By John Ballard
I haven't read it yet but this is a snip from my next reading assignment. I'm posting as I wait for the printer to finish eleven pages.
H/T Maggie Mahar's blog. Looks like pretty good content.
Followup later: It's an excellent article. Recommended reading. Notes and comments after [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Barack Obama ran his campaign on the platform of change but by the time the election rolled around a year ago he had already been bought and paid for by Wall Street and the Financial Industry. James Lieber explains:
We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We' [...]By Dave Anderson:
Liberals and Democrats have argued that the two governors' races that the Democrats lost this week turned on a combination of local issues and weak Democratic candidates who would not do anything to excite the Democratic base.
Conservatives and Republicans have argued that these two races are' [...]
By Steve Hynd
The Obama administration has a new so-called Afghan Compact which is designed to increase good governance in Afghanistan and reduce corruption. The main problem, though, is that any compact needs two sides agreeing to implement it.
The success of the so-called "Afghanistan Compact" will hinge on Karzai's willingness' [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Yesterday we reported that we have the best government money can buy. We have yet another example today.
It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President [...]
By John Ballard
Mark Lynch poses more questions than answers about how best to confront extremism. His list needs to be widely discussed by both laymen and policy makers. This timely list was published just in time for the tragedy at Ft. Hood to trigger another round of public consideration [...]
Ron Beasley, Hootsbuddy, Dave Anderson, Steve Hynd, Eric Martin, BJ Bjornson, Gregg Carlstrom, Jay McDonough, Russ Wellen, Derrick Crowe, Kenneth Anderson
