5 Articles
Friday, September 4, 2009
Political Manipulation of the Threat Level: Is Ridge's Charge a Federal Crime?
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If Ridge was so sure that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft only had the best interest of the country in mind, then why did he wonder, at the time, if politics were involved? I find it difficult to believe Ridge's post-publication retraction. As the author of ten non-fiction books, I would be the first to acknowledge that mistakes do happen, but not mistakes consisting of entire sections of a book.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Barack Obama Is A "Fox," Not a "Hedgehog," and Thus More Likely To Get It Right
fox-like people would find "politics more cloudlike than clocklike" and they would agree with statements such as: "Even after making up my mind, I am always eager to consider different options" or "when considering most conflicts, I can usually see how both sides could be right."
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes?
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Eric Holder, recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Cornyn and Coburn dissenting)as Attorney General, will be the one to deal with questions of Bush administration culpability. John Dean, former counsel to Richard Nixon has looked into possible future action. He says, "The World Is Watching"
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Excerpted from John W. Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Republicans had learned little about abusing power in the ways that ultimately destroyed the Nixon presidency.
Monday, July 10, 2006
How Conservatives Have Become Authoritarians and What it Means
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excerpt from John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience; authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral. They are also often conservatives without conscience who are capable of plunging this nation into disasters the likes of which we have never known.
