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...healthy functioning of American civic life. This reputation, couched in the irreproachable quotations of Founding Fathers from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin, has directly led to desperate calls by otherwise cool-headed individuals to save a business model that successfully marketed itself as the sole producer of reliable truth in an otherwise highly competitive and vibrant economy...
...talent out of the business of economically reporting news. Most damagingly, newspaper bailouts, endowments, and other artificial life support would crowd out human capital from being invested efficiently in modern journalism. It is time to come to grips with the death of the newspaper and educate ourselves in distilling truth and analysis from the sundry other news media that populate modern life...
Lynch's attorney, Reuven Cohen, a deputy federal defender, said, "The bottom line is this: If this case were brought today, Charlie would not be prosecuted, period. And anyone who says otherwise is either completely lying or does not know the truth or the facts. If the people at main justice are provided with full and accurate information, they will dismiss this case. If they are serious about what [Holder] said - in other words, that someone had to be in violation of federal and state law - then they will dismiss the case." (Read "An American Pastime: Smoking...
...Obama's moment of truth will come if Iran doesn't, ultimately, want to play. Will the "demons" rot away his policy judgment? Will he exaggerate Iran's power, as the Israelis and neoconservatives routinely do, turning a relatively modest regional player into an existential threat - mad mullahs ready to blow up the world? Will he allow Republicans to force him into a tough-guy pose for domestic consumption? Will he suffer the delusion that U.S., or Israeli, power can "take out" the Iranian nuclear program without disastrous retribution...
...idea of a truth-finding panel is an excellent one, but it would help our understanding to study whether the torture and other alleged illegal activities actually prevented terrorist attacks. I think Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were violating the law and the Constitution but sincerely believed this was necessary to protect the American people. Was it? Investigating this issue might vindicate them. It also might not. Sara Brown, Clinton...