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...There's only one species that had the sort of weapon to inflict this injury," Churchill says. "And that's us [humans...
...students called the police on the Black Men’s Forum and Association of Black Harvard Women barbeque in the Quad following a heated discussion on the Cabot House email list in which many expressed skepticism that the picnickers were actually Harvard students—the same sort of skepticism that may have compelled Gates's neighbor to phone in a burglary when she saw a black man attempting to force open a door...
...even though Gates followed the instructions Obama gave to the NAACP about “putting away the Xbox” and hitting the books as well as anyone possibly could, that couldn’t stop him from being arrested in his own home. It is the sort of ugly fact that does not fit in well with Obama’s rosy, American vision...
...course, the idea of making any sort of introductory concession seems quite impossible now. In fact, you don't hear Administration officials talking about "comprehensive" negotiations anymore. The focus is almost solely on the nuclear issue. "We face a real-time challenge on nuclear proliferation in Iran," the President said at the G-8 summit. "And we're deeply troubled by the proliferation risks Iran's nuclear program poses to the world." Obama offered a "path" to peace for Iran via the ongoing Geneva negotiations, which seemed a more restrictive corridor than comprehensive talks. He set a September deadline...
...wants to get some sort of plan through Congress, Obama has no choice but to continue his full-court press of public advocacy for the rest of the summer and into the fall. It is true, as he points out, that much legislative progress - almost exclusively managed by his own party - already has been made. And he is correct that the current health-care system is both fiscally and morally unsustainable. But his high-profile prime-time performance, with insufficient specificity, scant new data and too many unanswered questions, likely did little to help his cause...