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Going out on top
(USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important — but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
Afghan aid that works
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - In Afghan areas where the international aid groups fear to tread, the National Solidarity Program (NSP) is one of the country's most successful development initiatives. The community-led approach to reconstruction and to rural infrastructure has made achievements in empowering local people, strengthening democracy, and increasing faith in the Afghan government. Yet it risks being underfunded.
What's next for the Ron Paul revolution?
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Ron Paul and his 1 million supporters aren't going away. And that's probably a good thing for America's future.
A thin-ice way to save polar bears
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Lawsuits are not the best way to force the public into solving planet-size problems such as climate change. In most cases, political consensus – as Al Gore is trying to achieve – brings the most fitting solutions. But the environmentalists who sued on behalf of polar bears likely knew that and shouldn't be surprised at what their suit has wrought.
Where racial healing happens
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Shortly after Senator Obama's speech on race this March, a friend likened the racial issue to an old coffee pot that keeps percolating. Every few years something happens to bring the vexed problem bubbling to the surface.
A Sublime Moment For Cable TV--Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement.
(HuffingtonPost.com)
HuffingtonPost.com - Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39--that exhausted neo-con trope--to our current situation vis-Ã -vis Iran and etc. The exchange was pegged to Bush's political exploitation of Israel's 60th anniversary.
California Decision Makes Same-Sex Marriage a 2008 Issue
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- Same-sex marriage just made a major comeback as a campaign issue.
Winter Soldiers, Part II
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- Over the past two months since this year's Winter Soldier event, a parade of luminaries has gone before Congress to testify about the Iraq War: distinguished generals, cabinet secretaries and various think-tank dignitaries. One group, however, has been conspicuously absent from the conversation: soldiers.
If Clinton Wants VP, Obama Can't Stop Her
(RealClearPolitics.com)
RealClearPolitics.com - Does Hillary Clinton want to be the Democrats vice presidential candidate? Probably. Could she get on the ticket by dropping out before the last states vote on June 3rd? Definitely not. Does Barack Obama want her on the ticket? Absolutely not. Can he stop her if she wants it? Probably not. Why not? Super delegates are why not.
Clinton's Biggest Mistake
(RealClearPolitics.com)
RealClearPolitics.com - Coming off her landslide win in West Virginia on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton plods on to the end of the primary season on June 3. But her campaign has already been declared dead by many pundits, and the post mortems on why her campaign failed have already begun.
MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL ISN'T WORTHY OF THE MAN
(Georgie Anne Geyer)
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.
Cindy McCain Flaunts Her Privilege
(Joe Conason)
Joe Conason - Double standards are endemic in American journalism.
'Black and Bluestein'
(Larry Elder)
Larry Elder - I recently traveled to New York. On the plane, I met an actress named Lenora. During the long flight, I learned that a) she's Jewish, b) she works as an actress, and c) was doing a play in the hyper-liberal city of Santa Monica, Calif. Not exactly, I thought, a Reagan Republican.
DEMOCRATS' HYBRID PICKUP TRUCKS
(Ann Coulter)
Ann Coulter - On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.
Editorial Roundup
(AP)
AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
Gloomy Republicans
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - First, the good news. Conservatives won a sweeping victory in an enormously important election the week before last.
The Big, Bad, Right-Wing Wolf
(Brent Bozell III)
Brent Bozell III - In the last presidential election, leftist special interest groups and socialist billionaires like George Soros waged war with an unprecedented tsunami of negative TV attacks on the Republican incumbent, suggesting he was a draft dodger that knowingly lied us into war.
Beyonce's New Brand of Pedophilia Chic
(Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin - If you thought the soft-porn image of Disney teen queen Miley Cyrus — wearing nothing but ruby-stained lips and a bedsheet — in Vanity Fair magazine was disturbing, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Is Hitler Funny?
(Susan Estrich)
Susan Estrich - When I got to one of my offices yesterday (I won't say which, lest you hold it against them, which I certainly don't), people were crowded around the computer, watching the latest video on YouTube. And laughing.
Tortured law on torture
(Robert Scheer)
Robert Scheer - Ah, yes, those torture confessions have proved so useful.
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