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    Historical Amnesia

    Into the Syrian Quagmire

    by | 2, Add your Comment | Jun 17, 2013
    Into the Syrian Quagmire

    Last Friday, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes had the job of announcing that the Obama administration had decided to officially begin arming the Sunni Islamist insurgents attempting to overthrow the Syrian government. All that lobbying by the war party in Washington and its ‘friends in the Gulf’ is finally paying off. You would think that the problem was explaining why to a skeptical news media. Not so.

     

     

    Culture of Fear

    May you live in an interesting age

    by | 1, Add your Comment | Jun 13, 2013
    May you live in an interesting age

    Tuesday morning, you may have heard, there was an explosion in a maintenance shed at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport here in the Big Peach. It killed the power to Concourse D, so officials evacuated the folks there to Concourse E. When the power was restored, everybody went on their merry ways.

    But lawdamursy, did Twitter ever light up.

     

     

    Unhealthy Obsession

    Why a Surge for Guantanamo?

    by | 3, Add your Comment | Jun 11, 2013
    Why a Surge for Guantanamo?

    Could there be a more appropriate monument to the War in Terror than the wasteful and counterproductive prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base? At a cost of $4,360.00 a day per prisoner, it is among the most expensive lock-ups on the planet and surely the most expensive for inmates who are neither deposed heads of state nor leaders of defeated rebellions. (For that amount you could book a Premier Suite at the Ritz Carleton Central Park and still have a thousand dollars left over to pay for dinner!)

     

     

    Forward-Looking Solutions

    Rethinking the Infrastructure “Crisis”

    by | 0, Add your Comment | Jun 4, 2013
    Rethinking the Infrastructure “Crisis”

    When the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on May 23, the media immediately seized upon a familiar message: “Our infrastructure is crumbling!” Headlines echoed the outrage Americans feel about the condition of the nation’s roads and bridges. “INFRASTRUCTURE HELL — EVEN BROOKLYN BRIDGE DEFICIENT!” roared a Huffington Post headline, as if a flaw in a beloved American landmark were definitive proof of an impending infrastructure apocalypse.

     

     

    An Uncompromising Conservative

    The Declining Anti-Obama Argument

    by | 2, Add your Comment | Jun 4, 2013
    The Declining Anti-Obama Argument

    In his critique of Barack Obama’s “declining presidency” yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Fred Barnes makes some accurate observations. The assessment that Obama’s administration is flailing due to the lack of a defined vision for his second term is fair. Indeed, the Obama re-election campaign never shifted away from an anti-Romney message long enough to establish any sort of primary goal for moving America boldly in one direction or another. Barnes also concedes that the “scandals” currently making headlines have little to do with the President himself or the ineffectiveness of his six-month-old second term.

     

     

    Voting Rights

    Historic win for voting rights in Virginia

    by | 0, Add your Comment | Jun 3, 2013
    Map source: The Sentencing Project

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) unveiled a plan this week to automatically restore voting rights to people convicted of nonviolent felonies.

    The move won praise from civil rights advocates who have long called for reform in the state, one of several with unusually harsh felon disenfranchisement laws.

    “For too long, Virginia has been successful in implementing a law designed to target minority voters…

     

     

    Roots of Terrorism

    In the hearts of men

    by | 3, Add your Comment | May 25, 2013
    In the hearts of men

    He was walking along the street, minding his own business. Out of nowhere, he was attacked, stabbed over and over again with such force that the coroner said the wounds went all the way through his body. His body. Lying there, in a rapidly expanding pool of his own blood. He was dying, and he knew it. He didn’t know why, only that the life was flowing out of him onto the solid, gray concrete of an English street.

     

     

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