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We now are entering into the last fortnight of the 2008 Presidential Campaign. This period often marks the final descent into demagoguery, character assassination and hysteria as appeals are launched…

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Saturday the New York Times alerts us to a new opinion issued deep in the bowels of the Bush Justice Department. The decision emanates from the Office of Legal Counsel,…

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The quality of mercy is not strain’d, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him…

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If man does not acknowledge his status as creator, his freedom over the historical flux, his right and duty to challenge the inherited traditions of the community, his obligation to…

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Insiders say that John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin was designed to mobilize and rally the Religious Right—the bloc that played a key role in George W. Bush’s victories in…

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The last hundred days of any presidency are frequently known as “legacy time.” The die may be cast, but the occupant of the White House begins making plans to leave…

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Eh quoi, tout est sensible. —pythagore. Homme ! libre penseur—te crois-tu seul pensant Dans ce monde, où la vie éclate en toute chose? Des forces que tu tiens ta liberté…

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We will all be able to sleep more soundly tonight knowing that a serious criminal has been apprehended. The Associated Press reports: David Kernell, 20, of Knoxville, Tenn. entered the…

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The recent debate at Washington University in Saint Louis between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin was the most watched vice presidential debate of all time. Polling and pundits…

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Cuelga sangriento de la cama al suelo el hombro diestro del feroz tirano, que opuesto al muro de Betulia en vano, despidió contra sí rayos al cielo. Revuelto con el…

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Quæ dum mirarer singula et nunc terrenum aliquid saperem, nunc exemplo corporis animum ad altiora subveherem, visum est mihi Confessionum Augustini librum, caritatis tuæ munus, inspicere; quem et conditoris et…

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Northwestern University Law Professor Steven Calabresi was a co-founder of the Federalist Society and has been in the vanguard of the conservative movement ever since. He served in the Reagan…

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Today the Justice Department’s Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility jointly issued a complex, detailed report investigating the dismissal of nine U.S. Attorneys in December 2006. The “process used…

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One of the major breakthroughs of the first McCain–Obama debate on Friday night passed with almost no notice. Both John McCain and Barack Obama, in characterizing their opposition to the…

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Poi che spiegat’ho l’ali al bel desio, quanto più sott’il piè l’aria mi scorgo, più le veloci penne al vento porgo: e spreggio il mondo, e vers’il ciel m’invio. Né…

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Disponiamoci, dico, prima nel cielo che intellettualmente è dentro di noi, e poi in questo sensibile che corporalmente si presenta a gli occhi. Togliemo via dal cielo de l’animo nostro…

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The joint Inspector General/Office of Professional Responsibility report looking into the December 6, 2006 decision to fire a group of U.S. Attorneys is set to be released on Monday morning,…

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Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz has published a column discussing attempts by blogger Andrew Sullivan (disclosure: a good friend) to get to the bottom of the (admittedly bizarre) “Trig…

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, quoting your humble glossator, orders the Bush Administration to release photographs of detainees that it has withheld on the improbable argument that the Geneva…

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This morning, the Associated Press is reporting what is now an almost regular occurrence: Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire on two U.S. helicopters that crossed into the country from…

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The Bush Justice Department continuously tells us it is beleaguered, under-resourced, and having a hard time battling crime. But sometimes its enthusiasm for a prosecution is just effervescent. The latest…

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Last week the public learned through an inspector general’s report about the antics of a group of Bush political appointees in senior positions at the Department of the Interior. One…

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“The future is certain. Only the past is difficult to predict.” So went one of the Soviet era’s most revealing jokes, one of which the Stanford historian and poet Robert…

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The news today bears witness to the Bush Justice Department and its commitment to public integrity. In Alaska, the McCain campaign turns to desperation measures to block a legislative inquiry—initiated…

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Last June, Bart Gellman’s four-part series in the Washington Post gave us an extraordinary portrait of Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in America’s history. The series, called “Angler”–after…

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