Why I Love Christiane Amanpour.

Why do I love her so?  Here is why: She is a very tough interview.  She does not give up on a line of questioning, and she does not accept talking points from either party.  People have problems with her questioning tactics (although it must be said that many of them are conservatives who find [...]

The New York Times disappoints. Again.

Since I started college and had my political awakening, The New York Times has composed a part of my daily reading.  I enjoy the Times because it will typically dig past the conventional wisdom and seek to make its readers think by giving them a heavy dose of background information.  That background is something that [...]

Octavia Nasr and the chill effect on American criticism.

I have blogged before about the need for Americans to open their minds when it comes to the Middle East.  It seems that whenever one decides to criticize Israel, they are opening up the opportunity for their career to come to a sudden end.  For a country that was once the home of the Enlightenment, [...]

American political media, considered

So, what have we learned over the past three days?  Tiger Woods is cheating on his wife (shocking), the Salahis are really crafty at getting past the best Presidential guard in the world, and that Chris Matthews believes that the U.S. Military Academy is the “enemy camp”.