Category: Featured Content
Into the Abyss
As the world plunges in to the spiritually entropic abyss of technology, it is sometimes of value to pause and consider where we’re heading.
On the S [...]
Obama Ain’t no General Maximus Decimus Meridius
The Obama Administration is incapable of leading a boy scout troop, let alone a nation. We continue to hope beyond hope that there is some grand schem [...]
Words Have Consequences
One of the great diplomatic blunders of post-World War II American history occurred when April Glaspie, the United States Ambassador to Iraq during th [...]
Stockholm Syndrome on Stage
For most of us, it is hard to understand the psychological disorder called Stockholm Syndrome. In brief, it is the mania where the abused identifies w [...]
Bad Borders, Bad Neighbors
Good fences make good neighbors. Bad fences make chaos.
Israel and the United States have a lot of good things in common, including democratic govern [...]
Jack Abramoff on CNN: Congress weakens travel disclosure rules
Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff who describes the kind of access lobbyist's have to Congressmen through free trips.
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Abramoff Talks Lobbying
Former lobbyist and convicted felon Jack Abramoff (LAW ’86) reflected on his past corruption on Capitol Hill and offered solutions for reforming cam [...]
Religion Irrelevant Amid the Summer of Filner, Spitzer and Weiner
Three politicians whose political ambition and sexual misconduct have enraptured Americans this summer – San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, New York City m [...]
Jack Abramoff Is on a Mission
Jack Abramoff is used to tough crowds. The Bush-era lobbyist was at the heart of a scandal that led to the conviction or plea bargains of 21 others, [...]
Tips from ‘notorious lobbyist’
Memo from Jack Abramoff to Silicon Valley: You've got to be much more involved in politics than you are, and be smarter at it.
"There is no area of [...]