Au revoir, les enfants

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This reads like a wingnut parody of degenerate France and degenerate Hollywood engaging in an orgy of amoral pomposity. (As a lawyer I confess ignorance regarding the principle of immunity from legal process for film festival attendees). I can only hope that most of the signatories...

Clutching at Straws

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Gordo lays out his vision for the next Labour government.Most of it is the typical Labour shopping list (and the Tory critique that it hasn't been costed out does ring.

Blue Dog Votes

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On September 30, 2009

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In addition to the fact that Blue Dogs who won't allow up-and-down votes are pretty much entirely useless, it seems to me that Blue Dog votes on cloture provide a.

One Last Thing

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I will hopefully leave this subject for a while, but before I do, for those who haven't seen Wanted and Desired I can't recommend Lauren Bans's post more strongly:Excepting the lawyers who worked on the case, the majority of the voices in the film are Polanski鈥檚...

You forgot about Keyes!

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On September 29, 2009

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Perhaps it's the fact that I've got two children currently being leveled by illness, or that I haven't had a decent night's sleep in -- I dunno, months? -- but.

Crime and punishment

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Several commentators in the Polanski thread are apparently taking the view that if a particular exercise of criminal punishment is unlikely to deter crime or rehabilitate the offender, then punishing the offender is pointless at best if not actually barbaric.Leaving aside the question of whether or...

Polanski Addenda

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See Harding, McEwen, and Hess. Eugene Robinson's column on the subject is so good that I suspect that as we speak Fred Hiatt is firing him so he can buy.

The Polanski Arrest

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On September 28, 2009

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You've probably heard that Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. I think this is a very good thing, and find most of the outrage over it baffling.One thing to note.

Safire

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On September 27, 2009

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At his best, he was a clever writer with a commitment to civil liberties increasingly absent from the Republican Party; at his worst, he used his establishment credentials to push.

Welcome Aboard!

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On September 27, 2009

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It is difficult for me to convey my pride in the announcement that a man decried by no less an authority than Jeff Goldstein as "a sophist and a hamfisted.

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