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The New York Times makes excellent points in an editorial, "There Is No 'Humane' Execution." The editors considered the supposedly more "humane" method of execution, that of using one drug in the case of Kenneth Biros, instead of three, often...
I know I'm on an anti-Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) roll these days. I'm simply outraged by the way he keeps upping the ante against health care reform. Now he's not only against the public option, but he's also against the proposed alternative:...
With a majority of Americans and senators supporting a public health insurance option, how is it that officials are discussing alternatives to replace it? The obstacle is the filibuster, which substitutes the requirement of a majority vote for a...
Jerry Garcia leads the Grateful Dead in "Peggy-O" on June 26, 1994, in Las Vegas. The band started playing this traditional Scottish tune in the early 1970s. In "Folk Songs and Allusions to Folk Songs in the Repertoire of the Grateful Dead," Josephine...
This chart above is not a plate of linguine or a Jackson Pollock. It is the military's counterinsurgency, or COIN, strategy for Afghanistan. Though it may seem daunting in terms of interpretation, one point is clear: we're not leaving there any time...