowd in Washington has engineered diabolical legislation that would blow gaping holes in New York's gun control laws. The measure must be stopped.Republican Sen. John Thune wants Americans across the country to be able to carry concealed weapons, including Americans who live in, work in or visit this city and state. That's apparently the way of life, and death, in his beloved South Dakota. But what flies in Sioux Falls, population 150,000, or capital city Pierre, population 14,000, does...

The recent cases of a right-to-life extremist accused of killing an abortion doctor in Kansas and an elderly white supremacist accused in the fatal shooting of a Holocaust museum guard in Washington, D.C., match warnings in the report. It concluded individuals with white supremacist views, acting as so-called lone wolves, pose the most significant domestic terrorism threat because they are difficult for law enforcement to detect before they commit crimes. Right-wing extremism is not a liberal figment of the imagination. As the DHS report and recent incidents make clear, it is a growing threat and a valid concern for federal...

Major U.S. newspapers express misgivings about California Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision An analysis of major newspaper editorials published in response to the California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a ban on same-sex marriages shows that a majority of the editorials opposed the ruling. The analysis, provided by the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (iMAPP) of Manassas, Virginia, examined 20 of the highest-circulation newspapers in the United States. Twelve of the 20 published editorial reactions to the California court’s decision. Of the twelve editorials, seven were opposed to the decision while only four were in favor. One major paper...

Times Executive Editor Bill Keller delivered the Hugo Young Memorial Lecture in London in November, sponsored by the liberal Guardian newspaper, and said some things to his journalistic friends he might not felt comfortable telling a more general audience. "...And I would argue that in this clattering, interconnected, dangerous world, journalism that cuts through the noise has never been needed more. We have a war going very badly in Iraq, and another one in Afghanistan where our declaration of victory looks very premature." "...Third, we are agnostic as to where a story may lead; we do not go into a...

In reference to the liberal New York Times' publisher, the new owner of the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, said in a recent interview reported by Editor and Publisher, "I won’t meddle any more than Arthur Sulzberger does…. I just think The Journal needs a little more urgency.� According to the report, there may be some changes at the venerable newspaper under its pending new leadership. "We have lots of decisions to make,� Murdoch said. "How much should we really spend developing the Saturday paper? What should we do digitally? Should we remain subscription-based on the Web, or should we...

CHICAGO The Chicago Sun-Times is turning left. The tabloid that shifted toward political conservatism under the brief ownership of Rupert Murdoch more than two decades ago now says that it is "rethinking our stance on several issues, including the most pressing issue facing Americans today: Bush's war in Iraq."

Let’s Read the G.O.P. Tea Leaves (5 Letters) To the Editor: In “How to Win by Losing” (Op-Ed, Sept. 13), Ramesh Ponnuru argues that Republicans could “win by losing” if they fail to maintain control of the House but keep the Senate in 2006, because this would put the G.O.P. in a better position to win in 2008....

See this thread for more information. Plagiarized from myself in fact... WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE INVOLVING FELINES, AND OTHER OFF-COLOR "GREY" LANGUAGE and PUNS! (Scroll down for text) A columnist's publicity stunt To say we can't be like Mike Hunt He didn't say that Instead, more like "cat"... Never mind, I'll just fall back and punt! While fighting the war on terror A columnist made an error A publicity stunt left him out of the hunt Naming aught from the sex that is fairer! A columnist's take on the war: One of his words left people sore. It sounds like wussy...

There are a number of magazines/newspapers and other periodicals who take advantage of readership by publishing editor's opinions in the form of news. An example: Vanity Fair.These articles are readily available, and free, on the Vanity Fair website:The first article is from the Vanity Fair editor-in-chief, Graydon Carter. In this letter, Carter describes how he believes that "the Bush Administration has attempted to remake America into everything we have long deplored".In what I find a most disturbing and worrying piece, Vanity Fair film critic Michael Wolff reviews a number of films, including 'V for Vendetta' which he describes as '...

Judge Alito: The Final Showdown (7 Letters) To the Editor: Re "Senators in Need of a Spine" (editorial, Jan. 26): You write that Democratic senators are in need of a spine to filibuster Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination.............

Happy New Year Mr. Farmer, I hope you enjoyed your vacation. Some interesting things happened since you been gone that you might want to write about. I guess the first thing is about the Baltimore Sun columnist who plagiarized and left the paper in shame. He was one of the administrations biggest critics. I don't think he heard about Jason Blair. I thought honesty and accuracy was a big thing in the media. Which of course brings us to the tragedy in West Virginia. Twelve people died in a mine explosion and the media gets it totally wrong. Again. Just...

Below is a list of names. Everyone in the list has a few things in common. As you read try to guess what those things are. Ready? Here we go: Robin Gialanella, Stephanie Burleson, Shelley Allen, Sandra “Beth” Geisel, Maria Saco, Amber Marshall, Elisa Kawasaki, Nicola Prentice, Elizabeth Miklosovic, Rhianna Ellis, Samantha Solomon, Gwen Ann Cardozo, Elizabeth Stow, Lynn Samuels, Nicole Andrea Barnhart, . Laura Lynn Findlay, Kelly Lynn Dalecki, Lakina Stutts, Rachelle Vantucci, Donna Carr Galloway, Carol Flannigan, Toni Lynn Woods, Amber S. Jennings, Debra Lafave, Kim Alexander, Kathy Denise White, Susanne Eble, Rebecca Boicelli, Angela M. Stellwag, Bethany...

National Editorials: The Los Angeles Times: "It Will Be A Damning Indictment Of Petty Partisanship In Washington If An Overwhelming Majority Of The Senate Does Not Vote To Confirm John G. Roberts Jr. To Be The Next Chief Justice Of The United States." (Editorial, "Confirm Roberts," The Los Angeles Times, 9/20/05) The Los Angeles Times: "As Last Week's Confirmation Hearings Made Clear, Roberts Is An Exceptionally Qualified Nominee, Well Within The Mainstream Of American Legal Thought, Who Deserves Broad Bipartisan Support." (Editorial, "Confirm Roberts," The Los Angeles Times, 9/20/05) Chicago Tribune: "[R]oberts Richly Deserves To Be Confirmed: He Has The...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version June 16, 2005, 7:50 a.m. Crazy Times? The Los Angeles Times announces some changes. "My colleagues and I also hope to be out in the community more, explaining what we do and listening to your complaints,” Los Angeles Times editorial-page editor Andres Martinez signed off his "To Our Readers" note on Sunday, outlining the section’s upcoming changes: Freelancers and outside experts writing editorials, readers contributing to online “wikitorials,” dogs and cats living together, etc. “Compliments would be OK as well.” With that last sentence you can practically hear Martinez trying...

A federal judge has ruled against a former student columnist who claims he was reprimanded and disciplined by his California high school for writing two opinion editorials opposing illegal immigration and affirmative action. A lawsuit filed by former Novato High School student Andrew Smith alleges the district violated his free-speech rights by confiscating copies of his articles and publicly apologizing for them. The case went to trial earlier this month, and in his ruling Marin County Judge John Sutro said he found no evidence Smith's rights were violated. According to Judge Sutro, Smith's articles were equivalent to something from "a...

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit, giving a kung fu kick to any diabolical mastermind who merits it. I try not to visualize myself as one of the witches in "Macbeth," sitting off to the side over a double, double toil and trouble, bubbling cauldron, muttering about what is fair or foul in the hurly burly of the royal court. There's an intense debate going on now about why newspapers have so few female columnists. Out of what will...

Longtime San Diego (Calif.) Union-Tribune columnist Jim Goldsborough is quitting the paper, saying Publisher David C. Copley abruptly pulled a column scheduled to run Monday as "payback" for his criticism of President Bush. Goldsborough said the reason he was given after the fact is that the column, about why Jewish voters overwhelmingly cast their presidential ballots for John Kerry, was "offensive." "The publisher said it might be offensive. To whom? That's the question The column is not offensive to Jews. Maybe to Bush," Goldsborough said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "I don't think I'm 'liberal,' but I'm certainly not pro-Bush,...

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to our fellow Americans in Ohio who sealed the deal to re-elect George W. Bush. Of interest, The Columbus Dispatch, the largest newspaper in Ohio, along with many others such as the Cincinatti Enquirer, endorsed President Bush.

What’s Black and White and Ignored All Over? October 28, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by John Phillips -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Building on the momentum of his high profile endorsements from Kim Jong Il, Yasser Arafat and Michael Moore, United States Senator John Kerry is pilling up newspaper endorsements from across the country. Unbeknownst to the newspapers, these endorsements mean nothing outside of the editorial boardrooms where they are made. Liberals endorsing another liberal for president should catch the American people by surprise about as much as Rodney Dangerfield’s death – Only entertainment reporters and people with tin foil on their heads ‘didn’t see it...

Hey all, I'm looking for a response to an article called "Bush by Numbers: Four years of Double Standards" It's a list of various items compiled to make Bush look bad. My dad sent it to me and I want to send him a response, but I was hoping that somebody had already done the research into it, since it's a LONG list. It was published originally in The Independent/UK in September. Thanks! Olivia

The Power and the Promise Editorial endorsements in a multimedia age. By Herb Klein The Lone Star Iconoclast, George W. Bush's hometown paper, is backing John Kerry this year. That's a change from 2000 when the weekly endorsed the hometown boy. It's impossible to know how much influence the Crawford, Texas, weekly's endorsement will have on its 425 subscribers, but no one expects the state of Texas to end up in the Democratic column next month. John Kerry's hometown paper the Lowell Sun, a larger daily, recently endorsed George W. Bush. It's safe to say that Massachusetts won't go Republican....

Bush:The Chicago Tribune endorsed Bush on Oct. 17. The Carlsbad Current-Argus, Carlsbad, N.M., endorsed Bush on Oct. 17. Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Neb., endorsed Bush on Oct. 17. Rocky Mountain News, Denver, endorsed Bush on Oct. 16. Kerry:The New York Times endorsed Kerry on Oct. 17. The Boston Globe endorsed Kerry on Oct. 17. The Star Tribune, Minneapolis, endorsed Kerry on Oct. 17. Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, endorsed Kerry on Oct. 17.

One of the most suspenseful moments in modern journalism came to an end today, when The New York Times, after months of coy beating around the bush, came out for Senator Kerry. Although the final selection process was described by an unnamed insider as "A very close run thing," in the end it was John Kerry's unflinching celebration of the lesbian lifestyle of prominent Republican families that put him over the top. "Maureen," said our source " was just not going to be denied and neither was Frank Rich. Once Kerry said "Lesbian Daughter," they both got so wet we...

NEW YORK In assessing the final presidential debate Wednesday night, newspaper editorials gave less space to the performance of John Kerry and George W. Bush than to the overall usefulness of the three one-on-one matches. To the surprise of many editorial writers, they found the triple feature to be a truly valuable tool for voters, with most saying they offered a clear view of where each candidate stands. The Chicago Tribune, for example, asked readers to "cherish" the debates. "Like the first two debates," it said, "Wednesday night's rounder in Arizona showcased rugged but revealing politicking between two men who...

John Kerry: You Might Say He's Kind of a Nuisance Written by Isaiah Sterrett Thursday, October 14, 2004 According to Senator Kerry, we must support him on November 2 because: --He will protect the Supreme Court from such filth as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, while favoring judges in the tradition of Potter Stewart, author of the concurring opinion of Roe v. Wade. --Kerry admires pro-lifers, but will not oppose federal funding of abortions. Instead, he will ''counsel people.'' One only hopes that he’ll do a better job of this than he does with his other political endeavors. (''Really, Mom,...

K L Marsala When you sign up today with the P J Club (pajama club) you'll get full rights to espouse your ideals, opinions and investigations via the World Wide Web. The P J Club is open to all that love the free flow of information and value what our founding fathers valued and that is- freedom of speech. The P J Club isn't pretentious. We don't require silk pajamas, cotton ones are just fine. Your Pj's don’t have to have your initials embroidered upon them, unless of course you can't remember your name…then by all means. We don't require...

That 60 Minutes II story last week on President Bush's Air National Guard service has been credibly disputed, and, along with it, the credibility of CBS News. Anchorman Dan Rather initially mounted a spirited defense, but his news organization would have been better served had it put as much energy in authenticating the documents that prompted the report. The story, now held in the disrepute that it is, has done nothing to educate voters on Bush's Guard service. The overarching moral here is really about the necessary steps news organizations must take before such stories are aired or printed. Anticipating...

The anniversary of Sept. 11 will be painful for Arab and Muslim-Americans - as it will be for all Americans. After the terrorist strikes, Arab and Muslim-Americans became targets for random hate and violence. They became the latest ethnic group to be singled out in an American time of crisis. In the 1850s, Irish immigrants were persecuted. During World War I, German immigrants were suspect. During World War II, Americans of Japanese backgrounds bore the brunt of that conflict. America's legacy of nativism - the intense opposition to an internal minority because of its supposed foreign connections - reared its...

Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press 2 Aug 2004 (Government Press Office) Haaretz - http://www.haaretzdaily.com Ma'ariv - http://www.maariv.co.il Yediot Aharonot - http://www.ynet.co.il Globes - http://www.globes.co.il Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com Hazofe - http://www.hazofe.co.il Haaretz comments: "The gods of history placed Ariel Sharon at the head of a government that has decided, for the first time, to evacuate settlements from Gaza and the northern West Bank - and Sharon has run into opposition from his party and members of his government... Sharon needs therefore to expand his political basis now, so he can make decisions on the evacuation - and no...

Protecting Austin is our job, and we'll continue to do so Sunday, February 8, 2004 Mr. Oppel, Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to your recent series on the use of force by officers in the Austin Police Department. One of your articles identified us as the "Top Ten" officers in the use of force statistics you compiled. The ten of us, like most officers, gravitated to police work for noble reasons. We looked forward to a profession that would allow us to directly serve the public, interact with a variety of people, and be in a...

<p>Hoping to spend as much as it wants on next year's elections, the National Rifle Association is looking to buy a television or radio station and declare that it should be treated as a news organization, exempt from spending limits in the campaign finance law. "We're looking at bringing a court case that we're as legitimate a media outlet as Disney or Viacom or Time-Warner," the NRA's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, told the Associated Press.</p>

In a recent New York Times article Geoffrey Nunberg, a Stanford linguist, argues that bias in the media has undergone great change in the last 50 years so that now it is “a synonym for partiality or partisanship.” He goes on to note that conservatives complain about bias yet see “objectivity not as an ideal to strive for but as a dangerous delusion.” “Media bias” became a phrase that blurs “the distinction between thoughts and deeds,” a condition that enables critics to argue that balance is “better served by openly partisan commentary than by traditional ‘objective’ reporting.” Dr. Nunberg maintains...

Court battle resumes between tribes, scientists over ancient remainsWILLIAM MCCALL; The Associated Press PORTLAND - The definition of "Native American" is at stake in deciding whether the 9,300-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man belongs to scientists or Indian tribes, lawyers for both sides told a federal appeals court Wednesday. The Interior Department has fought with scientists since the bones were discovered in 1996 along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick. A group of eight anthropologists who want to do research on the skeleton went to court to seek permission. But then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt ruled three years ago...

Tactics may backfire on amendment Thursday, September 4, 2003 Texas voters are being hit with mail and television ads for or against Proposition 12, a proposed amendment to the Texas constitution. If it passes Sept. 13, it would allow the Legislature to place limits on noneconomic damages in lawsuits. It also would clear the way for limits in medical malpractice lawsuits that lawmakers have already passed. The fact that the proposed amendment and 21 others will face voters on the second Saturday in September — rather than the traditional first Tuesday after the first Monday in November — was an...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger won top billing in U.S. newspaper editorials on Friday that greeted The Terminator's sensational candidacy for California governor as anything from "surprisingly mindless" to "just the man." Reuters Photo "Muscle Beach Politics," "Conan the Contender," were among the predictable, but irresistible, headlines his candidacy provoked. Others included: "Total Recall," "The Running Man" and "Well, won't this be fun, fellow Americans?" Republican Schwarzenegger, a muscle-bound action hero best known for his role in "The Terminator" movies, began filing papers on Thursday as a candidate in California's Oct. 7 vote to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis (news...

Urgent! Arab and Muslim newspapers have reacted in a number of ways (9/10/11 April 2003) to the Fall of Baghdad. The following is a review of articles published in various Arabic and Farsi newspapers (translated into English):I. The Palestinian PressThe reactions of Palestinian newspapers to the fall of Baghdad were mixed. The front page of the Palestinian Authority (PA) daily Al-Ayyam, normally printed in color, today appeared in black and white. The Palestinian daily Al-Quds published a scene of Baghdad's "Liberation Square" - with the statue of Saddam still in place. The editor of the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, Hafez...