Over the past two months, there has been a frenzy of media attention over the takeover of P&O (a London-based company) by Dubai Ports World (a United Arab Emirates company).  This was suddenly ended when the company agreed to sell their American operations to an American shipping company.

Both Republican and Democratic politicians have been outspoken in opposition to allowing Dubai Ports World to operate the former P&O terminals. In a poll of 1000 American adults, only 17% agreed with the Dubai Port deal.  These 17% are the smart ones.

But let’s compare the opposing arguments with the facts.   (more…)

I thought I’d get back in the swing of things by writing about the newest additions to the Book Quotes and Passages Page. The big chunks are from James Agee, a brilliant author who wrote Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book about the Depression.

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“Journalism is true in the sense that everything is true to the state of being and to what conditioned and produced it: but that is about as far as its value goes. This is not to accuse or despise journalism for anything beyond its own complacent delusion, and its enormous power to poison the public with the same delusion, that it is telling the truth even of what it tells of.”
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