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Archive: Nov 2007

Coleridge’s Inner Asian Vision

For a week I have been traveling steadily to the east, and now at the rim of the world, I found my destination. The travel exhausted me, robbed me of…

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Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of…

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Coleridge on the Power of Imagination

The imagination…that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling…

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A Surge in Plagiarism?

Remember the hoopla surrounding the publication late last year of The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual? In one of a wave of favorable reviews, the Chicago Tribune called the…

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The Southern Poverty Business Model

Many of you out there have no doubt received in the mail desperate cries for help from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the do-gooder group that does very little…

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The Torture Litmus Test

Several days before his first meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Michael Mukasey’s Justice Department handlers arranged a private meeting for him with a number of “movement conservatives.” Two different…

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Prosecutorial Obstruction of Justice in the Siegelman Case

A retired senior Justice Department career prosecutor writes that, with the disclosure that the two most senior career prosecutors on the Siegelman case believed there was no basis to bring…

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Defund the Democrats: Putting Your Law Enforcement Dollars to Good Use

Back on September 22, 2007, I reported on information I had received about a major campaign which had been launched by the Bush Justice Department to disrupt fundraising efforts by…

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Avicenna on Humans as Social Animals

The human being differs from all other animals in being unable to live well as an isolated individual […] with no partner to help him satisfy his needs. He must…

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The Hughes Effect: They hate us more than ever

Karen Hughes’s tenure as undersecretary of State for public diplomacy has come to a close, and not a moment too soon. She was named to the job in 2005 with…

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The Press Squeezes Blood From a (Campaign) Stone

“After a rare night of fumbles by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination rushed to maximize the damage yesterday, even as her advisers argued that…

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Siegelman Updates

Another Career Prosecutor Says No Basis to Go After Siegelman Just a few days after reporting that the senior most career prosecutor on the Siegelman case had concluded there was…

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Warren’s ‘A Way to Love God’

Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true. And the line where the incoming swell from the sunset Pacific First leans and staggers to break will…

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Rachel Sklar Responds

A little more than two weeks ago, I wrote a post, When Critics Are Really Pumpkins commenting on the Huffington Post’s Rachel Sklar and her transfigured critical attitude towards Howard…

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Lessing’s Search for Truth

Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist, oder zu sein vermeint, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert…

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