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Archive: Jul 2009

A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Damascus

In the midst of heated developments in Iran two weeks back, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham blasted the Obama Administration over its hands-off attitude. Suddenly, newspapers began to report…

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How Many Hondurans Supported Coup?

Take a look at this story: Did a CID-Gallup poll last week indicate that a plurality of Hondurans support the military coup against democratically elected President Zelaya? Yes, according to…

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P.J. in Afghanistan

Not O’Rourke, P.J. Tobia. A former reporter for the Nashville Scene, he’s currently reporting from Afghanistan. This is a great story about life in Kabul, complete with amazing photos: Here…

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The Michael Jackson Memorial: LA’s version of the Tim Russert funeral

An excerpt from a good piece by Chris Hedges about Michael Jackson: His memorial service—a variety show with a coffin—had an estimated 31.1 million television viewers. The ceremony, which featured…

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Honduran Kingmaker

A fascinating piece from today’s Washington Post about Allen Andersson, the rich American who helped bring Manuel Zelaya to power in Honduras in 2005: And then, there’s one of his…

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Saint-Just – Man is born for peace and liberty

J’ai pensé que l’ordre social était dans la nature même des choses, et n’empruntait de l’esprit humain que le soin d’en mettre à leur place les éléments divers; qu’un peuple…

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Weekly Review

CIA director Leon Panetta admitted that the agency, initially under orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, kept secret from Congress the existence of a special counterterrorism program for eight years.…

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Links

Since the days of Jimmy Carter, both Democratic and Republican presidents have vowed to curb the paper-shuffling. Printers, who do the heavy lifting when bureaucrats dream up new forms, say…

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Rep. King Calls for Scorched Earth

In today’s Washington Times, one of the last remaining Republican office holders in the Northeast has an immediate response to suggestions that a special prosecutor will be appointed to probe…

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Is the Lid About to Blow on the Cheney Snuff Program?

Back in March, stories started to emerge to the effect that the CIA ran a super-secret assassinations program. It was apparently former Vice President Cheney’s pet project, and he seems…

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Will Holder Launch a Torture Investigation?

At the Daily Beast, I report that Eric Holder is now on the verge of appointing a special prosecutor to look into allegations of criminal conduct associated with the implementation…

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Campanella – Il mondo è il libro

Il mondo è il libro dove il Senno Eterno scrisse i proprii concetti, e vivo tempio dove, pingendo i gesti e ‘l proprio esempio, di statue vive ornò l’imo e…

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Galileo – Reading the Book of Nature

Restano solamente in contradizzione alcuni severi difensori di ogni minuzia peripatetica, li quali, per quel che io posso comprehendere, educati e nutriti sin dalla prima infanzia de i lor studii…

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The C Street Club (Updated)

What links John Ensign, Mark Sanford, Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn, and a number of other senior Republican leaders on Capitol Hill? It’s a highly secretive religious organization that promotes a…

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Calvin – Working for the Common Good

It is not enough when a man can say, “Oh, I labor, I have my craft,” or “I have my trade.” That is not enough. But we must see whether…

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Links

Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that the American…

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The Justice Department Roach Motel

The current issue of the ABA Journal takes a close look at one of the Justice Department’s more embarrassing cesspools, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). We’ve looked at OPR…

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National Review Hearts Stalinism

In China, the world’s last enclave of Stalinism, citizens are classified by their nationality. According to Big Brother, this is designed to protect the cherished national minorities, but chances are,…

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A Tour of Gitmo

Barack Obama promised to end torture. He’s largely come through on this promise, but one vestige of the Bush-era torture program remains: force feeding at Guantánamo. Meg Laughlin of the…

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Public Event: Justice After Guantánamo

As a newly inaugurated president, Barack Obama renounced U.S. torture and promised to close Guantánamo. But is this enough to repair the damage wrought by the Bush administration? Does the…

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Six Questions for Ariel Cohen on Obama’s Efforts to Restart U.S.–Russian Relations

Today Barack Obama wraps up a lengthy visit to Russia in which arms control has been a focal point, and he moves on to the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy.…

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For paleontologists like Dr. Sato, layers of bedrock represent an accumulation over hundreds of millions of years, and the Lower Jurassic is much older than the Upper Cretaceous. But here…

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A Renditions Scandal in Britain

In Britain a criminal probe is now underway into the torture of an Ethiopian who had been granted protected status and was then held for years in Guantánamo. Prime Minister…

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Links

I did not vote for Sarah Palin in the November election, and had I been a resident of South Carolina, I wouldn’t have supported Mark Sanford. But I find their…

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Did DOJ Retaliate Against Siegelman Whistleblower?

In a nine-page June 1, 2009 letter to her boss, Attorney General Eric Holder, Tamarah Grimes, a member of the Justice Department team that prosecuted former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman,…

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Shostakovich in Oxford

As Washington’s attention turns to things Russian, the New York Review of Books publishes a selection from a forthcoming volume (Berlin’s Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960) of the correspondence of Isaiah Berlin.…

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Weekly Review

Caught in the Web, 1860. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska announced that she would not seek reelection and that she would resign by the end of July. “‘We’re not retreating,'”…

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