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President and CEO? Beware of the “Businessman in Chief”

Posted 2 months, 19 days ago.

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Back in the early 1970s, a professor at the Harvard Business School introduced a public sector case study for class discussion: the students were asked to analyze the paper flow in the office of then-senator Ted Kennedy. Continue Reading

Tags: Calvin Coolidge George W. Bush Harry Truman Herbert Hoover Mitt Romney Ted Kennedy Warren Harding

The cry of “we the people” is a simple one: Leave us alone!

Posted 2 months, 23 days ago.

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What so many opponents of the Affordable Care Act find offensive is the idea that you have to do something because the government tells you that you have to when freedom to so many Americans has traditionally been understood to mean being left to our own devices. Continue Reading

Tags: Affordable Care Act Barack Obama Commerce Clause Edward Markey Google Jay Rockefeller Jeffrey Rosen

Drone attacks: When war machines work, and when they don’t

Posted 3 months, 3 days ago.

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The most visible robotic project right now is the use of drone aircraft. Unmanned vehicles are the wave of the future. In fact, the aerospace industry has essentially stopped all research and development on manned aircraft. Continue Reading

Tags: Afghanistan Air Force Peter Singer Ray Bradbury Taliban West Point

Of Another Day and Another Romney: The Year When Conservative Republicans Proudly Accepted “Defeat”

Posted 3 months, 10 days ago.

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A little more than a decade ago, Edward Luttwak, the renowned military strategist, wrote a provocative essay in Foreign Affairs entitled, “Give War a Chance.” Continue Reading

Tags: Barry Goldwater Dwight Eisenhower Lyndon B. Johnson Mitt Romney Nelson Rockefeller Newt Gingrich Tea Party

Turn off the TV? Scalia’s baffling civics lesson

Posted 3 months, 17 days ago.

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If you do not like the rash of intensely negative campaign commercials on television this year, the ones made possible by the court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United, then turn off the television. Continue Reading

Tags: Antonin Scalia Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission New England Patriots New York Giants Oliver Wendell Holmes Ralph Waldo Emerson South Carolina Bar Association

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