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Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins; and Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

The roundtable guests areL Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; Republican strategist Mary Matalin; EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock;and television and radio host Tavis Smiley.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); and CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook.

The guests on a special panel discussing Ebola are: Richard Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association; Dr. Robert Wah, president of the American Medical Association; and Jean Ross co-president of National Nurses United.

The guests on his political panel are: Gerald Seib, The Wall Street Journal; Susan Glasser, Politico Magazine; and Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: The guests on Sunday’s MTP are: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases;  Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA); and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO). The rest is anybody’s guess.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guest are Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX); and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Her panel guests are: Kevin Madden; Ana Navarro; LZ Granderson; and Penny Lee.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are:  Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Tom Frieden; Treasury Secretary Jack Lew; and actor and veterans’ advocate Gary Sinise.

The guests at the roundtable are: Van Jones; Peggy Noonan; Mark Halperin; and John Heilemann.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuHouse Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D- MD).

His panel guests are CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto; CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes; CBS News political director John Dickerson; and Jonathan Martin, The New York Times.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd:

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms Crowley’s guests are: CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden; and Dr. William Frohna, MedStar Washington Hospital Center; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI).

Her panel guests are Bill Daley; Andrew Card; Mack McLarty and Ken Duberstein.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guest on Sunday’s “This Week” is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.

The roundtable guests are: Democratic strategist James Carville; Republican strategist Ana Navarro; Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens; and editor and publisher of The Nation and Washington Post columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieefer’s guests are: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power; CBS medical adviser Dr. Jonathan LaPook; and Dr. William Schaffner, the chair on the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

His panel guests are: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the Woodrow Wilson Center; Robert Kagan, the Brookings Institution; and Mike Morell, former CIA Deputy Director.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: The guests are: Adm. Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Vali Nasr Dean, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Michael Leiter, NBC News National Security Analyst and former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; and Thomas Frank, author of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”

The roundtable guests are: John Stanton, Washington Bureau Chief, BuzzFeed; Amy Walter, National Editor, The Cook Political Report; Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review; and Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are: former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair;  Hall of Famer and former CBS commentator Shannon Sharpe; former NFL player Izell Reese; and USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan.

Her panel guests are Newt Gingrich; Donna Brazile; Marc Lamont Hill; and Tara Wall.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: Guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough;  Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

At the roundtable, the guests are: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are Secretary of State John Kerry; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX);  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY); and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

His panel guests are Bill Rhoden of The New York Times and CBS News Special Correspondent and anchor of The NFL Today, James Brown.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: On Sunday’s MTP, the guests are White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; former Secretary of State James Baker; and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Reporting from the Middles East are NBC correspondents Richard Engel in Erbil, Iraq, and Bill Neely in Damascus, Syria. Also NBC host Andrea Mitchell reports on Hillary Clinton’s visit to Iowa.

The roundtable guests are Nia-Malika Henderson, National Political Reporter, The Washington Post; Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times; Mike Murphy, Republican Strategist; and Jim VandeHei, President and CEO, POLITICO.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; retired Major General Paul Eaton; retired Lieutenant General James Dubik; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MI); Mike Wise, sports columnist for the Washington Post; and Sen. Tom Harken (IA).

Her panel guests are former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney; former Romney adviser Lanhee Chen; CNN Crossfire host S.E. Cupp; and CNN Commentator LZ Granderson.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX); Rep. Peter King (R-NY); Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA); and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

The roundtable guests are:  Yahoo News national political columnist Matt Bai; Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl; Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; and FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief Nate Silver.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD); CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto; and David Leonhardt, The New York Times.

His panel guests are: Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal; David Ignatius, The Washington Post; and Peter Baker, The New York Times.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: Chuck makes his debut as moderator of MTP with an exclusive interview of President Barack Obama.

If you think that Chuck will be an improvement over the Dance Master, read this article by Simon Maloy at Salon.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); Rep. Tony Cárdenas; Mayor Michael Nutter, (D) Philadelphia; Mayor Marty Walsh (D) Boston; and Mayor Kevin Faulconer, (R) San Diego.

Her panel guests are Crossfire Hosts Newt Gingrich and S.E. Cupp; CNN Commentators LZ Granderson and Maria Cardona.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK); ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guest are: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA); Rep. Peter King (R-NY).

His panel guests are: Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute and Michael Singh of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell interviews Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA).

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowely’s guests are: Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Her panel guests are Lanhee Chen, Penny Lee, Marc Lamont Hill, and Kristen Soltis Anderson.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); and  Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO).

The roundtable guests are: Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan; and former Obama White House senior adviser David Plouffe.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH); Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO); and actor and disabled veterans activist Gary Sinise.

His panel guests are: Nia-Malika Henderson, the Washington Post; David Rohde, Reuters; Susan Page, USA Today; CBS News State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan; and CBS News Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr.

Meet the Press with Chuck Todd: Chuck “I don’t fact check” Todd takes over mike from David “the dance master” Gregory who is off writing a book.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley:Ms. Crowley’s guests are: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); Great Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott; and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D).

Her panel guest are: Thomas Manger, Chief of Police in Montgomery County Maryland and Vice President of the Police Executive Research Forum; Malik Aziz, Deputy Chief of Police in Dallas and Chair of the National Black Police Association; and James Craig, Chief of Police in Detroit.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D -HI).

The roundtable guests are: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; Daily Beast contributor Kristen Soltis Anderson; and ABC News Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieefer’s guests are: Gov. Jay Nixon (D-MO);  NAACP president Cornell William Brooks; Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson; and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

His panel guests are Gerald Seib, The Wall Street Journal; Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post; Michael Gerson, The Washington Post; and Peter Baker, The New York Times.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: We bid a long over due farewell to host David Gregory, fondly known for his dancing skills with his erstwhile partner Karl Rove. Sad to say he is only being replaced with NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd who will no doubt continue the tradition of white male right winger nut jobs with their perpetual false talking points.

Guests on “MTP” are: Jay Nixon (D-MO); Rep. John Lewis (D-GA); Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH); and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D).

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Gov. Jay Nixon (D-MO); Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO); and NYPD Police Commissioner and convicted felon Bernard Kerik.

Her panel guests are actor and activist Jesse Williams; CNN Contributor LZ Granderson; and journalist and Political Strategist Tara Wall.

Punting the Pundits

“Punting the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

Elizabeth R. Beavers amd Michael Shank: Get the Military Off of Main Street

Ferguson Shows the Risks of Militarized Policing

FERGUSON, Mo., has become a virtual war zone. In the wake of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, outsize armored vehicles have lined streets and tear gas has filled the air. Officers dressed in camouflage uniforms from Ferguson’s 53-person police force have pointed M-16s at the very citizens they are sworn to protect and serve.

The police response has shocked America. The escalating tension in this town of 21,200 people between a largely white police department and a majority African-American community is a central part of the crisis, but the militarization of the police is a dimension of the story that has national implications. [..]

Militarizing our police officers does not have to be the first response to violence. Alternatives are available. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s statement Thursday highlighting resources like the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services office is welcome. This is where the government should be investing – instead of grants for guns.

Police militarization is a growing national threat. If the federal government doesn’t act to stop it, the future of law enforcement everywhere will look a lot like Ferguson.

Jeff Bachman: War Crimes: Is Obama Looking for a Bailout?

On Aug. 1, President Barack Obama stated in an oddly casual manner that “we tortured some folks.” As Obama is well aware, torture is a violation of international law. It is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Torture Convention), and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), all of which have been signed and ratified by the United States. Further, although the ICCPR allows for some derogation from some of its requirements under extraordinary circumstances, torture is an act that is never permitted. [..]

According to Obama, the character of the United States “has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard.” Prosecuting Bush administration officials for torture would have been politically difficult. There’s no doubt about that, but that’s why we have laws. Laws are not meant to be enforced when it is convenient to do so; laws are meant to be objective and applied to all, equally. Unfortunately, despite the pious calls for justice elsewhere, protecting American officials against prosecution for war crimes is a time-honored tradition in the United States. Whether the crimes were committed during WWII, the Korean War, in Vietnam, Iraq or the wider “war on terror,” not a single high-level official has been held accountable for his or her crimes.

Obama’s contribution to U.S. hypocrisy does not end with the sheltering of Bush administration officials. The Obama administration is suspected of committing a number of crimes of its own, including violations of the Torture Convention. Despite multiple warnings of systematic torture in Afghan detention facilities, the administration continued to enter detainees into these facilities with full knowledge they could become victims of torture. Although some might argue this is a relatively lesser crime than directly authorizing these detainees’ torture, the end result is quite the same. Obama also allows for the continuing torture of Guantanamo Bay prisoners who are on a hunger strike. Jon Eisenberg, a human rights attorney who defends one of the prisoners, believes that when combining the varied practices associated with the force-feeding of detainees, “it all adds up to torture.”

Paul Krugman: The Forever Slump

It’s hard to believe, but almost six years have passed since the fall of Lehman Brothers ushered in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Many people, myself included, would like to move on to other subjects. But we can’t, because the crisis is by no means over. Recovery is far from complete, and the wrong policies could still turn economic weakness into a more or less permanent depression.

In fact, that’s what seems to be happening in Europe as we speak. And the rest of us should learn from Europe’s experience.

Before I get to the latest bad news, let’s talk about the great policy argument that has raged for more than five years. It’s easy to get bogged down in the details, but basically it has been a debate between the too-muchers and the not-enoughers.

The too-muchers have warned incessantly that the things governments and central banks are doing to limit the depth of the slump are setting the stage for something even worse. Deficit spending, they suggested, could provoke a Greek-style crisis any day now – within two years, declared Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles some three and a half years ago. Asset purchases by the Federal Reserve would “risk currency debasement and inflation,” declared a who’s who of Republican economists, investors, and pundits in a 2010 open letter to Ben Bernanke.

Bina Shaw: Want to end sexual violence against women? Fix the men

A crisis of masculinity needs to be addressed in order to see a reduction in sexual violence against women.

The Global Summit to End Violence Against Women in Conflict took place in London in June 2014, with 1700 delegates from 129 countries and 79 ministers attending, drawing much-needed attention to the problem of women suffering sexual assault in war zones.

Yet as I studied the programme’s fringe events and followed the coverage in the news, I wondered what exactly a conference in London could truly do, beyond the call to action, to help women in places like Syria, Iraq, or Egypt, where women have suffered systematic rape and sexual assault as a “weapon of war”, as summit keynote speaker Angelina Jolie put it.

It’s vital to commit to tackling sexual violence in conflict and supporting victims, as the summit’s action statement outlined, as fresh conflicts erupt across the Middle East and South Asia. But while the summit stated its aim was to “end the use of rape and sexual violence in conflicts around the world”, it didn’t give more voice to key elements: honesty about the true origins of the violence – the skewed concept of masculinity in patriarchal societies, which operates in both war and peace – and the concomitant need to confront male perpetrators of violence against women with a prescription that goes beyond the conventional formulae of legal reform and punishment for sexual crimes.

Robert McImtyre: Walgreen Co. Did the Right Thing, But Most Corporations Won’t Without a Change in Tax Rules

I experienced a brief moment of joy when news broke last week that pharmacy chain Walgreens has, for now, set aside plans to invert, which is a euphemism for using paperwork to reincorporate as a foreign company for tax purposes. But my joy lasted for about one minute.

While Walgreen Co. has decided to remain American for tax purposes, a lot of what consumers buy in Walgreens drug stores may come from companies that are not such outstanding corporate citizens. The prescriptions you have filled there may be made by AbbVie, which plans to become a British company for tax purposes, or Mylan, which plans to become a Dutch company, or Pfizer which is also considering a corporate inversion.  [..]

But this is a distraction. Few American corporations actually pay anything close to 35 percent of their profits in federal income taxes thanks to all sorts of loopholes, and lowering the tax rate would accomplish nothing because the ultimate goal of many inversions is to shift profits to countries like Bermuda or the Cayman Islands where the tax rate is zero. So many companies are inverting to Ireland and the Netherlands because those countries have famously lax rules when it comes to using more paperwork to make profits appear to be earned in these zero-tax countries.

If this sounds a little complicated, well, that’s why it’s the sort of policy issue that Congress is supposed to resolve. It would be nice if everyone deciding which bananas or yogurt to buy could brush up on inversions and avoid companies that engage in these tax dodges, and perhaps these consumer discontent would pressure these companies to do the right thing as did Walgreen. But my guess is that this crisis will only grow worse until Congress and President Obama act to end it.

Punting the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

Punting the Punditsis an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important.

Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on the link and you can access all the past “Punting the Pundits”.

Follow us on Twitter @StarsHollowGzt

The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: retired Army Gen. Carter Ham; SIM medical missionary Dr. Frank Glover, Jr. and Amb. Robin Sanders, former ambassador to Republic of the Congo and Nigeria.

At the roundtable are: ABC News’ Matthew Dowd and Cokie Roberts; ESPN’s LZ Granderson;, and journalist and author Sharyl Attkisson.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey; Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO assistant director-general for health security; and Watergate journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: Guests on thus week’s “MTP” are: Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL); Rep. Peter King (R-NY); and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD).

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms, Crowley’s guests are: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); former National Security Adviser Retired Gen. James Jones; and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.

Joining her for a special tribute panel the late James Brady, Pres. Reagan’s press secretary are Joe Lockhart, Ann Compton and Al Hunt.

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