Rep. Barney Frank speaks up to a Republican who claims that President Obama’s stimulus package is just a way to disguise the largest government spending bill in history. http://www.youtube.com/v/mSw3QqSF_zU&hl=en&fs=1 Good for him, and I wish more politicians in our country would say things like this… Continue reading →
In “Discipline and Punish” he writes: It was as if the punishment was thought to equal, if not exceed, in savagery the crime itself, to accustom the spectators to a ferocity from which one wished to divert them, to show them the frequency of crime,… Continue reading →
There’s a fascinating article up on one of The New York Times’ various blogs about the most iconic photographs from President Bush’s tenure in office. Errol Morris sits down with some of the traveling Associated Press photographers and discusses at great length some of their… Continue reading →
Word today that all three major networks are pulling correspondents out of Iraq and shifting them to the “new hotspot” in Afghanistan. Of course, the Iraq war has evolved and violence in the country has subsided. At the same time, President-elect Barack Obama and senior military strategists… Continue reading →