Monday, June 26, 2006
Angelina Jolie on the United Nations (11:51 PM) - The movie star appeared on Anderson Cooper’s program for some chat about non-governmental institutions. On the UN, Angelina says:Well, because I think we hear a lot of — we certainly hear a lot of the negative things and — about…
FIRE on Flag Burning (12:49 PM) - Greg Lukianoff, the president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, takes to his organization’s blog to protest the anti-flag burning legislation currently being considered in Congress. He makes some strong points….
Lieutenant Tom Cotton Writes to Keller, Lichtblau & Risen (08:27 AM) - This seems to me very significant….
NYT Executive Editor Responds to Critics (07:36 AM) - If you write to New York Times editor Bill Keller about his decision to publish details of a terrorism-prevention program which is legal and effective—but was heretofore secret, that its targets might not avoid capture—he’ll respond with this letter. Scott…
Japan Agrees to Advance Deployment of PATRIOT Missiles (07:00 AM) - It is one thing to say whimsically that America is an imperialist, aggressive nation. It is another to observe that pretty much every nation acts the same way when its interests are directly threatened….
“A Threat That Belongs Behind Bars” (06:55 AM) - University of Chicago Law professor Eric Posner, also the co-author of one of the most important books on International Law, has an opposite-editorial in the New York Times defending Guantánamo Bay, and America’s barbaric practice of putting war enemies there,…
Tommy Woon Out at Dartmouth? (06:35 AM) - [Bumped to top on 6/26/06; update below.] An e-mailer has informed Dartblog that Dartmouth’s Associate Dean for Pluralism and Leadership—that is to say the head of OPAL, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, which acts as the diversity checkpoint for…
Money for Democracy at LeMoyne-Owen College (06:30 AM) - The small, mostly-black college is struggling. But in recent days it received an anonymous pledge of two and a half million that could save the school’s finances. The catch? The portion of that school’s Board of Trustees not elected democratically…