And I don’t mean me. I’m talking about another Dennis–the often maligned Congressman from Cleveland, Dennis Kucinich. Kucinich is one of those guys who easily becomes the butt of jokes, especially on the Right, among pundits and in the all knowing cocktail parties of Georgetown. He is a hardcore peace activist and progressive Democrat from …
Beer and lemonade
I think Matt Welch is reading too much into what I wrote on beer deregulation. When I say that regulation in and of itself is pretty meaningless, what I mean is that for better or worse liberals, conservatives, and libertarians often treat regulation or deregulation as some magic bullet. You often hear on the left …
USA Today Asks the Trillion Dollar Question
Where were regulators when banks were failing: When ANB Bank of Arkansas failed last year, it was easy to blame executives whose pursuit of high-adrenaline growth led to the bank’s demise. But now other key culprits have emerged in ANB’s collapse: the government officials who were supposed to be policing the bank. The inspectors general …
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Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways that a stupid or thoughtless person can make a given crisis worse almost defy …
Heads Up
Scott Horton: I am hearing from three different news groups suggestions that each is close to breaking a significant further lead in this case. The new information, it was suggested, will show that prosecutors in the case used evidence that they knew, or had substantial reason to know, was simply false, and will link Karl …
The Most Important Job In The Bush Administration
Now as always, the departmental Inspectors General: IG investigators were astonished particularly by what transpired in the first ten days of [Maher] Arar’s detention. Well-defined procedures were not followed. The State Department was consciously kept out of the loop. Steps were taken to circumvent Arar’s rights, and particularly to guard against the prospect that a …
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The Most Important Job in The Bush Administration
As always, the departmental Inspectors General. If the allegations in it are true, the State Department’s IG, whose entire function in life is to ferret out waste, fraud, and corruption, has instead been covering not just for the very things he’s supposedly in charge of finding, but slavery. This, no doubt, is just one more …
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