From the “let’s talk about anything but the War on Terrorâ„¢ debacle” dept.: American and Canadian officials are downplaying a “graduation video” of Al Qaeda fighters and suicide bombers completing their training […]
Oh, and did you know there’s a war on…?
O’Reilly loses on “Are You Smarter Than a 16 Year-Old?”
Bill O’Reilly needs to be careful about inviting people smarter than him onto his show. In this clip, he just gets PWNED by a 16 year-old Boulder High School student. [YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6cT-JSfdzM]
Executive offices exempt from Executive Orders
Earlier this week, I blogged on how the Office of the Vice President (OVP) was claiming to be exempt from the Executive Orders governing the protection of national secrets. Now we have […]
Book Porn for Scholars (and Rogues)
By Rori Black Every winter I snuggle up with a copy of Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose, losing myself in the maze of his scriptorium. I can smell the unique, musky […]
Recent statements from morons
We’ve seen a number of times right now, people have been putting together investigations to see what sticks. They have had very little success so far. This is an administration that is […]
Does money talk? Lobbying on immigration on the rise
As my colleague E Rocha pointed out earlier today, get ready for the next attempt to wrestle an immigration (or is it an anti-immigration?) bill through the U.S. Congress, complete with secrecy, […]
The Senate’s secret immigration bill: round two
by Amaury Nora In the midst of a polarized debate on immigration, politicians and the media continue to paint conflicting pictures of the influence of immigrants on our communities and the economy. […]
World trade talks fail … again
The Doha round of world trade talks have collapsed once again. The latest gathering saw India and Brazil vs the US and EU in Germany. The conflict is straightforward: Developed countries: subsidise […]
Ideas have consequences – the 43rd anniversary of the Mississippi murders….
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. – Medgar Evers Born in 1952, I grew up in a small town in the South of the 50’s and ’60’s. […]
National secrecy Executive Orders vs. the Office of the Vice President
The office of the President of the United States has a vested interest in protecting the United States. This is, after all, one of the main reasons we have a Presidency in […]
