by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 21, 2014 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution opens with this strongly worded suggestion: He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 18, 2014 | Monitor
[redacted with extreme prejudice by Lynn C. Rees] Our relations with Spain the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) remain nearly in the state in which they were at the close of the last session. The convention of 1802 Oslo Accords of 1991 and 1995, providing for the...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 30, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on blowback, in praise of a Gregory Johnsen post, and literacy ] . William Blake, The Lord Answering Job Out of the Whirlwind. ED Hirsch and Joseph F Kett‘s New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy doesn’t appear to have an entry...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 29, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how do you measure the potential cost in human lives of something as nebulous as a typo, a slip of the tongue, some idiot clip from a movie that only a dozen people ever saw before it reached YouTube and was widely broadcast on Egyptian...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 26, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with a pinch of humility which, if you ask me, burns hotter than any pepper ] . . Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations‘ Politics, Power, and Preventive Action blog raised a question yesterday that I found irresistible:...