Category: Edgewise

“[K]ey Senate Democrats said Wednesday that hundreds of millions of dollars of new federal aid may be needed to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure.” Washington Post, 4/11/07 (Link below.) So, the most progressive legislators in the country say home owners should get more public money. Renters, rolling in dough, will once again get nothing.…

“Tehran has released footage and letters that it says are confessions that the 15 entered Iranian waters.” I don’t know where this ship really was, but such confessions–by imprisoned people who have no legal recourse and no idea what is going to happen to them–are inherently an ugly business. That’s true for Tehran as well…

For those who have managed to avoid the “Law and Order” TV series all these years, the recent Presidential boomlet for Fred Thompson – who plays the DA, to whom the protagonists go for wisdom and tough choices – is probably not a big deal. But let me tell you, this guy is so palpably…

Back in 2002, I got this email from my brother’s brother-in-law, Josh Kiok. Kind of relevant. >Dear David, >Once again I’m shocked, shocked! I suspect you already know about this, but just in case you don’t, a recent series of articles appeared in the SF Chronicle about the FBI/CIA spying on the Free Speech Movement.…

A lot of people have said that the Bush/Cheney White House re-established Presidential powers that had been eroded since Watergate. How could they tell? Congress has not been testing Presidential power, because it was backing Presidential policy. Now there are two fighters in the ring, and we may at last get to see whether it…