NewsCloud.com Opinion News http://www.newscloud.com/section/opinion Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:40:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 en-us Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » Jesse Helms Finally Dead http://www.newscloud.com/read/Wonkette_The_DC_Gossip_Blog_Archive_Jesse_Helms_Finally_Dead We interrupt your Fourth of July with some Breaking News: Jesse Helms was apparently still alive, and now he's dead, hooray! He was a sour troll and a bigot, and it's a testament to every rotten thing about this country that for a quarter century, he was one of the most powerful people in American politics.

]]> Lessons from North Korea for Middle East http://www.newscloud.com/read/Lessons_from_North_Korea_for_Middle_East Our world would be so dull without its delicious ironies and ever fascinating double standards. Who could have ever thought that having condemned North Korea as part of the "Axis of evil" - the other two being Iran and Iraq of course - in September 2001, Bush would rush his top diplomats to welcome "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il to the fold of civilized world.

]]> Op-Ed Columnist - ‘It’s Over, Lady!’ - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/OpEd_Columnist_Its_Over_Lady_OpEd_NYTimescom Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity "Barack and me" Friday and talking about "his grace and his grit," Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign. "We want Hillary!" screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate. "It's over, lady!" yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away.

]]> LIARS ROUND-UP By Ralph Peters- New York Post http://www.newscloud.com/read/LIARS_ROUNDUP_By_Ralph_Peters_New_York_Post THE facts about your security are being torn to shreds by activist liars. And they think that you're too stupid to know the difference.Let's lay out the worst current examples of media make-believe and election-year truth-trashing:

Whopper No. 1: America is less safe today than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. Oh, really? Where's the evidence? The Clinton years saw New York City attacked and Americans slaughtered by terrorists around the globe. Nothing was done to protect us.

And the true end of the Clinton era came on 9/11. ...

]]> Real Journalists Don't Make $5 Million a Year | Media and Technology | AlterNet http://www.newscloud.com/read/Real_Journalists_Don_t_Make_5_Million_a_Year_Media_and_Technology_AlterNet Unlike the media's Brokaws and Blitzers, real journalists don't have cozy relationships with the powerful. Real journalists are feared.

]]> NYT Lock and Load - Supreme Court Ruling on Gun Rights http://www.newscloud.com/read/NYT_Lock_and_Load_Supreme_Court_Ruling_on_Gun_Rights That last part is the final indignity of the decision: when the justices go to work at the Supreme Court, guns will still be banned. When most Americans show up at their own jobs, they will not have that protection. This audaciously harmful decision, which hands the far right a victory it has sought for decades, is a powerful reminder of why voters need to have the Supreme Court firmly in mind when they vote for the president this fall. Senator John McCain has said he would appoint justices like Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito - both of whom supported this decision. If the court is allowed to tip even further to the far right, there will be even more damage done to the rights and the safety of Americans.

]]> How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain http://www.newscloud.com/read/How_Lies_Live_and_Grow_in_the_Brain An interesting and timely op-ed piece in the Times covers a phenomenon, known as source amnesia, that can lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true. With time, this misremembering only gets worse. A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories. The article presents the science behind the success of swift boat ads and other campaign lies.


]]> How Google Earth is Trying to Wipe Israel Off the Map http://www.newscloud.com/read/How_Google_Earth_is_Trying_to_Wipe_Israel_Off_the_Map Disturbing....

Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda and Replacement Geography

]]> Bullfighting is tried by the International Court of Justice for Animal Rights in Geneva. - swissinfo http://www.newscloud.com/read/Bullfighting_is_tried_by_the_International_Court_of_Justice_for_Animal_Rights_in_Geneva_swissinfo The bullfight: a traditional, spectacular ballet of death that pits man against beast, or a ritualised sadistic slaughter?

]]> Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible http://www.newscloud.com/read/Dobson_accuses_Obama_of_distorting_Bible AP - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

]]> Mr. Bush v. the Bill of Rights - Editorial - NYTimes.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/Mr_Bush_v_the_Bill_of_Rights_Editorial_NYTimescom In the waning months of his tenure, President Bush and his allies are once again trying to scare Congress into expanding the president's powers to spy on Americans without a court order.

]]> Obama, Clinton and identity politics http://www.newscloud.com/read/Obama_Clinton_and_identity_politics According to the American media, the emergence of African-American man and a woman as leading presidential candidates represents a social advance for masses of people-despite the fact that Obama was carefully groomed by wealthy corporate interests, while Hillary Clinton owes her political prominence to her marriage to the former president.

]]> Are evangelicals abandoning their political agenda? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Are_evangelicals_abandoning_their_political_agenda ...In other words, the non-abortion and non-gay-rights issues have now become the elephant in the room for evangelicals. So what to do?

]]> Essay - Doctor Recalls Abortion Complications Before Roe v. Wade http://www.newscloud.com/read/Essay_Doctor_Recalls_Abortion_Complications_Before_Roe_v_Wade It is important to remember that Roe v. Wade did not mean that abortions could be performed. They have always been done, dating from ancient Greek days. What Roe said was that ending a pregnancy could be carried out by medical personnel, in a medically accepted setting, thus conferring on women, finally, the full rights of first-class citizens - and freeing their doctors to treat them as such.

]]> Color, Controversy and DNA http://www.newscloud.com/read/Color_Controversy_and_DNA A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.

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