All Posts Tagged With: "Huffington Post"
Starting again, again…
During this hiatus the bureaucratic stuff has kept right on swinging along, one bit after another after another. Here are a few of the stories I’ve bookmarked, listed in no particular order.
25Jun2009 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
We really must have transparency and accountability
Having been clear, I hope, in presenting my progressive/liberal credentials, I’ll say that for some things there simply is no middle road. Transparency and accountability are among those things.
President Obama has so far signaled, if not outright opposition, at least considerable foot-dragging when it comes to undoing some of what can be undone of Bush’s legacy, and pursuing accountability for Bushies who may have committed crimes.
18Feb2009 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
The political understory…
The most heartbreaking and headache-inducing aspect of what’s happening out there in blog-comment-land is that there are so many people who think of themselves as politically progressive who are behaving this way. If that kind of knee-jerk, insulting, obliterate-the-other-side non-thinking is characteristic of progressive politics in general, then what’s the point of getting rid of the Bushites?
5Mar2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
One More Similarity
On second thought, I will add comment about one more similarity between my case and Al-Arian’s case: that of having been acquitted of almost everything. (Notice: the following may not be interesting to a lot of people other than psychologists.) The complete text of the appeal decision first addresses the issue of my having been [...]
3Dec2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Boilerplate Bureaucratic Abuse
There’s an extremely moving blog post on Huffington Post today from Laila Al-Arian. Here’s an excerpt: Laila Al-Arian: My Family’s Nightmare Caught on Film – Politics on The Huffington Post Prosecutors in Northern Virginia may soon charge my father with criminal contempt, according to a recent report in The New York Sun. This maneuver would [...]
3Dec2007 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
