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by christopher hitchens
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
SLATE MAGAZINE Forty years ago this week, the greatest Englishlanguage poet of the 20th Century sat down and wrote an eight-line verse: The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech. » Read story.
Scenes from a convention
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
IN THE ARMY, they call it a Target Rich Environment. That’s military jargon for lots of stuff to shoot at. And the last few weeks have been Target Rich Environments for editorial writers. (Joe Biden? He’s change?) » Read story.
by jay ambrose scripps howard news service
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
Neil Postman’s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, said that television turns everything it touches into entertainment, and that’s an important thing to know in trying to understand the 2008 Democratic National Convention, an extravaganza largely devoid of thoughtful content. » Read story.
Lu Hardin does the right thing
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
HE HAD us worried there for a minute. Well, for weeks if you must know. We knew he was going to do the right thing, yes, we did. » Read story.
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
Woodrow Wilson was Southerner, too I read with interest Cal Ledbetter’s essay about Arkansas’ own Joe T. Robinson being chosen by the Democrats as their vice-presidential candidate in the 1928 election to be paired with their choice of Al Smith for their presidential nominee. » Read story.
By Dana D. Kelley
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
Nobody on the national political stage wants to tackle the crime issue. It’s rife with racial overtones and other less than savory realities, some of which politicians would rather not know or have to talk about. » Read story.
After DNA project
By Meredith Oakley (Contact)
(Friday, Aug. 29, 2008)
Family history does not record whether Shadrack Meshack Oakley had a brother named Abednego, but DNA confirms that he begat a whole passel of ancestors. » Read story.
Hillary Clinton’s act of grace
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
LISTENING to Hillary Clinton’s warm-up act for Barack Obama at the Democrats’ still slightly divided convention, it occurred that, if only the lady had been that graceful and gracious, that poised and personal, as in control of herself and her surroundings, and just generally as well-organized and focused during her long, long and almost, almost successful drive for her party’s presidential nomination. . . she herself would be giving the acceptance speech tonight. » Read story.
by michael gerson washington post
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
Interviewed by the New York Times during the 1960 Democratic National Convention, an unnamed 10-year-old boy spoke for generations of convention spectators: “You know, this is really very boring—but somehow, you aren’t bored.” The politics of any political convention is interesting for only the briefest of moments. Leading into the 1960 convention, Eleanor Roosevelt publicly hoped that John Kennedy’s “unselfishness and courage” would lead him to accept the vice presidency where he could “grow and learn.” The novelist Gore Vidal contributed an unused draft of Kennedy’s convention speech. Sammy Mysels—the composer of “Mention My Name in Sheboygan” —cowrote the Democratic campaign song. » Read story.
by leonard pitts jr. mcclatchy newspapers
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
He spoke of the promise before he spoke of the dream. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
THE SHOW must go on. Politics is a lot like showbiz in that regard. The Democratic National Convention can’t be put on hold. But the sudden loss of Bill Gwatney makes the goings-on in Denver this week seem all the more removed from reality. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
Find some better news Re the pictures of the semi-naked men and women [in the Arkansas Body Building Championships]: I think they would look a lot better with some more clothes on instead of showing their rear ends. » Read story.
By Mike Masterson (Contact)
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
It is an indication of how shallow and over-reacting mainstream TV “news” coverage has become to hear FOX celebrity personalities call Republican presidential candidate John McCain “out of touch” because he couldn’t immediately answer how many houses he owns. » Read story.
By Kane Webb (Contact)
(Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008)
The news conference was held last Friday in the press box at Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium, third floor, just below Hog Heaven. » Read story.
Time to let the Fannies fall
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008)
ALL IT TOOK to rattle whatever shred of faith remained in Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac was an article last weekend in the financial journal Barron’s. » Read story.
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