Supremacy in the Supreme Court

Three of the four national daily news papers have touched on a subject I wrote about a few weeks ago. The New York Times and USA Today discuss in two editorials the importance of the Presidential election on the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the Washington Post clearly dissects the Court demographics to help explain exactly what [...]

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The High Import of the High Court

Last Sunday (the 14th) I attended a panel at the Brooklyn Book Festival, where a number authors, ranging from Johnathan Lethem, to Johnathan Franzen, to Joan Didion spoke about new works, celebrated works, and the unfortunate state of frenzied hysteria we find ourselves in every four years or so. I sat in on a panel [...]

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Beyond The Primaries- Process Questions

While the punditry at large is still digesting how wrong they were on the exit polling, internal polling and reading their tea leaves the Supreme Court is taking up Voter Identification. This and other election process issues will be something to watch as we have the potential to head into our third highly controversial [...]

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UK and US Governments Still Hardline on Detaining Terrorism- Those Outiside The Bubble, Less Sure

As we and the rest of the world have been covering this week, the US National Intelliegence Estimate has caused quite a splash. Prompting non-sensical spin from the Bush Administration and it’s posse. John Bolton former UN Ambassador, and current American Enterprise Institute lackey previewed his absurd Washington Post editorial yesterday on [...]

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