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Archive: Apr 2008

A Reader Notes: Israel and Hamas Already Talking

In response to yesterday’s post, a smart note from a reader that jibes with what I have been told by people on the ground in the region: It would be…

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Charlie and George at ABC: Lame and Lamer

Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos have been broadly panned for their work during last night’s Democratic debate. The best commentary comes from Tom Shales of the Washington Post, who said…

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Jimmy Carter, Hamas, and the Media

Jimmy Carter is, predictably, being savaged for meeting with officials from Hamas during his current visit to the Middle East. “It’s bad enough that Carter…will be putting a stamp of…

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The Best Bias Money Can Buy

From Jonathan Schwarz at Mother Jones: What would it look like if Fox News produced a segment about bias in the media? Certainly it would follow the standard Fox format:…

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Bloggers and Double Standards

I agree that Barack Obama’s remarks about Pennsylvania voters, however badly stated, have been hyped out of proportion by the media, the G.O.P., and Hillary Clinton. The Daily Show explains…

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McCain’s “Courtly Southerner”

Old Spy magazine story on Charles Black not nearly as admiring as New York Times profile A few days ago the New York Times ran a generally flattering profile of…

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Weekly Review

Twenty U.S. soldiers were killed last week fighting across Iraq, and 1,300 Iraqi officers and soldiers were fired for poor performance. The Bush Administration said it was optimistic that many…

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Bilal Hussein to Be Released Wednesday

The Baghdad Command has decided to acede to the directions of the Iraqi Judicial Commission, which, as noted last week, cleared Pulitzer Prize winning AP photojournalist Bilal Hussein of the…

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How McCain Promotes “Reform” Through Non-Profit Institute

As noted here last week, Senator John McCain’s ties to the supposedly independent Reform Institute have recently attracted well-deserved media scrutiny. In 2001, McCain helped found the Institute, a non-profit…

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Georg Forster’s Recollection of Benjamin Franklin

Eripuit coelo fulmen, mox sceptra tyrannis. How are we to imagine this man to whom this motto is given – the man “who stole lightening from the heavens and separated…

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McCain and the “Reform” Institute

The Huffington Post has reported that Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign has sent out a fundraising letter attacking Democratic mega-donor George Soros even though the Reform Institute, a non-profit group…

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Marvell – ‘The Garden’

How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays ; And their uncessant labors see Crowned from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow-vergèd…

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Is There Life After Blogging?

Sunday I read the New York Times article discussing the health issues surrounding blogging. It was a troubling piece to read. And I thought, how thankful I am no longer…

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Novalis – the Power of Realization

Unser sämtliches Wahrnehmungsvermögen gleicht dem Auge. Ganz begreifen werden wir uns nie, aber wir werden und können uns weit mehr als begreifen. Our ability to perceive is like the eye.…

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“History Will Not Judge This Kindly”

Gripping news: ABC News reports that the senior most advisors of President Bush, led by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, met in the White House repeatedly to discuss…

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Political Prosecution in Pittsburgh Collapses

One of the more astonishing political prosecutions in the country was brought by Rick Santorum’s handpicked U.S. Attorney, Mary Beth Buchanan. Ms. Buchanan is best known for her adversity to…

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Bilal Hussein Exonerated

AP Photographer Bilal Hussein has been in American detention since April 2006. As the second anniversary of his captivity approaches, Bilal has achieved a major breakthrough. Yesterday in Baghdad, an…

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Justice Tackles the Corporate Offenders, Or Perhaps Not

In one case I have been studying for some time, the Bush Justice Department had ramped up to begin a large-scale prosecution of two financial-services companies involved in what prosecutors…

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Nietzsche – the ‘Historically Educated’ Man

Jeder, der vorübergeht, hat nur den einen Wunsch, daß eine solche Bildung nicht an Unverdaulichkeit zu Grunde gehe. Denke man sich zum Beispiel einen Griechen an einer solchen Bildung vorübergehend,…

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A Tale of Three Lawyers

On Thursday in the National Press Club in Washington, a crowd gathered to witness the presentation of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling to Lieutenant Commander Matthew Diaz. The story of…

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Tsvetaeva, ‘In My Way’

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Burke on Human History

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetities…

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Weekly Review

The United States marked the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “He was normal as a person could be,” said his sister Christine King Farris. “I…

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Torture Lawyer in the Crosshairs

I reported here and here on former Pentagon General Counsel William J. (“Jim”) Haynes II, his covert war against the JAG Corps, and the focal role played by the torture…

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Plato – ‘Pregnant’ Men and the Role of Beauty in Creation

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Justice in Birmingham

A federal judge has ordered the United States to pay legal fees, costs and interest to a Huntsville entrepreneur who was wrongly charged by U.S. Attorney Alice Martin with violations…

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Karl in a Corner

Karl Rove likes to compare himself with Mark Hanna, the powerful industrialist and senator in the waning nineteenth century who is often credited with the transformation of American political campaigns.…

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