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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thursday, March 17, 2005
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Terri Schindler Schiavo A statement by President Bush, today: The case of Terri Schiavo raises complex issues. Yet in instances like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws, and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life. Those who live at the mercy of others deserve our special care and concern. It should be our goal as a nation to build a culture of life, where all Americans are valued, welcomed, and protected and that culture of life must extend to individuals with disabilities. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 09:29:19 PM |
Query About Communist Subversion and Academic Bias A reader writes: I read a column about five years ago, which I am trying find. Quite possibly Horowitz wrote it – I’ve written to him to inquire, but have not heard an answer yet. The article discussed a high level planning decision by the American Communist Party back in the 1950’s. In it, the Communists determined that they had reached the apex of their societal influence from infiltration of the labor unions, and they therefore decided to focus their attention on a systematic invasion of America’s colleges and universities. It was reasoned that then-current centrist department heads would welcome leftist diversity in their liberal naïveté. 50 years later, with hard-core leftists supplanting them in positions of power, today’s far-left department heads shun centrists and conservatives. This strategic decision is a seminal point to the current discussion about the crisis in academia, and would be a significant revelation within the blogosphere. This strategic infiltration is the root cause of the crisis at CU, at Harvard, and at many, many other schools. Would you ask your readers if they have information on this? Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 09:14:25 PM |
NARAL Haiku Contest Some entries by John Hearn.
Think of your future! Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 08:32:33 PM |
"The Unknown Death Toll" Coalition for Darfur II + + + + + Many seemed surprised when UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland recently updated the estimated death toll in Darfur upwards from 70,000 to 180,000. Egeland estimates that 10,000 people have died, and continue to die, per month since the start of the genocide 18 months ago. He also admitted that the new death toll might be even higher (more than 200,000) and stressed that this new figure does not include those who have died violently at the hands of the Sudanese government or their proxy militia, the Janjaweed. The original figure of 70,000 was an estimate, or rather an underestimate, as it covered only the mortality in camps accessible to the World Health Organization between April and early September 2004. As such, it did not include mortality rates prior to April 2004, nor did it include mortality rates among the more than 200,000 refugees in Chad, nor the mortality rates in regions inaccessible to humanitarian organizations. It is in these inaccessible regions where most of the violence is taking place. According to Sudan expert Eric Reeves, whose ongoing analysis of the situation in Darfur has been vital to understanding the widening scope of the crisis, an estimated 240,000 others have died as a direct result of government and/or Janjaweed violence. If these numbers are correct, and we really have no cause to doubt them, it is safe to assume that some 400,000 Sudanese civilians have died in the last year and a half from direct violence, disease, or starvation. That is more than 22,200 per month. That is more than 740 per day. That is more than 30 per hour. That is one death every 2 minutes... for 18 months. Despite the seemingly hopeless nature of the crisis, we at the Coalition for Darfur believe that together we can raise awareness of the situation and, at the same time, raise money for the vital work that Save the Children is doing by providing food, water, shelter, and protection to over 200,000 children and families in Darfur each month. Together, and with your support, we hope to make a small but meaningful contribution to alleviating the massive suffering that continues to plague the region. + + + + + The Blog from the Core does not necessarily endorse every detail of the weekly Coalition for Darfur message. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 06:50:05 PM |
Out of Iraq News that NYT, AP, CBS, and CNN won't be reporting. The Professor blogs an e-mail, today. + + + + + I went to an AUSA dinner last night at the Ft. Hood Officers' Club to hear a speech by MG Pete Chiarelli, CG of the 1st Cav Div. He and most of the Div. have just returned from Iraq. Very informative and, surprise, the Mainstream Media (MSM) isn't telling the story. I was not there as a reporter, didn't take notes but I'll make some the points I remember that were interesting, surprising or generally stuff I had not heard before. It was not a speech per se. He just walked and talked, showed some slides and answered questions. Very impressive guy.
There was more, lots more, but the idea is that you haven't heard any of this from anyone, at least I hadn't and I pay more attention than most. Great stuff. We should be proud. Said the Cav troops said it was ALL worth it on Jan. 30 when they saw how the Iraqis handled election day. Made them very proud of their service and what they had accomplished. + + + + + He also blogs a bit from StrategyPage and another e-mail; both worth reading. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 06:23:47 PM |
On the Courts and Democracy Ben Batemen, quoted by Justin Katz, at Dust in the Light: .... Marty: "Why are 'We The People' being shut out of the most important cultural decisions of our time?" ResIpsa: "Because 'We the People' have a knack for approving of things like slavery, racial segregation, denying women the right to vote, and preventing people of different races to marry." What a remarkable exchange! On that logic, why bother calling them judges? Why not just call them benevolent oligarchs? Or we could buy them little faux military uniforms and call them generalissimos.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 05:57:23 PM |
I Understand That Somebody Called Rosie O'Donnell Is Upset That Somebody Called Kirstie Alley Might Be Exaggerating Her Fatness What a welcome development. Finally, some entertainment-types have figured out what's really important. Dipwads. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 05:39:25 PM |
Hoodwinked, Bamboozled, and Hornswoggled Sean P. Treglia, formerly of the Pew Charitable Trusts, explains how Pew ginned-up a phony "grassroots" movement for campaign finance reform. Wherein we see Core's Law of New Media in action. A couple of articles at the New York Post, today, reveal that "bipartisan campaign finance reform" has been a scam & a sham: politicians and the public were fooled, and journalists couldn't have cared less. First, Ryan Sager writes Buying "Reform": Campaign-finance reform has been an immense scam perpetrated on the American people by a cadre of left-wing foundations and disguised as a "mass movement." But don't take my word for it. One of the chief scammers, Sean Treglia, a former program officer of the Pew Charitable Trusts, confesses it all in an astonishing videotape I obtained earlier this week. The tape — of a conference held at USC's Annenberg School for Communication in March of 2004 — shows Treglia expounding to a gathering of academics, experts and journalists (none of whom, apparently, ever wrote about Treglia's remarks) on just how Pew and other left-wing foundations plotted to create a fake grassroots movement to hoodwink Congress. "I'm going to tell you a story that I've never told any reporter," Treglia says on the tape. "Now that I'm several months away from Pew and we have campaign-finance reform, I can tell this story." That story in brief: .... Second, another article is a partial transcript of the video-taped session including, at the end, links to three videos themselves. I say, get 'em while they're hot! Core's Law of New Media? There Is No Such Thing As Local News Anymore: In the Internet Age, anything anybody has said anywhere, anytime, can sooner or later become known everywhere else. (Thanks, Big Trunk.) P.S. Sager has posted other video clips at his blog. P.P.S. Thanks. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 05:30:47 PM |
At Long Last, the Vaunted & Dreaded Arab Street Rises Up! The Cedar Revolution. The Times, they are a changin'. From Michael Binyon, "The West cannot win Arab minds paralysed with confusion over what they believe" at the London Times, Mar. 26, 2003: .... For weeks there has been a curious silence in the Middle East. Arab governments said little about the looming conflict. The “Arab street”, that rough and rowdy gauge of public opinion, seemed eerily calm. Of course the governments issued ritual statements about the need for a negotiated solution. But their hearts were not in it. They knew that the conflict was coming. They had already discounted diplomacy as useless. And they knew they were powerless to influence, let alone stop, America. The West took this for acquiescence. Politicians visiting the Gulf all reported that everyone wanted to see the end of President Saddam Hussein. They fostered the impression, gained from hearsay and exiles, that Iraqis too would rejoice in his downfall. But visitors spoke to elites — the English-speaking and Western-educated rulers, the bankers, businessmen and professionals who chafe at the backwardness of the masses or the politics of the past. The masses think otherwise. The political divisions in the Arab world, between the rulers and ruled, the Gulf and the Levant, the Islamists and the secularists, have long thwarted the search for Arab unity. The result has been a kind of mental paralysis — an inability to resolve political contradictions and conflicting emotions. Is the West a model for Arab society or a threat? Is America the Great Satan or the land of opportunity? Is Arab impotence the result of foreign domination and Western/Israeli conspiracies or is it due to the lack of democracy, freedom and progress in most of the Arab world? The common assumption in the West, that the elites and the educated look to it as a model while those lacking opportunity see it as the enemy of Islam is wrong. In fact, many people from both groups hold both views together. And this is why the West cannot win on the Arab street.... The Arab Street on the Streets of Lebanon, Monday, March 14, 2005
From Gerard Baker, "What have the Americans ever done for us? Liberated 50 million people..." at the London Times, Mar. 4, 2005: .... Little more than three years after US forces, backed by their faithful British allies, set foot in Afghanistan, the entire historical dynamic of this blighted region has already shifted. Ignoring, fortunately, the assault from clever world opinion on America’s motives, its credibility and its ambitions, the Bush Administration set out not only to eliminate immediate threats but also to remake the Middle East. In the last month, the pace of progress has accelerated, and from Beirut to Kabul.... It’s too early, in fairness, to claim complete victory in the American-led struggle to bring peace through democratic transformation of the region. Despite the temptation to crow, we must remember that this is not Berlin 1989. There will surely be challenging times ahead in Iraq, Iran, in the West Bank and elsewhere. The enemies of democratic revolution — all the terrorists and Baathists, the sheikhs, the mullahs and the monarchs — are not going to give up without a fight. But something very important is happening now, something that will be very hard to stop. And, although not all of it can be directly attributed to the US strategy in the region, can anyone seriously argue that it would have happened without it? Neither is it true, as some have tried to argue, that all of this is merely some unintended consequence of an immoral and misconceived war in Iraq.... I doubt that anybody, even the most prescient in the Bush Administration or at 10 Downing Street, thought the progress we are now seeing would come as quickly as it has. But what was clear to the bold foreign policy strategists in Washington was that the status quo that existed before September 11 could no longer be tolerated. Much of the Muslim world represented decay and stagnation, and bred anger and resentment. That was the root cause of the terrorism that had attacked America with increasing ferocity between 1969 and 2001. America’s critics craved stability in the Middle East. Don’t rock the boat, they said. But to the US this stability was that of the mass grave; the calm was the eerie quiet that precedes the detonation of the suicide bomb. The boat was holed and listing viciously.... The Arab Street on the Streets of Lebanon, Monday, March 1 through Monday, March 7, 2005
Lane Core Jr. CIW P Thu. 03/17/05 07:37:08 AM |
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