Enough civilian body parts to fill two tractor-trailers remained after an incident in Farah province of Afghanistan Monday, according to the NY Times today. Afghan civilians blame US airstrikes for 100+ civilian dead; the United States is investigating the possibility that the Taliban executed the...
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This is the 19th installment of our 20 part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. Erik had the honors this week; check out his post first.Reagan's approach to.
Shorter Condi Rice: We didn't want to do anything illegal responding to 9/11. Happily, if the President does it, it's not illegal! I also think that Iran is a fair.
Lithwick and Savage bring the depressing news about yesterday's oral argument in the case in which a 13-year-old young woman was strip-searched by school officials because of an entirely uncorroborated and self-interested (and ultimately inaccurate) accusation that she possessed ibuprofen, without even contacting her parents...
I realize that it's factually true that Newt Gingrich has a doctorate in history and that this peculiar fact illuminates, in a weird way, many of the deeply silly ideas.
We're now to part 17 of our twenty part series on George Herring's From Colony to Superpower. I am told that there is the possibility that the second half of.
Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is "either lying about having read [Lawrence v. Texas], lying about what Scalia wrote, or an...
As Jesse and TBogg have noted, this is a case that will test just how far the Supreme Court is willing to let the War On (Some Classes of People.
With the discussion here and elsewhere in the blogosphere about the filibuster, I thought it was worth trying to get to the core of the issues. It is true, as.
With the discussion here and elsewhere in the blogosphere about the filibuster, I thought it was worth trying to get to the core of the issues. It is true, as djw and I have argued in detail, that the mere fact that the filibuster is...
The following is a Letter to the Editor from "Concerned Colonial Citizen", regarding the prospects of a permanent alliance between the Colonial government and the rebel Cylon. It is titled.
Defenses of George W. Bush's incompetence and lawbreaking have frequently relied on specious arguments about the "continuity" between his administration and those of his predecessors. According to this formula, Bush's.