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Providing Afghanistan and other developing countries with money to pay the police enough to keep them honest doesn’t count as “development assistance.”
Archive for July, 2009
July 22nd, 2009
Category: Crime Control
“Disorderly conduct,” like ” assault and battery on a police officer,” ought to be a red flag; as often as not, it means a cover-up of police misconduct. A cop who lies once on a police report shouldn’t get a chance to lie twice.
July 22nd, 2009
Category: Health Care, Technology and Society
Phillip Longman confirms our warnings about throwing money at health IT.
July 21st, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Eugene Volokh is smart, sensible, and decent. Too bad he can’t say the same for some of his co-Conspirators.
July 21st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
Richard Clarke made sense in Saturday’s WSJ in an extended piece that went behind three current surface controversies involving the CIA. Clarke endorses a “truth commission” as a step toward creating a political space for a more sophisticated discussion of what we expect from intelligence in a democratic society.
July 21st, 2009
Doing something because it’s the right thing to do? I just don’t understand it.
July 21st, 2009
Even the great Nate Silver makes a mistake once in a while. And he certainly did by suggesting that whether health care can be enacted through reconciliation is up to the Senate parliamentarian. It’s actually Joe Biden’s call.
July 21st, 2009
Evangelical Christian groups that claim to support Israel are misrepresenting themselves. They are not Zionists: they are anti-Zionists, and they should be called that.