King George? Didn’t We Already Fight a Revolution against One of Them

Writing in the Washington Post, Peter Baker reports:
“He strode alone into the Rose Garden and complained that “it has now
been 57 days” since he asked Congress for more money for the Iraq war
and still has not gotten it. For President Bush, the fight over
war-spending legislation has become the only talking point — an
opportunity, his strategists [...]

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Study gives teachers barely passing grade in classroom

Study gives teachers barely passing grade in classroom
Reported by USA Today, the report says in part:

The typical child in the USA stands only a 1-in-14 chance of having a consistently rich, supportive elementary school experience, say researchers who looked at what happens daily in thousands of classrooms.
The findings, published today in the weekly magazine [...]

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More on Pelosi/Assad Visit

Pelosi Brings Peace Message to Assad

The Chicago Tribune reports:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syria’s leader Wednesday despite White House objections, saying she pressed President Bashar Assad over his country’s support for militant groups and passed him a peace message from Israel.
Place this along side the Bush remarks that insisted that sending delegations [...]

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The Paradox of Sovereignty: Bush and his Attorney General

The paradox of sovereignty consists in the fact that the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order.
Giorgio Agamben (1998)

In Agamben’s view, the sovereign has the implicit power to declare himself outside the law, to create an exception which cannot be subsumed by any other. In the United States, this creation [...]

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