Perspective on Politics

     

by Dean T. Hartwell

 

Archives of

Dean Hartwell's Perspective 

 

Dates Back to January 10, 2002

Archives Arranged by Topic

9/11

Earn our Trust (5/23/02)

September 11 Compensation Went to Wrong People (9/8/02)

Why 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Still Persist (9/10/05)

How to Silence a 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist (9/8/06)

Conspiracy Theories That Demand the Truth (10/18/06)

Why the 911 War Games Matter (4/12/07)

Who Gained the Most from 911? (8/19/07)

Abortion

Abortion: A Man's Perspective (4/13/05)

Affirmative Action

Changing the Subject (1/16/03)

Books

Recommended Reading (3/1/05)

Book Reviews (7/29/05)

Required Reading (11/13/05)

Bush Administration

Not the Time for Blame (1/17/2002)

Let This Dog Go (3/1/02)

If it Talks Like a Duck (3/5/02)

Bush Administration Report Card (7/22/02)

Divided We Fall (9/5/02)

Burdens of Proof (12/20/02)

Judge Bush by Company He keeps (3/23/03)

One Administration, Two Standards (4/3/03)

Weapons of Mass Distraction (4/9/03)

The Dog Ate Bush's Accountability (7/13/03)

Outrage Overload (8/7/03)

The Usual Suspect (9/19/04)

Bush's Legacy (11/8/04)

Dictatorship Rules United States (5/30/05)

Hurricane Katrina in Black and White (9/5/05)

One Crony Deserves Another (10/13/05)

It's All Bill Clinton's Fault (10/12/06)

See You at Gitmo (10/25/06)

California Politics

California Propositions - Nix the First Six (10/22/05)

California Propositions - Take Three, Toss Ten (10/5/06)

California Recall Election

Recall History, Not Davis (6/15/03)

Money Well Spent (7/27/03)

Show up and Stand Out (8/15/03)

How Schwarzenegger Will Fare (10/15/03)

Campaign Finance Reform

Campaign Reform Now (2/4/02)

No Compromises (2/14/02)

Capital Punishment

Executing the Mentally Retarded: the Death of Logic (6/21/02)

Supreme Court Courts Outrage (10/22/02)

The Insanity of Capital Punishment (2/8/03)

Why the Death Penalty Is Wrong (4/6/05)

Moratorium on Death Penalty Reveals Its Flaws (2/3/06)

Civil Liberties

Pledge Allegiance to Constitution (6/27/02)

TIPS is Suspicious (7/26/02)

Big Brother Is Reading This Column (8/17/02)

Hold on to Your Emotions - and Your Rights (8/25/02)

Homeland Insecurity (9/24/02)

Beware the Information Awareness Office (11/17/02)

Politics as Usual (1/10/03)

Show an Interest in Rights (9/28/03)

Eavesdropping Issue Shows Why Democrats Are Minority Party (1/22/06)

Clintons

Deposition Deja Vu (11/14/02)

Stop Blaming Clinton (3/3/03)

It's All Bill Clinton's Fault (10/12/06)

Criminal Justice

Law of Unintended Consequences (8/7/02)

Fight Crime at Its Roots (8/27/02)

Fear Michael Vick (8/27/07)

Democracy

Those with Gold Make the Rules (10/19/02)

Reinventing Democracy (11/7/02)

Quit Your Day Job (12/4/02)

How to Grieve the Loss of Democracy (3/13/03)

Generating Political Power (5/14/03)

One Who Makes a Difference (12/9/03)

Hope for Democracy (8/22/05)

Independence from Useless Political Ideas (7/4/06)

Democrats

Democratic Hopefuls Think Fast (10/7/02)

Democrats Must Fight (12/6/02)

How Democrats Can Stand for Something (6/3/03)

How to Slay a Giant in Politics (6/29/03)

McGovernor Dean (9/9/03)

Personal Politics (9/20/03)

The Democratic Agenda (3/30/05)

President Bush Scares Democrats to Life for 2006 Elections (4/14/06)

How Democrats Can Promote a Winning Campaign Message (4/29/06)

Vote Democratic on November 7 - It Still Matters (11/1/06)

Drug Policy

The Politics of Risk (9/2/03)

Economy

President Bush Not Responsible for Economy (1/25/02)

Bush Must Balance Economic Values (7/18/02)

The Economics Blame Game (9/19/02)

United States Economy: Bah! Humbug! (12/27/02)

Why the Deficit Matters (2/2/03)

Bush Tax Cuts Leave Soldiers Unprotected (12/18/05)

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt! (3/5/06)

Election 2000

History Matters (4/22/02)

Department of Injustice (5/30/02)

Our Last President (12/17/02)

Election 2002

Guns, Lies and Opinion Polls (11/1/02)

What's the News? (11/11/02)

Election 2004

Clark Has Not Paid Dues (10/23/03)

Predictions for 2004 (1/4/04)

The Bush Agenda (1/24/04)

Vote for Edwards (2/24/04)

Don't Fear Nader (3/4/04)

John Kerry: A "No Apologies" Democrat (3/14/04)

Republicans for Kerry (4/22/04)

Political Mythology (8/25/04)

Don't Sacrifice Leadership (9/13/04)

Debate Questions I'd Like to Hear (9/27/04)

Californian's Take on Initiatives (10/14/04)

Vote against Bush (10/21/04)

No Excuses for Not Voting (10/28/04)

President Bush Has Power but No Mandate (11/3/04)

Voices of Suspicion (11/17/04)

Election 2006

Democrats Did Not Win, the GOP Lost (11/8/06)

Election 2008

The Seven Words Presidential Candidates Never Can Say (1/23/07)

Don't Get Fooled Again (3/24/07)

NOTA for President (5/26/07)

Help Wanted Ad for President (7/23/07)

Energy

Public Is Redacted (3/25/02)

Nuclear 'Hot Potato' Game Unfair (5/9/02)

We Need Amtrak Back on Track (7/3/02)

Running out of Gas (10/29/02)

Bush Oil Plan a Drop in the Bucket (11/20/02)

How Will You Sacrifice? (3/30/03)

Environment

Voluntary Compliance an Oxymoron (2/18/02)

Al Gore Finds His Message (6/26/06)

Estate Tax

Bring 'Death' Tax Back to Life (6/11/02)

Foreign Policy

Axis of Alliteration (2/8/2002)

Solution for Peace in the Middle East (3/7/02)

Iraq: Rumors Fly, the Truth Walks (3/18/02)

Using PR for Peace (4/3/02)

Let Carter Speak to Castro (4/6/02)

It's the Oil, Stupid (4/13/02)

Bush has no China Card (5/2/02)

Bush Courts Human Rights Disaster (5/7/02)

Free Riad (5/13/02)

Foreign Policy of Intelligence (6/17/02)

When Even Peace Is Not Worth It (6/25/02)

Where is Emergency in Iraq? (8/22/02)

LBJ to Bush (9/16/02)

With Friends Like Saudis US Needs No Enemies (9/27/02)

The Face of War (1/3/03)

Entertaining bin Laden (2/13/03)

How We Can Win Peace (2/25/03)

Make an Appearance for Peace (2/28/03)

Global Political Tag (3/8/03)

Support Peace (3/20/03)

Democracy by Dominos (3/26/03)

How to Win Friends and Influence Nations (4/17/03)

Defending Jane Fonda (5/2/05)

The United States Will Never Fight a Justifiable War (5/29/06)

Fascism Comes to United States as GOP National Security (8/20/06)

War Party Says No to War in Iran (9/23/06)

Bloody Hands of Saddam Hussein Drip on United States (12/30/06)

Work for Peace, not against War (2/17/07)

Gay Rights

The Outing of Senator Santorum (4/24/03)

Gun Control

Guns or Privacy (6/4/02)

Happiness

Happy Thanksgiving! (11/26/03)

Head Start

Ignore No Child (6/25/03)

Health Care

Mental Health Coverage in Bush's Hands (4/29/02)

Health Care for All Means We All Have More (11/5/02)

National Health Care Now! (3/16/05)

History Repeats Itself

How Cheaters Prosper (6/6/02)

Remember 1898 (8/12/02)

What the US Should Have Learned by Now (9/10/02)

Diary of a Dictatorship (7/4/05)

JFK Assassination Still Matters (5/20/07)

Housing

Back to the Home Front (5/4/03)

In Memory

Remembering Senator Wellstone (10/25/02)

Illegal Immigration

Why GOP Can't Close Deal on Illegal Immigration (4/1/06)

Iraq

Petition for Protest (1/14/03)

Political Football (1/20/03)

Can We Handle the Truth? (5/24/03)

Peace Movement Needs Alternative to War (8/16/05)

Troop Withdrawal from Iraq Best Option (12/4/05)

Jobs

Outsourced by India (2/16/04)

Judicial System

Why the DisAppointment, Mr. President? (3/15/02)

How Judges Make Law (3/29/02)

Supreme Court Should Legislate from Bench (8/9/05)

Sam Cummings for Chief Justice (9/18/05)

Juror Teaches Judge a Lesson (8/13/07)

Leadership

Sacrifice for Future (1/10/2002)

Sacrifice the Tax Cuts (1/20/2002)

When is a War not a War? (1/28/02)

The Hands That Rock the White House (4/26/02)

Leadership before Pride (7/9/02)

Political Prophet Sees Sacrifices (9/2/02)

President Bush Will Show His Hand (10/5/02)

President Bush Fails Leadership Test (10/9/02)

The Senate's Shifting Majority (12/10/02)

Principles Have Price (12/22/02)

Where Are Our Leaders? (1/24/03)

Listen for Leaders (11/7/03)

Few Can Handle Risks of Great Leadership (11/20/05)

How Much Government Do We Need? (3/4/07)

Leaders Fix Abortion (6/8/07)

Liberalism

Liberal and Proud of It (11/22/04)

Liberals Defend the Guilty to Protect the Innocent (1/14/06)

Media

Where is the Liberal Media? (7/30/02)

One Voice = No Choice (6/8/03)

Finding the News (2/1/04)

Air America Blasts Off (4/18/04)

Stop the Rumors (5/8/04)

Talking Back to the Talking Points (8/4/04)

A Fair Media (10/5/04)

Issue Fatigue (4/18/05)

Corporate Media Favors Incumbents (5/19/05)

What the Media Could Learn from Bill Maher (8/29/05)

Try Cheney in the Media (11/1/05)

Mental Illness

Terrell Owens Highlights Treatment of Mentally Ill (9/29/06)

Military

Congress: What If Their Sons and Daughters Went to War? (10/14/02)

Ask Questions First, Then Shoot (8/20/03)

National Pride

Be a Member of Team USA (4/3/04)

Pop Culture

Show the Politicians What the Public Wants (1/26/03)

Paying Attention to Politics (2/11/03)

Bumper Sticker Politics (7/8/03)

Observations of an "American Idol" Fan (4/25/05)

President Bush

Hold Bush to Words (1/14/2002)

State of the Union Address: President Bush Declares War on Math (1/31/2002)

Bush Picture Worth a Thousand Words (2/22/02)

Of Honor and Dignity (4/10/02)

Bush's Gamble (7/11/02)

Watch What You Sign (7/16/02)

What President Bush Means to Say (10/3/02)

Questions for President Bush (11/24/02)

Fearocracy (12/12/02)

Significant Decisions for President Bush in 2003 (1/1/03)

Talking Back to Bush (1/29/03)

Question Time for President Bush (6/20/03)

The Truth about President Bush (7/19/03)

The Presidential Lie Detector (8/26/03)

The Bush Conspiracy (11/18/03)

How Bullies Prosper (12/19/03)

The Bush Coincidences (12/28/03)

Can't Spin This (5/19/04)

Don't Trust an Ideologue (9/25/05)

Your President Commits Felonies! (1/1/06)

President Bush Mimics Joseph McCarthy (2/20/06)

Same President New Lies (3/18/06)

President Bush Will Not Be Impeached (11/24/06)

Privacy

Patience vs. Privacy (3/22/02)

Religion and Politics

The World Is Not Ending (7/16/06)

Old Testament Republicans, New Testament Democrats (8/3/06)

Do You Value Your Religious Freedom? (12/10/06)

Mixing Politics and Religion (6/22/07)

Imagine God (7/19/07)

Republicans

Three Strikes and GOP is Out (4/16/02)

Lie, Cheat, Steal - It's the Republican Way (8/2/03)

Republicans Strike Out (10/4/03)

Republicans Miss the Point (4/28/04)

Congress Goes out of Bounds (3/22/05)

Republicans Will Nuke Themselves (5/10/05)

How to Prevent a Holocaust (6/18/06)

Answering the Republican Lies (9/17/06)

Role of the Federal Government

The Truth about Power (4/18/02)

Federalism 4.0 (11/27/02)

Satire

Alliances and Evil (2/20/03)

Social Security

Social Security - From New Deal to No Deal (3/7/05)

Terrorism

Violence in Eye of Beholder (5/28/02)

Securing US on Paper (6/14/02)

Negotiating with Terrorists (1/7/03)

Values

Everyday Values (6/2/04)

Voters

Groups Can't Think (5/13/06)

Welfare

Work out of Poverty (2/27/02)

World Citizenship

War Hero Who Renounced US Citizenship Tells Why (11/6/05)