It's time for your weekly installment of Liptak love, wherein I sing the praises of the New York Times' Adam Liptak and his Monday (Times Select-shielded) criminal justice columns. Today, Liptak takes on the death penalty. Specifically, he exposes the provision in the recent reauthorization...
Month: August 2007
In times past, I've described my aversion to start-of-the-semester meetings. Since my banal complaints are permanently archived on the intertubes, I'm not going to rehash them here as I prepare.
Amanda says most of what needs to be said about Michael Skube. But this is a pretty amazing punchline:Not long after I wrote I got a reply: "I didn't put.
I think this sums up Rudy pretty well...
First an update on the stitches (not so happily ever after). They came out today but the gash isn't closed, so I'm steri-stripped for the next week. Hopefully they will.
Setting aside the question of whether or not a "clerisy" exists in economic or environmental policy (although I've heard from a lot of people who believe that just such a.
Shorter Verbatim Michael Ledeen: "Washington diplomats have steadfastly refused to see the Iranian regime for what it is: a relentless enemy that seeks to dominate or destroy us." Um, I'd have to say it's not doing much of a job. Although since their public officials...
I'll have a couple of longer comments on the "foreign policy community" scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald:During the latest.
In 1505, a Portuguese naval expedition established control over the island of Zanzibar, long a trade destination in the Western Indian. Archaeological evidence indicates that the island has been used.
Cap'n Crunch is quite excited by Nouri al-Maliki's visit to Tikrit:The personal appeal, coming directly to the heart of Saddam's former power base, is a spectacular move by Maliki. Up to now, he's mostly been known as a sectarian forced to deal with Sunnis and...
The stitches come out tomorrow, at which point I'll chime in with my two cents on Helena Silverstein's book, Girls on the Stand, which Scott reviewed for The American Prospect.
The WaPo comes out for arch-reactionary Leslie Southwick. If I understand their criteria, the Senate has an obligation to confirm any nominee smarter and less overtly racist than Harrold Carswell,.