Eric Peltier

Lowering the Poverty Level to Reduce Poverty
August 12, 2009
What do liberal New York Times' contributors do when the percentage of GDP consumed by ever-increasing government spending grows too large to ignore? They replace GDP with a new measurement, of course.
American Apathy towards “the New Normal”
October 5, 2008
Seven years ago, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and President Bush's subsequent declaration of war on "terror", many argued that the world had changed forever. A "new normal" had arrived, in which Americans could no longer live in blithe ignorance to the rest of the world. A violent faction sought their destruction, and the United States had to acknowledge and respond to that fact.
Evaluating the War Effort
September 25, 2008
Part 1: Enemy Imagine that tomorrow the government confirmed with certainty the deaths of Bin Laden, his generals, and every single Al Qaeda foot soldier. Would that mean that the war on terror was over? Would that be enough to declare the US safe from the threat of another 9/11?