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Archive: Oct 2007

Emerson on the Ravages of Time

From the point of sensuous experience, seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy, and skeptical. Frankly face…

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Iraq Purports to Revoke Contractor Immunity

Agence France Presse reports today: The Iraqi government announced on Wednesday that it has decided to formally revoke the immunity from prosecution granted to private security companies operating in the…

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Mo’ Bhutto Blues

I’m all in favor of Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan, but the fawning over the former Prime Minister by American political leaders and the media is way out of control.…

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Another Conflicted Prosecutor in the Siegelman Case

In its (as usual) tortured reporting on the Siegelman case, today’s Birmingham News unwittingly opens the door on another chapter in this saga. Here’s the key passage: During the hearing,…

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Mitt Romney Buys Some Love

The New York Times reported yesterday that some “movement conservatives are buzzing this week” about my November magazine story that showed that Mitt Romney had “made some strategic donations to…

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A Primer in Political Persecution

A United States Attorney, an embittered Republican who has been defeated in a series of election contests, had a meeting with attorneys for a criminal defendant, a prominent Democrat, at…

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Cicero on the Duty to Stand Against Injustice

Sed iniustitiæ genera duo sunt, unum eorum, qui inferunt, alterum eorum, qui ab is, quibus infertur, si possunt, non propulsant iniuriam. Nam qui iniuste impetum in quempiam facit aut ira…

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Media Alert

Dick Cheney pays a call on John Howard and suddenly the path of a Guantánamo Military Commission case changes dramatically. A plea bargain is reached, and a man who was…

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AFJ Questions Conduct of Siegelman Judge

Alliance for Justice, a leading national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women’s, children’s, and consumer advocacy organizations, has just issued a statement in connection with today’s House Judiciary…

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The Persecution of Lt. Cmdr. Diaz

On a cold October evening in 1941, a military lawyer sat at home in Berlin in his apartment composing a letter to his wife. What he had seen and learned…

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‘Deliverance,’ Reloaded

In 1972, James Dickey’s novel Deliverance was turned into a major Hollywood motion picture. It instantly became a cultural icon for America of the last years of the Vietnam War.…

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Neruda’s ‘Enigmas’

You’ve asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his golden feet? I reply, the ocean knows this. You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent…

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Merton on Justice and Sanity

One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the [Adolf] Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. I do not doubt it…

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Weekly Review

Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush‘s nominee for attorney general, received a warm reception on his first day before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he decried torture and promised a…

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More from the ‘Bama Press

Pravda’s Latest The Birmingham News has done an amazing series over the last couple of weeks. They continue to be the Riley family’s faithful protectors, with the lead played by…

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Romney, Giuliani, and Bob Jones

As of yet Mitt Romney has failed to demonstrate any significant level of national support–yet he has as good a chance as anyone to emerge as the Republican presidential nominee…

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Event Alert: God talk

For those interested in the subject, I’ll be on a panel tomorrow morning to talk about “Parties of God”, my piece in the March issue of the magazine that argues…

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Don’t Mess with Darfur’s Defenders

I received a fair amount of critical mail in response to my recent post on Darfur, which questioned some information and data used by advocacy groups. For the record, I’m…

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Mine’s Bigger: How do you measure up against Paul Allen?

Thanks to the untold riches he made by co-inflicting the scourge that is Microsoft upon the world, Paul Allen leads a lavish lifestyle that can be imagined by few outside…

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The Roll-Out Presses On

Cheney Lays the Foundation for War This weekend the roll-out for the Next War continues. The most remarkable item is a speech delivered by the man who, by all accounts,…

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Criminal Charges Being Prepared Against Gonzales?

The Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review reports Saturday on a speech given by former U.S. Attorney John McKay to the Federal Bar Association: McKay said he was summoned to Washington, D.C., in…

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A Further Ethics Assessment on Judge Fuller and the Siegelman Case from Prof. Luban

Back on August 7, we asked Professor David Luban, one of the nation’s leading legal ethicists, to take a look at the motion which had been filed for the recusal…

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At Gitmo, No Room for Justice

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rivers of oil? . . . He hath shewed thee, 0 man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of…

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Listening Recommendation

Georg Philipp Telemann, Trauer-Musik eines kunsterfahrenen Kanarien-Vogels (Funereal Music for a Sweet-Singing Canary)(1721); recording by Hermann Prey and the Deutsche Bach-Solisten, Philips Telemann firmly stakes out the bronze medal position…

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A Nation is What It Tolerates

Statt einer Selbstkritik und einer Selbsteinkehr sehe ich da etwas von »Wir sind das bessere Deutschland« und »Das da ist gar nicht Deutschland« und solchen Unsinn. Aber ein Land ist…

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Rilke’s Last Encounter With an Angel

History knows several tales concerning great artists on their death beds, straining with superhuman strength to complete a final last work, a work filled with pathos and a great sense…

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Rilke’s ‘Komm Du. . .’

Komm du, du letzter, den ich anerkenne, heilloser Schmerz im leiblichen Geweb: wie ich im Geiste brannte, sieh, ich brenne in dir; das Holz hat lange widerstrebt, der Flamme, die…

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Saadi on the Bonds of Humanity

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