One of the big plus factors behind McCain’s in the upcoming presidential election is his supposed expertise on foreign affairs and knowledge from top secret senate briefings over the years. Not trying to be ticky-tacky here but I must say I was a bit concerned when recently in a press conference Joe Lieberman corrects McCain’s [...]
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We live in a democracy that has changed a lot, with the addition of scores of security measures to protect our president at a huge cost. As we became world policeman we invited more than domestic malcontents to make the president and his entourage a target. Read an interesting thought on this in the Atlantic [...]
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The campaign has brought up (for Democrats at least) strong language against NAFTA (although you can’t get Hillary or Barrack to say they’d pull out) they do say that they would use the power to pull out to re-negotiate it with Canada and Mexico to include fairer terms (does Canada have a competitive advantage because [...]
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You probably know about the White House phone call ad that Hillary Clinton put out prior to winning the Ohio and Texas primaries. Many people have been debating the ad (I thought the one on Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty good). Anyway, most people will agree that it is a negative ad (on [...]
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jan. 17, 1961. Somehow I missed out [...]
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Tonight at Cleveland State University Clinton and Obama lace up their gloves for what might be their last debate. While I gotta be honest and say I have really tuned out of the debates until last week when I watched some of the Texas one. To be fair I’ve always thought that having lots of [...]
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Roger Clemens is testifying about his steroid use (or supposed lack of), Arlen Specter wants an investigation into why the NFL allowed the Patriots to destroy evidence of their cheating (see Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think), and Sen. Sherrod Brown from Ohio wants the NFL to acknowledge the Browns undefeated 1948 [...]
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I can’t say I read Rolling Stone much these days, but every now and then some great writing comes out of it (the great book Fast Food Nation got its start in the magazine, as well as Eric Schlosser’s second book Reefer Madness which partially covers the problem with the drug war in America) Anyway [...]
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Following the holocaust the world said ‘never again’ and we believed it. That is until genocide repeated itself again and again, with the world often doing nothing or waiting and waiting. The UN was at the center of the attempt of the post world war international regime that was supposed to allow collective action to [...]
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Hopefully my lack of posting has helped all of your relative productivity’s (rest assured, it has not helped mine!) I just thought I’d throw briefly my thoughts on the bipartisan immigration reform bill, working its way through Washington. First of all, despite my pro-immigration stance, I recognize the problems with having a blatant disregard for [...]
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