Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack hardly deserves kudos because he "made the right decision" after struggling over whether the Agriculture Department should approve a genetically engineered (GE) variety of alfalfa without gratuitous restrictions...
Chapter 40 (“Law in a Time of War”) of Donald Rumsfeld’s new book, Known and Unknown, will be of special interest to Lawfare readers. In it, Rumsfeld discusses his views on “lawfare,” the origins and travails of military commissions, and the Supreme Court detention and habeas cases...
Sometime during the reign of the emperor Nero, the novelist and imperial confidant Petronius wrote a novel about life among the Roman nouveau riche in the Bay of Naples...Sunday’s Super Bowl’s festivities were something like Trimalchio’s dinner...
Barry Ritholtz, author of "The Big Picture," is among the most interesting and insightful econo-financial bloggers. In 2009 he posted an article identifying 25 causal factors of the financial crisis culled from his book Bailout Nation...
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
I had been hoping Donald Rumsfeld's memoir would fall like the proverbial tree in the forest, allowing conservatives to focus on the problems of today. But...the former defense secretary's revisionist "slice of history" is gaining credence and needs to be rebutted...
It’s House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, third-ranking Republican in the chamber, who had a private lunch earlier today with President Obama, Vice President Biden, House Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor...
If the United States is lucky its policy with respect to Egypt’s spasm of hyper political activity will fail, the country’s Day of Democracy will be postponed, the Army will blow the whistle on rule by mob, and a new cabinet will begin addressing the immediate complaints of the Egyptian people...
California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state's disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California's much larger nightmare...
Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a contributor at Pajama's Media talked about the cluelessness of the Obama administration in regards to what is going on in Egypt...
