Archive for August, 2003

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/31/2003 @ 1:44:25 PM

Labor DayMolly Ivins talks about Labor Day. “What [the administration] know about working-class Americans would fit in a gnat’s eye.” Molly Ivins: Labor Day … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/31/2003 @ 12:42:02 PM

Patriot ActHow the Patriot Act has begun to affect archivists and researchers, a personal story. Patriot ActHow does it affect ordinary folks, say trying to open an online brokerage account? … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/31/2003 @ 10:37:55 AM

The AdministrationThings are so bad that Karl Rove is aligning himself with the State Department against his hawkish friends. “Officials in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and some … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/30/2003 @ 7:33:15 PM

IraqNot only are things bad in the Shiia south, they are not good in the Kurdish north. SFChronicle: KurdsIt seems that al Qaeda is in Iraq now, blowing up Iraqis. … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 7:27:59 PM

Untruths in High PlacesJohn Dean is repenting well for his sins in the Nixon era. Here he ferrets out of an ever so polite GAO report Dick Cheney’s deliberate … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 7:23:05 PM

IraqWilliam Beeman talks about the coming civil war in Iraq, the predictions of which US war hawks impatiently brused aside so entranced were they with their own predictions of the … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 7:16:07 PM

EnronThese guys sure have been below the radar. It might be ready to re-appear, especially if Treasurer Ben cops a plea. Houston Chron: Enron … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 5:07:41 PM

Chief Neo ConRichard Perle is at last admitting to an enormous blunder – not cultivating the Iraqi resistance before going in. Of course the French are still wrong, … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 1:20:31 PM

IraqThe horrific car bomb that went off was outside one of the main Shia mosques. Not known who was the target, or the perpetrator, but one of the vicitims … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 9:16:03 AM

Real DemocracyThe grilling Tony Blair has gone through is what we would hope to see here, on occassion anyway. Not yet though. It appears that his communications chief Alastair … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 8:43:47 AM

IraqKrugman says the implications of Iraq, and its cost, are more guns, more soldiers, more cost. The admnistration is in denial. NYTimes: Krugman … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 08/29/2003 @ 8:39:51 AM

KoreaThe scary news of the day is North Korea’s claim — during the negotiating session in Beijing — that it already has nuclear capability, and the means to deliver it. … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison, 1795



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