In this room are dissidents and democratic activists from 17 countries on five continents. You follow different traditions, you practice different faiths, and you face different challenges.
An Iraqi political leader, a Russian democracy activist and chess champion, a Former Spanish Prime Minister, a Former Czech Dissident-President, and a former Russian prisoner and former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister held a press conference in Prague today.
Wealth really isn't all that hard to understand. A person's Wealth is measured by what other people are willing to give him to purchase everything he owns.
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Why increase taxes on corporations? Those who believe corporate taxes should be increased believe they are "sticking it to the man" by increasing the taxes on "the man's" company.
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In the future many colleges and universities, having for the most part driven conservatives and traditionalists out of the academy, will invite them back in under the guise of multiculturalism.
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that _ (1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States Armed Forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and
News Summary for Iraq on Feb 15
Bagram Air Base soldiers compete in an Iron Chef competition.
This is how media bias works. All journalists depend on sources. No news story can be published unless there are sources for it. Liberal journalists simply ask liberal experts to be their sources. Conservative experts are rarely consulted. Results are not surprising.
More on media bias and a way to quantify it.Few studies provide an objective measure of the slant of news, and none has provided a way to link such a measure to ideological measures of other political actors.
Being a list of deplorable examples of media incompetence from 2006, focusing on the rise of fauxtography as an anti-Jew propaganda art-form. Worst Buzzword: "Disproportionate"
Jack Shafer doesn't start off his review of the Gentzkow & Shapiro paper promisingly: I can't ride the Gentzkow and Shapiro train all the way to its terminus point, because my wallet doesn't contain the intellectual fare required for the journey: It's a complicated study.
The New York Times takes on the Gentzkow & Shapiro paper: In 2005, phrases like "death tax," "illegal aliens," "Terri Schiavo," and "nuclear power" came mostly from Republicans.
Interesting article about an academic study of media slant or bias and how it works. 1. Reporters have to make political judgments when choosing their words. In order to study bias, the researchers made lists of common phrases used by Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
The Select Society satirizes a call by a newspaper man for blogs to institute layers of bureaucracy to provide improved interactivity, since apparently using the comments is too difficult for the beeb. The BBC reports on a welcome development.
The judiciary continues to act as if it were the primary branch of government and the executive and legislative branches served it.
After seeing the scorn heaped upon Simpson, Mel Gibson now says he was misquoted, and that he actually said "The Juice is responsible for all the wars in the world."
The wheels of the coup roll round and round:"The office of the state minister for parliamentary affairs, Michel Pharaon, in the Ashrafieh neighborhood was the target of gunshots today from gunmen in a white Suzuki car," it said.
Syria's and Hezbollah's assassins have been busy in Lebanon since they killed Rafik al-Hariri on Valentine's Day 2005.Here is a chronology of political killings and attacks since Rafik al-Hariri's death in February 2005.
The Hizballah and Amal ministers have resigned from the Lebanese government in order to protest the up-coming Hariri investigation. Now Hizballah and its co-sponsor Syria take their coup to the next level, by assassinating a popular, anti-Syrian Christian politician.
India and Pakistan shake hands over another agreement that promises that India will not use nuclear weapons against Pakistan. In the meantime: India accuses Pakistan of funding and training rebels who cross over to the Indian portion of Kashmir and carry out terror strikes.
Chad has declared a state of emergency in three eastern regions where ethnic clashes have left as many as 200 people dead and raised fears that Sudan's Darfur conflict is spilling across the border. [...]
Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right in America -- and it's making him nervous.
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