Bootleg Liquor

American immigration laws have had a longer run than bootlegging laws, but they are likely to end up on precisely the same scrap-heap of history, and for pretty much the same reasons.

Agee on Journalism: ‘…a broad, successful form of lying’

Bowing to the fateful 'temptation to invent' makes journalists fair game for withering criticism.  Things haven't changed a great deal from the heyday of news media critics James Agee and George Orwell.

World No Tobacco Day 2006: Facts and Omissions

Distorting the health risks of various modes of tobacco usage may cause more harm than it prevents.

NYT: Ahmadinejad For President

Political arrests are down, women's rights are on the rise.  Life under Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the New York Times.







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