11 Aug
Posted by charles as News
They’re baaaaaaaaaack! The Russians that is. The bi-polar world that became a uni-polar world with the demise of the Soviet Union is back to a bi-polar one—tri, if you want to factor in China, though it doesn’t seem as expansionist as the “new” Russia appears to be.
The situation in Georgia is dire and [...]
It is amazing listening to the television “experts” and pundits as they pontificate on the morals–or lack thereof–of former presidential candidate John Edwards who now admits he did have an affair after repeatedly lying and insisting that he had not.
Let’s see:
Are they surprised that a politician would lie? These alleged experts can’t be that dumb? [...]
07 Aug
Posted by charles as Journalism, commentary
ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross has addressed the controversy over his 2001 reports on the anthrax attacks in this country in an interview with TVNewser.
Simon Owens of Bloggasm, in turn, interviewed some of the critics of the ABC reports and was kind enough to send me the link. Interesting reading.
For more on this and [...]
06 Aug
Posted by charles as Journalism, News, Politics, commentary
Denver is screwing it up even before it has started–which is an impressive thing to do!
When the Democrats come to town August 25-28 for their convention, protesters will be so far away from the delegates they may as well be protesting in China, except they wouldn’t be able to do that there, either. Nice, China [...]
Is her heart really in it? Hillary’s that is.
The tightly controlled Obama organization–whose secrecy at times would be the envy of the Mafia-has let it be known that Hillary Clinton will be hitting the road on Barack Obama’s behalf, visiting several states, including Nevada and Florida.
They did stage–and it certainly was that–that “Unity” rally shortly [...]
04 Aug
Posted by charles as commentary
As America was reeling from the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, some notable Americans starting getting anthrax laced letters in the mail. It now appears as if a government scientist who apparently killed himself last week as the feds were reportedly moving in, may have been responsible for the attacks.
But [...]