Archive for December, 2004

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/31/2004 @ 12:37:45 PM

Energy | Action”Skyrocketing natural gas prices have forced the Senate Energy Committee to come up with a new way to lower the costs. Unfortunately, their “solution” to this problem may … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/31/2004 @ 11:53:21 AM

Election | Ohio ProtestSF Rally Jan 3: Wellstone Democratic RenewalOhio Election Fraud (Formerly “Fairness”)What to Do: The Dean PeopleUS Voting ProjectOnLinePetition: Contest the Vote … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/31/2004 @ 10:57:45 AM

The War | The Antiwar”Disappearing the Anti-War Movement at the NYTs”John Walsh: Disappearing the Peace Movement … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 12/31/2004 @ 4:13:18 AM

2004: A Dose of PerspectiveCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaBetty Baye of the Louisville Courier-Journal gets in (for me) the last word about 2004, a year in which we lost a critical … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 12/31/2004 @ 4:07:55 AM

The Second Bush Term: Steering the BattleshipThe Baltimore Sun pays respect to Bush’s ability to bend the unwieldy federal bureaucracy even as the paper scorns the direction — on forests … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/30/2004 @ 11:03:20 PM

Civil Society | War OnYou will not be surprised to know that Daniel Pipes, the neo-con one-man-band of Evil, Islamist, Evil, is also a fan of the internment of Americans … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/30/2004 @ 10:44:10 PM

War on Terror | FramingThis piece and the responses will interest many of you. The problem is that not one good answer comes up to the implicit question: what is … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/30/2004 @ 4:17:48 PM

Authentic Hero Watch”Christine O’Grady Gregoire is on top of the world. On Thursday, after three terms as attorney general and a highly publicized victory over America’s tobacco industry, Democrat Gregoire … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 12/30/2004 @ 5:00:39 AM

Elections in Ukraine: Only the First StepCritical Voices from Mid-America The New Orleans Times-Picayune reminds readers that getting elected president of Ukraine might turn out to be the ‘easy’ part: … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 12/30/2004 @ 4:49:10 AM

Election Aftermath: Democrats Reorganize in Ohio and KentuckyCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaMichael Collins of the Cincinnati Post expresses some optimism that the energy generated by the Kerry campaign will translate into … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Bob Zuber 12/30/2004 @ 4:42:35 AM

Tsunami: Images of Fear and DisbeliefCritical Voices from Mid-AmericaIt has been difficult for most of us to wrap our brains around what has been happening in south Asia this … [Keep reading >>]

Filed under: Uncategorized — by Will Kirkland 12/29/2004 @ 10:36:58 PM

The Media | WomenLooks interesting…”A testimony to the rising clout of global women’s voices, a new glossy, independent publication launches this week called World Pulse. Symbolizing the ‘pulse’ of new … [Keep reading >>]

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An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

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---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795


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