Archive for October, 2005

White men know best

« 31 October 2005 | 17:34 | Civil Liberties, General, Politics | No Comments »

I’m not one to tout “diversity” as an end in itself, but come on people. Pending confirmation of the latest conservative white male to the Supreme Court of the United States, our civil liberties will be in the hands of seven lily-white men, one African American, and one lone woman. Although we clearly [...]



The View from Within Bush Foreign Policy

« 24 October 2005 | 1:14 | Foreign Policy, Politics | No Comments »

Slate discusses comments from a former Bush administration insider. Here’s a quote from him:

[T]he case that I saw for four-plus years was a case that I have never seen in my study of aberrations, bastardizations, perturbations, changes to the national security decision-making process. What I saw was a cabal between [...]



Valerie Plame Discussion

« 19 October 2005 | 21:51 | Foreign Policy, Politics | No Comments »

Haven’t written in a while, but here is a fantastic nonpartisan discussion of the Valerie Plame case:

There is an explicit and implicit contract between the United States and its NOCs. It has many parts, but there is one fundamental part: A NOC will never reveal that he is or was a NOC without special permission. [...]