Archive for May 9th, 2007
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
More Iranian Backlash
This is a worrisome development guaranteed to set Washington foreign policy circles on edge. Robin Wright reports:
The State Department today condemned Iran’s detention of Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari and journalist Parnaz Azima and acknowledged a growing problem with Tehran over its actions against U.S. and dual U.S.-Iranian citizens….
McCormack also said that both women symbolize the […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Hot as Hell in Every Way Possible
Because the surge is going so well, the U.S. government has directed employees of the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad to wear protective gear while traveling around the Zone and even while indoors:
A sharp increase in mortar attacks on the Green Zone — the one-time oasis of security in Iraq’s turbulent […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Good for Him
Someone was going to have to drag the G.O.P. kicking and screaming back into the mainstream, and Rudy G. has decided it is going to be him. He may just have lost himself the G.O.P. nomination, but if he can pull it off defending abortion rights in a G.O.P. primary he will score tremendous […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Is It Plagiarism to Copy Successful Policy?
The Washington Post has a story this morning about how the D.C. public school system copied, word-for-word, much of its new plan from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., schools strategic plan. It’s plagiarism, certainly, to do that and not attribute the passages. But is it significant? Policy planning documents culled from best practices from other jurisdictions are […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Self-Correcting Blogosphere
I see Matt Yglesias has taken to Campus Progress to argue with my Wall Street Journal piece on late teens porn, but he’s unfortunately made a rather significant factual error that’s led him to respond to a position I don’t hold and have never argued. Matt wrote:
On the other hand, criminalizing participation in such activity […]
