Judge Right to Halt Worst Parts of AZ’s Noxious Law
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 30th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Judge Right to Halt Worst Parts of AZ’s Noxious Law
Troops Are the Real Victims of War Leaks
Ralph Peters, New York Post
If we needed yet another example of Washington's self-absorption, we sure got it with the WikiLeaks dump of classified data on AfPak.Government officials promptly freaked about the political consequences. The rush to insist that “there's nothing new here” and that the leaks “really don't change anything” was dishonest even by DC standards.Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies!The victims of this tragic event aren't punch-drunk White House staffers or members of Congress up for re-election. They're not the wed-to-Pakistan wonks at State or even the…
Wikileaks Proves Need for Mainstream Media
Anne Applebaum, Slate
Thank you, WikiLeaks.I didn't think it was possible, but Julian Assange has done it: By releasing 92,000 pages of intelligence documents relating to the Afghanistan war onto the laptops of an unsuspecting public, the proprietor of WikiLeaks has made an iron-clad case for the mainstream media. If you were under the impression that we no longer need news organizations, editors or reporters with more than 10 minutes' experience, think again. The notion that the Internet can replace traditional newsgathering has been revealed as a myth.To see what I mean, try reading this: “At…
The Politics of GOP Stupidity
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Can a nation remain a superpower if its internal politics are incorrigibly stupid? Start with taxes. In every other serious democracy, conservative political parties feel at least some obligation to match their tax policies with their spending plans. David Cameron, the new Conservative prime minister in Britain, is a leading example.
As Debt Bites, Sun Could Set on U.S.
Niall Ferguson, The Australian
We have been raised to think of the historical process as an essentially cyclical one.We naturally tend to assume that in our own time, too, history will move cyclically, and slowly.Yet what if history is not cyclical and slow-moving but arhythmic, at times almost stationary, but also capable of accelerating suddenly, like a sports car? What if collapse does not arrive over a number of centuries but comes suddenly, like a thief in the night?Great powers and empires are complex systems, which means their construction more resembles a termite hill than an Egyptian pyramid. They operate…
