To anyone who has lived in the world and followed world history, the whole event has a false aura to it…. There are any number of paranoid and weird websites which talk about no plane flying into the Pentagon, kidnapped citizens, etc…
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Even the New York Times is appalled at the direction the Republic has taken, pinning the tail on the donkey Dick Cheney, modern Grand Inquisitor:…
Leave a CommentSome numbers on the Iraq conflict from Juan Cole: Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce Linda Bilmes has estimated the cost of five years of the…
1 CommentHow to say someone is a murderer without saying it: Abramoff is under investigation by a grand jury in Guam for illegal contracts and money…
Leave a CommentDemocracy in action. America is truly a model to the world for freedom of the press. Nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than in…
Leave a CommentThe fact that someone is a judge, for example, is a social fact — the authority that attaches to judgeship is attached by everyone agreeing that a certain person has the right to make certain statements — “Court is adjourned”, “I sentence you to 5 years in prison” — that have real force in the world. Those statements are not magic; their force comes from the social apparatus backing them up.Ebay has become trustworthy over time because the social fact of its trustworthiness grew with the number of successful transactions and with its ability to find and rectify bad actors.
1 CommentAl Gore delivers a scorcher of a speechOn Global Warming: My friends, the truth is that our circumstances are not only new; they are completely…
1 CommentNot that insurrection would be out of place here after remarks like those of Barbara Bush (GB 1’s wife): What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas…. Other hotels and bars will be able to hire the musicians at flat rates, paying the wages directly to the the council to fund the living costs of all the residents.
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