Michael Gerson

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Michael Gerson Blasts Saddam, Gets Booed

Source: jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com --- 49 days ago
A small indication of the political leanings of some Aspen attendees: At a session with Jim Wallis, Michael Cromartie and our very own Ross Douthat, Michael Gerson pushed back against Wallis's contention that the Iraq war was immoral because it caused the loss of innocent life. Gerson noted that the previous regime in Iraq was responsible for terrible human rights violations, including genocide, and he went on to say that Saddam was "comparable to Pol Pot." This was apparently a controversial assertion, because it provoked boos and grumbling in the audience. I would note for the record that there seemed to be no Kurds in the audience. ...

Michael Gerson: New oil hunt as destructive as any human endeavor

Source: www.norwichbulletin.com --- 35 days ago
North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Denmark. Ashore, this arctic desert is so harsh natives wisely never settled here — only men digging coal, trapping arctic fox and polar bear, and hunting whales were foolish enough to come. A forlorn whaling camp remains. Whalers searched for oil in blubber and bone to light their economy. Now the question arises: Is this last wilderness being changed by another kind of oil? This desolate, grand, forgotten sea has suddenly come to the center of world attention for one reason: The pace of climate change is faster than expected. In the last 50 years, as much as half of summer sea ice has gone missing. Another few decades could mean that ice disappears entirely. The absence of ice in water has little to do with raising sea levels; it is water stored on land in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets that could overfill the oceans like a brimming bathtub. But since ice acts as a kind of mirror, less ice means less reflected sunlight, which means that the arctic could heat at twice the rate of the rest of the world. And in the last five years, some of Greenland’s glaciers have shown accelerated melting as well. Water rising With this melting from ice sheets and glaciers — and the nat ...

Michael Gerson: Few know of Cindy McCain’s selfless relief efforts

Source: www.norwichbulletin.com --- 28 days ago

Cindy McCain’s first visit to Rwanda in 1994 was during the high season of roadblocks, machetes and shallow graves. After a call for help from Doctors Without Borders, McCain had assembled a medical team with the intention of setting up a mobile hospital in Rwanda. Arriving by private plane in mid-April, a couple of weeks into the massacres, she realized the chaos made deploying her team impossible. At the airport, she paid for the use of a truck and set out for Goma in then-Zaire, where hundreds of thousands of refugees were headed. “I never saw anyone harmed,” McCain recalls, “but I saw the bodies along the roadside.” Checkpoints were manned by 12- and 13-year-olds with AK-47s. Along the way, she picked up several abandoned young people, later given to the care of an Irish charity. “You could see the chaos, hear the shots, hear the screaming. You could smell it.” What, I asked her, could you smell? “The smell of death,” she replied. Helping refugees Arriving across the border in Goma, which is now in Congo, McCain found cholera victims stacked beside the road “like highway barriers.” The field hospital covered four acres. McCain’s team provided primary care for the sick and frightened refugees, many of them suffering dehydration. For nearly a month, McCain organized food and water for the operation, collecting supplies at the Goma airport. The rushing return of these memories came on with McCain’s first visit to Rwanda since the ...

Michael Gerson: AIDS relief gets support from many conservatives

Source: www.norwichbulletin.com --- 21 days ago

It is my intention to celebrate a legislative and moral victory — the reauthorization and expansion of America’s massive effort to fight global AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria — with an apology. Two months ago, I made a rather vivid attack on a group of U.S. senators I called “the Coburn Seven,” who were blocking consideration of this measure. I was convinced Tom Coburn — known in the Senate as “Dr. No” for objecting to nearly all spending increases — intended to kill the bill. Then I made the worst mistake: Actually meeting the object of my scorn. I found, as usual, that disdain is easier from a distance. Though we remained at odds regarding some issues, Coburn politely assured me his motivation was not stinginess. His main goal was to increase the number of people receiving treatment. So let the record show: After a compromise that accommodated his concerns, Coburn not only supported the bill, but urged other conservatives to do the same. The bipartisan expansion of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — along with the President’s Malaria Initiative — is significant in a number of ways. Major components First, it is congressional affirmation of a major legacy of George W. Bush — a grand, aggressive international compassion that dwarfs the Peace Corps and is unequaled since the Marshall Plan. Despite charges of simplistic militarism, the Bush Doctrine includes three elements: The pre-emption of emerging threats, the enc ...

Publius: Michael Gerson is the worst op-ed writer in the United States

Source: delong.typepad.com --- 31 days ago
Obsidian Wings: Michael Gerson - The Worst Ever: I think it’s fairly clear that Michael Gerson is the worst op-ed writer in the United States. He’s certainly the most insufferable. Sorry Richard Cohen – maybe next year! And today’s effort... ...

Michael Gerson: Reconciling prosperity gospel, true faith

Source: www.topix.com --- 10 days ago
IN a recent investigative profile, The Associated Press tells the depressingly familiar story of televangelist Kenneth Copeland. ...

Columnist Michael Gerson Urges Barack Obama to Pick Pro-Life Running ... - LifeNews.com

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 11 days ago
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Michael Gerson, a longtime and well-respected columnist for the Washington Post, has written an editorial encouraging pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama to consider Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter as his ... ...

Michael Gerson: Cindy McCain in Rwanda, then and now

Source: www.topix.com --- 19 days ago
1 Comment, last updated on Wednesday Jul 30 by Robert Lewis ...

The Governor for Obama - Washington Post

Source: news.google.com --- 19 days ago
The Governor for Obama Washington Post - Jul 31, 2008 By Michael Gerson It is an extraordinary bit of political trivia that two popular red-state Democratic governors -- both in presidential battleground states -- spent time as Catholic lay missionaries in the developing world. Video: AP Campaign Minute AssociatedPress Kaine dodges VP talk at show Richmond Times Dispatch TriCities.com - ABC News - FOXNews - New York Times all 728 news articles ...

Does God Want You To Be Poor?

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 13 days ago
Op-Ed Columnist Michael Gerson attacks the prosperity gospel movement in his column this week Faith's Real Riches. ...

Robots revolt in favor of humanity

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 37 days ago
Michael Gerson, guest columnist: For a children's movie, "WALL-E" begins with startling bleakness: epic landscapes of the Earth buried under the waste of endless human wants. ...

David Sirota: Is It Really So Difficult to Do Actual Reporting?

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 17 days ago
Michael Gerson's column suggesting Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter for vice-president is the latest example of someone paid to report the facts actually refusing to do 5 minutes of work to, ya know, report the facts. The basis for Gerson's support for Ritter is that he is one of "two popular red-state Democratic governors." Now, I think it would be great to see Ritter on the Democratic ticket - but I also think it would be great for people paid to report facts to actually check the facts. Because had Gerson bothered to take 5 minutes looking at the actual empirical public opinion data, he would have found that Bill Ritter isn't that popular . In fact, he would have found that Bill Ritter is unpopular. Let me reiterate - this is about journalism, not about Bill Ritter. I think he'd make an intriguing choice for VP, and I wish he was more popular. But if I wrote a column about Ritter for VP, I would not come right out of the gate pushing a pure, provable fiction that exposes me as a slothful purveyor of fantasies that I fabricate in my own head. That such sloth pervades our most Serious Newspapers of Record should irritate everyone who takes the craft of journalism seriously. ...

Charity begins here

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 16 days ago
Michael Gerson's column ("Coburn's Africa relief best of conservatism," Aug. 1) should have been headlined "Coburn's Africa relief betrayal of... ...

Colorado Gov. Ritter Is Not 'Principled Pro-Life Democrat,' Opinion Piece Says

Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 8 days ago
"It's hard to imagine anyone in Colorado touting rookie Gov. Bill Ritter (D) as vice presidential timber," but "2,000 miles away, locked in the surrealism of the Beltway," Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson "has done just that," Denver Post columnist Mark Hillman writes in an opinion piece (Hillman, Denver Post, 8/7). Gerson in the piece wrote that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. ...

Kudos for Cindy McCain

Source: blogs.kansascity.com --- 11 days ago
Thank you for the article by Michael Gerson about Cindy McCain (7/26, Opinion. “She’d be an adventurous, compassionate first lady”). That was long overdue. Most of the media have presented Cindy McCain as a Stepford wife, even though she has... ...

Sounds like a good speech!

Source: gristmill.grist.org --- 35 days ago
By David Roberts Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, safely removed from any position from which he might actually do anything about it , discovers that climate change is real . ...

Gerson on Rwanda: “some of the most rapid progress in the history of public health”

Source: www.one.org --- 28 days ago
Michael Gerson talks of “ONE’s Rwanda Trip” in an Op-Ed in today’s Post. In the piece, he repeats a truth that we as ONE members have been trying to get out about the immense progress in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide - saying that the country is making “some of the most rapid progress in [...] ...

I Believe in Climate Change

Source: www.topix.com --- 35 days ago
An arctic cemetery in Longyearbyen, Norway. Enlarge Photo COMMENT By Michael Gerson IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE -- North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic ... ...

Bush officials can't recall Tillman facts

Source: www.moldova.org --- 36 days ago
A U.S. congressional committee report criticized the near universal lack of recall by the Bush administration about the friendly-fire death of Pat Tillman.The report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said administration officials turned over 1,500 pages of e-mails and other documents related the to 2004 death the National Football League star-turned Army Ranger in Afghanistan, but none contained any mention of fratricide, the San Jose Mercury-News reported Tuesday. Committee investigators also said their interviews with such White House figures as communications chiefs Scott McClellan and Dan Bartlett and speechwriter Michael Gerson yielded nothing but I don't recall answers about when they or U.S. ...

Will environment survive the enviros?

Source: www.newstrust.net --- 29 days ago
Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Michael Gerson - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - Any legislation ambitious enough to cut carbon emissions significantly and encourage energy technologies will require a broad political and social consensus. Nothing this complex and expensive gets done on a party-line vote. Yet many environmental leaders seem unpracticed at coalition building. Submitted by: Derek Hawkins NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer ...

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