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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/...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

I wonder if even the 82-12 ratio underplays the difference in moral character between the two sides. After all, the Taliban faces a uniformed enemy visibly distinct from the civilian populace. Whereas, pro-government forces face an enemy who intentionally tries to blend into local populations.

The whole text message phenomenon creeps me out too. However, I wonder if the reaction of us "old fogies" isn't just the generation gap repeating itself. We dump on the kids for their texting. Our parents dumped on us for our video games. Their parents dumped on them for  television. Our great...

I have a bud who works in local TV. He is required to do a wide range of stories on a large range of issues. Early morning, he might be covering a medical issue. Late morning, a legal proceeding. In the afternoon, a military story. And before he heads home from work, a report on the local...

In a Macleans' article, John Geddes asks: is support for the military dependent on the party in power? Or has historical circumstance been responsible for the funding ups and downs? http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/07/05/defence-spending-does-the-party-in-power-spell-the-difference/

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/canadian-troops-formally-handover-kandahar-battlefield-to-us-forces.html