Al's Back in the News...and Women Leaders Take Charge
Former Vice President Al Gore (today's fifth most-blogged personality) keeps making speeches that pop him into public consciousness again, and this time, his lambasting of the Bush Administration over its domestic spying program is the fuel that's stoking the blog fires (and ranking as today's most-cited news story). On the federal Martin Luther King holiday, he noted that Dr. King himself was wiretapped by the FBI after being declared "dangerous individual.
In fact, today's top blog posts feature several references to Gore's speech and the topic of spying. Crooks & Liars provides highlights as today's No. 4 blog post, the Los Angeles Times editorializes about the perils of unchecked power, Think Progress hints at that pesky old "i" word again and the Zogby Poll announces "i"-related opinion results.
Women rule, literally
Two women took charge of countries this week: President Michelle Bachelet in Chile (today's 10th most-cited person) and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia.
The 2007 war?
Today's 17th most-cited link among bloggers is an essay by Harvard historican Niall Ferguson, speculating on the potential causes of the War of 2007. Prediction or history repeating itself, the bloggers wonder?
Posted by Sue MacDonald at January 17, 2006 04:19 PM
