Media Matters points to another ‘objective opinion’ in the press. Who is able to follow the money? Since 2004, Clifford D. May, former Republican National Committee communications director and president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), has appeared in the media several times to defend the administration’s conduct of the Iraq war […]

The Washington Post carried an article by General Patreaus in 2004. Still the optomist. Nonetheless, there are reasons for optimism. Today approximately 164,000 Iraqi police and soldiers (of which about 100,000 are trained and equipped) and an additional 74,000 facility protection forces are performing a wide variety of security missions. Equipment is being delivered. Training […]

Yahoo news has reported a straight forward comment by David Walker of the GAO on interpretation of the statistics of The Interview forthcoming today. It is like reading oracles to interpret the future. Central information remains unavailable, but feel free to interpret. Some reports say Petraeus will argue that sectarian violence in Iraq has fallen […]

After catching up with this week’s posts and comments, this article caught my attention as a method that also strikes a chord to protect oneself from the vagaries of the world. It is another way technology, economics, and values can come together. Somehow it brought up all sorts of associations to mind, one being the […]

The New England Journal of Medicine had a statement that caught my attention that bore on the topic started on this post and this post about safety in big pharma and food. …For example, we know that in type 1 diabetes, metabolic control can reduce the risk of microvascular complications. On the other hand, the […]