just thinking out loud
There is a lot of sound and fury about Rick Perry’s off-the-cuff remarks yesterday that, “printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history, is almost treacherous, or treasonous, in my opinion.” Was this a wise thing to say? Probably not, but primarily because of all the fuss and bother that the [...]
To follow up on my last post, the media is clearly propagandizing against Palin, the Tea Partiers, conservative talk radio, and the like, but they aren’t doing it very well. Before I was a lawyer, I was a 37F in the U.S. Army Reserve (the ‘F’ is pronounced phonetically as ‘foxtrot’). The military occupation specialty code 37F [...]
By profession, I am a research attorney. I perform legal research and write briefs for other attorneys on a contract basis. A legal brief, if you are not familiar with legal terminology, is a piece of persuasive writing that educates the judge on the relevant law and presents your arguments to the court. When you [...]
Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — to negotiate [...]
Thanks to Drudge for the headline (and link). If you haven’t yet had your recommended daily allowance of self-righteous, clueless drivel, I recommend this article on Politico.
And more than a little depressing. I am referring to the media’s self-appointed role as protector, cheerleader and advocate for Barack Obama’s candidacy. I have previously written in some depth about how I see the media’s present biased ‘reporting’ in the historical context of pure partisan journalism segueing into an idealized ‘neutral’ journalism, and then [...]
