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Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ Chrenkoff, Armavirumque, Times Against Humanity, Michelle Malkin, Venona Project, relapsed catholic, Power Line, A Western Heart, GetReligion, The Remedy, No Left Turns, Discriminations, In the Red Zone, Lead and Gold, little green footballs, Rightwingsparkle, The Diplomad, Power Line (again), Wittingshire, BlackFive, Instapundit.com, JunkYardBlog, Off the Record, JustOneMinute, Catholic Light, and Envoy Encore.

Bad news from Iraq @ Chrenkoff:

Being avid consumers of news, most of us are aware of the consistent stream of negative reporting coming out of Iraq. Death, violence, terrorism, precarious political situation, problems with reconstruction and public frustration (both in Iraq and America) dominate, if not overwhelm, the mainstream media coverage and commentary on Iraq. The readers' reactions to my fortnightly "Good news from Iraq" segments show just how little good news reaches people.

But it's one thing to have a gut feeling about media negativity and another to know exactly how negative the coverage is. So today I decided to do a little tally....

The intellectual capacity of women @ Armavirumque:

Poor Larry Summers. The president of Harvard University has good instincts. But he wants people to like him. So he starts off by saying things that are true but unpopular. Then people get angry with him and he apologizes and takes it all back. A case in point: A few years ago, Summers caused a ruckus when he suggested that Cornel West, who was then the Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., University Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, buckle down to some serious scholarship (West's most recent production was a rap CD called "Sketches of my Culture") and that he lead the way in fighting the scandal of grade inflation at Harvard where one of every two grades is an A or A-....

Sir Francis Galton's Ignoble Legacy @ Times Against Humanity:

If a twentieth part of the cost and pains were spent in measures for the improvement of the human race that is spent on the improvements of the breed of horses and cattle, what a galaxy of genius might we not create! —Francis Galton, 1864

Thus Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, who had published On the Origins of the Species just five years earlier, fired the opening salvo of the pseudo-science he would later dub "eugenics" (from the Greek for "wellborn"). Galton, Jim Holt writes in his review of Martin Brookes' biography Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton, also coined the dichotomy "nature versus nurture," a debate that rages to this day....

A Peek Behind The Homeland Security Curtain @ Michelle Malkin:

For those who may still be laboring under the illusion that we are not at war, I strongly suggest that you visit Cryptome.org's Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief page before it gets taken down. The proprietor, John Young, was leaked sensitive but unclassified homeland security briefs and posted five months' worth of the briefs (Sept 2004 - Jan 2005) online. It's a controversial site, but the info is legit and as Young notes, much of the info was accessible to the general public (and remains so)....

Fortunate Son or Fortunate "News"? @ Venona Project:

In an article on the WeeklyStandard.com, the Editors ask:

“(5) Aside from the phone call between Mapes and Joe Lockhart, do we have reason to believe there were any contacts between CBS News employees and the Kerry campaign? The Thornburgh-Boccardi report does not even mention the "Fortunate Son" DNC advertising campaign which was launched the day after the CBS story aired.”

A brief review of the chronology of contacts between Ms. Mapes and Kerry campaign personnel — as set forth in the Panel's report — as well as proceeding events illustrates that there is firm evidence of additional contacts....

Canadian bishop blasted for remarks on gays @ relapsed catholic (brackets and quoted ellipsis in original:

"Bishop Henry, in his letter, abruptly linked homosexuality with adultery, prostitution and pornography as human acts that undermine the foundation of the family, and argued for 'the state... [to] use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the interests of the common good.'" ....

The uncivil election @ Power Line (emphasis in original):

David Lebedoff is a Minneapolis attorney and long-time friend. David is also the author of my two favorite books on Minnesota politics, The Twenty-First Ballot: A Political Party Struggle in Minnesota and Ward Number 6. Most recently, he is the author of the widely reviewed and admired The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying Our Democracy, published this fall just before the election. David has now forwarded to us "IT'S CALLING PEOPLE STUPID, STUPID," in which he applies the thesis of The Uncivil War to the outcome of the election: ....

thinking about stuff @ A Western Heart:

I finally realized why I’ve been having so much trouble blogging on a regular basis these days. When I first started writing I did so as a way to gather my thoughts and sift through my feelings concerning all that was happening in the world....

Poynter debate: Veteran help wanted on religion beat? @ GetReligion:

A long, long time ago — a quarter century, to be precise — I was a copy editor and rock columnist at a daily newspaper in Central Illinois. Careerwise, what I wanted to do was write about religion, which was one reason I had studied the history of religion in America as well as journalism at Baylor University and then did a master's degree in church-state studies, which combined theology, political science, history and some law....

NYTimes Can't Shake Bad Habits @ The Remedy:

The big debate over Rathergate was whether CBS personnel knowingly falsified documents or were merely blinded by either partisan zeal or a passion for hot news. Many still believe that, in any case, CBS's behavior with the Bush Texas Air National Guard story was somehow aberrational, out of the professional journalistic norm. My judgment was that culpability and partisan zeal were one in that case. Today's [Mon. Jan. 17] NYTimes editorial deploring business supoprt for President Bush's judicial nominees provides evidence that that combination is at work every day. Here's the editorial in its entirety: ....

The, ahem, new natural law @ No Left Turns:

I’ve just gotten around to reading the transcript of the exchange last week between Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer. As I promised, here’s the "more later." ....

At The Washington Post, More Fears-Mongering @ Discriminations:

In past posts I have complained that the Washington Post's point man on civil rights issues, Darryl Fears, equates civil rights with affirmative action (so that no one who opposes the latter can really support the former) and asserts that what minorities in the U.S. have in common is their victimization....

King Day @ In the Red Zone:

Michael Luther King was born on April 15, 1929. Nowadays, in order to provide their citizens with a three-day week-end, many municipalities and states commemorate the life of this man — who later changed his name to Martin — on the Monday nearest to his birthday. So it is today we observe the semi-holiday of one of America's greatest figures, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and martyr to the cause of human rights....

Cass Sunstein explains the root cause of Rathergate @ Lead and Gold:

I know he did not intend to. In fact, this article was written three years before CBS ran their TANG story and Sunstein is most worried about right-wingers on the internet, not the honest liberals who dominate broadcast journalism. Still, this passage explains how good people could run such an embarrassingly bad story: ....

The Media Are the Enemy @ little green footballs:

Once again Seymour Hersh puts his career and his massive ego ahead of the national security of the United States: ....

As you can see I have a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr... @ Rightwingsparkle (italics in original):

... under my blog name. I think I chose it because I feel that there should be something in every one's life that they feel passionate about. Something bigger than ourselves. Before blogging I was an avid writer of letter to the editors of newspaper and magazines. I also had an occasional article. The following was published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram in January of 1994. I repeat it here in honor of Dr. King.

Weird Watch @ The Diplomad:

If over the past 15 years or so one read and believed the reports of Human Rights Watch, one would be 110% convinced that the United States — the world's oldest democracy; the country that brought down colonialism, Nazism, Fascism, and Communism; invented the UN; serves as a safehaven for tens-of millions of people of all races, nationalities, and creeds; and remains still the most sought after destination for millions of intending immigrants around the world — is the greatest threat to peace, international cooperation, freedom and democracy ever to exist. It seems that for the guys and the gals at HRW, whenever something "negative" happens in the world, it's ultimate source is something the USA has done or failed to do. If Egypt adopts restrictive legislation it's because it imitates the US post-9/11 Patriot Act; if Britain does, it's because of the US-induced "climate of fear" after 9/11; if Cuba has a bad human rights record, the U.S. economic embargo is partially to blame, etc. No other country gets as much attention as the USA in HRW's reports: go look for yourselves....

Rathergate: The cover-up @ Power Line:

What the hell was Watergate? Thirty years later, we lack a clear understanding of the most basic facts regarding the scandal. Who ordered the bungled second break-in of the Democratic National Committee on June 17, 1972? What was the motive for the break-in? What was the role played by the CIA in the break-in or its bungling? We do know that as early as June 20, President Nixon took charge of efforts to cover up his campaign's link to the break-in and and manipulated the resources of the executive branch toward the cover-up....

Bring Home the Bacon — But to What Home? @ Wittingshire:

.... Oh, come on. Men do too want women they can talk to. The problem is, women who are highly ambitious "achievers" aren't around to talk to — they're at work....

Aiding and Abetting the Enemy @ BlackFive:

Below is an essay by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Ryan — a Task Force (Battalion +) Commander in Iraq — who has some words about the Fourth Estate: ....

Various lefty emailers,... @ Instapundit.com:

... mostly in rather nasty tones, have asked me to write about the shutdown of the Iraq Survey Group's search for WMD stockpiles. It didn't seem like big news to me, since I was actually under the impression that they had already given up....

Intelligent Design @ JunkYardBlog:

Should I weigh in on this debate? It can easily hijack a blog....

Take my neighbor. Please. @ Off the Record (italics in original):

After just 3 years of heavy thinking, the Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded that it's OK for a doctor to administer a lethal injection to anyone who is "suffering through living."

Let's say that John Doe is perfectly healthy, and perfectly happy in his life. John has a neighbor, Richard Roe, who detests him. Roe is a powerful community leader — let's say he's just donated a new wing to the medical center, where the euthanasia cases are "treated" — and the resident doctors always show him great respect.

Another thing: Richard Roe hates John Doe....

The Times On Social Security @ JustOneMinute:

The [New York] Times editors continue to follow the Social Security debate; unfortunately, they fail to follow their own newspaper's reporting....

Would somebody please slap Father? @ Catholic Light:

A visiting priest at my suburban parish completed the Preparation of the Gifts and made this comment to the congregation: ....

A Little Piece of My Heart @ Envoy Encore:

Saturday, February 12th, I am going to be speaking in Wylie, Texas on two subjects. One is anti-Catholic bigotry in America and the other is a crash course in Protestantese....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 01/22/05 08:50:42 AM
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