Subject: World Politics

• Choga Korean Restaurant

  October 23, 2008

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: Album Stream, MP3

  April 8, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Japanese Horror in West Virginia; Surrealism in Mississippi

  May 14, 2008

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin on Carson Daly Last Night

  May 16, 2008

• Best Annual Festival

  October 19, 2000

• Best Ball Kicker

  October 17, 2002

• God save the queen's chef

  Gordon Ramsey may be the best-known of the current British celebrity chefs, but Darren McGrady, the former Buckingham Palace chef and author of Eating Royally has an exceptionally elegant resume. McGrady, who now lives in Dallas, was personal chef to the late Princess Diana until her death; prior to that, he was senior chef in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace where, his official biography notes, "he traveled around the world with the Queen and the royal family." His cookbook -- a compilati

  March 6, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail, a shanty town

  What's the favorite breakfast cereal of Czechs? The other day -- oh, sorry, I'll be more specific, as this is "journalism" -- ON WEDNESDAY, the head of the European Economic Union, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, known to coprolite-pooping old Sen. John McCain as "Czechoslovakia," slammed Pres. Barack Obama's plan to spend $2 trillion in stimulus for the U.S. economy, calling it "the road to hell." Pretty strong words by the austere old-world standards of European politi

  March 26, 2009

• Cuba: Are we there yet?

  I want to go to Cuba -- and not just because this Kansas City winter won't end. I've always wanted to go to Cuba. I want to see for myself what the big deal is about the place that's tormented our politicians all these years. I want to see the crumbling architecture that once looked so cool. I want to breathe the sultry air (it's 84 and sunny as I write this), drink cafe con leche and listen to some of the music I've come to love. I want to see communism up close, so I can make my own judgments

  April 2, 2009

• Royal Chef

  March 5, 2009

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

  January 29, 2009

• Regarding the Virgin …

  December 11, 2008

• Cindy Woolf

  August 7, 2008

• Movement Minus Politics

  April 24, 2008

• Special Election Edición

  It's not that Mexicans won't vote for a black man. It's just that Alfred E. Neuman's a better choice.

  February 28, 2008

• Goodbye, Sweet Hitmen

  April 19, 2007

• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

  April 12, 2007

• Royal Pains

  The Queen offers majestic humor.

  October 26, 2006

• El Presidente?

  July 27, 2006

• Tragedy Re-Revisited

  December 22, 2005

• Author Dalton Conley

  April 23, 2009

• U.K. Subs

  Monday, October 18, at the Bottleneck.

  October 14, 2004

• The Grill From Ipanema

  Sabor Brasil has a some glitches to work out, but it's still charming.

  July 29, 2004

• Mad Cowboys

  A Kansas beef producer just wants to sell safe cattle, but the feds won't let it.

  March 25, 2004

• Time and Again

  The Jewish Film Fest mixes love and fanaticism.

  March 14, 2002

• Best Sound Man

  Little John Howard

  October 18, 2001

• Project Censored's Top 25 Stories for 1999

  May 11, 2000

• Yesterday's protest: Rally for Iran

  An impromptu rally gathered Sunday morning at the J.C. Nichols Fountain, with demonstrators displaying oversized images of a 16-year-old girl, blood on her face, killed on the streets of Tehran. In the wake of the disputed elections in Iran earlier this month, historic crowds have assembled to protest, what many consider to be, a fraudulent process, rigged in favor of current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In Kansas City, several dozens Iranians echoed those sentiments, carrying signs that

  June 22, 2009

• Right-wingers demand we stop investigating terrorist threats

  Damn, the fall-out from these Missouri Information Analysis Center reports is just never going to end. The short version for those of you who don't know -- in February MIAC issued a strategic report warning that a militia movement could be underway, and some conservatives (like Rush Limbaugh) got mad that they were being targeted for investigation along with the rest of the fringe groups and demanded that these reports stop being made. Apparently that old line about If you have nothing to h

  June 26, 2009

• Vigil for Iran tonight

  Large demonstrations met by heavy-handed police action have become a near daily occurence in Tehran, as thousands of Iranians gather in record numbers to protest the shady results of the June 12 presidental election. At least 17 citizens have been killed in the resulting violence. Today, Iran's Guardian Council announced that a partial recount of the ballots confirmed the controversial victory of current leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Tonight, Kansas City's Iranian communi

  June 29, 2009

• Falun Dafa: The Practice and the Persecution Uncompromising Change

  July 9, 2009

• MU professor Abdullahi Ibrahim is ready to bring democracy to Sudan

  July 16, 2009

• Pop Free Radio Showcase

  August 13, 2009

• Rightbloggers scour Kennedy funeral for Anti-Obamacare ammo

  ​ Starting today, Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere will run here every Monday until Armageddon.After a plane crash killed liberal Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, and several staff members in 2002, his friends and family held a memorial at the University of Minnesota attended by 15,000 people. The theme was "Stand up, keep fighting" for Wellstone's beliefs, and the expected Democratic replacement for Wellstone on the November ticket, Walter Mondale, w

  August 31, 2009

• Jenkins voted for resolution pardoning boxer Jack Johnson, denouncing 'great white hope'

  Lynn Jenkins​Kansas Congresswoman Lynn "Where all the white folks at?" Jenkins' naivete defense for using turn-of-the-century racist phrase "great white hope" at a town-hall meeting a couple of weeks ago lost credibility Friday thanks to the Ottawa Herald. The Herald dug up the Kansas Republican's vote on a resolution asking President Obama to pardon Jack Johnson -- the first black world heavyweight boxing champion -- for violating the Mann Act (Johnson was convicted in 1913 for crossing state

  August 31, 2009

• A sick, toxic summer of health care ends in a trip to the surgery center

  September 3, 2009

• School's out! Rightbloggers decry Obama's Hitler speech to schoolchildren

  ​ Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.Several days ago, the White House announced that President Obama would address kids returning to school via the internet. As he told an 11-year-old in a press opportunity, his September 8 speech would be about "the importance of education, the importance of staying in school, how we want to improve our education system, and why it's so important for the countr

  September 8, 2009

• Sebelius previews Obama's speech to Congress

  President Obama​After addressing schoolchildren yesterday, President Obama will address a group that only acts like children tonight in the prime-time hour when he tells Congress about his plans for health-care reform. In anticipation of the president's speech, Health and Human Services Secretary -- and former Kansas Governor -- Kathleen Sebelius released an audio preview. Listen to Sebelius' monotone delivery yourself or here's the transcript (highlights mine): "On Wednesday night, President

  September 9, 2009

• President talks health care to Congress -- Rightbloggers make it all about a guy named Joe

  ​ Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.Last week the President delivered a health-care speech to a joint session of Congress. The most newsworthy part of the event, from the rightblogger perspective, was Rep. Joe Wilson's cry of "You lie" during a section having to do with coverage of illegal immigrants. (Whether the still-fluid health-care reform plan will cover illegals is a matter of debate, whi

  September 14, 2009

• Rightbloggers see Chicago's Olympics snub as Obama's foreign policy crisis -- which they cheer

  ​ Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. They didn't like that, nor did they like Obama's warm reception there, and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with dire consequences for the United States.Time will tell. But this week a different intern

  October 5, 2009

• Bill Ayers jokes about writing Obama's book; Rightbloggers become punchline

  ​We're not sure where all the birthers went, but we can tell you where they're going: some of the same folks who questioned whether Obama was really born in the U.S.A. and eligible to be President have started flocking to blogger Backyard Conservative's claim that famous radical Bill Ayers told her something that proved what rightwing conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill has been saying all along: that Ayers did write Dreams of my Father, a book supposedly written by Barack Hitler Obama, whom ever

  October 7, 2009

• Rightbloggers defend America against dangerous Nobel Peace Prize

  ​Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.This week Time magazine had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration's alleged realization that it needed to strike back at "what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims..." You have to wonder what took them so long -- and whether such a counter-attack could possibly do any good.As we've shown here ceaselessly, the rightblogge

  October 12, 2009

• Brownback losing ground in race against Mr./Madame X

  I'm Sam Brownback, and I'm ready to take you on, you, you ... who are you?​Last week, the Kansas Democratic Party was celebrating a drop in approval ratings for Sen. Sam Brownback, who is leaving the Senate to run for governor. "In September, public support for Brownback dropped 6 points," the Dems said, heralding new numbers  from SurveyUSA. "More notably, one in ten moderates withdrew their support from Brownback during September. With an approval rate of only 48 percent, Brownback has

  October 12, 2009

• Man claims he was fired for voting for Obama

  Barack Obama​A salesman claims he was fired for voting for Barack Obama.KSHB Channel 41 reports that Elliott Snell is suing KK Office Solutions in Wyandotte County, claiming that his boss sent out an e-mail saying if Obama was elected that "the last few people hired should clean out their desks" because "Obama would give them free healthcare, food stamps, and let them stay in their homes even if they couldn't afford the mortgage." Snell tells 41 that he was fired two weeks after the election

  October 14, 2009

• Rightbloggers defend Rush with an NFL boycott; are beer, buffalo wings next?

  ​ The National Football League has a large millionaire population which predictably contributes overwhelmingly to Republicans over Democrats. Yet this week we learned from rightbloggers that the NFL is in fact a wing of the liberal conspiracy.Early this month Rush Limbaugh and Dave Checketts collaborated on a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise. But after some people in the League -- including Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith --

  October 19, 2009

• Fake but accurate: Obama 'thesis' proves his treason even after it's debunked

  ​ Much has been written in recent days about the White House's War on Fox News, in which Administration officials have called the Republican-friendly network "the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party" and such like, excluded it from the President's media tours, and even tried unsuccessfully to remove it from pool interviews of other officials.This cold-shouldering is generally seen as a mistake even by reporters presumed sympathetic to the Administration. We've had so

  October 26, 2009

• Rightbloggers get a scalp, and perhaps a party, in NY-23

  ​ On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first.Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and see what happened.Once upon a time Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was running for the 23rd Congressional District seat, which Republican John McHugh recently abandoned to serve as Obama's Secret

  November 2, 2009

• Rightbloggers denounce liberal media's defense of the Fort Hood massacre

  ​ On Thursday Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up Fort Hood, killing 12. Though a soldier for 12 years, Hasan apparently demonstrated, out loud, loyalty and affection for global jihad. It's appropriate to ask what such a person was doing in the U.S. Army.Rightbloggers saw a bigger problem, though: the liberal media. Though they got nearly all of their information about Hasan from such sources, they yet accused them of trying to cover up his Muslim roots, and even of excusing his massacre.In t

  November 9, 2009

• Political Drama

  November 12, 2009

• Rightbloggers play Miss Manners with Obama's treasonous Japanese bow

  ​Ever wonder why rightbloggers don't ever just say the hell with it? Week after week we unfailingly find them locked in the highest of dudgeons, raging about such inanities as old Sesame Street episodes or a non-existent suppressed Obama "thesis." Wouldn't you expect them to occasionally look at the more piddling of these outrages as they come over the transom and decide it just isn't worth their effort and self-embarrassment?Being the optimistic sort, we held out hope till recently that some

  November 16, 2009