Coburn, Conservative Group Feud Over Ethanol Subsidy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 30th, 2011 4:44 am by HL
Coburn, Conservative Group Feud Over Ethanol Subsidy
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn, one of three Republican members of a bipartisan group aiming to shrink the deficit, took aim on Tuesday at the…
Dave Johnson: Budget Fight: Why Are Republicans Forcing A Shutdown?
Why are Republicans forcing a government shutdown and doing other things aimed at blowing up the economy? The question isn’t “are they,” it is why…
Court Decision Makes It Easier For Government To Hold Gitmo Detainees
by Dafna Linzer ProPublica, March 29, 2011, 5:51 p.m.In a decision that will likely make it more difficult for Guantanamo prisoners to win release,…
HUFFPOST HILL – Eric Cantor Hates Future Olds
Marco Rubio refuses to take sides on a major issue, indicating he might eventually want to run for president as a Democrat. A bunch of…
Scott Atran: Why War Is Never Really Rational
The inconsistency between war as a moral imperative versus political policy runs way wider and deeper than the Libya conflict. It goes to the heart of human nature and the character of society. For despite the popular delusion that war is primarily a matter of political strategy and pragmatic execution, it almost never is. Squaring the circle of war and politics, morality and material interests, is not just Obama’s or America’s quandary, it is a species-wide dilemma that results from wanting to believe that we humans are fundamentally rational beings, when in fact David Hume was right to say that “Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.”
