World opinion of US changing?
I missed this opinion column written by Max Boot earlier in the week. In it, he cites an opinion poll by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Here’s more:
How do we know our Gitmo policy is right?
Because Jimmy Carter says it’s "disgraceful" (on foreign soil, I should add).
Chris Matthews: We were once ‘insurgents’ too!
Jeff Goldstein notes an interesting exchange from last night’s Hardball with Chris Matthews:
Iconic women-there are none?
Charmaine Yoest is wanting suggestions from blogosphere readers in an effort to assemble a gallery of iconic women … this, in response to comments by the creator of ABC’s much-touted upcoming series “Commander-In-Chief.” Post writer Lisa de Moraes reports that show creator Rod Lurie:
Judge William Young is the REAL maverick
In case you haven’t heard by now, the US District Judge (John Coughenour) in Washington state who sentenced Ahmed Ressam to a 22-year prison term yesterday for attempting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in what’s been referred to as the thwarted millennium attack had some rather harsh words to say regarding the Bush administration’s policies on the war on terror (read Captain Ed, Michelle Malkin, and Hugh Hewitt [more from him here] for the full 411). Some of John Coughenours’s ”emotional” comments:
NYTimes slips up yet again
First, on Saturday we had this headline, which declared boldly: