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Archive: Aug 2007

Debray on the West Bank Wall

Last year outgoing French President Jacques Chirac asked the noted French philosopher and writer Régis Debray to take a look at what was transpiring on the West Bank and issue…

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The Biden Option

In an interesting interview published in the current issue of Newsweek, Senator Joe Biden responds to a question about possible impeachment actions against major actors in the Bush Administration with…

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The Cost of Caving

A few days ago, I took issue with a Washington Post op-ed by Michael Tomasky that argued against publicly discussing the possible impeachment of President Bush on the grounds that…

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Remembering I.F. Stone

The modern journalist, so goes the rant that my colleague Ken Silverstein has perfected, is usually more than a bit too comfortable in his own skin. He frequently understands that…

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Hardy’s ‘In Time of the Breaking of Nations’

I Only a man harrowing clods In a slow silent walk With an old horse that stumbles and nods Half asleep as they stalk. II Only thin smoke without flame…

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Pakistan’s Perpetual Emergency

In what country in the world have the lawyers, led by a sacked chief justice of the Supreme Court, staged a revolt against the government and won? Where else could…

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Seume on Freedom and Justice

Where there is no justice, there is no freedom, and where there is no freedom, there is no justice. And should freedom and justice be for all eternity nothing more…

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Archive Highlights: Immigration

Julia Preston, Surge in Immigration Laws Around U.S., The New York Times, August 6, 2007: State legislatures, grappling with the failure of the federal government to overhaul the immigration laws,…

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Zimring: Giuliani’s Crimefighting is Overrated

This month Harper’s takes a very serious look at Rudy Giuliani, who could very possibly become the next President of the United States. One of the things that has always…

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‘Haven’t Seen It; We Don’t Torture’

President Bush is the most enthusiastic vacationer of any American president. He has racked up some 430 vacation days since coming to office. And today he starts his five-week summer…

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Enzensberger’s ‘The Peace Conference’

An airplane lands with a hundred liars on board. The city greets them with a handful of flowers, With a smell of naphthalene and sweat, With a wind from the…

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Visualizing the Law

O’Reilly Radar gives us a visual representation of the U.S. Code. Here’s the formula used, as related by the creator of the image, Dan Kaminsky: Take the data . .…

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YouTube of the Day: Cramer in Meltdown

Jim Cramer is a sort of New York financial media fixture. He’s fast talking, extremely political, a bit full of himself, and often slightly hysterical. Generally he seems to know…

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Wharton on Time

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted…

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The Partisan and the Judge

For the last ten days we have examined Mark Everett Fuller, the judge who presided over the trial of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The case has now attracted attention…

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Escape for a Day When It’s Too Damned Hot!

In Washington today, I stepped out of my hotel and on to K Street. 105° F. Is that possible!? It was decidedly not a day to spend outside. It was…

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Keep Your Politics Out of My Impeachment

I came late to the piece by Michael Tomasky in last Sunday’s Washington Post that argues against the impeachment of President Bush or Vice President Cheney–or even discussion of the…

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Six Questions (Without Answers) for Congressman John Conyers on Impeachment and Alberto Gonzales

Back in May, I requested an interview with Congressman John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and received a quick “yes” from his office. I was told that conducting…

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Ken Starr’s Little Secret

In looking at the current scandal about the politicization of the U.S. attorneys in the Bush Administration, I am reminded frequently of the Clinton years and the investigation of the…

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Rumblings of a Trade War

If the United States were a “normal” country, its profligate spending habits and the staggering debt it has amassed—habits of the current “war president” who reversed the prudent spending habits…

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Death of a (Contract) Soldier

How is the war in Iraq unlike any prior war America has waged? The course of the war has been strange. It went from invasion, to declaration of “mission accomplished,”…

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Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither…

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An Interview with Legal Ethicist David Luban Regarding Judge Mark Fuller

The main question regarding Judge Mark Fuller’s behavior in the Siegelman case is whether it was appropriate for him to have taken the case in the first place. So I…

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The FISA Bamboozlement

When some one writes a history of the Bush Administration’s media bamboozlement—which will be an epic tome—I wonder how they will treat the entire saga of FISA evasions. It’s a…

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The Return of Comrade Ogilvy

Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ready made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. There were occasions…

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Gingrich: War on Terror is Phony

It’s reassuring, isn’t it, to learn that at an insiders’ conference of young conservative activists, former House Speaker and G.O.P. presidential wannabe Newt Gingrich is spreading the word that the…

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Doonesbury Frames Evil

Make sure to check out Doonesbury this week for a series about lobbying on behalf of dictators–a topic dear to my own heart. “Dad, the billings from our new Rogue…

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