Vanity Fair has a photo essay of rare shots taken around New York City five years ago.
“Rare Scenes from 9/11“
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Other webloggers with stronger stomachs watch all two hours of the first part of Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke.
Brendon Loy, who is in the documentary, comments on how Katrina could have been worse, Mayor Ray Nagin being let off the hook, and Spike Lee’s racism.
Steven Spruiell calls it “Lee’s angry, vindictive vignettes.”
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Internet technology is changing the political game. The Washington Post’s Jeffrey Birnbaum reports on how the cost of finding activists has diminished because of fine-tuned web advertising:
The first thing you need to know is that the Internet can be watched very closely. OnPoint/DDC’s offices in Old Town are filled with cubicles of computer experts who […]
Economists see the merging of Milwaukee and Chicago (”Milago“) as years pass. This region will look and have to work in a similar manner to New York City’s tri-state (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) area.
I watched a small portion of Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina documentary When the Levees Broke. Depsite Troy Patterson’s positive review. […]
Belgian King Leopold II’s rule is a case of instututional and cultural contraints limiting a government. It’s a case of two Leopolds. As king of Belgium he implemented free trade, and the nation prospered. It prospered so much Leopold undertook public building projects that gave him the name “King-Builder.”
But there was another Leopold. In Africa […]
In India we have an example of marketing run amok:
A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country’s small Jewish community.
‘Hitler’s Cross’, which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big […]
Eleven people have been charged in the U.S.-U.K. bomb plot:
They said eight people had been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism.
Three other suspects are charged with other offences under the Terrorism Act. One of these is a 17-year-old.
One woman has been released without charge and eleven others are still in custody.
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J.B. Van Hollen takes to the television airwaves.
Liberal Juan Williams is on the money when he writes, “If systemic racism remains a reality, there is also a far more sinister obstacle facing African American young people today: a culture steeped in bitterness and nihilism, a culture that is a virtual blueprint for failure.” And that’s […]
Bob Dohnal, long-time conservative activist and publisher of the Wisconsin Conservative Digest, is not backing down from his charge that State Senate candidate Jim Sullivan double voted in a previous election. In a letter to the editor to a local newspaper that Dohnal e-mailed TAM he writes,
To the Editor,
Since my name was included in the […]
I’m shocked, SHOCKED Indian tribes have been giving to Gov. Doyle. When you hand out juicy gaming compacts the tribes get what they pay for.
Rule #1 in campaign finance reform: If government didn’t have so much power people wouldn’t donate to enrich themselves.
“Doyle Re-Election Coffers Flow with Tribal Money”
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As part of the 2,996 project TAM is remembering Eric Allen, 44, who died in the World Trade Center on Sep. 11, 2001. As part of Rescue Squad 18 Eric was one of the brave firemen who ran into the twin towers to save as many people as possible. He sacrificed his life for theirs.
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There’s a reason they invented e-mail. So participants in this conversation won’t cringe when they re-read this conversation on a public weblog.
It seems the Bucher-Van Hollen aggitation is spreading from the two candidates. We’ve got spouses involved, supporters involved, even spouses of supporters (who are supporters themselves) involved.
Hey all, chill out–literally! It’s the middle of […]
Last month, Michael Schiavo, the man who won the right to starve his wife to death, flew to Connecticut to endorse Ned Lamont. Schiavo has started TerriPAC to go after “politicians who tried to stop Ms. Schiavo’s death.” Terri’s parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, have started their own Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Center for […]
John Podhoretz wants a national security debate “right now - right this second.”
If Democrats are going to take control of the House and Senate in November, they will have the power to change policies they think aren’t working. So what policies are those, exactly?
Will they overhaul the Patriot Act, for example, which Senate Minority […]
When the Israel-Hezbollah War starts again I’m blaming France:
France on Thursday rebuffed pleas by U.N. officials to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back efforts to deploy an international military force to help police a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to U.N. and French officials.
French President Jacques Chirac […]
