What They Were Saying: Gifts Of Links From The Commenters At Unclaimed Territory

I try to read Glenn Greenwald’s Unclaimed Territory blog posts on Salon.com immediately followed by the comments. The regular commenters there include a poet/historian/philosopher/veteran/patriot, scholars wearing the robes of various disciplines, rabble rousers with literary elan and the occasional Bush dead ender, pot stirring with a resounding thud.
Yesterday the commenters to this post [...]

What They Were Saying: Journalism’s Codes Of Ethics

Ben Franklin mused about virtue in the reading and reporting of history. What does the public trust demand and what is the social contract that ethical journalism strives to uphold?
The Society of Professional Journalists published Code of Ethics:
Preamble
Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and [...]

What They Were Saying: Benjamin Franklin’s Party For Virtue

From the Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Vol. 1: 706-34):

Observations on Reading History
ms Autobiography: Huntington Library
Observations on my Reading History in Library
May 9. 1731.

That the great Affairs of the World, the Wars, Revolutions, &c. are carried on and effected by Parties.
That the View of these Parties is their [...]

Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture, Spying on Americans and the FAA, But I Repeat Myself

From around the toobz, the curriculum pedagogy and design of torture and the aviation blogosphere on the criminality and immorality of the FAA.

Daily Constitutional: Dumpster Diving For Your Privacy

Lots of health-related links to share today.  Fourth Amendment - remember that?  The electronic medical records development is derailing medical records privacy, and the Personal Health Privacy Information net  will keep you updated on the latest breaches, concerns and solutions. The Mike the Mad Biologist explains that the NIH discusses allocation of funds for research [...]

Daily Constitutional: The Torture, The Monarchy, and The Republic, For Which It Stands

I can’t bring myself to blog in depth about the Yoo torture memos yet, so instead, I’ll bring you some essential links from people whose work I respect, and who bring thoughtful, logical and critical thinking to the table:

Daily Constitutional: US Political Prisoner Freed, Press Intimidation, While Iraq Implodes, US Wars With Iran Via Bankers

Congress remains stubbornly resistant to impeaching Bush and Cheney. Meanwhile, the accounts of their evil-doing go on unabated.  Here is just some of the latest:
In Slate, Eric Lichtblau lifts the edge of a veil on how Bush and Cheney intimidated the NYTimes and threatened the press to keep its unlawful warrantless domestic spying under wraps.

Daily Constitutional: Out of Touch Edition

I lost ‘net access again, am still dealing with no resources -  even the dumpsters are empty -  and frankly, I can’t commit to being here regularly, if at all.  The blog’s available for author input, if there’s any interest. Unsurprisingly, there hasn’t been much interest expressed by anyone else, “so”? to quote Cheney - [...]

Daily Constitutional: The Other “N” Word

Today’s offering is an eclectic salad of topics that are catching my eye.  Please add your own eye-catchers.

History Repeats: Bullying Nurses Affects Patient Care Outcomes

First, a recommendation to add to your web readers:  The PhysOrg site is a fabulous hot off the wire reporting organ of all things science.  I find it impossible to stay up to date by simply visiting the site, so I subscribe to a couple of select channels. 
Although I let my nursing and health care issues [...]

The Nürnberg defence

A while back, the administration and the U.S. military announced that six ‘high-level’ detainees at Guantánamo Bay would be brought to trial under military commissions (authorized by the execrable Military Commissions Act of 2006 [MCA]).  They even had the chutzpah to claim that the defendants would be afforded “an extraordinary set of rights”, better than [...]

Daily Constitutional: Five Years In Iraq

March 19 - I’ve had it marked on my calendar for months. 
Reminders all over the place to blog about Iraq for the organized blogswarm.  I am at a loss for words to add which will shed new light, which will persuade the likes of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic party leadership and influential Republicans to bring [...]

History Repeats: Preventable Medication Errors, The Public Trust and Professional Nursing

The Well Health blog at the NYTimes  includes a report about the Quaids’ 60 Minutes segment concerning the potentially fatal medication error that happened to their newborn twins when a nurse administered Heparin to them at the wrong concentration and overdosed the babies.  That identical error happens not infrequently.  It occurred with fatal results to [...]