Month: July 2005

[From the diaries by susanhu.] That’s the phrase William Easterly uses in an opinion piece in today’s New York Times. He’s right, sweeping programs aren’t going to work. Not for development in Africa, at...

I think his words are valuable today.”walk into the shrink wherever you are and just walk in and say, shrink:  You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant and walk out. Y’know if one person, just...

This list keeps getting longer. Six from Louisville Kentucky. Three from Derby Kansas. Two from Bossier City Louisiana. Twelve from my old hometown and its suburbs. 191 from California. 1745 in all. By the time you read this,...

In the Sunday Dallas Morning News, not known as a bastion of liberal thinking, there is a full page devoted to the commencement address Barack Obama gave at Knox College. Accompanying it is an article by David Kusnet which was...

Milanese extraordinary rendition subject Abu Omar apparently had a previous career — as a CIA informant, on Islamist activists in Albania. Nice coup by the Chicago Tribune. — Via War & Piece. MILAN, Italy — Among...