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A great speech. President Obama at his best. Compassionate, warm, honoring those who died, those who survived, and those whose heroic actions at a time of crisis kept the tragedy from being worse than it was. A few of my favorite passages:"...[A]t a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet...

As more evidence is discovered--a search warrant for Jared Loughner's home producing a letter which shows he may have targeted Congresswoman Giffords for assassination as far back as 2007--it appears that there was no political motivation to the shooting and no connection to the map on Sarah Palin's web site which depicted gunsights surveyor marks over Giffords' district. That being said, it's interesting to note the timing and sequence of events from the Palin defenders in...

"The rhetoric has devolved and descended past the ugly, and past the threatening, and past the fantastic, and into the imminently murderous."<br />Undoubtedly, the descriptions of Jared Lee Loughner as "unstable, very disturbed" and a "loner" are accurate. But it is precisely unstable, disturbed, loners who are the most susceptible to the rhetoric Olbermann describes. Unstable, disturbed, loners like Lee Harvey Oswald, like Sirhan Sirhan, like Arthur Bremer, like John Hinckley.Who out of a twisted...

I have taught a lot of workshops over the years, and one of the components that I cover when I deliver a workshop on change management is something called the "Emotional Contagion Theory."In the March 2005 issue of The Journal of Applied Psychology, Richard Saavedra and Thomas Sy at California State University at Long Beach examined the effects of a leader's mood on a group. They took 189 volunteer undergraduates, divided them into 63 groups of...

So I guess the desecration of September 11th and showing insensitivity to the families and friends of those who lost their lives that day doesn't extend to Reverend Glenn and Sister Sarah soaking the suckers for a few extra bucks or Newt the Pious, defender of the sanctity of marriage, peddling his latest piece of anti-Obama, anti-Islam garbage on that day. From Think Progress: "This weekend, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are hosting a rally...

Since it falls under the heading of cruel and unusual punishment, I won't subject anyone to the video of Sean Hannity interviewing Sarah Palin yesterday. For the masochistic, News Hounds has it. But here's some of what Palin said in response to President Obama telling NBC's Brian Williams that there is a "network of misinformation" which keeps alive non-news like his birth certificate and his religion. "I was pretty appalled at that notion that Brian...

Thanks to Shortstuff for the inspiration! Unlike many of the talking heads who now appear on various "news" shows, Edward R. Murrow was a journalist with integrity who not only fought for free speech, but for TRUTH in journalism as well. He once said at the RTNDA Convention in Chicago in 1958 to a group of fellow journalists: "It is not necessary to remind you that the fact that your voice is amplified to...

Here's the one telling sentence in an article at the Washington Post on the results of a Pew poll showing that an increasing number of Americans, including more than a third of those who identify themselves as conservative Republicans, believe that President Obama is a Muslim:"Among those who say Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent say they learned about his religion from the media, suggesting that their opinions are fueled by misinformation.""Misinformation?" No, the word...

I still say we need to get someone working on a blowout preventer for Sarah Palin's mouth: "Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a scathing rebuke Monday night to the proposed "mosque" near Ground Zero and President Obama's comments supporting it. "He just doesn't get it, that this is an insensitive move by those Muslims that want to build a mosque in this location," Palin said of Obama in an appearance on Fox's "On the Record." "That...

As you would expect, Ste. Sarah of Facebook weighed in on President Obama's remarks about the Islamic center in New York. What she wrote was her usual sniping from the sidelines (read it at your own risk) including repeating the "Ground Zero mosque" lie, but more interesting were some of the comments from her "fans." Here are a few--unedited, as written:...you don't see christian churches in Afganistan, not even Bibles are allowed im muslim countries...