Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
 SHARE 
|
|
OpEd News Member for 927 week(s) and 4 day(s)
13 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 0 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls
Articles Listed By Date
List By Popularity
List By Popularity
(1 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Mr. Trump, Have You Heard About Democratic Values? Trump appears to believe, or maybe just pretends, he is above other mortals. With the American presidency under Trump slowly becoming unorthodox and un-American, perhaps before long it will be unlawful and unconstitutional. Somehow, someway, the Trump presidency must be controlled. He is not above the law, or the Constitution.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017Mr. Trump, Have You Heard About Democratic Values? Trump appears to believe, or maybe just pretends, he is above other mortals. With the American presidency under Trump slowly becoming unorthodox and un-American, perhaps before long it will be unlawful and unconstitutional. Somehow, someway, the Trump presidency must be controlled. He is not above the law, or the Constitution.
(12 comments) SHARE
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas The way Thomas reached the court is important for two reasons. First, there was once a time when those sitting on our highest bench would never do anything to tarnish the court, and this factors into both his conduct and the chances of his removal. Second, Thomas' deceit during his confirmation hearing has overshadowed all of his behavior since he arrived on the court.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas The way Thomas reached the court is important for two reasons. First, there was once a time when those sitting on our highest bench would never do anything to tarnish the court, and this factors into both his conduct and the chances of his removal. Second, Thomas' deceit during his confirmation hearing has overshadowed all of his behavior since he arrived on the court.
(15 comments) SHARE
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
WikiLeaks: For Better or Worse -- or Both? Those who see Assange and other WikiLeaks members as evil and horrifying are just as wrong as those who find them heroic and praiseworthy. In fact, the organization and its work is all those things, which is both its strength and its weakness. In this sense, the organization is very much like the topic with which it deals, secrecy and openness: inherently conflicted.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010WikiLeaks: For Better or Worse -- or Both? Those who see Assange and other WikiLeaks members as evil and horrifying are just as wrong as those who find them heroic and praiseworthy. In fact, the organization and its work is all those things, which is both its strength and its weakness. In this sense, the organization is very much like the topic with which it deals, secrecy and openness: inherently conflicted.
(6 comments) SHARE
Friday, November 12, 2010
The Tea Party's Apparent Willingness to Shut Down the Federal Government and What the Consequences May Be Threatened shutdowns are political tantrums, and thus a form of extortion. If such behavior is rewarded, it will only become more frequent and demanding. Historically, when exposed and dealt with firmly, these efforts have failed.
Friday, November 12, 2010The Tea Party's Apparent Willingness to Shut Down the Federal Government and What the Consequences May Be Threatened shutdowns are political tantrums, and thus a form of extortion. If such behavior is rewarded, it will only become more frequent and demanding. Historically, when exposed and dealt with firmly, these efforts have failed.
(1 comments) SHARE
Friday, October 29, 2010
Miller v. Murkowski v. McAdams: The Tea Party's Marquee Election In Alaska Is An Upset In the Making Lisa Murkowski is not going to win, and Joe Miller fits perfectly into the mold of the authoritarian conservative, and those who fit that type are all a bit scary. Alaska is an awesome place, and the state's people deserve the kind of solid citizen and leader that Scott McAdams will be when elected.
Friday, October 29, 2010Miller v. Murkowski v. McAdams: The Tea Party's Marquee Election In Alaska Is An Upset In the Making Lisa Murkowski is not going to win, and Joe Miller fits perfectly into the mold of the authoritarian conservative, and those who fit that type are all a bit scary. Alaska is an awesome place, and the state's people deserve the kind of solid citizen and leader that Scott McAdams will be when elected.
(19 comments) SHARE
Friday, October 22, 2010
Why The Tea Party Elections On November 2, 2010 Will Ultimately Make No Difference The Tea Party movement is and always has been leaderless and largely unorganized, although politicians like Sarah Palin and former Republican House leader Dick Armey have sought to exploit it, and guide it, for their own purposes. Fox News Channel has profited by becoming its principal broadcast outlet, if not its voice. Glenn Beck is its leading "intellectual" light.
Friday, October 22, 2010Why The Tea Party Elections On November 2, 2010 Will Ultimately Make No Difference The Tea Party movement is and always has been leaderless and largely unorganized, although politicians like Sarah Palin and former Republican House leader Dick Armey have sought to exploit it, and guide it, for their own purposes. Fox News Channel has profited by becoming its principal broadcast outlet, if not its voice. Glenn Beck is its leading "intellectual" light.
(5 comments) SHARE
Friday, July 23, 2010
Should Shirley Sherrod Sue Andrew Breitbart and Fox News? the Court has created a wonderful refuge for scoundrels, the kind of place from which a Fox News or Andrew Breitbart can safely attack others with impunity. Here, in the Sherrod situtation, it would be all but impossible to prove that Fox News acted with actual malice.
Friday, July 23, 2010Should Shirley Sherrod Sue Andrew Breitbart and Fox News? the Court has created a wonderful refuge for scoundrels, the kind of place from which a Fox News or Andrew Breitbart can safely attack others with impunity. Here, in the Sherrod situtation, it would be all but impossible to prove that Fox News acted with actual malice.
(1 comments) SHARE
Sunday, June 20, 2010
President Obama's Scandal That Wasn't, and Still Isn't: The Alleged Promises to Sestak and Romanoff Republicans pushing the view that the Sestak and Romanoff job discussions should be seen as some kind of scandal simply pass over the fact that such activities have occurred with Republican presidents. Bush II's White House ethics adviser Richard Painter and his Attorney General Michael Mukasey, have explained that this conduct is not unusual or criminal.
Sunday, June 20, 2010President Obama's Scandal That Wasn't, and Still Isn't: The Alleged Promises to Sestak and Romanoff Republicans pushing the view that the Sestak and Romanoff job discussions should be seen as some kind of scandal simply pass over the fact that such activities have occurred with Republican presidents. Bush II's White House ethics adviser Richard Painter and his Attorney General Michael Mukasey, have explained that this conduct is not unusual or criminal.
(4 comments) SHARE
Friday, September 4, 2009
Political Manipulation of the Threat Level: Is Ridge's Charge a Federal Crime? If Ridge was so sure that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft only had the best interest of the country in mind, then why did he wonder, at the time, if politics were involved? I find it difficult to believe Ridge's post-publication retraction. As the author of ten non-fiction books, I would be the first to acknowledge that mistakes do happen, but not mistakes consisting of entire sections of a book.
Friday, September 4, 2009Political Manipulation of the Threat Level: Is Ridge's Charge a Federal Crime? If Ridge was so sure that Rumsfeld and Ashcroft only had the best interest of the country in mind, then why did he wonder, at the time, if politics were involved? I find it difficult to believe Ridge's post-publication retraction. As the author of ten non-fiction books, I would be the first to acknowledge that mistakes do happen, but not mistakes consisting of entire sections of a book.
SHARE
Friday, July 24, 2009
Barack Obama Is A "Fox," Not a "Hedgehog," and Thus More Likely To Get It Right fox-like people would find "politics more cloudlike than clocklike" and they would agree with statements such as: "Even after making up my mind, I am always eager to consider different options" or "when considering most conflicts, I can usually see how both sides could be right."
Friday, July 24, 2009Barack Obama Is A "Fox," Not a "Hedgehog," and Thus More Likely To Get It Right fox-like people would find "politics more cloudlike than clocklike" and they would agree with statements such as: "Even after making up my mind, I am always eager to consider different options" or "when considering most conflicts, I can usually see how both sides could be right."
(37 comments) SHARE
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes? Eric Holder, recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Cornyn and Coburn dissenting)as Attorney General, will be the one to deal with questions of Bush administration culpability. John Dean, former counsel to Richard Nixon has looked into possible future action. He says, "The World Is Watching"
Thursday, January 29, 2009Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes? Eric Holder, recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Cornyn and Coburn dissenting)as Attorney General, will be the one to deal with questions of Bush administration culpability. John Dean, former counsel to Richard Nixon has looked into possible future action. He says, "The World Is Watching"
SHARE
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Excerpted from John W. Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Republicans had learned little about abusing power in the ways that ultimately destroyed the Nixon presidency.
Saturday, January 12, 2008Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Excerpted from John W. Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Republicans had learned little about abusing power in the ways that ultimately destroyed the Nixon presidency.
(4 comments) SHARE
Monday, July 10, 2006
How Conservatives Have Become Authoritarians and What it Means excerpt from John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience; authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral. They are also often conservatives without conscience who are capable of plunging this nation into disasters the likes of which we have never known.
Monday, July 10, 2006How Conservatives Have Become Authoritarians and What it Means excerpt from John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience; authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral. They are also often conservatives without conscience who are capable of plunging this nation into disasters the likes of which we have never known.
