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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I was recently told that U.S. Attorney Leura Canary and her husband, G.O.P. campaign kingpin William Canary, have been pursuing a PR campaign to burnish Leura’s reputation, using the resources…

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Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas gained press coverage and air time in connection with his new book. Its early chapters recount the bitter racism that Thomas faced as a Black man…

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Montesquieu dit que l’esprit consiste à connaître la resemblance des choses diverses et la difference des choses semblables. S’il pouvait exister une théorie qui apprît à devenir un homme d’esprit,…

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On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee will be holding hearings on politics and the Bush Justice Department. The focus will be on a series of cases in which it is…

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Diego Garcia is not a person. It’s a coral atoll located in the South Indian Ocean. And for some time now there have been stories murmured about what the CIA…

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In some remote corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever animals invented Recognition. That was the most arrogant…

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President Bush’s nominee for Attorney General, former Judge Michael B. Mukasey, completes his second day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this afternoon. On this evening’s The NewsHour with…

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The OPR Hit Squad In the past couple of months I have examined four cases handled by the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility. Through some time in 2002, OPR…

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If we had to craft a list of the ten greatest poets of human history, then certainly this thirteenth-century Muslim theologian, who began his life in modern day Afghanistan and…

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A man on his deathbed left instructions For dividing up his goods among his three sons. He had devoted his entire spirit to those sons. They stood like cypress trees…

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Confusion abounds about the actual workings of FISA, the stop-gap measure passed recently and the longer term measures now put forward by the Administration and various Democratic sponsors. A large…

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In human society, all violence can be traced back to these seven recurrent blunders: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship…

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I have received a copy of an affidavit (8.7Mb PDF) filed by a Missouri attorney in 2003 which details a number of charges of unethical and criminal conduct against Judge…

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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will start its hearings on the President’s nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to serve as attorney general. Harper’s magazine legal affairs contributor Scott Horton…

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The Well Dressed Man With A Beard After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this…

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the…

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Last night I listened to a group of retired generals and admirals speak very movingly of their commitment to oppose the Bush Administration’s torture policies. One of them, General Fred…

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On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee starts hearings on the president’s nomination of Michael Mukasey to serve as Attorney General. Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton will comment on the…

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