The genocide in Darfur is the kind of on-going story with little in the way of dramatic change that the media and, frankly, bloggers, are not very good at covering. If something new doesn’t happen, if the story doesn’t change, then there is nothing to report. As a result, the issue is easy to forget. [...]
Archive for January 5th, 2006
CapitalismDoes Not Ensure Democracy
Posted in Economics, Politics on January 5, 2006 | Comments Off
One of the arguments for freer trade and for integrating authoritarian states into world trade organizations is that the capitalism leads, inevitably, to democratization. The argument is, roughly, that as more people become well off, they have more leisure time, meaning that they have more time to devote to paying attention to more than their [...]
King George
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on January 5, 2006 | Comments Off
It is now the official position of the Bush Administration that they can ignore any law they wish: After approving the bill last Friday, Bush issued a ”signing statement” — an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law — declaring that he will view the interrogation limits in [...]
Government Is Good
Posted in Culture, Politics on January 5, 2006 | 9 Comments »
In the wake of the Sago mining tragedy, Publius has an excellent argument concerning the oft-forgotten fact that government done right is a good thing: [O]ne of my first principles is that government is a force for good. Government makes our lives better and more secure. I don’t believe in abstract Marxist reorderings of society, [...]
A Law Has Been Broken
Posted in Legal Issues on January 5, 2006 | Comments Off
According to the ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, Bush violated the law by not informing the entire compliment of Congressional members charged with the oversight of programs like the NSA spying: The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding [...]
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