One thing worth noting about the Eric Boehlert piece that's being widely discussed is that it focuses on the Blumenthal book. At least based on the Salon columns I read, I would agree that this part of the Senior review was problematic. I have to...
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Chock full o' futuriness (via Defense News, subscription required):China has fired high-power lasers at U.S. spy satellites flying over its territory in what experts see as a test of Chinese.
Amanda on the silly lawsuits filed by "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" in order to burden clincs that actually provide useful medical services to women:From R. Mildred (whose take on this whole.
I mentioned it briefly in an earlier Posner post, but as an addendum to Matt's point it's worth spelling it out clearly. Apologists for Bush's program of abitrary executive power that includes the power to torture assure us that this power will be limited to...
Michiko Kakutani reviews Richard Posner's new book. I've already discussed some of the problems have with his arguments as he's sketched them out in interviews, and I'll probably read and.
Heh.When, on CNN, Alexander M. Haig Jr., the former secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, belittled the report as the product of liberal journalists, Richard C. Holbrooke, the United.
Greg, Josh, and Atrios beat up on Dean Broder's ludicrous new celebration of an "independence" that, as the complete cave-in on the torture bill indicates, doesn't actually exist irrespective of the moral import of the issue. Rather than pile on in this case, Somerby allows...
Vladimir Bukovsky:So, why would democratically elected leaders of the United States ever want to legalize what a succession of Russian monarchs strove to abolish? Why run the risk of unleashing.
Via Jim Henley via Mona, it seems overwhelmingly likely that the life of Corey Maye has been saved, largely by the efforts of Radley Balko:Cory Maye will not sleep on death row tonight. Nor, for that matter, any night for the foreseeable future.At the conclusion...
When self-appointed Hottest Catch Evah Jacqueline Massey Etc. Etc. and Legendary Intarweb Arsehole Jason Fortuny decide to get together to talk about nothing in particular for YouTube, all I can.
The issue of pharmacists, doctors and hospitals interposing their moralistic views between patients and their medical needs is brought into sharp relief in this horribly depressing but must-read post. BB.