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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 4 Sep 2009

    The Joy of Reading on the Train

    The only thing I miss now that I’m biking to work: reading on the train. In other words, I’ve lost close to an hour of reading time per day! The New York Times interviewed a slew of people about their train reading habits.

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  • 4 Sep 2009

    What is Transparency?

    As the Obama administration calls for more transparency in government, NextGov interviews Archon Fung, author of Full Disclosure about what government (and non-government) transparency really means.

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  • 3 Sep 2009

    Russian Color Photographs – 1907-1915

    A gorgeous Newsweek photo gallery shows never-before-developed photographs of official photographer to the Russian Czar Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. They were taken between 1907 and 1915 on separate glass plates. Historians and photographers both, prepare for a treat!

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  • 28 Aug 2009

    CIA and Justice Dept at odds over abuse

    An article in the Times outlines growing tensions over possible prosecutions at the CIA. Cambridge published the memos a little while back, in case anyone wishes to do some catching up on the issue.

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  • 28 Aug 2009
    Earl L. Grinols

    A Route to Sensible Health Care?

    Americans have expressed their displeasure with House 3200 and the Senate health care bill because both contain bad economics and bad ideas. Economists such as Earl Grinnols are dismayed at the bills put forward.

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  • 26 Aug 2009
    Jonathan Weiler

    Jonathan Weiler on "Healthcare Propaganda"

    The New York Times has a front-screen story this morning about Bob Collier, who, according to the Times, was moved to speak out at a recent town hall meeting about his worries concerning health care reform. It's almost too tiresome to point out that Collier is entirely uninformed about the issues. But because he did not articulate this utter nonsense in a "high decibel rant," the Times saw fit to put his version of health care reform on the front page of its newspaper.

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  • 25 Aug 2009

    Michael Curtis Interviewed on WOCA

    Michael Curtis, author of Orientalism and Islam, was interviewed on Florida radio station WOCA yesterday. The podcast is live – click below for their discussion of Islamic government, extremism, and the history East-West clashes. Listen here >>

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  • 24 Aug 2009
    Stephen Sheppard

    The Duty of a Death Case Judge

    No obligation of a judge is more awful than to rule on who should live and who should die at the hands of the state. Many judges grow weary and callous from the endless claims of America's three thousand death-row inmates, yet the law, the judges, and especially the people in whose name all this is done, can never allow a single case to escape the most perfect scrutiny possible.

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