Behind with the Rent

Religion of Peace
A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl allegedly raped by a much older cousin has died after being publicly flogged for adultery, media reports said. Hena Begum was sentenced to receive 100 lashes by a village council made up of elders and Muslim clerics in the district of Shariatpur, about 35 miles from the capital, Dhaka, the BBC said today. (AOLNews.com, 2/3/11)

Coming soon to America – Sharia!

Broadside
Some will argue that public broadcasting should not be funded by the government it needs to hold accountable. But CPB's role as a buffer has worked remarkably well. The Pew study found that 72 percent of Americans feel that "most news sources are biased in their coverage." But they don't feel that way about public broadcasting - among the most trusted news sources anywhere. (Laura R. Walker and Jaclyn Sallee, Washington Post, 2/3/11)

Written by two people anxious to keep the public spigot flowing in their direction, we had a good laugh at the finding that public broadcasting is “unbiased.” Have you ever listened to NPR?

Cloudy Lens
Obama looks at the Egyptian drama through an unusual lens. He has experienced dictatorship firsthand, a world where "the strong man takes the weak man's land," as he quoted his Indonesian stepfather in his autobiography. The president came of age reading Frantz Fanon and other theorists of radical change. He is sometimes described as a "post-racial" figure, but it's also helpful to think of him as a "post-colonial" man. (David Ignatius, Washington Post, 2/3/11)

Dinesh D’Souza was widely criticized by the Left for theorizing about Obama’s deeper motivations (The Roots of Obama’s Rage). No doubt they will do the same as it relates to Ignatius’s psychoanalysis. Just kidding!