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Archive: Jul 2007

Hamilton on the Rule of Law

If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be: An inviolable respect for the Constitution…

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Cheney and the Libby Pardon

If we had to narrow the talk surrounding the Libby scandal down to just one question, then it would have to be this: to what extent was the decision driven…

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The Curious Omnipresence of Al Qaeda in Iraq Coverage

The New York Times new ombudsman is Craig Hoyt. His column this week is extremely impressive and merits close examination. Why Bush and the military are emphasizing Al Qaeda to…

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Congress Presses Towards a Siegelman Probe

Artur Davis, the centrist Democrat who represents Alabama’s seventh district, is a career federal prosecutor who amassed an almost perfect conviction rate working in the Middle District of Alabama –…

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The Pity of It All

Amos Elon, The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743—1933 (Henry Holt & Co., 2003) I still remember some thirty years back telling a friend of…

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The Failed Courage of Colin Powell

One of the great mysteries of the first Bush term revolves around Colin Powell. His views with respect to Iraq – both on the whether and the how – were…

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The Bush Crime Family

Joe Galloway, the dean of the Pentagon press corps, on Friday offered up a stark assessment of the Bush Administration in the McClatchy newspapers. “Why is it that the Bush…

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Adams on the Right to Knowledge

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing…

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Cracks in the Dam in the Siegelman Case

Dana Jill Simpson, a Sand Mountain lawyer who worked on the Riley campaign, offered an affidavit that provided a series of clean explanations for what had happened in the Justice…

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“Freedom” Scholar Michael Ledeen’s African Friend

A majority of people in the Republic of Congo get by on less than $1 a day, but money is no object for Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, the 24-year-old son of…

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Madison on the Dangers of War

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of…

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Sneak Preview: Video from upcoming Reliable Sources leaked to Harper’s

This Sunday, Reliable Sources, the CNN show hosted by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, will be discussing my story on lobbying for dictators that appeared in the July issue of…

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Impeachment

A clear majority favor the impeachment, trial and removal from office of Dick Cheney as Vice President. Americans are equally divided on whether George W. Bush should be impeached, tried…

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The Coming Cold Snap in U.S.-Russian Relations

Presidents Bush and Putin just concluded a summit at the Kennebunkport compound owned by the former President Bush. It included obligatory photographs of smiling presidents and their wives. It may…

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Washington on Tolerance

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation.…

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Outsourcing Intelligence

Beginning in 2002, it was apparent that Rumsfeld and Cheney had jointly developed a plan aimed at shifting the center of gravity in the U.S. intelligence community away from the…

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Six Questions for Joost Hiltermann on Blowback from the Iraq–Iran War

Joost Hiltermann, is deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group, based in Amman. Prior to that he was director of the Arms…

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The Cabin Between Being and Time

This month’s Harper’s features a wonderful poem by Les Gottesman entitled “Heidegger’s a.m.” which presents some Heideggerian phenomenology with caffeine and an unmistakably ironic base note. “Coffee grounds/the problem in…

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Paine on Preserving Liberty

I shall conclude this discourse with offering some observations on the means of preserving liberty; for it is not only necessary that we establish it, but that we preserve it.…

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A Bill of Indictment

A Bill of Indictment is delivered today by Keith Olbermann. And what could be more remarkable, on the Fourth of July, 2007, than the similarity of this Bill of Indictment…

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A Constitutional Crisis?

We can sum up George Bush’s notion of justice by looking at how he has dispensed it over the last six years. There are basically two flavors of justice: one…

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The Reign of Witches Is Coming to an End

Today is the Fourth of July. We should remember that on this day our ancestors (well, mine anyway) rose up against tyranny, committing themselves on principle to a path which…

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Jefferson on the Reign of Witches

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.…

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Getting to the Bottom of This

Joshua Micah Marshall’s team give us a very effective video montage that helps us understand what President Bush and his spokesmen have meant all these years when they said that…

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A Message for July the Fourth

I read the columns of my Doppelgänger, Glenn Greenwald, over at Salon compulsively and often find myself wondering why he’s scribbling the thoughts that went through my mind earlier in…

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L’Espirit de l’escalier

Having just posted on the curious ransacking of the office of Siegelman’s attorney, I just want to make clear that I am in no way suggesting that the forces involved…

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Curious Crime Spree in Alabama

Seems that people who raise their voice in support of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman are often the victims of unfortunate accidents. Ask Dana Jill Simpson, the Rainsville Republican lawyer…

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