Archive for the 'Political' Category
Broadcasters have been known to complain that they enjoy much less First Amendment freedom than the print media. Do they have a valid point? I argue that broadcasters do have fewer freedoms, with regard to the First Amendment, compared to print media. In order to come to any definite conclusion, however, I find it relevant [...]
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Tags: Congress, Electromagnetic Spectrum, FCC, FCC v. Pacifica, Federal Communcations Commission, First Amendment, Free Press, Free Speech, Gitlow, Mass Media Law, NY Times v. Sullivan, Obscene, Print vs Broadcast, Prior Restraint, Safe Harbor, Scarce Resource, Tornillo
On November 21, 2001, Laura Bush, the First Lady, spoke on national radio. She spoke mainly on the women of Afghanistan and the “brutalities” facing them, but the implications of the segment reached much farther that just the Afghan women. I chose this particular piece partly due to the fact that it was in the [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Ethics, Human Rights, Islam, Laura Bush, Middle East, Muslim, War on Terror
Prisoner Abuse at Abu Ghraib
This post was actually my final exam in my Political Science class last quarter at the University of Washington.
In the case of Abu Ghraib, the existence of asymmetric information led to not only unthinkable treatment of prisoners, but, even more surprising, encouragement of these actions by principles and a breakdown of oversight. There was a [...]
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Tags: Abu Ghraib, Abuse, Geneva Convention, Iraq, Iraq war, Political Issue, Prisoner Abuse, War in Iraq
Deparment of Early Learning
The Department of Early Learning (DEL) was created in 2006[1] as a means to combine all of the pre-kindergarten agencies in the State. It is the first of its kind, and therefore is deemed to be setting an example for the rest of the country. Statewide the DEL employs 180 people with satellite offices ranging [...]
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Tags: Bureaucracy, DEL, Department of Early Learning, Early Development, Gregoire
What’s up with DPS?
This is a paper I just finished up on the Department of Pipeline Security.
Setting
The Department of Pipeline Safety (DPS), part of the Department of Transportation, is in charge of overseeing more than 2 million miles of underground pipeline in the US. Included in this total are 300,000 miles of natural gas pipeline, and 1.5 [...]
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Tags: Bureaucracy, Department of Pipeline Security, Disaster, DPS, Failure, Red Tape
I know that this is a little late in coming, seeing as Katrina hit in 2005, but I just had to say something. My first instinct was to say that Mr. Brown did an alright job for the position that he was in. I mean, FEMA wasn’t even independent at the time. When the Department [...]
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Tags: Brown, Bureaucracy, Disaster, FEMA, Katrina
Obama–Minimum Wage to $9.50???
When I look at a minimum wage of $9.50/hr I immediately think “Holy Cow!!!” I mean seriously, that’s a lot of money to make. Honestly, if I could make that much just by working at McDonald’s, I might actually consider working there…in fact, I would probably work at a whole lot of different places that [...]
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Tags: Biden, Election, Employment, McCain, Minimum Wage, Obama
