Archive for the 'good jounalism' Category

Tracking some of the best from the editorial pages around the media.

Amity Shlaes’ thorough debunking of the folly of the Fair Tax, the package Huckabee is pushing and not telling us the truth about.
Huckabee as Jimmy Carter Redux? Hmmm…
Dick Morris gives us the reasons why Oprah’s endorsement will be a “big boost” to Obama.  [...]

Round-up time.

Bunch of violence in Iraq, 3 bombs, 27 dead, 150 wounded. Surge still working, I guess.
Ike Turner, still dead.
After three year “break,” war seems to be ramping up again in the Congo. Bad news all around here, hinges on the same ethnic tensions between Hutus and Tutsis that led to genocide in [...]

Check out this great, raving kind of opinion piece by Ben Tanosborn at al Jazeera.  It’s called “Consentership, more pernicious than dictatorship,” and it starts with the tag “Bush will soon be on his way out, but rest assured that his replacement will be a clone.”  I’m not sure I agree with several of his [...]