Ten Reasons Why A Torture Probe Is More Likely
Read Marc Ambinder who lists them … and as always makes a lot of sense. The post Ten Reasons Why A Torture Probe Is More Likely appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
View ArticleSome GOP Anti-Rush Limbaugh Rumblings Grow A Notch Louder
Have some GOP heretics begun to become more vocal? Damn the negative emails and broadcast denunciations: full speed ahead! Two voices from the GOP are now downplaying the idea that Rush Limbaugh has a...
View ArticleThe Millennial Generation
I am a Baby Boomer, born in 1950. My daughter is a Millennial, born in 1989 (the extreme young end). So you can imagine how interested I was to read this story at the Center for American Progress: It’s...
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Gallup Poll: Republicans Lose In All Demographic Groups Except Conservatives,...
A new Gallup poll provides evidence that the Republican party has now been seriously downsized in support from 2001 to 2009 — steadily losing ground in a host of groups across the boards, particularly...
View ArticleClinton to Grads: Marginalization of Women & Girls Continues – Use Social...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave the commencement address at Barnard College yesterday. Here’s an excerpt: And women’s progress is more than a matter of morality. It is a political,...
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Dick Cheney’s Poll Numbers Are Going Up
Former Vice President Dick Cheney may still not be Mr. Popularity when it comes to national poll numbers, but he has some good news today: on a day when the media will cover a speech on national...
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Pew Poll: Independent Voter Identification And Centrism Are Surging
A new Pew Research Center polls find that more than ever the true battleground for elections is going to be over which party can win over independent voters — since independent voter identification and...
View ArticleObama v. Roberts, Round One
As the President begins one-on-one interviews with replacements for David Souter, his eventual choice will be only the start of a four- or eight-year struggle for the soul of the Supreme Court in the...
View ArticleWhy Sotomayor Is the Right Pick
I applaud President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. I am thrilled because Sotomayor would be the first Supreme Court...
View ArticleTHE MODERATE VOICE GIVES A DAMN ABOUT A LOT OF IMPORTANT ISSUES
Despite the jocular admonition from “Jazz” who commented on my last post that I might be listed as a subversive under Federal terrorism laws; I am still here in sunny Phoenix at my computer. I joined...
View ArticleLEFT, RIGHT AND IN-FIELD COMMENTS
It’s late May and the Baseball season is fully underway. (I can’t believe professional basketball and hockey are still being played.) School is soon to be in summer recess if not already as here in...
View ArticlePRESIDENT OBAMA MUST AND WILL FAIL
President Obama needs to fail in order to become a better leader. Every U.S. President has met with failures of all kinds, and frequently they were self-inflicted. Great men around the world engaged in...
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Attacks on Sotomayor—What’s Good for the Goose…
Karl Rove today in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece,”‘Empathy’ Is Code for Judicial Activism”: Mr. Obama said he wanted to replace Justice David Souter with someone who had “empathy” and who’d...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS NEED A VACATION
The U.S. electorate strongly suggested it last November 2008. Perhaps Republicans need to be reminded again. They’re overworked from completely messing up the economy for the past 8 years. They’re...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS SHOULD GIVE PRESIDENT OBAMA A LONG ROPE
This is a continuation of my prior posting “Republicans need a vacation.” If the fierce critics of President Obama really want his Administration and liberal Democrats to fail, they should not be...
View ArticleToday’s Glimmers of Economic Hope
Because I am optimistic about our economy, about Americans and about America, I have been writing about the “glimmers of economic hope” I see day after day, week after week, in our efforts to dig...
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With Judge Sotomayor, Obama Boosts Image of U.S. Supreme Court: La Jornada,...
So how are people in Latin America reacting to the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court? In the first of a series of articles from Latin...
View ArticleBring Out Your Dead!
I was pointed to this story from Minnesota Majority by Hot Air and Yid with Lid. Normally one only finds stories of miraculous resurrection either in Easter services or the South Side of Chicago, but...
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Back to the Future for Obama
Alan I. Abramowitz on Back to the Future for Obama: Comparing the 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election represented one of the most dramatic...
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Who’s Afraid of Big Government? Not Us
Alan I. Abramowitz on Who’s Afraid of Big Government? Not Us Barack Obama has been pulling the wool over the eyes of the American people. At least that’s what some conservative pundits are claiming....
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McCain’s Campaign Team Disses Sarah Palin In Vanity Fair Piece
Members of Arizona Senator John McCain’s 2008 Presidential campaign team have dissed McCain’s former running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, the New York Daily News...
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Bill Clinton’s Image Takes A Triple Hit in New Book Game Change
The upcoming book Game Change reportedly contains three revelations that will further soil the reputation of former President Bill Clinton, whose reputation took a big hit during his wife Hillary...
View ArticleThe Contradictions of Obamaism (Guest Voice) UPDATED
Editor’s Note: This column has been updated so we’re running this again at the top of TMV. WASHINGTON — It turns out there were core contradictions in the promises Barack Obama made to the country in...
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Stop the Presses! Barack Obama Has Been Resurrected!: Folha, Brazil
Now that President Obama has his health care victory, can we say that the global media been too quick to pronounce President Obama a messiah, and then dead, and then resurrected? Continuing with...
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Pravda, McCain, Obama, Egypt and Arizona: What is the Connection?
According to the Associated Press, the Arizona House on Wednesday approved a bill that would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents...
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Blaming China Led Obama to Midterm Election Defeat: Wen Wei Po, Hong Kong
Can the results of the U.S. midterm elections be credibly traced to the Obama Administration’s policy of blaming the yuan’s peg to the dollar for America’s fiscal woes? According to this editorial...
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A Dire Midterm Result for the U.S. and the World: La Jornada, Mexico
Continuing with our global roundup of reaction to the U.S. midterm elections, this editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada expresses grave concern about the consequences of resurgent U.S. conservatism....
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Obama: An American Anomaly? – Folha, Brazil
Continuing with our global survey of reaction to the 2010 midterm elections, which is more out of place, the Republican midterm election landslide, or President Obama’s huge victory in 2008? After...
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Elections Can’t Cure America’s ‘Disease’: The Beijing Times, People’s...
So what’s the view of Beijing to the recent 2010 midterms? Not only do the U.S. elections appear unlikely to encourage China to set aside dictatorship for pluralism, according to this article by Mao...
View ArticleDo Only Conservative Victories Count?
WASHINGTON — In 2008, the largest number of voters in American history gave the Democrats their largest share of the presidential vote in 44 years and big majorities in the House and Senate. How did...
View ArticleObama: No Retreat, No Surrender
WASHINGTON — It was to be expected that in the course of his State of the Union address, President Obama would mention the killing of Osama bin Laden, whose death represented the culmination of the...
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Candid Obama Says ‘Hand Wringing’ After Debate Will Ebb
Candid Obama says ‘hand wringing’ after debate will ebb (via AFP) US President Barack Obama admitted Wednesday he was “too polite” in his debate with Mitt Romney, but predicted Democratic “hand...
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GOP’s Problem: Republican Party Shrinking And Growing More Conservative
In these days of financial crisis when coalition building and capturing independent voters seems to be the key to electoral victories more than ever, the Republican party now has a problem: it is...
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Specter Switches To Democratic Party: Potential Democratic Filibuster-Proof...
Faced with a stiff challenge from conservatives and part of the dying breed of moderate Republicans, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has announced that he’s leaving the GOP and will become a...
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House and Senate Approve Obama’s Budget Outline
On his 99th day in office, President Obama received the very welcome news that Senator Specter was switching to the Democratic Party, virtually assuring the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority in the...
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World Must Not Fall for Obama PR Onslaught: Al-Arab al-Yawm, Jordan
Is the American press, radio and TV acting as the media arm of the Obama Administration? This criticism, made very often on the American right – and for many years in regard to Reagan and Bush on the...
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Is Obama Accidental?
On the evidence of his press conference, our president of 100 days seems so right for this critical time that it tempts a secular humanist to suspect Barack Obama came to power, not just by the natural...
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New Hampshire’s Matriarchal Government Best Defines “Change”
I’ve written before about New Hampshire’s state legislature: the House and Senate are both led by women and the Senate is majority female. When I’ve written about these details, I’ve also written that...
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Moderates? Who Needs ‘Em? (Guest Voice)
Moderates? Who Needs ‘Em? by Rick Moran What’s wrong with conservatism? Philosophically, absolutely nothing. There is a family argument going on at the moment where some question how conservative...
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Erick Erickson’s Jaw-Dropping Tweet
I know that movement conservatives have been behaving in incredibly bizarre ways since Obama took office, but this, I think, might set some kind of record. Erick Erickson, the founder of RedState,...
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Some Thoughts on Gay Marriage and DOMA
My spouse and I are very familiar with both the straight and gay worlds as we are both flaming heterosexuals with a number of gay/lesbian/bisexual friends and acquaintances. Despite our conservative...
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Stolen Valor at the Highest Levels: The Case of Sgt. Rafael Peralta
At a young age, Rafael Peralta immigrated* to the United States and, as soon as he had his “green card,” he joined the U.S. military—just as I did. While serving in the U.S. military, Sgt. Peralta...
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How Dire Is The Plight Of The Republican Party?
Without any comment from us, just read this must read analysis by Dick Polman. UPDATE: Be sure to read this related must-read post by Ron Beasley. The post How Dire Is The Plight Of The Republican...
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GOP Seeks Advice from Bush Aides on How to Recover From Bush Disaster
Who better to get the Republican Party out of the basement than the folks who put them there? Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top...
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Mortgaging the White House (Guest Voice)
Mortgaging the White House by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Finally, [on Friday we were at the end of the] week of a hundred days. As everyone in the western world probably knows by now, this...
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Glimmers of Economic Hope—Growing Brighter
This is the third or fourth (who is counting when you are on a roll?) in my “call-me-naïve” series on hope and optimism for our economy. WARNING: For professional and reliable economic and financial...
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It Has Never Been A Fight Between Republicans And Democrats
It appears rather strange that many people and commentators are fascinated by the implosion of the Republican Party as if it were necessary for a 2-party system or as a check on the power of unbridled...
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Obama Confronts the Solitude of the White House: Izvestia, Russia
This characteristically cold-eyed article from Russia’s Izvestia, once the official newspaper of the Soviet government, joins in the global summing up of President Obama’s first 100 days in office,...
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Quote of the Day: Cheney Questions Whether Moderate Powell Is Even A Republican
Our political Quote of the Day comes from former Vice President Dick Cheney, who made one of the clearest statements yet indicating that moderates who don’t agree with conservative Republicans should...
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Trifecta of Stories on Dearth of GOP Female Officeholders
Two days ago, I flagged and wrote about Politico’s story on this topic. Two more articles about this slap on the forehead today. First, from US News & World Report we have, “Republicans reject...
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