By DR FAROOQ HASSAN
November 18, 2008
Dr. Hassan’s latest opinion piece has been published here.
Tyranny of good intentions
Any contemporary thinker of any significance cannot be in any doubt on the three salient aspects of the evolving political scenario in Pakistan, viz: (1) the manifest political operations through which Zardari has entered the portals of absolute power, [...]

For the first time in his professional career, Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe – previously on various short-lists of potential Supreme Court nominees – proposed a Constitutional Amendment.
He felt it was necessary in order to assure that traditional 18th Century constitutional civil liberties would remain protected against modern technological threats.
On March 26, 1991, Professor Tribe (now [...]

Tags: civil liberties, due process, free press, freedom of speech, technological threats, unreasonable search, unreasonable seizuers

Author: Aldon Hynes
Everyone is talking about ways to bail out the auto industry now, so I thought I would share my socialist plan.
First, I would not lend the automakers $50 billion, or $25 billion, or what they are currently asking for. It just sounds a little bit too much like the No Income, [...]

Author: Aldon Hynes
Over the past couple of days, I’ve encountered incredible jubilation about the election of Barack Obama to be our next President. Yet in the background, I hear concerns expressed. Even in President-Elect Obama’s speech on Tuesday night, he spoke about the difficult task ahead. I’m on a mailing list [...]

Tell Them About the Dream
Please do it TODAY!
A terrific music video by Laura Vecchione (Veck-ee-oh-nee)
She writes:
Dear Friends,
This is a song and video that came together in a week, in three different cities, because of people’s belief in Sen. Obama and his message of renewal and the historic nature of this election. We got it [...]

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Corner trees A, originally uploaded by Jock Gill.