On the issue of affirmative action and the alleged principled "originalism" of the Court's conservatives, Simon Lazurus has a very good summary:On the contrary, as legal and historical scholars -- 60 of whom signed an amicus curiae brief to the Court -- have exhaustively demonstrated in...
Thers makes a comparison.As I've mentioned before, I actually think that the narrow issue of not granting a pardon to Karla Faye Tucker (as opposed to his conduct afterward and.
I'm pretty much in agreement with Matt on the Air Force in Iraq and Afghanistan:As William S. Lind observed on June 11, the rise in strikes is indicative of the.
Via Noah at Danger Room comes this: "The poobahs are worried that 'the new emphasis on... counterinsurgency may be undermining conventional [big war] capabilities.'""The major concern is, while we're doing all this COIN [counterinsurgency] . . . do we have battalions that can still do an...
First, I come home to find that Jim Capozzola has passed away (R.I.P.). Then I see that Bush has commuted Scooter Libby's sentence. (Although, at least for some cross-ideological comity.
Peter has an excellent post on analogies of war, and how useful/not useful they may be in constructing policy. I would only add that analogies are more than simply a.
All,As tempting as it may be to feed Fred, please don't; we're currently exploring ways to get rid of him. Until we do, please just let him rant.The Management
Glenn Greenwald and I have disagreed in the past about the journalism of Michael Gordon. Perhaps because I'm interested specifically in security and defense issues, I find much of Gordon's.
Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing that anyone would consider this a "controversy" or "scandal." (An obscene word! At a baseball stadium! Heavens to betsy.) On the other hand, I certainly hope.
Marty Lederman identifies the two crucial pieces of data from the first full term of the Roberts Court. The first is that "the Chief Justice voted for the more conservative result (by most observers' lights) in 24 out of the 24 cases decided by a 5-4...
Janet Jackson had her Rhythm Nation. We have our Prison Nation.The numbers are in, and it turns out that the U.S. prison population grew more in 2005-2006 than in any.
Ah, the travails of the (ex)-warblogger for whom everything is World War II again and again.I also think this a good point about Powell:Think about Colin Powell, once arguably the.