Joker’s Miranda Rights and Law vs. Philosophy

was idly reading an old essay by Dwight Macdonald on an awful-sounding novel by James Gould Cozzen this morning when I stumbled upon a smart passage on the nature of Americans.

Sympathy for the Devil

Over the weekend I posted a quick little note suggesting that we are going to be deluged with pieces by Very Serious People telling us that we should feel sorry for the Tsarnaevs. They had a rough life. They came from a broken home. They came from a broken nation. You get the idea. I must admit to being surprised at how fast it happened, however.

Concerns Proliferating

China confirms nuclear deal with Pakistan

 

 

 

China confirmed this week it will sell a new 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor to Pakistan that the United States says would violate Beijing’s obligations under a nuclear supplier control group.

 

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Border Patrol

China mobilizing troops, jets near Korea

 

 

 

 

 

China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said.

Organizing for Millionaires

The price of access to Obama is too damn high

My friend Jim emailed me Wednesday.

“Friend,” he wrote, “I want to make one thing absolutely clear: We’re up against a whole lot more than just opposition in Congress.”

Jim—that’s “Mr. Messina” to you—ran President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Now he’s chairman of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit formed under section 501(c)4 of the tax code.

Organizing for Action is able to raise unlimited money, does not have to disclose where that money comes from, and engages in “issue advocacy” (“Tell Congressman Smith to grab guns”), but not “express advocacy” (“Vote against Congressman Smith because he likes freedom”).

“Organizing for Action is going to shift the balance of power in Washington back to real people,” Jim told me in his email. “People like you have shown over and over again that no amount of spending can stop millions of Americans calling for change.”  Cont.. Reading