Author: AliceDem

What if C.E.O. Pay Is Fair? A few months ago, Mr. Kay wrote a book entitled “Myths and Realities of Executive Pay” (Cambridge University Press), with Steven Van Putten, a Watson Wyatt colleague, that goes even...

I am cross posting this entry from GOTV blog because it illustrates how it is possible for members of our power elite to believe that Up is Down.LANGLEY PRECINCT Voting history 1996, Clinton 35%, Moran, 57% 1997, Beyer, 44%...

Amongst Washington’s power elite it is difficult to imagine a couple with more opportunity to halt this country’s descent into madness than Senator Jay and Sharon Percy Rockefeller. Jay Rockefeller has a history of...

Webb may have been against getting into Iraq; but judging from his appearance on This Week he does not support withdrawal. Via Think Progress: In terms of the aftermath, no one in a responsible position in government is saying...

Judge Dan Haywood: Janning, to be sure, is a tragic figure. We believe he loathed the evil he did. But compassion for the present torture of his soul must not beget forgetfulness of the torture and death of millions by the...