Monthly Archives: March 2012

Arianna Huffington has won a victory in court against Mr. Jonathan Tasini and ‘an estimated 9000 unpaid bloggers’. Read the story here at Thompson Reuters from Westlaw. From Mr. Tasini’s point of view it was right and necessary to bring … Continue reading →

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In reading David Brooks’ essay of March 28, 2012 titled A Moderate Conservative Dilemma should the attentive reader ask some pertinent questions as to the rhetorical stance he takes to his subjects? In this context does he present himself as … Continue reading →

Here is a link to Walter Rhetts comment on the David Brooks column of March 26,2012 titled Step to the Center. http://t.co/q3I0zuXm  

Should any regular reader be surprised by Mr. Brooks’ enthusiasm for The New American Academy whose supporters are Met Life and a partnership with Pencil. For a list of the supporters of Pencil see here. Three of the supporters are … Continue reading →

David Brooks, in his March 19,2012 essay, When the Good Do Bad a meditation on the Robert Bales massacre in Afghanistan, cannot resist the moment’s potential for taking the moral/intellectual high road, as he interprets it. Brooks regularly entertains the … Continue reading →

Mr. Brooks in his column of March 15,2012 is at his comic best, describing the ‘cagey’ President Obama. But it isn’t so much a moment of political revelation, as perhaps, a parable about how the president will lose the election … Continue reading →

Here is Michael Tomasky’s latest essay at The Daily Beast on the subject of the political viability of President Obama endorsing gay marriage. Mr. Tomasky assures the reader that he is on the right side of this issue, a quote … Continue reading →

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/us/new-look-at-an-old-memo-casts-more-doubt… ‘For starters, of course, Justice Jackson joined the unanimous opinion in Brown in 1954. And Justice Jackson’s secretary, Elsie Douglas, told John P. MacKenzie of The Washington Post in 1971 that Mr. Rehnquist had “smeared the reputation of a … Continue reading →