Legal Killing
I just want to address one last aspect of the OBL thing before moving on. The usual left wingers are asking whether the killing of bin Laden was legal. Prof Nick Grief, an international lawyer at Kent...
View ArticleThe Moral Question
Gallup has an interesting poll up asking people about moral issues. They’ve been asked if they consider certain things — fur coats, the death penalty, abortion — to be morally wrong or morally...
View ArticleFirst They Came for the Cartoons
Hmmm. The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos. The “South-Park”-style animations parody everything from...
View ArticleWe’ll Take That
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: thank God for the IJ: Imagine you own a million-dollar piece of property free and clear, but then the federal government and local law enforcement agents...
View ArticleShe Said Don’t Hand Me No Lines and Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Those of you who went to college in the 90′s might remember Antioch College’s bizarre sexual assault policy. Conceived by campus activists on a late-night political correctness bender, this policy...
View ArticleSnowden, Obama and the Cult of the Presidency
I have thought from early on that the revelation of the government’s massive surveillance operation is a good thing and little that has happened in the past few days has altered that opinion. Already,...
View ArticlePost-Memorial Day Quick Hits
My browers tabs are filling up faster than I can empty them. So here are some quick reads going into this week: ************************** George Will has a great piece on the Presidential candidate we...
View ArticleThe CIA Thinks the CIA Did Nothing Wrong
Last year, we found out that the CIA was spying on members of Congress in an effort to find out if the torture report included information from their internal Panetta Report. It was unauthorized,...
View ArticleGutting the Ethics Committee
What?! House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that...
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