The ETA terrorists killed a former city council member from the Socialist Party today in Spain.
An excellent new blog about good newspaper practices shows a recent double spread from La Vanguardia in Barcelona on February 28th, with a dramatic graphic that gets a new death mark today.
(Click on the picture to see it bigger)
Tony Dokoupil reports in Newsweek about the Revenge of the Experts, or how the individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.
(Thanks to Alvaro Moncada in Miami)
The Chicago Tribune shows that Hillary Clinton’s foreign experience is almost zero:
Clinton’s experience claim under scrutiny
Hillary Clinton may have influenced foreign policy, but evidence is scant she played pivotal role.
As Andrew Sullivan says:
The Chicago Tribune does us all a service by examining what exactly is Senator Clinton’s experience.
Read the whole thing, but the Macedonia and Northern Ireland claims are the most revealing:
Pressed in a CNN interview this week for specific examples of foreign policy experience that has prepared her for an international crisis, Clinton claimed that she “helped to bring peace” to Northern Ireland and negotiated with Macedonia to open up its border to refugees from Kosovo.
Both claims are ludicrously untrue.
All she did in Northern Ireland was have tea with some local peace activist women. Laura Bush could argue, by that token, that she has ended AIDS in Africa.
But here’s the beaut:
The Macedonian government opened its border to refugees the day before Clinton arrived to meet with government leaders.
Clinton has next to no foreign policy experience.And no executive experience.
So, it seems that lying is a Clinton political tradition.
(Photo by AP)
Stephen M. Katz of The Virginian-Pilot is the newspaper photographer of the year in the 65th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition.
Two of his photos:
After falling out of a tree near his home in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Ogu’s parents tried to heal his broken arm using traditional herbal remedies. Severe infection set in and his arm eventually had to be amputated.
Raymond Sutter of Virginia Beach says hello to his wife Amanda and their unborn baby boy Rylan, due on August 19th, during Tuesday – July 3, 2007 – morning’s homecoming of the USS Nitze at the Norfolk Naval Station.
More pictures here.
The madness again.
A Jewish boy looks at a bullet-riddled glass door from where a Palestinian gunmen entered a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem.
(Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
