Posts on Wednesday, December 3, 2008
- Nepotistic succession in the political class
- A large, and rapidly growing, percentage of high elected officials are part of politically powerful families. What accounts for this anti-democratic dynamic?
Currently in Glenn Greenwald's Blog
- Both parties cheerlead still more loudly for Israel's war
- As the body count in Gaza piles up, the U.S. Congress acts overwhelmingly to insinuate itself into the war with blind support for Israel.
- Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 22:24 EST
- America then and now
- It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
- Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 18:03 EST
- The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal
- While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.
- Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 14:25 EST
- Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio
- I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.
- Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 15:05 EST
