this is an adventure

The world’s policymakers are finally waking up to how synchronized and how severe the global economic crisis is turning out to be. Just this week, newspapers reported that the British army is being put on standby to deal with possible civil disorder.

President Barack Obama’s military “pull-out” from Iraq as announced last week isn’t what his campaign promised — thank goodness. Stripped of Obama drama — the artful polemics, pulpit theatrics and packaged sizzle that marked his campaign and are his core political strength — Obama’s plan differs little from the Bush administration’s.

D.C. parents worry that the District’s school system is as much a pathway to gang activity as to a high school degree, according to a Republican senator fighting to save the federal voucher program that sends D.C. students to private schools.

It is, some say, the bedrock of a free society. Everyone is entitled to having a vigorous defense mounted on his behalf. So today I don my powdered wig and, like John Adams representing the British troops after the Boston Massacre, defend the indefensible.