Obviously, you expect some shift in conceptions of executive power based on partisan shifts in control of the White House. But for apologists for arbitrary executive torture to suddenly discover creeping Hitlerism in fairly ordinary voluntary legal agreements really is a bit much.
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It's a good thing that the Supreme Court limited the application of the notoriously abuse-inviting "honest services" anti-fraud provision today. Skilling and Black aren't sympathetic claimants, and the ruling will.
I think I feel the way about Italy being eliminated the way most people feel about France. The really weird thing is how attractive I find most of the cultural.
This is a really crucial point: Pat Garofalo has more on the policy substance here, noting that about 200,000 jobs could plausibly be lost as a result of the minority’s obstructionism here. And do note that if conditions do worsen many, many, many more Americans...
Back in December, immediately after the draw for the World Cup, I had the temerity to write a long post breaking down each group, and I foolishly offered predictions as.
In the words of Arthur Carlson, where I come from this ad is in bad taste.
I am happily in receipt of a letter from University of Massachusetts' Chancellor Holub informing me that I have been awarded tenure. Of course you know what this means: the days of keeping outside-the-box ideas to myself are gone like the Twelve Colonies of Kobol....
I can't believe that conservatives really think that there's something unusual about the state using leverage to extract agreements without a full trial, but that really does seem to be.
Although it would be nice to think that Col. Mustard was a crank outlier, Roy has been doing a good job of rounding up people who believe that the Constitution should be correctly understood as enacting Sarah Palin's Facebook posts. (The Trainwreck Media hack who...
I like Neyer's project of trying to define the eras of teams by representative players, and I think he nails the Mets. (It would have been amazing to think in.
Nice tribute from Pierce.