If you think this process isn’t an invitation for the worst sort of abuses, you must have been in a coma for most of the last decade. And it is striking how spotty and lacking in specifics about actual terrorist activity even the unrebutted, unchecked case against Awlaki is.
Month: October 2011
Pretty much all that ever needs to be said about Palin ever again.
I suspect Paul will have more to say about the passing of this giant of the American legal academy. The same could be said about almost any paragraph in his obit, but this one seems particularly instr
Bernstein: In 2008, John McCain basically won the nomination on Super Tuesday, which was February 5, but Mike Huckabee fought all the way to March 4, when he withdrew and McCain clinched it. The deadline for selecting a running mate was the Republican National Convention, scheduled for September 1. Oh, sure, perhaps you would want […]
Not at all surprising, but damn: “When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.” Divine intervention prevents us from enjoying the hilarity t
Few entrepreneurs of my lifetime have had greater influence, and it was mostly for the better. R.I.P.
Two inmates have been exonerated and released after a combined 46 years in prison. But remember, if an appeals court upheld Troy Davis’s conviction there is no possibility that he was innocent! In Alabama, the state’s use of empty formalism to deny the appeal of an inmate represented by transparently inadequate counsel is so appalling […]
At least the Politico story contained plenty of side-splitting punchlines (all of them inadvertent, of course), while Friedman has already written this column dozens of times.
Sad loss of one of the last living great civil rights leaders from the minister-dominated wing of the movement. Shuttlesworth was most noted for his organization of the Birmingham actions, but through
Well, leave it to the always excellent Sesame Street to be one of the first major artistic endeavors to take on the current economic crisis, reaching to the growing number of hungry children with a character they can relate to. No doubt this will convince Republicans to double down on eliminating PBS funding in the […]
Yglesias says I don’t understand the problem with techno-optimism. He argues that the real problem is that our technological revolution hasn’t gone far enough and, because of natural resou
In the exciting tradition of Unity ’08, Americans Elect ’12, Man of the Year, and jerking off to pictures of elderly people eating expired baby food, Politico is offering its very own th