Janet Albrechtsen writes an excellent piece in The Australian about the rampant anti-Americanism ever present in the world today, its history, and what’s behind it all – and explains that it’s not just caused by anti-Bush sentiment. Consider it a must-read.
Ed Meese, attorney general under Reagan, thinks that President Reagan would have taken the same position as the current administration on the Terrorist Surveillance Program. Meese writes:
First, I’d like to say that I hate that the anniversary of this decison, which gave women the ‘right’ to terminate their pregnancy(ies), is on my birthday.
I need to take a break this evening from blogging about she-whose-name-doesn’t-deserve-to-be-mentioned-in-this-post to make note of the fact that 26 years ago today President Reagan was inaugurated to his first term.
Here’s a Mondale ad from 1984 on the Soviets and “arms control”:
MSNBC has a nice slide show showing the life and times of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
