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Lawrence R. Velvel: Halberstam And History
Monday, 7 January 2008, 8:28 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
It is often remarked that Korea is a war about which most of us know little or nothing. It is called a black hole by the late David Halberstam in his recent book about it, The Coldest Winter . I personally knew very little about it before reading Halberstam’s ... More >>
US: Private Health Insurers Ripping Off The Public
Monday, 24 December 2007, 10:51 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
A prominent medical authority charged the U.S. health care delivery system is "outrageously expensive, far more expensive than any system in the world" and Americans aren't getting their money's worth. More >>
Re: Michael Mukasey And Jewish Conservatism
Monday, 17 December 2007, 2:55 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
I shall write relatively briefly today on a matter which touches a subject I’ve long, but perhaps wrongly, considered sensitive. The sensitive subject is the turn of American Jews toward conservatism. The matter relating to this is Michael Mukasey ... More >>
Re: Robert Novak’s "Prince of Darkness."
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 11:16 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
About thirty-five years ago or so, I stopped reading Evans’ and Novak’s’ columns. They were just too reactionary for me. Reading their stuff was like forcing oneself to read the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal . Yuck. I guess the last straw ... More >>
Re: Sulzberger & Keller On Bended Knee, Serf-Like.
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 10:58 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
From time to time The New York Times (how "alliterative," so to speak, is that?) has been strongly criticized here for failing to report very important stories that it knew about, often that it knew a lot about. The Times has explicitly ... More >>
Re: Read ’Em And Weep For Harvard.
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 9:34 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
In 2004-2005, and on a few occasions again in 2006-2007, I wrote about ghostwriting done for leading academics, leading doctors and others who commit moral fraud by claiming the work as their own. Ghostwriting done for famous Harvard law professors ... More >>
Re: Gee, Gordon, That’s Great.
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 11:27 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Ya gotta love it, baby. It shows once again that money talks and bovine defecation walks. It shows once again that Milton Friedman, he of the huge (if distorted) mind and pygmy moral sense, was right, and so was Ronald Reagan, the sainted gipper of ... More >>
RE: The Longitudinal Lesson Of Paul Krugman
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 4:56 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
November 6, 2007 Lawrence R. Velvel: Re: The Longitudinal Lesson Of Paul Krugman’s “The Conscience Of A Liberal.” More >>
Administration Lawyers For Torture Responsibility
Monday, 5 November 2007, 11:44 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Outline For Program On The Responsibility Of Administration Lawyers For Torture From: Dean Lawrence R. Velvel VelvelOnNationalAffairs.com More >>
Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted Out Of Own Mouth
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:31 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
By Thursday, October 4th, I had been doing preparatory work for roughly three weeks in order to write about Jack Goldsmith’s new book, The Terror Presidency (“TP”), which deals mainly with Goldsmith’s work as head of the Office of Legal Counsel ... More >>
L. R. Velvel: It is Crucial to Focus on the Simple
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:51 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
You can depend on it: politicians, pundits, professors, et. al. will almost always say that things are complex. As a corollary, they will say that our times are very complicated. How often, after all, have you heard them say that things are simple ... More >>
Dean Lawrence R. Velvel: The Current Intersection
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 3:01 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
To say that the country is at a crossroads implies, one thinks, a serious possibility of going in either of two directions. Cynicism born of history therefore precludes one from making this statement now, because it counsels that this nation rarely chooses ... More >>
Dean Lawrence R. Velvel: The New Big Lie
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 4:00 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
Congress -- the Democrats in particular -- have again shown they are a pack of lying cowards With whom it is perfectly useless to remonstrate. They have once again given the Administration a bearer check Enabling it a horrid war and endless killing to ... More >>
Re: Dr. Demento In The Oval Office
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 10:32 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Of late there seems to be talk about a subject mentioned here before and written about elsewhere too, sometimes by professionals in the field. The topic is that there may well be a head case in the White House. More >>
Dean Lawrence R. Velvel: Let’s Hear It For Hillary
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 9:39 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Here is a poem quick / About another move putatively slick / By Hillary, / The woman of two faces / Who now before us places / A bill to repeal the war’s authorization More >>
More Moral Meltdown In America
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 10:06 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
As said in introductory remarks at an MSL conference on ever expanding presidential powers last October, never has an internet article of mine received as much feedback as one that spoke of America's still continuing moral meltdown. And, perhaps surprisingly, ... More >>
A Nail In The Coffin Of Competent US Journalism
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 10:06 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Let me be clear where I stand on the Wall Street Journal. This writer despises, simply despises, its editorial page. Indeed, I refuse to read it because fundamentally it is reactionary trash. More >>
On Imus, On Blacksburg & Bill Moyer's Iraq Lies
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:41 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Now and again, at times when this writer hasn’t been “on the air” very much, someone will write to ask whether he intends to cover some subject or other that has arisen in the meanwhile. One such email was received regarding the Imus controversy ... More >>
Lawrence R. Velvel: On Fighting Wars You Can't Win
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 10:34 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Re: We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot, Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages. From: Dean Lawrence R. Velvel VelvelOnNationalAffairs.com April 18, 2007 More >>
Torture, Secrecy and the Bush Administration
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:44 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
It’s a great honor for me to share the platform this morning with Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, two journalists who practice at the pinnacle of their craft. I am an avid reader of the Washington Post , which really is at the cutting edge of national ... More >>
