26 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in Law and Society
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I’d like to see this cartoon with the Washington Monument, the Capitol Building, or the White House in the background! The humor is especially appropriate on a day when the FCC announces its decision to regulate ISPs as utilities.
Why is the internet on fire about Brian Williams’ tall war story, but we give the feds a pass, every …
If the CIA and US foreign policy schemers were behind the Ukrainian revolution more than a year ago, they have …
What will we do without Jon Stewart? As someone said in NPR’s On the Media, Stewart’s Daily Show has far …
Consider the qualities that come out so strongly in the debate between those who would force parents to vaccinate their …
When the people who planned 9/11 thought about what to do with WTC 7, they had four options: leave the …
First, I have to say I have not seen American Sniper. I like Brad Cooper, and I like some of …
Shawn Hamilton published an interesting article titled Rethinking Conspiracy in the Foreign Policy Journal (October 27, 2014). Here is an excerpt: The terms “conspiracy …
Can’t you hear J. Edgar’s spiteful, malignant voice in the letter below? It feels like he typed it at his …
Thank you, everyone, who has supported The Jeffersonian with your interest and readership, comments, and correspondence. I don’t often write about happy …
An Ohio man with an impending mental evaluation has turned himself in for having homicidal thoughts toward House Speaker John …
I’ve been reading S. M. Sigerson’s book on the death of Michael Collins, Irish independence leader, on August 22, 1922. …
The shootings of John Crawford and Tamir Rice in Ohio are in the national discussion now that grand juries have …
I like the government’s new euphemism for lying: ‘lack of transparency’. A long time ago, in graduate school, I wrote …
When I first arrived at college, a professor used the phrase “begs the question.” I had not heard it before, …
Almost six years ago, Barack Obama took office with solid majorities for his party in both the House and Senate. …
Intellectual dishonesty appears so often, you have to ask whether or not it works. Why would people go to the …
Did you hear what happened this weekend in New York City? Policemen who came to honor Rafael Ramos at his …
Some arguments are so pernicious, wrong headed, and simply thoughtless that you don’t want to spend too much time thinking …
Look at the balloons. The marketing photograph below aims to persuade as many new and experienced suckers as possible to turn …
Former attorney general Michael Mukasey defends torture in the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-b-mukasey-the-cia-interrogations-followed-the-law-1418773648 This article by Bret Stephens might be …
Peter Bergen, national security analyst, commented about torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty, a film about how the CIA and other …
In all the analysis and discussion of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report, we are missing a key question. Rather, …
