Fascinating. “Harry Potter is a popular title among some of the detainee population,” said the librarian, a civilian contractor identified only as “Lorie” who works at the prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. Lorie said the popularity of the best-selling Harry Potter books, which recount the adventures of […]
Month: August 2005
Apologist for racism and enthusiastic supporter of stripping people of property and liberty without due process or individualized suspicion based on their ethnicity Michelle Malkin touts this genuinel
This is a rather brilliant post and I won’t try to summarize it, but I was struck by the way Matt plainly stated something that is obvious and yet rarely mentioned: Truman, FDR, and Churchill li
Matt has an incomplete list. I’d add the themes of The Equalizer, the original Law and Order, and NYPD Blue.
Was I wrong to have absolutely no sympathy for Lori Berenson back in 2000? Is it wrong that I still don’t have any sympathy for her today? You go to Peru, you live in a house with violent revolu
I’m glad we’re making progress. . . Armed men entered Baghdad’s municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city’s mayor and installed a member of Ir
Damn. That kid can pitch.
This strikes me as fairly big news. Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes (search) was relieved as commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command on Monday by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker, according
Michael Lind argues, once again, that the salvation of the Democratic Party lies, in a remarkable coincidence, on it adopting the political positions of Michael Lind. This leads to the empirical and l
On John Roberts pro-bono work: At the very least, it indicates that Roberts believes in the lawyer’s ideal that everyone deserves counsel and a hearing–an ideal that, when pushed outward, has done a lot of work for liberal legalism in the past half century, much of it highly unfortunate (e.g. elaborate due process rights for […]
Benjamin Greenberg has an excellent post on John Roberts and Republican attempts to gut the VRA. The importance of federal enforcement of these rules cannot be overstated. When LBJ pushed the first po
s.z finds Scenes From a Mall auteur Roger L. Simon defending Charles Johnson in a post replete with egregious howlers.