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...quick reaction: This went better than I expected. He is, unfortunately, a wooden public speaker, and it clearly took effort for him to make such an openly confessional statement. But he sounded genuine, genuinely sorry and chastened. In some ways, the shot of him and his mother after the speech was the most powerful one of all - he seemed in that moment, finally, vulnerable and all too human. And I think that if he hopes to win the public back, showing humility - rather than the imperious self-confidence that has long been part of his mystique - will be absolutely essential...
Gordon noted in his speech that yesterday marked the second anniversary of Kosovo’s independence: a sign that progress has been made...
...Pornography is protected under freedom of speech. And since someone raised the question of whether there is a right to watch pornography, I feel compelled to ask the following: Do people have the right to impose their religious or moral beliefs by requiring that able-minded adults do not watch pornography...
...speech Tuesday, Obama acknowledged "some serious drawbacks with respect to nuclear energy," but the drawbacks he mentioned - waste disposal and reactor safety - are not the real obstacles to a rebirth. It would be nice to have a permanent Yucca Mountain-style repository for spent nuclear fuel, but for now plants have been storing their waste on-site without major problems. And the nuclear industry's safety record has improved dramatically in the 30 years since the Three Mile Island meltdown, although there are still occasional blips like the recent radioactive leak at a Vermont plant. The NRC is not exactly...
...Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas in June 2006. The rocket attacks have pretty much stopped and the arms smuggling - I am told - is an issue that can be negotiated, but the fate of Shalit has been an insane sticking point. On the evening before Clinton's speech, Recep Tayyip Erdogan - the Prime Minister of Turkey and an erstwhile ally of Israel's - was cheered when he raged against the conditions in Gaza, calling it "an open-air prison." (See pictures of George W. Bush in the Middle East...