Garcetti v. Ceballos
The United States Supreme Court ruled this week on a case, Garcetti et al v. Ceballos, involving a public official's right to "blow the whistle" on what the official considered to be wrongful or...
View ArticleAs Conferences Go
In Generations and in a later book by the same authors (Strauss and Howe) called The Fourth Turning there is an ominous prediction that the Millennial Generation is going to be called upon, like the GI...
View ArticlePNAC
One of the more startling announcements this past week was Tuesday's rather passive comment that PNAC is not answering its telephones. Jim Lobe's article in Inter Press Service was picked up by...
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Feel a Draft?
The sad course of the war and now the occupation of Iraq has pointed out the limitations of a small, high tech, volunteer Army. War and occupation are nothing like life in the Pentagon or across the...
View ArticleClass Struggle
Gore Vidal, returning to the United States after years in Europe was asked how he liked America after all that time. Did it feel different? Did he still care? "How is it, then," the reporter asked,...
View ArticleChristopher Hitchens (heart) Ann Coulter
Slate just delivered this to my inbox: Peace and Quiet Four projects for righteous anti-war types. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at 11:28 AM ET The Daily Kos lot received such...
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"Our Fatal Troika ..."
There is an article in the current issue of The Nation by Stephen F. Cohen entitled The New American Cold War. It is a long article with some excellent premises and conclusions. I heartily recommend...
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Campaign for Peace!
Cross-posted at My Left Wing and The American Liberalism Project It is clear that Rove's plan for the Republican campaigns depends on the majority of citizens and voters believing that there is a...
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The Ceremony of Innocence
Originally posted at ALP If you look at our current political situation from one of the other eleven planets, Ceres, perhaps, that soon-to-be former planetoid between Mars and Jupiter, our situation...
View ArticleMission Accomplished? Maybe ...
Originally published at A.L.P. In Connecticut Ned Lamont defeated former Democratic VP nominee Senator Joseph Lieberman with most of the press and some of the blogosphere declaring the Democratic...
View ArticleTerrorism and Islam and Our Response
Originally published at A.L.P. Another week of remembering 9/11 has nearly passed, the fiery imolations, the destruction of the WTC, destruction at the Pentagon, and death in the hills of Pennsylvania....
View ArticleA Road to War?
Originally published at A.L.P.A picture of a winter city street, which could be anywhere, except for the inscription at the bottom. It is peaceful and most of us have experienced something like it,...
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