I know, it sounds like an ad for the 700 club, but actually it’s an ad of apology and solidarity meant to be seen on Arab television.

I’m glad I’m not the only one looking for a bit of “perspective about the Reagan presidency”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29859-2004Jun9.html. The article calls for a bit more “balance” than I’d allow, but at least it’s more thoughtful than the current love-fest has been.

_Reagan’s growing reputation as the great victor in the Cold War who made Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall depends on looking at Reagan and his times through the light cast by subsequent events._

_…To one who covered many of the key international events of that day, Reagan seemed in fact to come late to a realistic view of the Soviet Union and the world, and — like most presidents — to have improvised furiously and not always successfully in foreign affairs._

Today’s “Daily Mislead”:http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df05182004.html is a beautiful example of irony. A factory in Canton, Ohio touted in 2003 by Our Fair President as an example of how tax cuts for the rich will affect “the future of employment”:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030424-3.html has been “shut down”:http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2004/05/17/daily1.html by its owner, putting 1,300 people out of work. I’m sure it’s a comfort to the people of Canton that their former employer will receive more in tax cuts than all of them combined.

From TrueMajority:

Last year, TrueMajority and a whole group of other organizations urged Congress to stop funding the nuclear “bunker buster” bomb. The budget was cut in half. Now the Bush administration is trying to get it funded again.

“Tell Congress the answer is still NO”:http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=176780&l=608.

The chairman of our Military Advisory Committee, Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (USN, ret.) literally had his finger on the button. Here’s what he’s got to say:
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This is a cute satire put out by Planned Parenthood to promote their March for Women’s Lives on April 25th.