To follow up on Greenwald's response to William Galston's call to make more people subject to involuntary civil confinement, it's worth discussing the case in which the Supreme Court held that the state cannot "constitutionally confine...a nondangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom...
Al-Jazeera reports Tunisia is now governed by the military.
Some radical Trotskyites on the Kentucky Supreme Court decided to ignore the new, annotated Federalist Society version of the Constitution, which includes the crucial provision "please disregard all previous clauses.
Now that my beloved University of Michigan football program has been hijacked and destroyed by a meglo-maniacal erstwhile purveyor of crappy pizza, I'm looking for my pigskin thrills elsewhere. Bless you, Wes Welker.
Tim Pawlenty seems to think that favoring the reinstatement of an unpopular, unjust law that damages national security is necessary to appeal to the GOP primary base. I wish I.
I have some thoughts about what the Supreme Court's refusal to grant cert in a commerce clause case (with an angry dissent from Thomas) might mean for the constitutionality of.
With some wingers all-too-expectedly taking it upon themselves to lecture people about how they should grieve, it's worth noting again that the outrage over the Wellstone memorial was not merely unseemly but largely fraudulent, with erstwhile reasonable, moderate, thinking person's conservative Chistopher Caldwell particularly disgracing himself....
Via the incomparable Carl Pyrdum: My only worry is that in all this hubbub, the indexical value of “blood libel” is being overlooked. The reason why we need a special.
Alyssa Rosenberg's response to my earlier post reminded me that I never got around to finishing the discussion of Blowup I started in this one, but before doing so I.
78-year old Nancy Smith is one of two individuals arrested last year after crossing onto the Ft. Benning military base in Georgia as part of a protest against the School of the Americas, a military training academy notorious for the human rights abuses of its graduates:...
Republican operative Glenn Reynolds. I don't mean to "blood libel" him, but when your arguments are dumb enough to get picked up by Sarah Palin... Updated [by SEK]:
In my latest WPR column, I try to think through specifically who gets hurt by the migration of retired generals and admirals into the defense industry: For a variety of.