New tradition here, since I often do short notes on articles I find in Reader (recent updates at right), I figured once a week I would highlight some of the key posts of the week in the blog.
Without further ado, some of the best notes of the week:
Rise of the Sea Turtles | Newsweek International [...]
Welcome to the start of a new segment on the blog I’m going to call Unhelpful Words.
The idea? There are words that have infiltrated our political discourse that are entirely unhelpful in a policy-based context. They provide no substance, context, or otherwise about the political figure the word refers to. At best, one might say [...]
If you’ve been following the news in the past few days, you’ll find multiple stories about the release of the new National Intelligence Estimate. Contrary to claims in the past, this NIE states that Iran is no longer seeking to acquire nuclear weapons and hasn’t been since 2003.
While the report has many important (and debatable) [...]
Via the talking dog:
I know I’m a little late in commenting on this one, but coming across this in a recent Vanity Fair article made my skin crawl.
Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia recently made his case for heavy-handed interrogation tactics via a surprisingly current pop-culture reference. “Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles,” he told a panel of judges, [...]
I’ve been thinking heavily about politics and government lately. My topics of interest have ranged all over the map from campaign financing to Real ID to lobbying. However, the issue of individual rights has me a little more puzzled than most, namely because it seems that a number of people don’t talk much about them [...]
I don’t have any extremely thoughtful analysis today, but I would like to spread some hope for those that like to see a little integrity now and again.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart had on a Republican presidential nominee named Ron Paul. Paul had an excellent interview, but his views aside, it was [...]
Let’s begin with a picture.
Now for some background.
Recently, a publicity stunt by a late night Cartoon Network show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, caused a big scare in Boston. So reports The Boston Channel:
BOSTON — Turner Broadcasting plans to take responsibility for the “hoax devices” that were found at sever allocations in and around Boston Wednesday [...]
There are often times when the government seems to be acting out of control.
Recently, as you can read about anywhere, there was an incident in Heathrow
where a joint-venture between US and UK forces arrested twenty some odd
terrorists who were planning to blow up an airplane, reportedly with explosives
concocted onboard as separate liquid ingredients.
This occurred two [...]
I got an email from the organizers of a leadership retreat I’m going to this fall a few days ago. Among the suggested readings was a recently published story in Rolling Stone magazine. To summarize briefly, the article made me very angry and forced me to take a walk before I could think clearly about [...]
Senator Jim DeMint (the one I worked for last summer) is proposing an amendment as a possible addition to the up and coming telecommunications legislation, S. 2686. The amendment appears to extend the language of net neutrality from the broadband ISPs to including internet search engines. As reported by Multichannel News:
Under the DeMint amendment, it [...]
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