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About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It (and Don’t Forget Marilyn and Elvis and Jackie O and Diana and Oprah and Brangelina and David Hasselhoff) …
Hawaii’s Legal Case Against the United States
“You can't spend what you ain't got; you can't lose what you ain't never had.” – Muddy Waters "How long do we have to stay in Bosnia, how long …
Who Wanted What?
Look, I’m familiar with the argument for the tax cut deal. It’s not a terrible argument. In simple form, it goes, the top priorities are to stimulate the economy …
Spotlight Cancun: Kyoto Protocol Post Mortem (2)
This week the world stands by as international negotiators in Cancun appear to be writing the post mortem for the Kyoto Protocol. It seems likely that an alternative track …
To Hell or Connaught: The “Free Market” Puts Ireland on a Starvation Diet – Again
Johnny O'Broderick was my first direct ancestor to emigrate from Ireland to the United States, eventually sending back enough money for his wife, Mary, to book passage and follow …
Pilot Protests Underscore Passenger Safety
Several hundred pilots from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) picketed Newark Liberty International airport on November 22 and Houston airport on November 23 with signs reading "Who's Flying …
Were Bush’s Iraq Policy Opponents Off Target?
In his recently published memoir “Decision Points,” former president George W. Bush devotes a chapter to defending his deeply controversial Iraq policies. He dismisses the argument that he intended …
Tax Cuts (2)
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
Standardized testing has become central to education policy in the United States. After dramatically expanding in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act, testing has been further …
Something is Rotten: The Strange Case of Interpol’s Red Alert on Assange, and the US Attack on WikiLeaks
Far be it from me to minimize the issue of rape, but to borrow from the Bard, in the case of the “rape” case being alleged against WikiLeaks founder …