Author: danps

Left wing politics has often paid lip service to a growing marginalized group, but the failure to engage the formerly incarcerated is not just a political failure – it is a moral one. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.By...

A relatively new natural gas drilling technique – hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” – is being rushed into wide scale use with the same heedless abandon as deep water oil drilling.  Activists are...

America’s foreign policy has long embraced repressive regimes when it was convenient to do so.  Events in Egypt have demonstrated the price of convenience, and it may already be making a difference. Cross posted from...

Politicians love to announce their love of the Constitution, but a vote this week put the happy talk to the test.  Perhaps not surprisingly, there were a lot of failures. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.No Associated Press...

Conventional wisdom in Washington seems to have pretty quickly settled on an ideological basis for the unrest in Egypt.  By doing so it has ignored a more compelling – and prosaic – explanation. Cross posted...