San Francisco Ray Ring, a senior editor writing in a recent number of High Country News, pulled together some interesting numbers in a piece that argued essentially that environmental groups have prospered and in many cases filled their coffers thanks to the recognition that the draconian policies of the Bush II Administration had …
Month: March 2008
Stop Loss
New Orleans Somehow in talking to returning Iraq veterans from time to time, I had completely missed an understanding what a “stop-loss” was. Watching Kimberly Peirce movie by that name drove the point home powerfully. A “stop-loss” refers to language in a soldier’s contract that allows the Army to prevent the soldier from mustering …
Subprime Candidate Investments
New Orleans I’m getting jaded. It had to happen sooner or later I suppose. I knew I was in trouble for my soul when I read the great Christopher Cooper’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about contributions from the sub-primes to Obama and Clinton and my first thought was that the contributions were …