Been a while, but apparently there's a war on: Amphibs: Is there anything they can't do? The French and British are now deploying attack helicopters from their respective amphibious warships. In a broad strategic sense, this reinforces my belief that the amphib is the ship of...
It will be interesting to see the Pain Caucus try to rationalize away this one. Personal to Dems: voting to get rid of Medicare to fund upper-class tax cuts is.
My Rules of War class this past Spring was an Honors version of the course, and to challenge my students I asked them to do original research on popular conceptions.
Shorter BHL: "Nobody will stop me from defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against the many conveniently uncited people who believe that he should be convicted without a trial or due process protections. I also don't understand that the presumption of innocence is a legal concept that doesn't bind...
Bobo's fantasies about elites and bipartisanship notwithstanding, to the extent that the British system is "functional" where the American system isn't, it's because the Westminster system allows majorities to govern.
A few weeks back I wrote my co-bloggers, regretfully: Effective May 30, I need to go on hiatus. I have just accepted a position as Graduate Program Director in my department, and need to deal with moving houses this summer so I'll be bit pre-occupied in...
Seventy years ago today, HMS Hood met her fate. 1415 of her crew died within a few minutes of the explosion. Ted Briggs, last of the three survivors, died in.
Ryan Giggs v 75,000 Twitter users; Lib Dem MP comes to the rescue confirming what we already knew. The use of the "injunction" or "super-injunction" is fairly common in the.
Some initial thoughts here. Another way of putting it is that the Republican position here is self-refuting. The injunction requires the release of tens of thousands of prisoners only if the state isn't willing to invest more revenue in the prison system, and if it's not...
"Some law professors and even a larger number of journalists praised Scalia for his literary style. That style isn’t as distinctive as it seems at first. Certainly it’s distinctive among.
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