Even leaving aside the ethical issues, rarely has a book proposal without "Camille Paglia" in the author's slot seemed so unreadable: Jonah Lehrer, the disgraced writer who resigned from The New Yorker after he was discovered plagiarizing and fabricating material, has sold a book to Simon...
Shorter John Yoo: No, I still can't till any difference between wiretapping in defiance of a statute and wiretapping with the authorization of a statute, because the Constitution clearly states.
We probably don't need to talk too much about the content of "The Rains of Castamere," if only because I said most of what I wanted to, content-wise, in the.
The Verizon order was problematic, but the PRISM program revealed by the WaPo yesterday seems much worse than that. A key lesson, I argue, is that as often happens the separation of powers doesn't produce checks and balances so much as the legislative branch delegating broad...
Appropriate.
On June 7, 1913, the supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World led textile worker strike in Paterson, New Jersey held the Paterson Strike Pageant at Madison Square Garden.
The decline of frogs and toads in the face of widespread and complex environmental change is really depressing. But hey, at least bat and honeybee populations are super healthy!
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See something say something Meanwhile across the ocean Living in the internet Is the cause of an explosion No one has heard yet But there's no need to worry There's.
Or maybe you don't. My favorite detail of the employment packages negotiated by people like Gee is that they end up not having to pay for any of the stuff that people usually use their salaries for, like housing and transportation and food and entertainment and...
I have a more detailed reaction here. Obviously, this doesn't pose the same as the warrantless wiretapping the Bush administration engaged in after 9/11 -- following statutes rather than violating.
The 2nd Circuit has ordered the Obama administration to do what is should have done on its own: make (most forms of) emergency contraception immediately available over-the-counter to all women.