I have been asked to post a link to Act for Israel, where those interested in donating to assist Israel in its response to the human cost of the ongoing Carmel fire, with 41 dead so far, can do so. The direct link for donating is here. Most immediately, various nations, including Turkey, surprisingly and […]
Partisan Fixation Syndrome
Reflecting on my post of yesterday about the tenth anniversary of Bush v. Gore, I considered the prevalence of the above titled PFS. (I love acronyms. Have you noticed that health disorders these days are all designated as acronyms? Makes them sound more impressive, often, while conveying little or no actual information. You have OCD […]
Wikileaks Jumps the Shark
Image via Wikipedia That was fast. But we live in an accelerated age. It is not entirely clear who the defenders are of Julian Assange, but they seem to be generally people of the hard Left and monomaniacal anti-authoritarians such as Glenn Greenwald, who, in his ill-defined ambi-political orientation, can embrace both extremes of incoherent […]
A Dishonorable Anniversary: Bush v. Gore
On its tenth anniversary, Jeffrey Toobin reflects at The New Yorker on the legacy of Bush v. Gore. Image via Wikipedia Momentous Supreme Court cases tend to move quickly into the slipstream of the Court’s history. In the first ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision that ended the doctrine of […]
Julian Assange: Enemy of the States
From the start, there has been a general lack of coherence in the response to Julian Assange and the activities of Wikileaks. Many critics of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were pleased to frame Assange’s leaks of U.S. government documents as “whistle blower” activity, a currently common label for Assange, who, in fact, […]