A Progressive on the Prairie

You know, it doesn’t take a great deal of thought to figure out we’re alienating the Iraqi people. Yet while defense officials appear to finally realize that, the administration remains in a state of denial. The only mistake Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak made when he said the war would produce “100 bin Ladens” was underestimating […]

Ashcroft says

Do we at the Justice Department really care what you are reading? No.

The law enforcement community has no interest in your reading habits. Tracking reading habits would betray our high regard for the First Amendment. And even if someone in the government wanted to do so, it would represent an impossible workload […]

As a quick follow up to the last note, Paul Krugman’s got it right. Unfortunately, I fear he is right that “it’s about to get worse.”

Have been quite impressed with his op-ed columns over the last year. Bought his book yesterday and am looking forward to reading it this weekend.