China is reportedly expelling journalists and preventing journalists and tourists from entering Tibet, as well as parts of Sichuan, according to the Guardian and ABC News of Australia. China has blocked YouTube within China in response to videos of the official response to violent protests in the streets of Lhasa being uploaded.

The offical state newspaper Xinhua's accounts over the weekend outlined damage done by the protesters, which included the burning of a Mosque. Xinhua stressed the culpability of the Dalai Lama. They also claimed that Lhasa had returned to peace and quiet. Chinese state television ran this report uploaded to YouTube which was mined for images by this ABC (Australia) television news report which has added reporting.

Image: AP Photo hosted at flickr.

Thomas Sowell sees the 20 year relationship of Barack Obama with Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a kind of double life and reduces the issue to it's essence. Read the essay at National Review.

Rich Lowry reaches similar conclusions at the same site.

Are Rev. Wright's sermons understandable rhetoric for a fire-breathing pastor who came up during the days of segregation and Jim Crow as some callers to talk radio have suggested? Will it all blow over after the week-end's assurances of Sen. Obama? (You know, he never heard that kind rhetoric from the pulpit with his own ears, he wasn't there at the time, it's all news to him and it's moot anyway, because the pastor will soon be the past pastor). Is it a "modern day lynching" as was suggested this Sunday at Rev. Wright's Trinity UCC Church? Will tomorrow's speech on the subject restore the luster to the candidate's tarnished, tilted halo?

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