Inside from the Inside

Here’s part of an invitation for a book discussion in Washington, D.C. today:
With author Karen Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law and Security, New York University School of Law
Thursday, May 28, 2009, noon to 1:30 p.m.
“Legal scholar Greenberg covers the period from December 2001 through March 2002, when Camp X-Ray opened to house suspected al-Qaeda [...]

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Today, President Obama held a public discussion on his agenda for closing Gitmo.  This sub topic of the overall policy of our country’s defense and war on terrorism stirs so much passion that it brought out one of the architects of the previous administration’s policies, former Vice-President Cheney.  These two polarities have a small paragraph in [...]

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Jeffrey Toobin profiles John Roberts in the New Yorker and says that race has becomes a defining issue for the chief justice:
[Roberts] has not yet embraced one particular judicial principle as his special interest—in the way that Rehnquist chose federalism and states’ rights—but Roberts is clearly moved by the subject of race… His concerns reflect [...]

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That, above, is the startling cover for colleague Ray Winbush’s new book, Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations for the Transatlantic Slave Trade. (In the spirit of full disclosure, I wrote a blurb for the text.) Jerome Thompson, a staff artist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, fashioned the kiloword-saving graphic, no doubt inspired by this [...]

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There was no way around it. My daughter had been accepted into a unique language immersion school and my office was on the other side of the city.  Between the two points lay the vast and dangerous wasteland, the neighborhood known as Chicago’s “West Side.” The only reasonable route between dropping my child off at [...]

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“One plus one is three. The one. The other. The space between. In that space is everything!”
~Marley Porter
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Marley Porter is America’s Vanguard Architect. His accolades volume several shelves. And yet the key to his world renown is sprinkled by 17 words.
Marley designs from the perspective of “the space between.”
“I owe you an apology.”
My face puzzled. [...]

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The only time I watch TV is when I have something laying on my brain, just out of sight, and I haven’t been able to quite boil it down yet. This is when I plunk down in the den; turn on some mindless chatter and veg.
Such was the evening. I’m on the sofa, Deal or No [...]

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Your tv tells you that black Americans are athletically gifted and physically intimidating.  It also tells you that if they’re not, then they must be funny, a criminal, or an excellent communicator.  Your tv does not tell you that black Americans, generally speaking, are capable leaders in every walk of life, although at least one [...]

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The economic downturn had affected us directly or we know of a loved one, or a close friend that has been downsized.  Two weeks ago yours truly became part of the labor statistic due to my past employer eliminating ten percent of their staff.
This bubble burst is impacting immigrants legal or illegal even more drastically.  [...]

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Rush Limbaugh helpfully laid it out on Tuesday’s program:
As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps.
Okay.  So far, so good. Tell [...]

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