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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/07/beautiful-illustration-where-flickr-and-twitter-are-used/39712/ Twitter gives an indication of where people live and talk. Flickr gives an indication of those places that people consider beautiful or important enough to photograph. Judging by...

I noticed the same problem during the election. It was difficult for folks like Don Martin to keep their personal beliefs from coloring their reporting.

Before joining the CF, I assumed that senior journalists were experienced and informed. That they had insider knowledge of how the DND works. Then when I joined a unit, I was shocked to hear the frustration of many soldiers at lazy or deliberately misleading reporting.

Don Martin and Lawrence Martin, two of the most prominent, most experienced journalists in the Ottawa Press Gallery. If they are the cream of the crop, I'd hate to taste the curds. First, Lawrence Martin. http://ipolitics.ca/2011/07/08/lawrence-martin-the-new-hawks-of-the-western-world/...

Looking over that list, I think we should design a calendar. A different philosophy for every day of the year. July 8th: Mereological nihilism

Libertarians absolutely make a claim to moral ascendancy. Namely, the ascendancy of individual preference over the needs or values of the community as a whole. In a time of invasion, the libertarian would allow individuals to opt out of the military; their individual morals ascendant over the...

Of course, one of the ironies of Goldberg's denunciation of "liberal fascism" is that Hitler was such a passionate enemy of liberalism. There are no shortage of anti-liberal quotes one can mine from Hitler. A rather humorous presentation of them is available in the Hitler vs. Ann Coulter quiz...

I am fascinated that the gap in approval between the military and the politicians is so consistent across various nations. I wonder what the common factor is. Are the globe's political classes universally full of the dishonest and the incompetent? Do militaries in a wide range of countries share...

Haha, quote mining. That is a fantastic term that I've never heard before. In fairness, both sides of the aisle engage in such misrepresentation. In the lead up to the Iraq War, there were no shortage of anti-war activists comparing Bush to Hitler.

Elton John is certainly no friend of radical Islam. In fact, Islamists have worked to ban him from the Middle East. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=174573 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/19/elton-john-moroccan-concert

Islamic extremists are known for their violent intolerance towards women and gays. It is the height of strangeness that these Islamists would now consider gay life as a cover for their activities...

A retired colonel argues that our military history is being presented inaccurately. http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Exploding%2Bmyth%2Bpeacekeeping/5062050/story.html

I can't stand the way in which Hitler is employed in order to win political arguments. The most glaring recent example has to be Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, in which American liberals are slimed for being like Hitler. The whole game is disgusting because it is so dishonest. Sure, there...

E.R. I think a lot of your ideas are admirable, but I wonder if they are realistic. The GOP is not a party of the middle. It has been captured by the Christian right, and by Wall Street. However, the fact that the GOP has become a highly ideological grouping does not mean that it has become a...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/06/dont-ask-dont-tell-judges.html

Sorry, my experience is with forums that had a different set of moderating rules. I will work to adapt.

Television is, at the best of times, a predominantly visual and emotional medium. Detailed, accurate news reporting is valuable. However, I don't know how many minds are changed through rational discourse.  I can't speak for others, but as a recent recruit, I can tell you that it wasn't...

From what I can tell, the military spending and GDP figures provided in the Ploughshares article are comparable to the figures on government websites. Perhaps the problem is not the data supplied by the organization, but rather how they use that data to further an ideological agenda.

One of the COTC articles, perhaps unintentionally, demonstrates that such counter-arguments are needed. Judging by a number of media articles posted here recently, there are more than a few university professors with a seriously ignorant view of what values the CF defends.