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From the Media Research Center, November 24, 2009: As of Tuesday morning, the broadcast networks still haven’t uttered a single word about the revelations late last week [November 20] of e-mails showing scientists on the left-wing side of the global warming debate plotting to hide data and silence those on the other side in an effort [...]

Regarding how Muslims around the world view the United States, and why, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times wrote this today.  I was very surprised to agree with him. Glenn Greenwald at Salon responded to Friedman’s piece with this.  Read them both and see what you think. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Famericanplatform.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D786'; [...]

The television is overflowing with dopey analysis of the two attention seekers who crashed the state dinner the other night. Much has been made of the fact that they had been through metal detectors like everyone else and therefore the President was in no danger. Are we sure about that?  Everything is impossible right up [...]

Does America really need the 111 new federal bureaucracies created under the latest plan to “reform” health care?  If you believe that these government entities, created behind closed doors by Harry Reid and Co. contrary to their promise to not act behind closed doors, will benefit the country I defy you to explain how. All these [...]

Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately. -New York Times, November 11, 2009 Here we go again.  How is it possible to print this statement with a straight face?  Lou Dobbs is not against immigration.  Lou [...]

“It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country … in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them [...]

A really terrific speech. Somber in tone, but uplifting and respectful of the victims and their families. I was pleased that the president understood and acknowledged that it was a terrorist attack, and that “…no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor.” The homage [...]