Newt Gingrich’s Libya ‘flip-flop’: What was he thinking? (The Week)
New York – Gingrich hammered President Obama earlier this month for not intervening in Libya. Now he’s griping, “I would not have intervened.” Huh? Former House speaker and current GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has done a “complete flip-flop” on his Libya position, says George Zornick at ThinkProgress
Can Republican Scott Brown save Planned Parenthood? (The Week)
New York – The Massachusetts senator joins two GOP colleagues in opposing a House bid to strip federal funding from the family-planning group House Republicans’ hopes of stripping all federal funding from Planned Parenthood hit a big obstacle Tuesday, and his name is Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass). The junior senator from Massachusetts (and one-time Tea Party favorite) said the measure simply “goes too far.” Two other GOP senators, Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), had already voiced their opposition to the House plan
Japan’s radioactive tap water and 3 other new risks (The Week)
New York – Japanese officials set off warning bells in Tokyo by reporting that the city’s tap water could imperil infants.
Evangelical shift on gays: Why ‘clobber scriptures’ are losing ground (The Christian Science Monitor)
Atlanta – In 1987, Jim Bakker’s sex scandal shocked the evangelical world. The husband of mascara-laden Tammy Faye was a super-televangelist with an average viewership numbering over 12 million and ministry contributions estimated at $1 million per week.
Why is the Tea Party silent on Libya? (The Week)
New York – Liberal critics are decrying the war on Moammar Gadhafi, but the right’s notoriously noisy grassroots movement has barely uttered a word. Why
Anti-Iraq War Bush-Haters Squirm to Justify Libya (Larry Elder)
Creators Syndicate – “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said in December 2007.
Could Detroit disappear? (The Week)
New York – The population of the Motor City declined by an astonishing 25 percent in the last decade. Could it vanish altogether
Did God have a wife? (The Week)
New York – Yes, says a leading theologian. And she may have been edited out of the Bible All the great religions of the world share the belief that there is but one solitary creator of the universe
Libya intervention: US cannot afford to ‘go in search of monsters to destroy’ (The Christian Science Monitor)
New York – From Iran to Algeria and across the Middle East, a generation of young people has demanded that its voice be heard, calling for new or reformed governments.
It really is about regime change in Libya (The Week)
New York – Ignore the president’s hysterical critics. Obama’s aim is to topple Gadhafi — and he knows the stakes are high The commentary on the president’s course in Libya has been instinctively adversarial. Much of the press may be compensating for its cheerleading or supine acquiescence in the fraud of the Iraq War.
