This is a dynamic landscape, where the changes come by the day, by the hour. The force of popular will is now driving what was at first a dewy American project. It is a scenario developing amid tears, violence and near unprecedented public freedom of expression. Its mid-term consequences are still unclear, but few observers have kept pace with events
- Nicolas Rothwell; 2005
For 24's producers, in their fourth season of constructing a save-the-world scenario that must be completed in one day, the use of torture is about "real-time" drama, not politics: In the post-9/11 world, they can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom
Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Tyranny of the Minority
The latest brouhaha at Harvard, home of the perpetually offended, is over a motivational speech telling women that they can have it all: career, marriage, and children.
Women, you can have it all -- a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career. We are a new generation of women. We got to set a new standard of rules around here. To my men, open your mind, open your eyes to new ideas. Be open.
• Heteronormative means treating heterosexuality as the norm [Beside being rife with errors obvious even to lowly bloggers, the Times piece treats Saadi like a legitimate if colorful businessman, when he's essentially Uday Hussein. His father-in-law is chief of Libya's sinister security apparatus, & his family has simply looted the country & squirreled billions of dollars away in European banks while Libya remains impoverished & unfree. Saadi Gaddafi is jockeying to buy the controlling share of a well-known British soccer club for $300 mil; Matilda Walzblogging]
• · Iran has been developing nuclear weapons under the cover of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Tensions are building and there has been speculation that the United States might invade Iran as it did Iraq. That is improbable, given the formidable costs it would entail: Defusing Nuclear Iran ; via Austhink
• · · Senator Jon Kyl: Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, which I chair, held a hearing on a major threat to the United States, not only from terrorists but from rogue nations like North Korea. One Way We Could Lose the War on Terror
By Jon Kyl ; James Taranto: Is There a Doxy in the House? Walter Cronkite's Foreign Policy Wisdom
• · · · Coalition MPs insist on tax cuts ; D. Francis, Christian Science Monitor As Corporate Taxes Shrink, Who Pays?
• · · · · A fully developed [consumer-driven health care] market would be chaotic, to say the least, and in such a system continuity of care would be virtually non-existent Doctoring the Market ; Ron Menchaca and Glenn Smith of the Charleston Post and Courier investigated South Carolina’s agency that oversees law enforcement, finding “endemic failures in the state’s system for tracking police officers that allow problem cops to keep their badges despite histories of misconduct and even criminal behavior… Problem Cops
• · · · · · Throughout much of the Cold War, people feared above all else a global hot war, the third great one in a century of devastating world wars; and we crept up to it more than once -- most desperately, there can be no doubt, at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 Are We in World War IV? ; Swift-moving trains routinely kill people when they crash on the nation’s railroad tracks — and local governments have almost no power to slow them - 77 percent of all fatal accidents on the nation’s main rail lines occurred when trains ran at speeds of 45 mph or higher: Speed often factor in fatal trainwrecks