TomInReston | October 1, 2007
I’ve had the great good fortune to grow up and live through the last half of the 20th century and now part of the 21st.
That means that I’ve seen, and taken part in the discussion about, both Vietnam and present day Iraq. I participated in neither, in the sense of being part of the U.S. [...]
TomInReston | August 6, 2007
I came across a Virginia-based website that expressed an opinion I’ve heard before with regard to warrantless wiretaps and wasn’t able to clearly refute.
In essence, the argument goes…
I don’t care if the government listens to my phone calls or reads where I go on the internet. I personally don’t have anything to hide. And [...]
TomInReston | July 29, 2007
Washington Post Columnist Jim Hoagland has apparently decided that those who write blogs and have the temerity to criticize the mainstream media are somehow in the same league with sports cheats and terrorists who build roadside bombs. About bloggers in particular, he says:
This era’s miniaturization of power in the hands of the individual favors destructive [...]
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
