First 100 days hysteria
24 April 2009 |permalink | email article
April 29 marks the 100th day of Barack Obama’s presidency and a time-honored Washington media ritual darting back to FDR’s launch of the New Deal is beginning to blossom.
A fresh AP/GfK poll has that feel good ring: for… read full story
Justifying torture
23 April 2009 |permalink | email article
As the Justice Department decides whether former high ranking officials in the Bush administration who set interrogation policy or formulated the legal justifications for it should be investigated for possible crimes a McClatchy Newspapers story said that harsh interrogation… read full story
Earth Day 39
22 April 2009 |permalink | email article
The first celebration, as Elizabeth Kolbert comments in The New Yorker, was a raucously exuberant affair. Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. All told twenty million Americans took part. Unmoved was President Nixon who avoided the festivities and made… read full story
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