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Letter from MLK III to Senator John Edwards

By Wordie on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 9:09am |
Completely overlooked in all the hoopla over the Clinton-Obama spat in the South Carolina debate, was this letter to Sen. Edwards from the slain civil rights leader's son, written on the day set aside to honor his father's memory:Dear Senator...

CNN's undemocratic polling

By Wordie on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 7:49pm |
This morning, I downloaded the pdf of the January 12 CNN poll results that's available at TPM Election Central (you can download the pdf yourself here) and I was astounded - CNN has excluded John Edwards from their polling! Edwards...

Ron Paul on "soft fascism" on MTP

By Wordie on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 3:59pm |
I had not really understood the appeal of Ron Paul, who has been generating huge amounts in donations over the last months, until I watched the Meet the Press interview this morning, and heard him speak about the "soft fascism"...

Text of 1960 Speech by JFK at the Houston Ministers Conference

By Wordie on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 12:54am |
I happened to check C-Span to see if there were any political things on TV this afternoon, and discovered they were running a couple of segments about religion in politics. The first was some video of a focus group session...

Walt and Mearshimer (The Israel Lobby) on C-Span2 BookTV - repeats October 14

By Wordie on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 5:21pm |
Authors Stephen Walt and John Mearshimer speak about their book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, on C-Span2 BookTV. It was an excellent presentation; the authors anticipated and thoroughly addressed many of the questions that have been raised by...

Text of Clinton and Obama Position Statements on Israel

By Wordie on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 3:44am |
The Presidential candidates recently released statements to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) regarding their positions on Israel. Ron Kampeas (TPM Cafe poster Kampeas) of the JTA confirmed this, and very kindly posted both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's statemtents in...

Why not Dodd?

By Wordie on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 3:01pm |
I watched the Charlie Rose interviews with Senator Chris Dodd last week, and I was quite impressed with his knowledge and demeanor; he's dignified and has gravitas, but still seems down-to-earth, sensible and accessible. (I'm hoping Charlie Rose will do...

Bill Moyers' Journal (PBS) on Impeachment

By Wordie on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 5:17pm |
The danger of not impeaching now, in view of the dangerous precedent being set for extra-Constitutional behavior by future presidents - was made repeatedly on Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS last night. It's a compelling argument. Moyers' entire program was...

Ahmadinejad misquoted; not genocidal in relation to Israel (Juan Cole)

By Wordie on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 8:09pm |
I'm posting this in the hope that we will be able to avoid a foolish war with Iran, justifications for which are in no small part seemingly based on the misquoting of Ahmadinejad. Note that Cole hardly thinks highly of...

Fareed Zakaria article in Newsweek, "Beyond Bush"

By Wordie on Thu, 06/07/2007 - 8:18pm |
The cover story of the new edition of Newsweek (June 11, 2007) features an article by Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, frequent contributor to The Washington Post and numerous other prominent publications, author of several books including The New...

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