Must Reads: 06 Nov 2006

Posted by Mary Mancini on November 3, 2006 under Uncategorized |

03 Nov 2006
“Congress Tells Auditor in Iraq to Close Office”, By James Glanz (New York Times)
“Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces.” And he just got fired.

01 Nov 2006
“America 101″, By Bill Moyers (TomPaine.com)
Bill Moyers writes: “… education should be the centerpiece of a great and diverse America made stronger by equality and shared prosperity. It has instead become the epitome of public neglect, perpetuated by a class divide so permeated by race that it mocks the bedrock principles of the American Promise.”

29 Oct 2006
“Karl Rove’s Split Personality”, by Todd S. Purdum (Vanity Fair)
If you can’t beat ‘em… Wait a second! We can beat ‘em. Adapt to win, dammit! Let the student become the teacher already.

Must Listens
26 Oct 2006
“The Politics of Brie: Time to Scrap a Label“, by David Kamp (NPR)
David Kamp says it’s time to ditch one popular political nickname: the Wine-and-Cheese Liberal. Why? Because it’s not true.

27 Oct 2006
“Critics Concerned Electronic Voting Not Secure”, Talk of the Nation (NPR)
Computer scientist Avi Rubin talks about the plusses and minuses of electronic voting. Critics say that with just weeks to go before the election, some serious flaws in electronic voting systems have yet to be resolved.

30 Oct 2006
“The Validity of the 2006 Election”, On Point (NPR)
“Election Day looms, and so do fears –on the left and the right– that the vote won’t be clean. We’ll look at old tricks, new technology, and the validity of the vote.”