In the news reports on Walter Cronkite’s death, you often hear that he was the original “anchorman.” The Baltimore Sun’s obituary states, “The Missouri native was so fundamental to the concept of TV news that the word ‘anchorman’ was coined to describe his role at the 1952 national political conventions.” Did the term anchorman really originate with Cronkite?
Senator Lindsey Graham, the engaging South Carolina Republican, lectured the Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor last week that if he had made a comment like hers that a “wise Latina woman” often reaches better conclusions, it would have a been a career-ender.
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Can’t update the blog at the moment. I’m getting tested for swine flu. While you’re looking for political bites, check out Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings in the Senate and the health care debates in the congress.
Because so many in the media will never understand it’s all about country when it’s all about Sarah Palin, I want to commend the outgoing Alaska governor in the warmest terms.
Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta owes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an apology — or, at the very least, a clarification.
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People assume that war is inevitable, and that war always has been and always will be a part of the human experience. Science is now proving that is wrong. “A growing number of experts are now arguing that the urge to wage war is not innate,” John Horgan writes for the New Scientist, “and that humanity is already moving in a direction that could make war a thing of the past.”
