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...House seats the party has lost in the past two elections have come from moderate districts. "Democrats gained power by going to the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate, and they ran him for the presidency and they won," Laura Ingraham, a conservative talk-radio host said on Fox News Sunday. "They were relentlessly attacking George [W.] Bush for several years from the left. They didn't move to the middle, and the idea that Republicans now have to move to the middle - what, beyond John McCain's middle...
...propaganda machinery extends beyond the borders of Afghanistan. In Pakistan's Swat Valley, Mullah Qazi Fazlullah, a firebrand Taliban cleric known as "Mullah Radio," has used unlicensed FM stations to effectively paralyze the former resort area, now under militant control. Last week, an editorial from the The News International, a leading English daily, called the Pakistani government's failure to "evolve a counter-narrative to the Taliban propaganda" that fills airwaves and newspaper columns a "dereliction of the highest order...
...counter the Taliban advances in the propaganda war, the Pentagon has reportedly launched a broad "psychological operations" campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan to take down insurgent-run web sites and the jam radio stations. The Afghan government, for its part, has opened a new $1.2 million media center with international support. Staffed by a team of Western-trained spin doctors, the facility includes a high-tech media monitoring wing and an outreach department tasked with building better working relations with journalists...
...Gift of the Game,” explored U.S.-Cuba relations through baseball and Ernest Hemingway. Later documentaries centered on other social, political, and environmental concerns, covering topics from ocean preservation and whale biology to the Caribbean sugar cane industry.In 2002, Haney was listening to National Public Radio on the drive home from work when he heard a piece that drove him to tears. The story was about a 24-year-old single black mother in Texas who had been wrongfully accused of dealing narcotics after a raid on the housing projects where she lived. She was given two options...
...year-old witch-in-training who flies away from home with her talking cat named Jiji and a large red bow. Indeed, she seems to have as many interests as she has bows on her bow shelf. This year she is taking classes to get her license for ham radio, a type of radio communications popular amongst hobbyists. After graduation, she plans to work in a nanotechnology lab at UCLA. “I really like tiny, tiny things,” she says, referencing an animation she made about a series of miniature worlds in jars and explaining...