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“Speaking in Denver on Wednesday,” reports AHN’s Julie Farby, “former President Bill Clinton did not mince words on how to combat global warming, telling the crowd that the fight against climate change required industrialized nations to ’slow down their economies and cut back on greenhouse gas emission.’” Mr. Clinton is known for innovative campaign strategies, but [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Global Warming, Politics at 5:22 PM UTC
Noon. Int. Delmonico’s Rest. Screen Writer pitches movie idea to Motion Picture Executive:
SW: “OK, OK! We open with scenes of starving children, people dying in hospitals, raw sewage running into the ocean, hundreds of thousands of hysterical people fleeing to a neighboring country for food and other basic necessities.”
MPE: “Hundreds of thousands?”
SW: “Maury, it could [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, War on Terror at 1:41 PM UTC
Beginning with Florida’s disputed election in 2000, escalating as the President responded to the events of 9/11, and reaching a sustained crescendo during the protracted Iraq War, the verbal venom directed at Mr. Bush is unprecedented in the nation’s history. He’s been called a liar, a moron, and a fascist too many times to count. National Review conducted a Lexis-Nexis search [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 1:27 PM UTC
Trailing Senator Obama by 9 percentage points scant days before New Hampshire’s January 8th primary, Hillary Clinton pulled off a surprising victory, besting Mr. Obama by 3 points. And what, you ask, caused the sudden 12 point swing in Ms. Clinton’s favor? Well, it wasn’t an Obama SNAFU, nor a brilliant speech, nor a debate victory. The [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics at 2:43 PM UTC
Hurricane Katrina was a godsend to proponents of global warming. Causing immense damage and generating enormous publicity, Katrina was offered as vindication of those trumpeting global warming’s threat to mankind. Speaking just days after New Orleans was flooded, Al Gore didn’t mince words. “Two thousand scientists,” admonished the former Vice President, “in a hundred countries, engaged [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Global Warming at 5:58 PM UTC
Conceived by President Kennedy in 1961, Affirmative Action was rooted in a desire to realize the most fundamental American ideals. All men may have been created equal, but many had been subjected to abysmal treatment since before the United States was born. Passage of the 14th Amendment and the groundbreaking civil rights legislation of the 1960s was [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Race Relations at 3:12 PM UTC
As any psychologist worth his salt will tell you, living in the past will ruin the present. After all, the past cannot be changed, and terrible yesterdays pulled into the present are allowed to do their damage all over again. Yesterday I failed. Yesterday I was wronged. Yesterday, something terrible happened. Learning from yesterday’s events is necessary [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Race Relations at 2:30 PM UTC
Today we celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, a titan of America’s civil rights movement. An unequalled orator, the Baptist minister called on the nation to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” Adhering to non-violent [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Race Relations at 8:43 PM UTC
“U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,” blared the Washington Post banner. Is this headline new or old? Well, both. Just two weeks ago the Russian News and Information Agency reported “Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warming spells.” Extolling the virtues of carbon dioxide, the Ruskies [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Global Warming, Politics at 4:19 PM UTC
In 1839, Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote “The pen is mightier than the sword.” His was not the only expression extolling the power of words, nor the first. The Greek poet Euripides, who died about 406 B.C., said, “The tongue is mightier than the blade.” In 1600 Shakespeare had Rosencrantz in Hamlet say that “…many wearing rapiers are afraid [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Ethics, Politics at 6:37 PM UTC