Month: August 2008

Topic: Loss of Limb/Post-Traumatic Stress War Scar Chapter 1 Jerry Cortinas Army Veteran Lonnie C. Moore Program Analyst U.S. Army Warrior Transition Office Jerry Cortinas Jerry Cortinas served as a Green Beret in the U.S. Army...

Devotion to the President has been an especially prized commodity the last seven years, but a particular kind of it seems to be valued higher than the rest. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.No...

I’ve spent the day in two odd, contrasting worlds. The first was the final leg of the drive back from Denver to Seattle, wherein (since virtually nothing else is available on the radio dial) I listened to red-meat...

. Palin scrubs her own wikipedia page! NPR just had a story about a flurry of mostly-positive edits that occurred to Sarah Palin’s wikipedia page, 45 minutes before her VP candidacy was leaked–including edits that...

In American politics, symbols are more important than power structures for a simple reason. Power structures are hidden. Most people don’t know who they’re voting for when they cast their vote for some individual...