Author: danps

The Protect America Act expires next Friday, and what happens between now and then will tell us a lot about who our leaders really are. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.The Protect America Act...

We’ve come to approve of torture by a number of different ways, but perhaps the most insidious is our willingness to look at a distorted picture of it. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.Maybe...

A former FBI translator is sitting on an extraordinary story, but our major outlets are acting as though telling it will turn them to stone. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.The story of Sibel...

Challenging the executive’s abuses of the last few years will require some new approaches and some help from largely unheralded actors. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.Last year was a...

My quixotic attempt to make a positive association between 2007 and toe tapping.IntroductionThese songs will be hosted until Thursday on Pruning Shears so you can try before you buy.This is a CD’s worth of the best new...