Attorney General Eric Holder declared on March 5, 2012 that President Obama can, with impunity, secretly order the assassination or indefinite imprisonment of Americans abroad. According to Holder, President Obama may do this without a shred of evidence, based solely on the CIA or Defense Department’s suspicion the citizens are terrorists or “pose an imminent […]
Iran’s Secret Weapon
Headlines such as “U.S.Sees Iran Attacks as Likely if Israel Strikes,” are a sobering reminder that jumping into a war with Iran could have even more dangerous consequences for us than invading Iraq. My first job after graduate school was with a shadowy company in Washington DC that ostensibly had a “Crisis Management Training” contract with the […]
Downton Abbey – We Cannot Escape History
The last known World War I veteran has died at the age of 110. Like the fictional Ladies Edith and Sybil Crawley in Downton Abbey, Florence Green crossed the boundaries of social and cultural convention to
Downton Abbey – Wealth, Class and History
Downton Abbey fans: do you think the divide between the rich and poor in the series is extreme? Take a look in our current backyard. Like millions of people around the world,
Votes for Women – Rights We Take for Granted
The US House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote–just 95 years ago today. My daughter turned 18 last November and is enthusiastically planning to vote for the first time in this year’s elections. She found it scarcely credible when I told her that my own grandmothers were not allowed […]
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