The White House’s Flawed Korea Policies

By Conn Hallinan on April 19, 2013

In the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula the Obama administration is virtually repeating the 2004 Bush playbook, one that derailed a successful diplomatic agreement forged by the Clinton administration to prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? While the acute tensions of the past month appear to be receding— all of the parties involved seem to be taking a step back— the problem is not going to disappear and, unless Washington and its allies re-examine their strategy, another crisis is certain to develop.

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The GOP and National Planning? Count on It

By Steven Jonas MD, MPH on 05.05.13

The GOP and National Planning, you say? Hasn’t the GOP always been against planning, particularly against nation-wide planning to deal with nation-wide problems? Well, actually not always. In the immediate post-Civil War period the so-called “Radical” branch of what was then truly the Party of Lincoln was very much for national planning in dealing with the problem of how to integrate the freed slaves into the regular economic and political life of the nation. They proposed to start with three central programmatic elements: universal co-equal education,

 

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Unions in America: Love ‘em or Hate ‘em, Hell, Who Cares Anymore?

By Mickey Walker - 05.05.13

When I was a young boy in oil-rich South Texas my father worked at Gulf Refinery in Port Arthur at the Barrel House.  That was a manual labor position where you hoisted and carried and transferred big barrels of grease and lube oil on wagons pulled by mules sometimes.  It was wartime during WWII and you had to work, i.e., you had no choice.  See, Uncle Sam had declared the oil refining business one most critical to the

 

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Dropping like a stone.

By Iris Vander Pluym - 05.05.13

 “[A]ny degree of ‘flexibility’ about torture at the top drops down the chain of command like a stone — the rare exception fast becoming the rule.”
-Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, former commandant of the Marine Corps and former commander in chief of U.S. Central Command, respectively.

The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment recently issued its report.

 

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The Nature and Purpose of a Bill I Want Someone to Introduce Into the Pennsylvania State Legislature

By Donald B. Ardell – 04.28.13

Introduction: My Claim to Standing in Pennsylvania

I grew up in Pennsylvania. Graduated from elementary and high schools in Philadelphia. So even though I have been away from the Keystone State for 58 years, I think I have some (albeit shaky) standing to suggest a bill. Not that I want to introduce it, of course, or that...

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BITTER SWEET

By Loren Adams - 04.28.13

Progressives’ love-hate relationship with Barack Obama was never more tested than this week. The Boston Bombing, although the worst terrorist episode since 9/11, brought about Obama’s best. In stark contrast, his budget proposals elicited the most disappointment. His base is sorely disillusioned, and legitimately so. Perhaps Boston overshadowed the budget. It is difficult to issue a failing report card when balancing an A+ on one subject.

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