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Rep. Jane Harman to Resign: 6 Political Implications
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsCongress is about to lose a longtime representative: Jane Harman, a Democrat from California. Harman, who represented an L.A.-area district from 1993 to 1999 and 2001 to the present, is apparently planning to announce her resignation on Tuesday. According to reports, she will become the president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. 1. Special election to test new electoral system A special election will have to be held to fill her seat. Says The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, "The election will be the first major test of the state's new 'jungle primary' law where all ...
Palin Charge of 'Blood Libel' Provokes Controversy
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsIf Sarah Palin's seven-minute video blaming the media was meant to tamp down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, she may have added fuel to the fire by hitting a jarringly off-note: Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence that they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible. To critics, Palin was reckless in her choice of words because "blood libel" is fraught with historic connotations. Sarah Palin: "America's ...
Opinion Roundup: 5 Biggest WikiLeaks Revelations
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- WikiLeaks has released 220 of the over 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in its possession. The cables, sent between the U.S. State Department and its embassies around the world, were also released to a handful of news organizations in advance. Here are the five biggest revelations of the WikiLeaks release. China Hacked Google (Maybe): The Wall Street Journal's Josh Chin assesses, "One China-related item in the WikiLeaks release that's getting a lot of attention is the assertion in one embassy cable that the Politburo -- the powerful governing group of China's Communist Party -- ...
Airline Pilots Urged to Boycott Body Scanners
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 9) -- The world's largest independent union of pilots, the Allied Pilots Association, is telling its members to boycott body scanners at airports due radiation exposure. Pilots and regular passengers have the option of refusing to enter the scanner, referred to as Advanced Imaging Technology scanners (AIT), and submitting instead to a pat-down. Last week, David Bates, the president of the 11,000-member union, penned a letter explaining the union's concerns to the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration: We are exposed to radiation every day on the job. For example, ...
Juan Williams' Firing Sparks Heated Online Debate
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- Longtime NPR news analyst Juan Williams has been fired following remarks made about Muslims on Fox News. In a discussion about Bill O'Reilly's contentious appearance on ABC's "The View," Williams confessed to his unease about riding on airplanes with Muslims: Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality. I mean look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, ...
Castro Admits Cuban Communism Not Working
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- None other than Fidel Castro himself now appears to have given up on Cuba's archaic communist system. The revolutionary leader last week launched a surprise attack on the state-controlled economy he helped create 50 years ago during an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. Goldberg asked the aging leader if Cuba's economic system was still worth exporting to other nations and was stunned by Castro's brutally honest response. "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore," said the 84-year-old former president, Goldberg wrote in a blog ...
Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad as Anti-Semitic
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Iran's firebrand president is getting some surprise criticism from a fellow anti-American agitator -- Fidel Castro. The Cuban leader blasted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and making anti-Semitic comments, according to a blog by a reporter for The Atlantic magazine. Writer Jeffrey Goldberg describes three days of interviews with Castro, who invited him to Havana after reading one of his previous articles about Iran and Israel. Castro "repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism," and said Iran could promote peace by "trying to understand why Israelis ...
Is Obama's Iran Strategy Working?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- President Barack Obama came into office planning a two-track strategy on Iran: The promise of high-level political engagement combined with tough economic sanctions. His plan was that the sanctions would deter bad behavior -- specifically, the ongoing nuclear program -- while the potential for engagement would encourage good behavior. Has it worked? Yes and no, Obama told a recent gathering of national security reporters. Here's what he said and how observers are parsing his successes and failures on Iran. Is Time Right for Engagement? The Washington Post's David Ignatius writes, ...
Pro-Israel Atlantic Writer Explains His Criticism of Palin's Pro-Israel Positions
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 21) -- The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, responding to a critical reader, has an interesting post up about how he squares his pro-Israel views with his opposition to the pro-Israel Sarah Palin. Argues Goldberg, who has written on Israel throughout his long journalism career: "Palin has positioned herself as a territory maximalist, arguing for the righteousness of continued Jewish settlement of the West Bank, including those parts of the West Bank, presumably, beyond the security fence. This line of argument places her well to the right of the position taken, late in his career, of ...
Poll: Less Religion in Politics, Please
By David Knowles - Politics DailyLast week's forum at mega-pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church gave the nation the first same-stage meeting between Barack Obama and John McCain since last January's presidential debates in New Hampshire. Given that the candidates have agreed to just three more debates for the remainder of the race, it would seem as though Warren's chat on matters of faith shows that religion has become even more important to Americans than it was in previous years.But new findings from Pew Research Center show just the opposite:A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and ...
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