Monthly Archives: March 2011

Despite openness pledge, President Obama pursues leakers – Josh Gerstein

The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.

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Why employee pensions aren’t bankrupting states | McClatchy

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Kagan/Dunne and Imperial Revisionism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602928.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions ‘Why Egypt has to be the U.S. Priority in the Middle East’ is both the title of an opinion piece in the Washington Post by Robert Kagan and Michele Dunne,dated March 7,2011, and an imperative to political action for … Continue reading

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Books of Interest:Amazon.com: Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (9780199584406): Steve Bruce: Books

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Books of Interest:Oxford University Press: A People of One Book: Timothy Larsen

  Timothy Larsen is McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been a Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of over a … Continue reading

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Radio Daze – by Liel Leibovitz > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life

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Racketeer Rabbit Republicans | FOK News Channel

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The Associated Press: Beijing tightens controls over foreign media

Beijing tightens controls over foreign media (AP) – 8 hours ago BEIJING (AP) — China’s capital further tightened restrictions on reporting by foreign journalists on Sunday, the latest sign of the government’s determination to prevent the formation of a Middle … Continue reading

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Human Rights Organizations Condemn the Trial of Civilians before Military Courts | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

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Books of Interest:Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson – Jonathan Kramnick

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