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This isn’t just a great speech. This is the speech that should have been given to the Muslim world by President John Kerry in 2005. In the time between then and now, Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has evidently had a lot of time to think about what a mature, balanced [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 107-10 February 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Adriana Alvarez, 20, of San Benito, Texas, died Feb. 10 in Baghdad, of injuries sustained while supporting combat operations. She was assigned to the 504th Military [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyDave does a great job with Olbermann of contextualizing and adjudicating the tea party-vs-Captain America dispute. One (typically) insightful point Dave makes is that the tea party set isn’t yet comfortable with being part of the culture — which implies, among other treatment, satire [...]

Via New York Press, the first journalistic entity to ever employ me, Freddy from Madball — New York Hardcore royalty as younger brother of Roger Miret from AF — apparently has a thing rapping in Spanish and a record called Catholic Guilt. All NYHC people can marvel at how it takes Freddy a mere 45 [...]

According to Jake Tapper, Hussain is going to be named Obama’s special envoy to the Muslim world. Congratulations, fella! You’re going to have no power to change policy and you’re going to get endless amounts of spleen from Islamic governments and publics about, oh, Israel, drone strikes, the quasi-closure of Guantanamo, Israel, the “occupation” of [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 106-10 February 12, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Adam J. Ray, 23, of Louisville, Ky., died Feb. 9 in southern Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. [...]

Always nice to have the Columbia Journalism Review take notice of this disgraceful story. Clint Hendler writes a tough-and-fair critique of Tennessee NewsChannel 5′s Muslim Expose. What I didn’t realize was that this was actually the second installment of a teased series. The previous one just implied that Islamville was something nefarious. Blatantly irresponsible. The [...]

A journalistic pet peeve: saying something is “interesting.” That tells a reader absolutely nothing. You owe it to your audience to explain why the Thing-Itself is interesting; what precisely is interesting; and if there’s a value judgment lurking behind the “interesting” designation, what that might be. Journalists also use “interesting” toward each other in a [...]

A couple months ago, I tried to leave a message for Israeli Amb. Michael Oren through the embassy’s press staff asking him to explain why he was so hostile to J Street — and, it appeared, progressive American Jews. No luck. However, an enterprising student at the University of California-San Diego, Jolene Crixell, tweeted at [...]