Month: January 2007

It depends on interpretation but there are roughly 193 countries in the world. For most people there is little more interest in Tajikistan than there is in Liechtenstein. There are Americans from all over the world and we have...

We have fought a long hard fight to change the public perception of our foreign policy and the war in Iraq. We have struggled mightily to oversome our institutional disadvantages, which included a lack of funds, a lack of...

A fundamental feature of legislative systems is that you get to propose amendments, even to legislation you oppose.  It might be better not to spend money at all.  It is still legitimate to amend bills that you oppose...

(cross-posted at Progressive Wave and Daily Kos) Yesterday, the 110th Congress began its work in Washington, D.C. After 12 years in the oft-oppressed minority at the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid became the leaders of the...

commercial radio on kids schoolbuses BusRadio is a new Massachusetts-based company created to force children to listen to commercial radio broadcasts on school buses around the country. BusRadio boasts that it will “take...