Walter Duranty’s New York Times Pulitzer – for lying for a mass-murderer – is again under review. The Pulitzer in general is a rigged palaver, of course – the establishment patting its own back. Even so, this particular excrescence should obviously be revoked. Would they still be honoring a fascist-sympathizer who minimized Hitler’s massacre of the Jews?
MORE HILLARYISMS: Byron York has the goods on her lies about her role in Travelgate.
CORRECTION: I’m sad to say I goofed on the issue of same-sex marriage rights in Holland and Belgium. Holland expanded its legal partnerships for gay couples into full marriage rights on 21 December 2000, and they became legal in April 2001. Belgium did the same earlier this year. The Canadian marriages were among the first – because they have been back-dated to 2001. But the decision is not the first in the West. One correspondent who pointed this out to me added:
Whoa! While it’s true that the Danes have only gone so far, the Dutch do, in fact, have true marriage for gay and lesbian couples, indistinguishable from marriage for straight folks. “Gay” marriage is not covered by a separate law; the old marriage law has simple been enlarged to cover us as well. And that’s why this American boy moved to Amsterdam. – Gary Penn, married to Stefan Oppers since September 15, 2000.
Congrats, Gary and Stefan. You’re among the first foreign married couples not to be recognized in the United States.
The Dish 