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latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Sep 17, 2008
Justice Stephen G. Breyer (REUTERS/Jason Reed) The Cardinal Newman Society, a conservative Catholic group, is berating Fordham University Law School for awarding an ethics prize to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G …
Also tagged: religion, free speech, supreme court, censorship, politicians, lawyers, propaganda, abortion, doubletalk, constitution, schools, public shaming
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Aug 13, 2008
Evan R. Goldstein writes an excellent profile in The Chronicle of Higher Education of George P. Lakoff, the U.C. Berkeley professor of cognitive linguistics whose theory of "frames" became very popular among the …
Also tagged: science, california, irony, politicians, propaganda, doubletalk, bizarre theories, academia, quotables, credentials, campaign 2008, omphaloskepsis
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Aug 12, 2008
At the weirdly named Silicon Alley Insider, Sean Ryan notes that JohnMcCainDotCom has been trouncing BarackObamaDotCom in YouTube viewership throughout August. While the shamelessly pro-Obama media have focused on the …
Also tagged: john mccain, barack obama, television, politicians, pop culture, campaign 2008, teh interwebs
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Aug 12, 2008
Evan R. Goldstein writes an excellent profile in The Chronicle of Higher Education of George P. Lakoff, the U.C. Berkeley professor of cognitive linguistics whose theory of "frames" became very popular among the …
Also tagged: science, california, irony, politicians, propaganda, doubletalk, bizarre theories, academia, quotables, credentials, campaign 2008, omphaloskepsis
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Aug 7, 2008
Neither columnist Rosa Brooks nor The Times' editorial board is too impressed with the military commission conviction Wednesday of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who confessed to being Osama bin Laden's driver. Brooks wonders if …
Also tagged: john mccain, barack obama, crime, los angeles, china, letters, california, politicians, city hall, contents, our columnists, attaboys and raspberries, opeds, quotables, campaign 2008, l a county
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Jul 19, 2008
In World Affairs Journal, Georgetown professor Robert J. Lieber takes a thorough look at the decline of the United States of America, and discovers a new version of Zeno's paradox: It turns out the end has been …
Also tagged: propaganda, bizarre theories, international affairs
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Jul 12, 2008
Memín Pinguín, the controversial funnybook character who has caused some U.S.-Mexico friction in the past (most recently in 2005, when President Bush protested Mexico's issuing of a stamp in his honor), is in the news …
Also tagged: business, books, california, race, pop culture, public shaming
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Jul 8, 2008
Plenty of blogospheric blowback and some applause for Jonah Goldberg's column today on Barack Obama's national service proposal. First, from Goldberg's column: There's a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the …
Also tagged: politicians, race, our columnists, in the blogs, attaboys and raspberries, opeds, campaign 2008, blowback, public shaming
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Jul 8, 2008
The non-profit news startup ProPublica (in whose service we wish former colleagues well) updates its joint "60 Minutes" report on al-Hurra ("The Free One"), the Arabic television network funded by about half a billion …
Also tagged: middle east, iraq, terrorism, religion, television, war, propaganda, airwaves, barbarism, the msm, credentials, teh interwebs
latimes.com » L.A. Times - Opinion Blog - Jul 6, 2008
In an abbreviated week when everybody better things to do than look at these here interwebs, readers liked sex and violence. Our Dust-Up on porn dominated the bottom-five, but repeat performances from Brian Doherty and …
Also tagged: sex, supreme court, law enforcement, politicians, race, lawyers, top 10, campaign 2008