Thoughts on the IFC (Or: World Trade center bombed from air, and we still don't know what happened, four years later)
By Martin Heilweil

News item: International Freedom Center decides to discontinue its operations it if cannot implement its own vision of how to memorialize the World Trade Center mass murder and massacre of Sept 11, 2001, of 3000 civilians by Islamic religious psychopathic suicidists. This after a rising tide of criticism about the ... Full Article
Posted On September 29, 2005

On Jury Duty and Double Manhattan
By Gene Lalor

Many Americans consider doing their duty and serving on a jury to be akin to something between having a root canal and passing a kidney stone. Having had the experience of both of those treats I can attest that it’s not nearly as painful. That said, it’s usually not much ... Full Article
Posted On September 28, 2005

Roman Around The Mind – We Had a Deal, Roman!
By Andrew Roman

I’m getting older, and my brain and I aren’t as affable as we used to be. Fortunately, we’ve managed to reach a deal whereby I agree on a daily basis to immediately retire my body at the first signs of fatigue while my brain consents to grant me six to ... Full Article
Posted On September 15, 2005

Spectral Justice
By James G. Poulos

As the Roberts nomination gives way to the Roberts confirmation hearings, constitutional scholar Arlen Specter reminds those less well versed in the modern state of law of two key concepts: gender minimums and extra-strength precedents. "Two women, I think, are a minimum," Specter has publicly opined. "In the same breath, ... Full Article
Posted On September 14, 2005

The Katrina files
By Martin Heilweil

I suppose each of us wants to say something that has not yet been said, but with the burst levees of ink and digital ink, it is hard. The Russian proverb says that only the future is fixed, the past is always changing, and the past is changing each day ... Full Article
Posted On September 13, 2005

The Lessons of New Orleans: What Really Went Wrong in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
By Jason M. Farrell

You would think, with 9-11 only four years in the past that it wouldn’t shock us so much how immense disaster can strike without warning, crippling its victims and leaving us all wondering why more wasn’t done to prevent it. The scenes, like four years ago, are horrific; bodies lying ... Full Article
Posted On September 12, 2005

Knowing is Half the Battle
By Lars Dalseide

G.I. Joe cartoons from the eighties always ended the same way. A character, say Joe, stops a child from making a mistake and tells him/her how something could have gone wrong. The child says, "That's good to know," to which Joe replies, "And knowing is half the battle." Apparently, the ... Full Article
Posted On September 07, 2005

New Orleans: The Nanny State's Bitter Fruit
By Justin Darr

Two days. 48 hours. 2,880 minutes. This was all the time it took for the fabric of 6,000 years of civilization to unravel in New Orleans. Streets which just last week were lined with the fans of Blues clubs and theaters are now patrolled by gangs of what in any ... Full Article
Posted On September 02, 2005

Iraqis Will Manage
By Martin Heilweil

I don't know about Joe Biden's historical knowledge, but most of the rest of us know that the US Constitution was a series of compromises, or deals, which postponed our own civil war from 1789 to 1861, some seventy years, or about the time from Pearl Harbor to now, and ... Full Article
Posted On September 01, 2005