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A Great Read About Airline Security
Patrick Smith, writing for the New York Times, has one of the best critiques of the current airline security regime I have read: In the end, I’m not sure which is more troubling, the inanity of the existing regulations, or the average American’s acceptance of them and willingness to be humiliated. These wasteful and tedious protocols [...]
Continue reading...Bold Democratic Leadership Once More
8. November 2007
It’d be easy and deserved to blame Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein for their responsibility in the latest Democratic capitulation, in the confirmation of an Attorney General who believes that the President can overrule federal law, but at least they voted. Which one of these bold leaders should I support? not voiting Oh, right. Campaigning to be [...]
Continue reading...Tester and Baucus Do The Right Thing
8. November 2007
I’m very pleased to see that Senators Baucus and Tester will vote against the confirmation of Judge Michael Mukasey as the next Attorney General. his refusal to directly answer a question with an obvious answer: that water boarding is torture and the United States should not do it, makes him unqualified to serve as the [...]
Continue reading...The Internet Giant Wasn’t the Only Yahoo in the Committee Meeting: Nazis Everywhere!
7. November 2007
There’s no doubt that Yahoo, the Internet search that no one in their right mind ever uses, behaved despicably when turning over data to the Chinese government that was used to jail a political dissident. It’s a relatively simple equation: the company decided that it would be profitable to do business with the Chinese government, [...]
Continue reading...The Supreme Court: Torture and Illegal Arrest? No Big Deal
9. October 2007
Imagine being arrested without a charge, shipped to a foreign country, being tortured, and then released in a remote part of the countryside. Clearly unacceptable for any democratic government to condone, right? Well, not according to the Supreme Court, who declined to review the 4th Circuit’s opinion that "state secrets" trump international law and human [...]
Continue reading...Chilling, At Least To Me
5. October 2007
I found the report about a mock mass arrest of people engaging in civil disobedience in this morning’s IR to be incredibly chilling.
Continue reading...The Danger of Free Press
10. March 2007
I guess there's a reason they didn't call it "Operation Enduring Freedom of the Press". Because those three last three words would have been awkward in the face of US troops erasing footage of US troops shooting Afghan civilians. But don't worry, its justified, or so the millitary claimed in a letter to the Associated [...]
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- I just lost my appetite
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29. December 2007
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