Taking a walk down memory lane: A tribute to You Tube and Olivia Newton-John
Breaking from politics for the evening …
Mon-Tue open thread
Here ya go, ladies and gents.
UNIFIL to have ‘teeth’?
Err … doesn’t sound quite right, does it? Well, according to the Jerusalem Post UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan is expected to recommend today that the UNIFIL forces that will (someday?) be deployed to Lebanon be given the go ahead to ‘open fire’ on Hezbollah if the need arises: (click here to read the rest of my post at RWN).
Juan Williams on the culture of failure in black America
Fox News political analyst and NPR correspondent Juan Williams has a must-read opinion piece in today’s Washington Post that addresses some of the problems faced in the black community today, like single-parenthood and failure to take advantage of the opportunities afforded to them thanks to civil rights leaders from the past . He writes:
France’s version of ‘leadership’
Reader LCVRWC has sent me a couple of tips this week on France’s volunteering to step up to the plate and ‘lead’ an international force in Lebanon. They sounded strong at first, but days later, backed off. Jules Crittenden, writing in the Boston Herald today, explains:
Throwing out the race card on Katrina response – again
This time from re-elected New Orleans Mayor Ray O. Nagin: