There's news about the scheduled execution of Troy Davis (Also written about here, here, here). The Georgia Board of Pardons today granted a 90-day stay of execution so that they could consider the new evidence in his case. The stay gets the defense closer to what...
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He's back, with another crackpot theory justifying arbitrary executive power in defiance of the plain language of several constitutional provisions as well as the structure and underlying theoretical basis of.
Thers hears it, coming from a gun counter in North Carolina:They aren't stupid, either, or we'd catch them faking the news far more frequently than we already do.I know that TIDOS Yankee is looking for work these days, but he really ought to consider getting into...
I have a follow-up post on the Troy Davis case at TAPPED. Among other things, I discuss the famous Scalia concurrence in which he asserts that there is no constitutional.
This discussion of Brookings Institute Fellow For Disastrous, Counterproductive Foreign Interventions and Bush Administration Apologism Michael O'Hanlon reminds me of my very favorite "liberal hawk" argument defending the surge, this.
I have to agree with Michael against Chris Clarke that I don't see any basis for the assertion that the post-1992 Republican strategy was to "find out what the disaffected [Perot voters] wanted that the GOP failed to offer, and offer it." If the Republicans became...
Nicole Belle notes that a large number of Democratic Senators haven't co-sponsored the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act; this doesn't mean that they will oppose it, of course, but it would.
On August 15, 1769, nineteen year old Maria Letizia Bonaparte gave birth to her fourth child. The first two had died before the age of one year, but the third,.
Saw the Police in Louisville last night. They were remarkably impressive. No Youtube highlights available from last night's show, but the difference between the Police and some other "reunion" bands was profound; Summers, Sting, and Copeland were the only musicians on stage, they played quite a...
Sometimes I am appalled at the roadblocks that courts set up in the way of justice. Ironic, isn't it?The NY Times has the story today of Troy A. Davis, a.
Publius has some sympathy for John McCain's profound yet futile humiliation and self-abnegation. I do feel it with respect to his daughter; politics requires you to make alliances with ugly.