It's today. National Pigeon Day. Worst. National day of recognition. ever.... UPDATE (from d): I'm going to respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleague here. When I was living in Boston for a summer in the late 1990s -- unemployed, supposedly working on my dissertation, and wishing...
From Dahlia Lithwick's recap of the Boumediene decision:Scalia points to the 30 detainees released from Guantanamo—by an order of the Bush administration, not a court, it should be noted—who have.
Evaluating some arguments for and against Sebellius as a VP choice, Ezra discusses a strange argument I've always wondered about:Then, on the con side, we get an argument that's been.
Rick Sutcliffe.
Nixonland has enough writing about arson to satisfy me without having to watch the Mets's bullpen. It's unfortunate, but it's hard to see Randolph surviving too many more of these.
Much rumness afoot in and around the Palace of Westminster these days. Gordon Brown, the mean, one-eyed Scotsman who took over from the Teflon-coated, happy-clapping Blair as Prime Minister has.
It's hard to find a rational basis for this spastic response to Rob's uncontroversial observation that Evangelical Protestant affection for Israel is not incompatible with -- indeed, often rests adjacent to -- coded language about domestic American politics that reeks of barely-laundered anti-Semitism. Premillennial dispensationalist theology...
Souter, concurring in Boumediene: It is in fact the very lapse of four years from the time Rasul put everyone on notice that habeas process was available to Guantanamo prisoners,.
The Supreme Court today held 5-4 that Guantanamo detainees have a right to habeas corpus and that the procedures that Congress put into place with the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA).
Jesus, Retardo is one dumb motherfuckerone misguided dude. If he had bothered to ask, I would have told him that I made my way to Florida and Israel on business, rather than pleasure, that I have rather first-hand experience with white working class poverty, and that...
[Nixon would] top just short of calling the President a liar on Vietnam, then add that he would not be speaking of the war during Johnson's "sensitive negotiations with Hanoi".
The Obama monkey doll is out.Really.(via)