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To compare or to contrast

…in reporting…ahhh, now that is hard to answer. Since we all filter information a second before reading information, how does one avoid shooting oneself in the foot with ‘knowledge’ filtered…

M3 Death Watch

…— but it’s also, I think, important for us to recognize the burden that’s placed on banks that have to report this information. And so when we can reduce that…

Times v. Post

…Senate based on the same information available to the White House. …Two official inquiries – by the Senate Intelligence Committee and by a presidential commission – blamed intelligence agencies for…

PlameGate: Kristol Cries Prosecutorial Abuse

…Libby and Rove will be indicted, not for what the original referral was about but for some combination of disclosing classified information or perhaps failing to be fully candid with…

PlameGate: Blaming the Press

…Rove know that Ms. Plame was a CIA agent. He should not have leaked this information to various reporters including one that was all too willing to publish this information….

Forecasting Oil Prices

…were giving more sober readings of the current oil market. My contribution to this discussion draws from the Energy Information Agency and its Annual Energy Outlook 2005 with Projections to…

Reason #3 to Vote for Kerry: Democracy

…taken to new heights the censoring of information that doesn’t fit well with state administration policies. Whether it’s some inconvenient comments by administration officials, information from the CDC website about…

Reason #2 to Vote for Kerry: The Iraq Decision

…intelligence we had indicated that Iraq had WMDs, and that Bush could only base his decision on the information he had at the time. But the premise of this argument…

Good News

…Terrorism Act after finding that they possessed surveillance information on the same financial centers in Washington, New York and New Jersey that were the focus of the terror alert earlier…