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Pepper Spray

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On November 21, 2011
When I called it torture, I meant it. Imagine being sprayed with a concentrated dose of something more than ten times hotter than a habanero pepper, or nearly 1000 times hotter than a jalapeno pepper. Hence: We were never warned that we were going to...
Adam Liptak has a useful roundup of yesterday's oral argument in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County. The case involves a blanket policy of strip searching people arrested for minor offenses.    It is a classic case where Supreme Court intervention to...

Thank You Fred Hiatt!

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On October 11, 2011

Shorter Marc Thiessen:  "Eric Holder is insufficiently committed to authoritarianism and arbitrary torture." This being Thiessen, the column is not only grotesquely immoral but contains (race-baiting!) howlers as well: This.

So We Agree!

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On October 7, 2011
Michael Medved argues: "Nevertheless, Brewer met justice nine years more promptly than the African-American, Davis. In any just society, the race of the perpetrator—or victim—should have no bearing on the treatment of a killer." The rather obvious problem here is that Brewer was clearly guilty...
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