One has to think that Abramoff has to have promised some serious violations of omerta to get the deal he did. ReddHedd is optimistic:What this means is that Jackie Boy has agreed to offer substantial cooperation, in the form of information, evidence and testimony against...
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Sandy Levinson has some broad arguments about Alito and executive power, while Marty Lederman explains the implications of accepting the current defenses being offered of Bush's assertions of unlimited wartime.
Roy has some interesting thoughts about Spielberg and Munich. I've never hated Spielberg the way in which many people of similar tastes (I believe we're called "pretentious wankers") do. I.
Glenn Greenwald does most of the work in destroying Assrocket's ludicrously tendentious reading of Youngstown, particularly in his utter failure to explain why Truman's actions were "domestic" and Bush's are "foreign" (without which he doesn't have any argument at all), but I'll add a couple...
Shakes is right, and it should be noted that Yglesias called this last year, to much skepticism here and elsewhere. Ashcroft, in fact, was a far better AG than Alberto.
Shorter National Review: MLK would have been an awful rabble-rouser, except that we wasn't a good enough public speaker to actually rouse the rabble. He should have taken some courses.
Ah, the first post of the New Year's--happy 2006 to you all.Somebody suggested in comments that the really pathetic thing to do on New Year's would be to have taped the Bork hearings and saved them for tonight. But of, course, I wouldn't do such...
Want to invade Canada? We have a plan. The most interesting part of this Washington Post article is the discussion of Canada's plans for pre-emptive war with the United States:As.
I suppose there's something more pathetic than the fact that, on a Friday night, I currently have CSPAN-3's re-runs of the Bork confirmation hearings on. But it's certainly well beyond.
John Quiggin with an excellent analogy. This short poste better explains why I can't take the vast majority of the right seriously when they talk about fighting terrorism.
Lots of reasons, but Scott’s post below reminds me of a post I meant to write last month, but never quite got around to. On Thanksgiving this year, just a.
Lauren's post defies summary; it just demands to be read. Particularly since I'm in a context where I teach a lot of first generation college students, I found it particularly.