tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71880522024-03-13T19:52:07.151-04:00lettristLinks go dead. Archived content lives on.Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comBlogger885125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-14919493568465276992008-09-22T09:50:00.001-04:002008-09-22T09:50:54.366-04:00Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of RaceThe New York TimesSeptember 22, 2008Editorial ObserverBarack Obama, John McCain and the Language of RaceBy BRENT STAPLESIt was not that long ago that black people in the Deep South could be beaten or killed for seeking the right to vote, talking back to the wrong white man or failing to give way on the sidewalk. People of color who violated these and other proscriptions could be designated “Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-20375489804714863022008-09-07T19:21:00.001-04:002008-09-07T19:21:29.993-04:00$1 billion to Georgia or Georiga Tech?Georgia on My MindBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANOn Wednesday, The New York Times on the Web flashed a headline that caught my eye: “U.S. to Unveil $1 Billion Aid Package to Repair Georgia.” Wow, I thought. That’s great: $1 billion to fix Georgia’s roads and schools. But as I read on, I quickly realized that I had the wrong Georgia.We’re going to spend $1 billion to fix the Georgia between Russia and Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-69999992253858174202008-09-07T16:10:00.000-04:002008-09-07T16:11:12.776-04:00The Vanishing Republican VoterBy DAVID FRUMNYT MagazineI LIVE IN WASHINGTON, in a neighborhood that is home to lawyers, political consultants, television personalities and the chief executive of the TIAA-CREF pension fund. Not exactly an abode of the superrich, but the kind of neighborhood where almost nobody does her own yardwork or vacuums his own floor. Children’s birthday parties feature rented moon bounces or hired Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-86517115516229761602008-09-05T10:06:00.000-04:002008-09-05T10:07:37.043-04:00The Mirrored CeilingJudith Warner, NYTIt turns out there was something more nauseating than the nomination of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate this past week. It was the tone of the acclaim that followed her acceptance speech.“Drill, baby, drill,” clapped John Dickerson, marveling at Palin’s ability to speak and smile at the same time as an indication of her unexpected depths and unsuspected strengths. “It Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-17265376282057965422008-09-05T00:43:00.001-04:002008-09-05T00:43:26.887-04:00Why Christian conservatives have only admiration for Sarah Palin.What Scarlet Letter?By Hanna RosinPosted Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at 1:15 PM ETWhen I first heard about Sarah Palin's, uh, domestic irregularities, I expected social conservatives to react with a kind of qualified, patronizing support—we are all sinners, there but for the grace of God, something like that. Instead, they are embracing her with unbridled admiration. The Family Research Council Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-86166975290187813502008-08-27T18:20:00.000-04:002008-08-27T18:21:21.026-04:00Sorry, Pal, but You're RichThe deluded business pundits and Obama critics who think $250,000 is a middle-class salary.By Daniel GrossBarack Obama's tax plan, laid out by advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman in the Wall Street Journal in mid-August, promises to improve the nation's fiscal standing by scaling back tax cuts for people making more than $250,000. Since then, the business pundit class has been griping that Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-41949892286843405222008-08-24T13:27:00.001-04:002008-08-24T13:27:17.056-04:00Melting Pot Meets Great WallBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANThe Olympics may just be a sporting event, but it is hard not to read larger messages into the results, especially when you see how China and America have dominated the medals tally. Both countries can — and will — look at their Olympic successes as reaffirmations of their distinctly different political systems. But what strikes me is how much they could each learn from the Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-6207169691846363332008-08-23T12:38:00.000-04:002008-08-23T12:39:26.500-04:00At this point, Racism is the only reason McCain might beat ObamaBy Jacob WeisbergPosted Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008, at 12:02 AM ETWhat with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-65329877241502372982008-08-18T12:32:00.000-04:002008-08-18T12:33:08.306-04:00Hitchens on GeorgiaBy Christopher HitchensPosted Monday, Aug. 18, 2008, at 12:00 PM ETWhile it is almost certainly true that Moscow's action in the Ossetian and (for good measure) the Abkhazian enclave of Georgia has been, in a real sense, the revenge for the independence of Kosovo (on Feb. 14 Vladimir Putin said publicly that Western recognition of Kosovar independence would be met by intensified Russian support Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-51101443189433658492008-08-10T03:38:00.001-04:002008-08-10T03:38:53.269-04:00Honey, I Plumped the Kids By OLIVIA JUDSON LONDON Suppose you have two groups of pregnant female rats. Rats in the first group can either eat as much regular lab-rat chow as they like, or they can eat their fill of human junk food — cookies, doughnuts, marshmallows, potato chips, muffins, chocolate. Rats in the second group only get chow, but again, can eat as much as they like. After the rats have given birth,Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-4230108059745086112008-08-10T03:34:00.000-04:002008-08-10T03:35:13.891-04:00Friedman - Flush with Energy... A day later, I flew back to Denmark. After appointments here in Copenhagen, I was riding in a car back to my hotel at the 6 p.m. rush hour. And boy, you knew it was rush hour because 50 percent of the traffic in every intersection was bicycles. That is roughly the percentage of Danes who use two-wheelers to go to and from work or school every day here. If I lived in a city that had dedicated Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-37017901957651562442008-08-10T03:32:00.000-04:002008-08-10T03:33:06.369-04:00Make Diplomacy, Not War By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Iraq and Afghanistan are the messes getting attention today, but they are only symptoms of a much broader cancer in American foreign policy. A few glimpses of this larger affliction: ¶The United States has more musicians in its military bands than it has diplomats. ¶This year alone, the United States Army will add about 7,000 soldiers to its total; that’s more Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-76942426657970824332008-07-29T02:02:00.000-04:002008-07-29T02:03:08.289-04:00"By age 5, it is possible to predict, with depressing accuracy, who will complete high school and college and who won’t." The Biggest Issue By DAVID BROOKS Why did the United States become the leading economic power of the 20th century? The best short answer is that a ferocious belief that people have the power to transform their own lives gave Americans an unparalleled commitment to education, hard work and economic freedom. Between 1870 and 1950, the average American’s level of education rose by 0.8Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-40996300385519397912008-07-29T00:57:00.000-04:002008-07-29T00:58:39.398-04:00Why we should stop worrying about ChinaBy John PomfretSunday, July 27, 2008; B01Nikita Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would bury us, but these days, everybody seems to think that China is the one wielding the shovel. The People's Republic is on the march -- economically, militarily, even ideologically. Economists expect its GDP to surpass America's by 2025; its submarine fleet is reportedly growing five times faster than Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-74331334913125662292008-07-24T03:19:00.001-04:002008-07-24T03:21:25.430-04:00An odd cabal of timorous Europeans, myopic media outlets, corrupt Afghans, blinkered Pentagon officers, politically motivated Democrats & Taliban Is Afghanistan a Narco-State? By THOMAS SCHWEICH On March 1, 2006, I met Hamid Karzai for the first time. It was a clear, crisp day in Kabul. The Afghan president joined President and Mrs. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Ambassador Ronald Neumann to dedicate the new United States Embassy. He thanked the American people for all they had done for Afghanistan. I Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-12556918984101894462008-07-21T23:19:00.006-04:002008-07-21T23:24:09.130-04:00Women on Campus - Two important pieces by Richard WhitmireThe Latest Way to Discriminate Against WomenBy RICHARD WHITMIREThere's something all-American about filing lawsuits. McDonald's coffee burn your lap? Dry cleaner lose your favorite pants? Sue! And somehow we find it perfectly logical that social policy should be guided by lawsuits. Upset by the University of Michigan's handing out admissions preferences to black students? Find a willing Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-61429021930092380062008-07-14T00:56:00.002-04:002008-07-14T00:56:35.765-04:00Government as the Big Lender By PETER S. GOODMAN The desperate worry over the health of huge financial institutions with country cousin names — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — reflects a reality that has reshaped major spheres of American life: the government has in recent months taken on an increasingly dominant role in assuring that Americans can buy a home or attend college. Much of the private money that once Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-65365201361284431102008-07-13T11:40:00.000-04:002008-07-13T11:41:21.005-04:002,691 Decisions - 30 years covering the Supreme Court By LINDA GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON — Sometime during the first of my nearly 30 years reporting on the Supreme Court, a distinct visual image of a Supreme Court term took hold in my mind and never let go. The nine-month term was a mountain. My job was to climb it. The slope was gentle when the term began, every first Monday in October; the court was busy choosing new cases and hearing Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-68259662379928030812008-07-09T16:31:00.003-04:002008-07-09T16:42:12.678-04:00newspeakGlenn Greenwald of Salon.comOf all the creepy post-9/11 phrases to which we've been subjected ("The Patriot Act" - "Protecting the Homeland" - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - "Department of Homeland Security"), I think the creepiest and most Orwellian is the phrase "good patriotic corporate citizen," used to describe companies which broke our laws because the President told them to. It's Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-9105195016648110442008-07-06T19:14:00.001-04:002008-07-06T19:14:52.502-04:00Affirmative DistractionBy STEPHEN L. CARTERAspen, Colo.THIRTY years ago last week, the Supreme Court handed down its Bakke decision, hoping to end the argument over the constitutionality of affirmative action in college admission. But with hindsight, it’s clear that the justices mainly helped hasten the end of serious discussion about racial justice in America. As they set the stage for a lasting argument over who Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-21242136671757816212008-07-06T18:55:00.003-04:002008-07-06T18:55:24.588-04:00TortureThe Truth CommissionBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFWhen a distinguished American military commander accuses the United States of committing war crimes in its handling of detainees, you know that we need a new way forward.“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” Antonio Taguba, the retired major general who investigated abuses in Iraq, declares in a Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-85662739151458453532008-07-05T09:21:00.001-04:002008-07-05T09:21:35.658-04:00Daycare is Expensive, Google findsI thought this was a particularly telling story, because it illustrates some of the delusions we have about the proper cost of things like education.Google opens a world-class daycare facility for its employees' children. It has highly trained educators. It has good-tasting, healthy wood. It has well-kept facilities and well-made toys. It also costs $37,000 per child per year.As a college Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-12756430518143985712008-07-02T18:18:00.002-04:002008-07-05T09:18:06.613-04:00Two forms of Patriotismfrom: David GreenbergHow the Republicans Claimed the "Patriotism" Mantle in Presidential PoliticsPosted Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at 1:46 PM ET The 1988 race for the White House was the last campaign of the Cold War. By the time Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H.W. Bush emerged in midspring as their parties' nominees, Mikhail Gorbachev had begun his historic reforms, Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-58312731818153805172008-06-28T02:05:00.000-04:002008-06-28T02:07:09.913-04:00In EU, working mothers are having more babies than stay-at-home moms. How can this be? <!--Hat --> Edward del Rosario A Dying Breed? As the birthrate in European countries drops well below the "replacement rate" — that is, an average of 2.1 children born to every woman — the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds. function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1372305600&en=bcd12e2cc156fea4&ei=5124';}Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188052.post-43075623395454509032008-06-15T00:57:00.002-04:002008-06-15T00:58:06.261-04:00Is Obama more of a feminist than Hillary could have been?Think the Gender War Is Over? Think Again By SUSAN FALUDI San Francisco FOR months, our political punditry foresaw one, and only one, prospective gender contest looming in the general election: between the first serious female presidential candidate and the Republican male “warrior.” But those who were dreading a plebiscite on sexual politics shouldn’t celebrate just yet. Hillary Prof. Andrew V. Uroskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18223810495242723520noreply@blogger.com