Here’s a little trip down memory lane from the “Freedom of Information Act” entry in Wikipedia. Watch the scenery very carefully and see if anything looks familiar.
Following the Watergate scandal, President Gerald R. Ford wanted to sign Freedom of Information Act-strengthening amendments in the Privacy Act of 1974, but concern about leaks (by his chief [...]
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Money being the grease for the wheels of politics, it looks like Texas good old boy Ron Paul has hit himself a gusher. Being one of those who have roundly criticized the good gentleman, I can only sit back and watch his accomplishments with amazement:
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Politics wouldn’t be nearly as enjoyable if there were less room for surprises. Few, I believe, could honestly deny that they had written the tired old warhawk off before now. Knocking down major endorsements in the first two big races, however, will certainly put a new found spring in his step.
The Boston Globe’s editorial board [...]
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It’s pretty obvious that the U.S. doesn’t need to build an expensive and controversial missile defense system in Europe so that parts okay. But it’s equally clear that we should be focused on trying to shrink the overall size of the U.S. military, so you have to wonder whose side these folks are on that [...]
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It’s a funny old economy that we live under. Sometimes to find out how it’s working you have to look at disparate reports, and then do a bunch of extrapolating. Here are a couple of stunning little pieces that I ran across yesterday.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks worldwide Wednesday announced a surprise plan [...]
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It’s generally acknowledged that these are the top three Democratic candidates. Accordingly, I took a few minutes yesterday to sort through my thoughts on the front runners.
John Edwards rode the coattails of John Kerry as far as they could carry him. As a result he went into this primary season as a very widely known [...]
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The U.S. Supreme Court has just handed down a 7-2 decision which has the effect of saying that federal judges are relevant in criminal cases after all. The issue arises in this form because of the passage in 1984 of The Sentencing Reform Act. Previously, federal judges handled all sentencing decisions under a standard that [...]
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A cloud the size and color of night has just been lifted by the new NIE, and the one that I’m referring to is not the same one commonly being celebrated. Don’t get me wrong. The fact that there is now virtually zero chance of a U.S. direct military attack on Iranian soil is tremendously [...]
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December 7, 1941 is a day that shall forever be remembered in infamy. It was also the start of a national experience that shows how outrageous it has been for Ronald Reagan to have been given any credit for “ending the Cold War”. This realization came to me when I was reflecting upon the circumstances [...]
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As I see it, the big Romney “I got religion, who could ask for anything more” speech is a clear sign that he has entered the phase of the campaign where he can now be ranked with the bottom dwellers. He has a weakness and he accentuated that. He has no clear and compelling strength [...]
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I’m on record here as stating that the real estate/foreclosure/sub prime mortgage problem currently unfolding presents a potential crisis for the U.S. economy. Late breaking news on the subject on on Wednesday, however, makes me wonder if I’ve been too optimistic to date.
This entire situation has so many facets that it’s truly challenging to grasp them [...]
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If you pay attention to political news, you’ve heard of Mike Huckabee. My formal introduction came Sunday morning on This Week, and I found it interesting. Not as interesting, perhaps, as if Stephanopolus had tried to get original in his questions. There are a set of “issues” that are supposed to be difficult for Huckabee, [...]
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