14 March 2006
03 March 2006
Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
by mikepower
Girls may well opt for arts degrees over engineering, but that's not because nobody has told them that engineers earn more than academics - it's because the 'male' professions have fallen out of favour even among men.
01 March 2006
26 February 2006
Once Upon a Time...: In Service of the New Fascism
by mikepower
Because I plan to refer to it in several upcoming pieces, I've reposted an essay I wrote in August 2003. It analyzes in some detail a "neoconservative manifesto" authored by Irving Kristol and published that month: In Service of the New Fascism. Arthur Si
25 February 2006
22 February 2006
A Coverup Under Two Presidents: The Unsolved Mystery of the Oklahoma City Bombing
by mikepower
Long before the Iraq war, long before 9/11, the U.S. government had already mastered the art of fluffing its intelligence on a looming threat, botching the response and then working furiously to cover its mistakes.
14 February 2006
12 February 2006
11 February 2006
village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway
by mikepower
since 9-11, in one test after another, news organizations using undercover teams have easily broken through the FAA security apparatus, rendering the entire business unworkable.
Cato Unbound: Theodore Dalrymple: Is “Old Europe” Doomed?
by mikepower
I wondered what happened to old Theo after he retired. I think he moved to France which, given his views on Europe, seems a strange choice. Why not Louisianna or Texas?
05 February 2006
Bush defended (see below) Letter to the Editor: Judge Bush on his results
by mikepower
George W. Bush has an undergraduate degree from Yale University, a graduate degree from Harvard, was two-term governor of our second-largest state and a two-term President of the United States. Mr Bush qualified to pilot a modern jet fighter...
Dozy Sycophant: Dave on Ms Armstrong
by mikepower
The question I want answered is: why can’t Blair sack some people — Peter Mandelson, Keith Vaz, Hilary Armstrong? They’re among the foulest turds ever to disgrace the Houses of Parliament, besides being utterly hopeless.
SullyWatch on those cartoons
by mikepower
This was clearly done to bait the European Muslim community. If you take the right, take the responsibility.
Best of Both Worlds
by mikepower
We're still short of any definitive opinion on the row, not helped by the fact that the debate has descended into chronic whataboutery. But there are a few issues that will be ripe for analysis when things settle down...
04 February 2006
03 February 2006
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
by mikepower
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
