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Kinsley's column is a prime example of why liberals get such bad press. It's utter nonsense to posit that being black or being privy to the African-American experience somehow endows Freeman or Jones with voice-of-God (VOG) vocal cords. Their riveting vocal abilities are not racially based. NFL commentators have had the VOG sound, as did the late movie-trailer announcer Don LaFontaine and Robert Mitchum on the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" TV spots. Those guys were white. Kinsley should do a bit more research before he puts his fingertips to the keyboard...
...Times crowd loves to hate. It is incredibly expensive, it has not been used in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and it seems to be entirely useless in a world where our foes prefer decidedly low-tech means of destruction. Critics, including current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, have been vocal in their calls to end procurement of the controversial fighter jet, currently stalled at 183 aircraft. But with all due respect to Secretary Gates—who has rescued the Pentagon from the nearly criminal incompetence and arrogance of his predecessor—those who call...
Melhem, long a vocal critic of U.S. Middle East policy, says he was touched by Obama's conciliatory tone and references to his Muslim roots. "You can feel the authenticity about him," he says. "The interview was his way of saying, 'There is a new wind coming from Washington.' Barack Obama definitely sees the world differently from a man named George W. Bush...
...Office, the press was told to leave before the event had ended, an order that the President and his staff quickly noticed and reversed. About an hour later, a senior Administration official gave a briefing to reporters about the new executive orders on torture and Guantanamo Bay. Despite their vocal protests, reporters were told they could not disclose the name of the official...
Scenario 1: Regime Change Given Israel's long-term goal of ousting Hamas in Gaza, some key military and political leaders have urged that it expand the goals of its current operation and use its momentum to take control of Gaza City and decapitate Hamas. Most vocal in advocating this option is Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish front runner in the race for Prime Minister, who will portray any outcome that leaves Hamas intact in Gaza as a failure - bad news for his chief rivals, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni...