I’m constantly dumbfounded by the lack of common sense in American criminal justice policy. Today’s example: putting kids who are tried as adults in adult jails. The NY Times has an editorial today calling on Congress to end this practice. The problem, in short: Children who are confined to adult jails are at greater risk […]
Month: May 2008
Friday Cat Blogging… Starbuck and Nelson
John F. Kennedy, during a news conference, 22 May 1963 [W]e would withdraw the troops, any number of troops, any time the Government of South Viet-Nam would suggest it. The day after it was suggested,
This seems like kind of a big deal: Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible — a potentially significant shift by a key supporter of the Washington-backed government in Baghdad. The edicts, or fatwas, by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani suggest he […]
I can’t think of a recent presidential campaign that’s been characterized by as many terrible historical analogies as this one. From Obama’s evocations of Ronald Reagan, to McCain
Glenn Greenwald makes the obvious point about Ben Wittes’ critique of the California gay marriage decision: for all intents and purposes, there’s no argument in it. The shallow, bumper-sti
Obviously, one has to agree that the fact that a band played before an Obama rally is an immensely important issue which proves his popularity is a fraud. I particularly admire Geraghty inferring the effect of the opening act from Rolling Stone reviews rather than some less important metrics as record sales or usual size […]
Yesterday, I officially got my J.D. It was a bizarre and exciting culmination of a tough three years. And what do I get for celebration? I’m now sitting in my first BarBri bar review course. Hap
Evidently, Clinton using the civil rights and suffragist movement to defend her attempts to count the North Korean Michigan not-even-a-straw-poll is beyond appalling. But nonetheless, I can’t ag
Responding to a WaPo editorial suggesting that Obama offer a Supreme Court appointment to Hillary Clinton, Mori Dinauer interestingly points out that such an offer would seem to be illegal. Does anybody know if there are examples of someone actually being prosecuted under the statute? On Clinton being appointed, I would respond with one number […]
Check out especially the interview with a coal miner about 2:15 in: The white people has put the negroes in the back of the bus for years, and if we’re not careful we’re gonna be in the ba
Benjamin Harrison, in a letter to the Virginia Baptist Convention, 21 May 1892: Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of crime; th