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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

First Amendment Farce

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So now Judith Miller, who spent 85 days in the clink to protect him (and lost her job when she got out), testifies that Scooter Libby lied a...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Family Value

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When Alabama Governot George Wallace could not pass a law that would allow him to succeed himself in the 1960s, his wife Lurleen ran and won...

Self-Selected, Unelected, Disconnected VP

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Does Cheney, a New York Times editorial asks, "simply feel free to cut the ground out from under Mr. Bush?" Why not? In 2000, afte...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Remedial Journalism for Wolf Blitzer

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When it comes to the Cheneys, CNN’s dapper little anchor is a slow learner. In October, Lynne Cheney, plugging her children’s book, weighed ...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Why We're in Iraq: The Smoking Gun

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As Chuck Hagel was making an impassioned plea against the surge in a Senate hearing room, he was providing the last piece of the Iraq puzzle...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Picture of Dorian Bush

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This President is not aging. In past State of the Unions, you could see a toll on the faces of the men with the most burdensome job in the w...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

150,000 Hostages

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Would anyone care about the State of the Union speech if the President weren’t holding 150,000 Americans hostage in Iraq? The lamest of lame...

Hillary's Favorite Movies

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On her webcast, Senator Clinton talks warmly about “The Wizard of Oz.” Classic family fare, but then again, “Oz” conjures up the old mounteb...
Monday, January 22, 2007

The Case for Biden vs. Edwards

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If Democrats lose their nerve and revert to running a white male, they should take a long look at Joe Biden rather than John Edwards, now pl...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

"If I Did It, It Wasn't Me"

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O.J. Simpson is giving schizophrenia a bad name. In Newsweek's account of the crucial chapter of his non-confession, Simpson claims a cl...

If Bush Can Do It, How Hard Can It Be?

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is drawing every politician we ever heard of and some we haven’t. Tom Tancredo? Mike Hu...
Friday, January 19, 2007

The Never-Idle Australian's "American Idol"

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I’ve never seen “American Idol,” but then again I’ve never tasted a dirt sandwich, and I have no plans to do either. Still cable news keeps ...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Tony Blair's Vanishing Act

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That sound you don’t hear is Tony Blair tiptoeing out of Iraq. While applauding Bush’s decision to send more Americans into Baghdad, the Pri...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

High Noon in Iraq

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Somebody in the White House, please, hide those copies of the President’s favorite movie. He’s been watching “High Noon” again. He has to st...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Vicissitudes of Time

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Time Warner is firing magazine people and buying an online ad brokerage for $900 million. If there is a Media Heaven, Henry R. Luce must be ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Postcard to Hillary Clinton

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Dear Senator: Did you have good weather for your long weekend in Iraq? Are you bringing something home for us? Hope you didn't buy a rug...

Double Talk

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Is there an echo in here? George Bush on 60 Minutes: “If we fail in Iraq, the enemy will follow us here.” “Failure in Iraq would embolden th...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Martin Luther King to Obama

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West Side residents of Chicago now have a U.S. Senator who looks like them and it may be, in more ways than one, due to the man whose birthd...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

A Crying Shame

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It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by George Bush’s tears at a Medal of Honor ceremony yesterday, but grief over one Marine’s he...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Hillary's Miraculous Recovery

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Reports that Senator Clinton has been in a Terri Schiavo-like coma since the New Year were refuted last night when she was heard to mumble a...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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