Monthly Archives: July 2007
What's In a Motive?
What is it about crime news stories where speculation regarding motive plays such a central role? Just scanning some news stories of the day, particularly in television news, there seems to be this pressing urgency to get to the WHY … Continue reading
Prius on Speed
Former Vice-President Al Gore’s son and namesake is in the news this week for having been arrested for “driving his environmentally friendly car at about 100 miles per hour on a freeway south of Los Angeles.” Story here Another famous-family … Continue reading
Happy Birthday America
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and … Continue reading
Libby's Quick Commute, or, Scooter Commuter
In the wake of President Bush’s prison sentence commutation for “Scooter” Libby, we are wise to revisit President Clinton’s explanation, published in the NY Times, of the 100+ presidential pardons that he granted on the eve of his leaving office. … Continue reading
