You can learn the following things and much more in this article by New York Magazine: He’s the eleventh of eleven children. Every night, he would listen to “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” before going to bed and it would make him cry. He studied philosophy in college. His favorite…
According to this article by McClatchy, U.S. federal spending “increased by 9 percent in fiscal 2006, the biggest jump since 1990. It's risen sharply for education, agriculture and several non-defense programs as well as for the war on terrorism and homeland security.” Surprising to me, defense and homeland security account for…
The NYT reports today on the violence that permeates middle class Iraq: Three and a half years after the American invasion, the relentless violence that has disfigured much of Iraqi society is hitting young Iraqis in new ways. Young people from five Baghdad neighborhoods say that their lives have shrunk to…
The NewsHour is allegedly a “low-key, evenhanded [newscast], inclusive of all perspectives. FAIR studied NewsHour’s guestlist from October 2005 through March 2006 (six months) To evaluate NewsHour's claim to evenhandedness and commitment to the public interest. Here’s what Extra found: At a time when a large proportion of the U.S. public…
In September, 2005, I traveled to London to attend a conference. While in London, I visited Westminster Abbey. Bury Darwin: A Deep Dive into the Historical and Political Context It is hard to imagine a place more rich in history--there was so much to see. But I made sure that I took the…