by Gil Friend | Dec 21, 2004 | Politics
[Krugman/NY Times]: Buying Into Failure In Chile’s system, management fees are around 20 times as high. And that’s a typical number for privatized systems. Read your prospectus before voting, folks.
by Gil Friend | Dec 14, 2004 | Politics
What’s New in the Legal World? A Growing Campaign to Undo the New Deal. States’ rights conservatives are making progress in their drive to restore the narrow view of federal power that predated the New Deal. By By ADAM COHEN. [NYT > Opinion] In pre-1937...
by Gil Friend | Dec 13, 2004 | Politics
There are also important cases (not just high profile murder cases) at the San Mateo County courthouse — ones that might even affect you. John Perry Barlow and the 4th Amendment — you know, the one about unreasonable search and seizure — take on the...
by Gil Friend | Nov 1, 2004 | Politics
Courtesy of electoral-vote.com, a very interesting site full o’ stuff.
by Gil Friend | Aug 17, 2004 | Politics
[Slate], via [bBlog]: What Toyota can teach the 9/11 commission about intelligence gathering. When organizations fail, our first reaction is typically to fall into ‘control mode’: One person, or at most a small, coherent group of people, should...
by Gil Friend | Jun 24, 2004 | Politics
[BuzzMachine]: Religious fundamentalists, organized as a Dumb Mob, just dealt a deadly blow to free speech in America with legislators, cynical hypocrites, as their henchmen and media standing idly by, the short-sighted quislings. Are you scared yet? Perhaps you...
