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SHARE Sunday, September 16, 2007 Stay Tuned...NJ Corruption Probe Extended To Other States
The arrest of eleven public officials and one private citizen with ties to a powerful political racket in Atlantic County extended outside the state to at least two other states, Connecticut and Michigan, and led investigators to a national school board conference in San Francisco.
SHARE Monday, April 23, 2007 The Hero Myth in Maya Art & Culture
Maya myth carved out a cultural niche for sexualities beyond the two gender, heterosexual standard: fe/male. What implications does this hold for diverse sexualities today in contemporary America?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 The Hero Cycle in Maya Myth & Culture
Maya myth carved out a cultural niche for sexual orientations beyond two gender, heterosexual standard: fe/male. What implications does this hold for diverse sexualities today in contemporary America?
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 19, 2008 UPDATED: POWELL ENDORSES OBAMA, CONDEMNS GOP NEGATIVITY
COLIN POWELL ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA for President of the United States: condemns GOP mudslinging; Annenberg Foundation releases CAC grant records for public examination
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, October 3, 2008 A Nation of Third Graders: The Debate Over Sarah Palin
But the bar is so low that there remains little reason to celebrate or cheer Governor Palin's debate date. For the adults in the room, her affectionate, bubbly, and outgoing giggliness, that may appeal to Third Graders, did not help resolve in the adult mind of the voter clarity on policy substance, knowledgeable detail, and leadership qualities.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 7, 2007 12 Arrested in wide ranging NJ Corruption probe by FBI
Indeed, the corruption allegedly exhibited by the accused officials is so pedestrian it undermines the moral basis of democracy and public service in the State of New Jersey, and it must end before it bankrupts and ruins the State.
SHARE Sunday, October 5, 2008 Global Financial Virus Spreading
***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***
Germany moves to guarantee personal bank accounts following Irish lead; EU fails to reach consensus on unified financial remedy; Iceland financial sector freezing; Sarkozy announces small business assistance, nationalization of unfinished housing, and govt-backed home loans; Brown shakes up UK government; Australian PM decries era of "extreme capitalism;" American financial problems persist
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 14, 2008 REUTERS reporting emergency trading session opened this afternoon at 2PM
****BREAKING NEWS****BREAKING NEWS****
"...the unthinkable is thinkable..."
BBC reports Lehman Holdings Inc to go into bankruptcy; Merrill Lynch sold; AIG to re-structure; Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to report declines in quarterly profits; future of WaMu in doubt; experts fear short trades; global financial leaders set up emergency fund to prevent worldwide collapse; Wall Street said to be "FRANTIC"
SHARE Monday, July 3, 2006 Kudos to Corzine
Political pirates and pundits hijacked state budget process
SHARE Wednesday, October 1, 2008 US Senate Bailout Bill: A Citizen's Guide
It is imperative that citizens have a clear idea of what the proposed legislation means before taking a position on the US Senate bill.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 14, 2008 Global Financial System Reacts to Wall Street Meltdown
***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS*** World stocks sink in Monday morning trading; unthinkable is thinkable; Lehmans to enter bankruptcy; Merrill Lynch sold; AIG re-structuring; fate of WaMu uncertain; global financiers set up emergency fund; Fed widens credit window; US to accept additional corporate assets as collateral; experts fear short trades; Wall Street said to be "FRANTIC"
SHARE Sunday, September 28, 2008 US Congress Poised to Pass Paulson Plan as Sugarcoated Poison Runs through Global Markets
Congress set to vote on bipartisan financial stop-gap on Monday; UK's Bradford & Bingley in trouble; Fortis moves to sure up confidence; Hong Kong bond investors protest Lehman's "sugarcoated poison," Ireland/New Zealand fall into recession; Spain housing market feezing up;Citigroup/Wells Fargo bid for Wachovia; Balance of economic power shifting from NYC/London
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2007 A Coming of Age Classic Worth Revisting: A Review of Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel
"What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? In young beings there is something wild, ungovernable, uncultured which first has to be tamed." Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel (1906). Hesse's masterpiece about the smothering of idealism and the squashing of one's spirit. At once commendable, yet damning.
SHARE Sunday, October 12, 2008 Despite Weekend Talks, World Leaders Fail to Reassure
The world financial meltdown is forcing national leaders to rethink basic assumptions amid a lack of recent historical precedents and in the absence of institutional memory. Despite efforts at international consensus and unity, uncertainty reigns.
SHARE Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Radclyffe Hall, Sapphism, Sexology, and Speech Rights
"The ageing and the cynical may make wars, but the young and idealistic must fight them..." Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928)
The author reviews The Well of Loneliness from a socio-cultural history perspective, and considers the free speech implications of the legal actions taken to ban the novel.
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 30, 2008 McCain's Choice Shows Lack of Judgment
Palin's selection by presidential candidate John McCain illustrates poor judgment. The vice-president's duties under the United States Constitution are to succeed the president upon incapacity and to preside over the US Senate. Palin is not qualified to be president and is too ideological to preside over the US Senate: the world's greatest deliberative body.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 24, 2008 BUSH TO ADDRESS COUNTRY
***BREAKING NEWS****BREAKING NEWS***
BUSH TO ADDRESS NATION
SHARE Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Dow Drops Over 500 Points: International Financial Crisis Continues
Dow drops over 500 points; Fed Chief says American economic outlook worsening; credit markets remain frozen; Mass may join Ca in call for fed Rx; NJ Gov to address joint session of legislature on economy; Iceland in frenzy to avoid bankruptcy; Euro states act to guarantee saving deposits; UK's Brown in talks with Bank of England over British bailout; stocks fall in Egypt,Japan,and Saudia Arabia
SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 MORE BIG CORPS ON AUCTION BLOCK;BUSH WON'T ADDRESS ANXIOUS NATION; REPUBLICANS RUNNING AWAY FROM BRAND NAME
***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***Washington Mutual Looking for Buyer;Wachovia bidding for Morgan Stanley;World Stocks in Free-Fall;US Govt intervention Fails to Reassure Investors;Angry Asian Customers Cashing in AIG Policies;Gold Prices Rise in London;S&P official says gov't bailout of AIG has weakened USA;Bush holed up in White House, won't address Anxious Nation; Republicans Running Away From Their Brand
SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 Nigerian Archbishop to install American anti-gay bishop
It is remarkable that an African archbishop would cross the Atlantic Ocean to preside over the installation of a bishop whose ascendency rests solely on the exclusion of an entire class of persons simply for loving in accordance with their nature.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 21, 2008 The Paulson Plan
He is the most powerful United States Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton. Although no one can be certain of the result, one thing is for sure: Paulson's Plan will forever change the United States of America for better or worse.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 6, 2008 Global Sell Off Accelerates: Extraordinary Gov't Efforts Won't Quell Fears
****BREAKING NEWS****BREAKING NEWS****BREAKING NEWS****UK FTSE 100 post biggest loss since 1987; Paris CAC 40 sees worst drop since 1988; DJIA down over 750 points; Brazil/Russia/Iceland suspend trading; Fed moves to pump more dollars into money markets; BofA announces plan to restructure Countrywide mortgages; IMF official urges EU leaders to form common, unified front; Stocks in free fall worldwide; Investors/savers anxious
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, October 24, 2008 Economy Falters Ahead of US Election
Scope of global finance collapse not being fully measured: governments failing individuals.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 26, 2008 How do you fix something if you don't know how it broke?
Understanding the economic, financial, and political history of the financial crisis requires historical analysis of the events and people that influenced and shaped the current financial system.
SHARE Monday, September 29, 2008 Bailout Fails to Pass: Global Financial Ills Butterfly
Vote on bailout fails; DJIA plummets 700 points; world financial frenzy; uncertainty reigns; Belgium, Britain, Iceland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands race to save banks; Asia Pacific markets record heavy losses; investors head to safety;Fannie/Freddie subpoenaed; $700 billion bill tonic, not cure....
SHARE Friday, August 3, 2007 Global Notes
Death Penalty International; Contextualizing the Middle East Arms Deal; and, Citizen Diplomacy
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 14, 2008 United States Supreme Court Declines Davis Appeal
***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS
Troy A. Davis will likely be executed by lethal injection in Georgia within days.
SHARE Monday, June 2, 2008 Congressional Assistant Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Lobbying Scandal
John C. Albaugh, ex-Chief of Staff to former Representative Ernest J. Istook (R-OK), pleaded guilty in Federal District Court this afternoon of attempting to defraud the United States House of Representatives as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Stocks Tank: AIG Bailout Fails to Reassure Investors
The lack of a reliable and predictable mechanism for the orderly liquidation of failing US companies seems to have accelerated, not eased, investor nervousness.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 13, 2008 State Democratic Party Leader Assassinated in Little Rock
Gwatney expired just before 4:00 PM (3:59) Wednesday afternoon after an assassin walked into the Democratic Party's state offices and fired bullets into Gwatney's upper torso.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 15, 2008 Bush Embarrasses USA before Israeli Knesset
If Bush cared at all about peace, he would have used the platform of a U.S. Presidential Address before the Israeli Knesset as an opportunity to make peace, to call for healing in an embittered land, to foster goodwill among nations deeply divided.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 26, 2008 US FINANCIAL REMEDY STALLED
World Stock Markets react to Washington remedy; WaMu fails...purchased by JP Morgan Chase; McCain won't talk to American public in national debate
SHARE Thursday, September 4, 2008 What does McCain-Palin have in common with the average working mom?
Kellyanne Conway, Republican activist and professional pollster, belittled and mocked ordinary working Americans this morning while addressing New Jersey's Republican State Delegation at a breakfast meeting.
Conway said that voters supporting Barack Obama and Joe Biden "who tell pollsters they want change 'order the number three at McDonald's every day'."
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, September 15, 2008 Stocks Open Down in Asia: Global Sell-off to Continue
***BREAKING NEWS***BREAKING NEWS***
ASIAN Pacific MARKETS PLUNGE on TUESDAY; AMERICAN CONFIDENCE IN FINANCIAL SYSTEM SHAKEN: DARK DAYS AHEAD; US GOVERNMENT ROLLS DICE WITH AN INVISIBLE HAND
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 14, 2008 Is Sarah Palin a Westerner?
The idea of an oppositional dialectic in United States history, not based on class distinctions or sex differences, appealed to American romantic notions of democracy, equality, and freedom.
SHARE Wednesday, September 24, 2008 McChickening Out
Far from providing leadership, McCain's last minute chicken flight is a disservice to Americans who want, and deserve, to know what the two leading presidential candidates think about the foreign policy direction of this country.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Democratic Party Releases Latest Strategy Video
David Plouffe, Obama for America Campaign Manager, has sent a new email to supporters suggesting the campaign's latest strategy for winning in November.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 20, 2008 Is Climate of Panic and Fear Appropriate for Passing Legislative Remedy?
What we are witnessing is a changing of the rules of the game, to exonerate the guilty, and punish the aggrieved, ignorant, and vulnerable, through the most massive government intervention, led by a Republican administration, in United States history by either political party.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2007 An Open Letter to Julia Davidow
Principal's decision to ban The Laramie Project is an instance of "...the most blatant, undisguised nature; it is an example of homophobia of the most perverse, obvious kind that it is hard to know how you can possibly justify... " such censorship.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 29, 2008 JOHN McCAIN IS A LIAR
McCain's shameful lying is a disgrace and belies an erratic, unprincipled, and unstable egoist that would say or do anything to retain power and impose eight more years of failed Republican Party policies on the American people.
SHARE Monday, December 22, 2008 Where did your bailout bucks go?
If one of the problems leading to the financial meltdown was a lack of administrative and legislative oversight, the situation has not improved. Congress needs to take action now before greedy financiers diffuse the trail of bailout bucks. The US Senate and US House must act NOW!
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Pragmatism and Commonsense: Serving the National Interest
As the US Congress moves forward with careful deliberation and due judgement, acting on behalf of the American people and in the public interest, there are some pragmatic, commonsense principles which are reasonable to include in any legislation.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 15, 2008 Some Lessons on the Meltdown
At this writing the DJIA is down over 340 points; the NASDAQ is off by over 59 points, and the S&P is lower by over 43 points.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 22, 2007 Unwinnable Civil War in Iraq
Senator Harry Reid's comments open up a space for a long overdue debate on the future of American troops in Iraq.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 10, 2007 On liquidity....
President Bush yesterday at a White House press conference cited liquidity in the markets as one cause for concern for volatile world markets. What is liquidity and what does it mean that central banks---i.e. national reserve banks---are infusing markets with more printed money?
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 Collapse of Minneapolis Bridge is Metaphor for Insecurity, Danger
What is more mundane than driving home from work? What is more extraordinary than literally falling off a road because the government has failed to make the needed investments and improvements to aging national infrastructure?
SHARE Friday, May 4, 2007 Bad Governance is Bad for Business
Despite all the progress made in redevelopment and revitalization, Atlantic City is still very much haunted by past ghosts: political corruption and political shenanigans.
SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 Brooks, Globalization, and Governance
The new economy is no more or less global...than ever. The transition we see in America today is from an industrialized economy to The Information, Knowledge, Technology Economy for which America is ill-prepared.
SHARE Monday, July 30, 2007 Global Notes
Jordanian Friends; Soviet-style Backpedaling; and, Legitimate Immigration Issues
SHARE Sunday, December 9, 2007 (Re) Building the Public Square
The operative syllogistic fallacy in Romney's speech, and in most of what we call the "cultural wars," is based on the proposition that modern America is besieged by rampant secularism and if only we returned to the faith of our fathers, that is, restored religion to its rightful place in government, the United States would be both more godly and more moral.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 20, 2008 In the Public Interest: Accountability, Correction, and Oversight
If the US Federal Reserve Bank can assume what is essentially unknown risk of the kind they have assumed, and whose worth is virtually incalculable, or at least unknown, then they can likewise provide the facility for renegotiating fair mortgage terms to struggling homeowners.
SHARE Monday, October 22, 2007 Place Tusculum in Public Trust
I can not think of a more worthy site that commemorates New Jersey's central role in forging the pathway towards independence...than the purchase and preservation of Tusculum.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 9, 2007 What doesn't the NJ Legislature get?
New Jersey Legislature: "In our representative form of government, it is essential that the conduct of public officials and employees shall hold the respect and confidence of the people. Public officials must, therefore, avoid conduct which is in violation of their public trust or which creates a justifiable impression among the public that such trust is being violated."
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 1, 2007 Craig Resignation Exposes Double-Standards
There is not one reservoir of outrage for one set of offenses, and a second reservoir of outrage for another; they are all equally condemnable, and should result in similar sanctions.
SHARE Wednesday, July 25, 2007 Global Notes
Iraqi insurgency by the numbers; Ivory Coast still far from good governance, and HIV on the rise worldwide.
SHARE Saturday, July 21, 2007 Global Notes
Pakistan High Court Delivers Strong Rebuke of Musharraf; Israeli Lawyers Sue Germany; and, Bush Administration Diplomatic Efforts Questioned.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 16, 2007 Immigration Bill: It deserves to be defeated...overwhelmingly.
The president said the immigration reform proposal in the Congress is "an emotional issue." Truth be told, the amnesty proposal put forth in the federal legislature is a failure of our government.
SHARE Monday, February 12, 2007 Will NJ G/L/B/T? Gamblers take their $$$ to PA?
Atlantic County, NJ Freeholder Board passes unanimous resolution undermining NJ civil unions law; will the resolution drive NJ G/L/B/T Citizens to spend their gambling dollars in PA?
SHARE Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Blackwater, Bush and a State of Denial about the War
We have sadly lost our way...if the face we show to the world is that of private corporations turning a buck (in lieu of our nation's brave soldiers) in a war of our choosing, we stand for nothing. In a war where the president has not once made any meaningful public display of grief, where he has not asked one American to sacrifice, where we have destroyed a nation for hollow rhetoric....then we stand for nothing.