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Velvel: Pretending November 7th Never Happened
Friday, 1 December 2006, 5:45 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
This blogger is not the first to say that, since daybreak of November 8th, much of Washington, D.C. and its satellite media have been engaged in an effort to insure that in reality nothing changes in regard to Iraq, in an effort to pretend, that ... More >>
Lawrence R. Velvel: Social Justice At Brandeis
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 8:30 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
The news from the academic world is not all good, shall we say? Filthy rich universities continue to get richer, but impose total charges of $40,000 to $50,000 per year on students. The middle class and poor get priced out of the so-called elite schools ... More >>
Conventional Wisdom And Bad People In Washington
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 11:40 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
This posting is about more of the rot coming out of Washington. It begins with the matter of the so-called Iraq Study Group (ISG). One cannot yet know for sure, but the ISG bids fair to be the latest political fraud attempted to be perpetrated on ... More >>
Let Us Now Throw Rumsfeld Under The Bus
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:33 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
To those who have read this blog over the years, and are aware of this writer's contempt for Donald Rumsfeld, it will come as a shock that this posting will in one way support him. More >>
Honesty, History, And A College Of History And Law
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:09 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
On Sunday Michael Kinsley wrote a long essay in The Times Book Review called Election Day. Roughly three and one-half pages in length, it was given pride of place; it began on the first page. This apparently signifies that the editor of the Book Review ... More >>
Lawrence R. Velvel: Mock Letters To Bush
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:22 pm | Lawrence R. Velvel
Last Sunday my wife informed me that she had heard the sometimes estimable Ben Stein deliver a commentary on the CBS TV show called Sunday Morning. (On that same day Stein had an excellent article in the Business Section of The New York Times.) More >>
Lawrence R. Velvel: Stealth Immunity For Bushman
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:35 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
As written of here in advance, on October 14th and 15th a conference on ever-increasing presidential powers was held at the Massachusetts School of Law, in Andover (MSL), where this writer is Dean. The conference was even better than had been hoped. Many ... More >>
Reposting A Blog On An American Third Party
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Dear Colleagues: Recently this writer posted a blog entitled Moral Meltdown. The post described the many reasons why this country appears to be in the midst of a moral breakdown, and it appeared to touch a chord. Far more people -- about 30 I ... More >>
Dean Lawrence R. Velvel: Re. Moral Meltdown
Friday, 6 October 2006, 12:05 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Since this blog began in 2004, it has been among the first spaces to discuss, has sometimes been the first space to discuss, a number of matters that most of the mainstream media would not at the time touch with a fork, but that subsequently have become ... More >>
A Conference On "Presidential Power In America"
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 11:24 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
As readers of this blog know, this writer is deeply concerned over presidential power. My concern is the opposite of that of the Vice Pretexter. Apparently as a carry over from his Nixonian days, when Congress and the courts cut the imperial ... More >>
Bob Herbert’s Recent Truths And Their Consequences
Thursday, 21 September 2006, 12:41 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
On Monday Bob Herbert of The Times became the first mass media figure I know of to at least partially recognize a truth whose underlying basis has been urged here virtually since this blog began in May 2004. To wit: the real reason that Bush, Cheney ... More >>
Lawrence R. Velvel - Re: The Pretexter Stain
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:07 am | Lawrence R. Velvel
Though George Bush, Dick Cheney and their cohorts are liars, one has always been reluctant to apply the word "liar" to the President of the United States. "Liar" is such a harsh word, a word so out of keeping with the (false?) conventions of professional ... More >>
