Hillary’s Healthcare Fairy Tale
Senator Clinton has been telling a nice story during her campaign about a woman who was pregnant, who didn't have health care, was denied service at a hospital, her fetus was still born and the woman ultimately died of complications. Only one little problem, it is not true. Yes the woman was pregnant. Yes, her fetus was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 14, 2008 08:19
American Airlines Cancels 1,000 Flights. Again.
For the second time in as many days, American Airlines has left more than 100,000 passengers stranded. American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights Wednesday, more than one-third of its schedule, as it spent a second straight day inspecting the wiring on some of its jets — the same issue that caused it to scrub hundreds of flights two weeks ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 9, 2008 14:22
NATO Adds Albania and Croatia, Rejects Macedonia, Georgia, Ukraine
Despite -- or perhaps partly because of -- backing from the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has denied membership to Macedonia and rejected a bid to grant Membership Action Plans to put Georgia and Ukraine on a one-year path to membership in the Alliance. BBC: Nato has confirmed it will not yet offer membership to Georgia or ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 3, 2008 08:52
Caption Contest Winners
The Todd Rundgren Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. REUTERS/Jason Reed (JAMAICA) ✰ THE WINNERS ✰ First: Maggie - Charles: “Bang the drum slowly; the white witch wants to dance.” Second: charles austin - “Well, that’s not exactly what I meant when I said I was next in line.” Third:(tie) Elmo - Do you know Bang a Gong by T-Rex? Third:(tie) Bithead ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 17, 2008 18:02
NATO Troops Close Kosovo Border
NATO has intervened to prevent rioting along the Kosovo-Serbia border from getting out of hand. Nato troops have sealed the northern borders of Kosovo after Serbs angry at its weekend declaration of independence ransacked two crossings. Hundreds of protesters torched customs and police posts at Jarinje and Brnjak, manned by UN and Kosovo police. Closing the borders will infuriate both Kosovo ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 20, 2008 09:12
Watching Watching America (Updated)
Are you aware of Watching America? It's a site that provides a wonderful service, publishing translations of articles on the U. S. from newspapers, magazines, and online sources all over the world. They are mostly articles about the U. S. written by foreign authors for a foreign audience and provide an interesting counterpoint to what you might read ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 17, 2008 11:48
Newspapers Reprint Danish Muslim Cartoon
The Danish Muslim cartoons that sparked worldwide rioting, mayhem, and murder two years ago are back. Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago. The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a "terror-related assassination" of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the drawing. Berlingske Tidende, was ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 13, 2008 13:56
Reforming NATO
A panel of top military figures from the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and the Netherlands have produced a report calling for sweeping reform of NATO: Calling for root-and-branch reform of Nato and a new pact drawing the US, Nato and the European Union together in a "grand strategy" to tackle the challenges of an increasingly brutal world, the former armed ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 22, 2008 09:31
Global Warming Conferences Add to Global Warming
Headline of the Day honors go to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for "More than 10,000 jet into Bali for global warming conference," their take on an AP story by Robin McDowell. My expectations were that it was an amusing accident but it reflects the author's intent nicely. Never before have so many people converged to try to save the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 5, 2007 11:50
OTB Radio - Tonight at 7 Eastern
The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and John Burgess will be joining me to talk about the recent Saudi rape case, the rioting in France, the Annapolis Conference and whatever other topics come up. We'll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030.Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 28, 2007 17:07
