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Archive: Sep 2007

Hesse’s ‘In the Fog’

Im Nebel Seltsam, im Nebel zu wandern! Einsam ist jeder Busch und Stein, Kein Baum sieht den anderen, Jeder ist allein. Voll von Freunden war mir die Welt, Als noch…

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Varnhagen on Speaking Truth

May eternal justice grant me that I tell the truth as audibly and strongly as I feel it in my soul. Once I made the most enormous sacrifice that a…

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Blackwater Remains Above the Law

On Monday, Iraqi authorities, responding to a shootout that left as many as 20 Iraqis dead, announced that they were banning Blackwater USA from operating in their country. It seemed…

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Media Alert

Scott Horton will be interviewed on the Mike Malloy Show on Monday at 9:15 p.m. Eastern, 8:15 p.m. Central, 6:15 p.m. Pacific time. He’ll be taking about the prosecution of…

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Sam Adams Award to Sam Provance

Yesterday in Washington, DC, the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers who honor intelligence professionals who have taken a stand for integrity and…

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The Return of Willie Stark

Robert Penn Warren published All the King’s Men in 1946. It was awarded a Pulitzer Price and turned in three short years into one of the most important films that…

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Rabelais on Science and Conscience

Mais, parce que selon le saige Salomon sapience n’entre poinct en âme malivole, et science sans conscience n’est que ruyne de l’âme, il te convient servir, aymer et craindre Dieu,…

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Bogus Human Rights Group Objects to Being Called Bogus Human Rights Group

A few days ago I wrote about a visit to Washington, D.C., by what I described as a bogus human rights group from Azerbaijan. The group, called the Association for…

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Toobin’s Supremes

Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (New York: Doubleday, 2007) $27.95. The American media has seen a proliferation of legal affairs commentators, largely drawn…

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Pope Benedict Snubs Condoleezza Rice

This summer Condoleeza Rice repeatedly sought a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and was refused, reports Italy’s Corriere della Serra. The story, authored by a leading figure in the Vatican…

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Of Two Minds About the Filibuster

Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” but note he’s talking about a foolish consistency. For Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader,…

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Keller on the Wonder and Limitations of Democracy

With the thoughtlessness of youth and of a second childhood, I had deemed the beauty of the countryside to be the product of an historical-political process, in a certain measure…

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The Case of Monsieur Debat: Scammer was working on Pentagon report

Andrew Marshall, head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA), has been working at the Defense Department for more than three decades and has never met a threat to…

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Bait and Switch in the Attorney General’s Office

Monday’s announcement of the President’s selection of Michael B. Mukasey as his third attorney general overshadowed another, surprising aspect of the press announcement. He also stated that he had revisited…

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Saadi: ‘The Tyrant’s Reward’

Once upon a time there was a king of Persia who had extended a hand of oppression over his subjects and their property. He had set upon a course of…

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Aristotle on Tyrants and War

. . . and further, it is part [of the nature of tyranny] to strive to see that all the affairs of the tyrant are secret, but that nothing is…

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Department of Election Frauds

It’s extremely revealing that in the area of voter’s rights, the Gonzales Justice Department (he’s gone; his ghost lingers) does not uphold the right of citizens to exercise their democratic…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Minneapolis

Eric Black at Minnesota Monitor offers us a detailed exploit into the adventures of “loyal Bushie” U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose in Minneapolis. As readers will recall from prior reports, the…

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New Media Gets the Message

“President Reaches Out to a Friendly Circle in New Media,” ran a Washington Post headline above a Sunday story about a White House meeting between Bush and a group of…

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Video of the Day: Skull, Bones and Electricity

Andrew Meyer, a student at the University of Florida, wanted to ask Senator John Kerry a question during a forum held on Monday: was he, like President Bush, a member…

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Justice in Mississippi

In the last several months, we have looked in some detail at the prosecution of Democratic Governor Don E. Siegelman in Alabama. There is now substantial evidence that this prosecution…

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Wilberforce on Politics and Principle

Policy, Sir, is not my principle, and I am not ashamed to say it. There is a principle above everything that is political. And when I reflect on the command…

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Weekly Review

Caught in the Web, 1860. General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker testified to Congress about progress in the war in Iraq; Crocker summarized 2006 as “a bad year,”…

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Bogus Azeri ‘Human Rights Group’ Comes to Washington

When I wrote in the July magazine about Washington lobbyists offering to whitewash the regime in Turkmenistan, I noted that the firms with whom I spoke told me they could…

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Confirm Michael Mukasey

The president has nominated former federal judge Michael Mukasey to serve as the next attorney general. The Senate will have plenty of questions to ask and issues to raise, and…

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The King of Political Prosecutions

As Robert Jackson noted in his speech, “The Federal Prosecutor,” the idea of a prosecutor who wields his office as a political tool, targeting and taking out enemies is one…

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The Next War

A number of significant developments with respect to the prospects of a new war with Iran. I expect, with the Petraeus Show off the front pages, we’ll start hearing the…

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