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...Republican nomination. He is uncharacteristically siding with the president on the issue of torture. This dramatic change in position reflects McCain’s attempt to reach out to President George W. Bush’s many enthusiastic far-right supporters; he is unabashedly trying to solidify his Republican base to win the presidency. Sacrificing principle for power is evidently a price Senator McCain is willing to pay. Indeed, torture isn’t the only issue on which McCain is willing to flip-flop. After criticizing Reverend Jerry Falwell for being an “agent of intolerance...
...biofuels. It's extremely cool stuff, and potentially very profitable, but for Newman this goes beyond the money. "If we're successful, we'll be wealthy, which means we'll be in a position to impact politics," he says. "Part of my agenda has been to create a power base to change the world." As Krupp argues, if we put into place the policies that support the Jack Newmans of the country, they'll take it from there - and Earth may be one place where the sequel is better than the original...
...This is the Massachusetts State Seal, adopted by Governor John Hancock in 1780. It appears all around campus—on the side of Lowell Lecture Hall or the base of the Anderson footbridge. Yet the seal may soon find itself sharing company with the Betsy Ross flag and the “Don’t Tread On Me” snake in the dustbin of iconographic history. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is currently considering House Bill 3412, a measure which would establish a special commission to determine whether the 230-year-old shield “accurately...
...center of the issue is the representation of Native Americans in state history. The seal’s centerpiece originally made it onto the image as a holdover from the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s previous seal, which featured a similar Native American, this time naked and base, with a motto emerging from his mouth: “Come and help us.” There is a grim irony in this apostrophe to the Puritan mission civilisatrice, for, as any American must admit, the colonization of North America proceeded not under the mantle of aid but of annihilation...
...transgression rightly stems from the fact that not only were his actions illegal, but they were also treacherous. His constituency’s feeling of betrayal is made all the more potent by his duplicity, and his reputation is all the more tarnished by the lies at its base. Simply put, it comes as a bigger blow to discover that Spitzer was a crooked man wearing an honest man’s mask than if we had known him to be crooked all along. New York is surely weary of sanctimonious politicians who say one thing and do another. Incoming...