Blaming the Vicim

John Venlet opens his editor and says:

Editors at the Boston Globe implore, Please, not another Cold War.

Okay, but let’s review what the editors say as they blather on in this piece.

Bush, dedicating the Victims of Communism Memorial

No, Bitsblog has not become a Star Trek board and this is not the latest version of Al Gore.  For those who with the immense good sense not to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Odo, pictuired, was a Shape

Fran makes an interesting historical point this morning:

The Frankfort School would patent the familiar “Critical Theory” which was accurately defined by a student as the “essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism,

Interesting article on Che Guevara, today:

He’s the ultimate symbol of radical chic but was Che Guevara really a homophobic, racist square who personally ordered the jailing and executions of innocent men, women and children?

That’s according to Humberto Fontova,

“[B]ecause an uninsured person who goes to the hospital is more likely to die than an insured

Mrs. Clinton wants to take your property for the public good:

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it’s time to replace an “on your own” society with one based on

CRAWFORD, Texas â€”  Former President Jimmy Carter backed off Monday from harshly critical comments he made of President Bush over the weekend after the White House offered a biting rebuke to the former president by calling him “increasingly irrelevant.”

“My

I’ve noted in recent days, since the French election, that there is a serious set of parallels between Hillary Clitnon and Segolene Royal. Parallels, in fact, that would seem to indicate some serious trouble in front of Hillary Clinton.

Nice

The Moscow Times is reporting, just now:

Former President Boris Yeltsin died of heart failure in a Kremlin hospital on Monday. He was 76.

The Kremlin’s top doctor, Sergei Mironov, said Yeltsin died at 3:45 p.m. at the Central Clinical

Alex Knapp at OTB this morning, notes that China’s pollution situation isn’t good:

China’s massive Yangtze river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run newspaper said Monday.

In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically ‘connected’, and legendary,

Hey Cernig:

It’s ironic that big Rightwing blogs tend to be far more communal, more socialist, in their sharing of linkage while some of the big Lefties seem to want to be the new robber barons of the internet.

That’s

Me at Q&O, just now:

As for abuses of power by government and by police forces — yeah, those things are wrong and immoral and I oppose them. Despite false assertions by some, I certainly do not like ‘big

She ought to be.  The ad perfectly captures Mrs. Clinton’s cynical use of the word “conversation.”  View the video.   What do you think??

Some where George Orwell, 1903-1950, is looking up and grinning.    The House has passed a bill intented to strip workers of their right to a free elections, with the diabolical title of Employee Free Choice Act,   Only in