SCOTUS opinion: The aftermath commences
We didn’t have to wait long to see what’s coming. Defense attorney’s are gearing up for fresh battles, and prosecutors assume they are going ahead with military commissions as planned. …
We didn’t have to wait long to see what’s coming. Defense attorney’s are gearing up for fresh battles, and prosecutors assume they are going ahead with military commissions as planned. …
Whoa… bolt from the blue from the NY Post By CHARLES HURT June 13, 2008 — Tim Russert, NBC journalist and political heavyweight host of “Meet the Press,” has died …
I’ve been reading the 134 page SCOTUS opinion Boumediene vs Bush, and archiving previous related decisions. So I thought I’d post this to complement Curt’s post, The Nation will live …
Faced with shortages of food, building materials and other staples, President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of the Venezuelan economy through a new wave of takeovers of private companies …
Excerpts from Eli Lake’s NY Sun article on Sheik Ahmad al-Rishawi today. “Al Qaeda is an ideology,” Sheik Ahmad said. “We can defeat them inside Iraq and we can defeat …
Abul Taher’s UK Times Online article today – al Qaeda: The cracks begin to show – is yet another in successive articles that document the growing disfavor of the jihad …
After today’s Hillary speech, I wandered over to catch up with the current ‘tudes of Hillary’s No Quarter gang. One of the commenters posted a link to the current YouTube video from Pastor James …
There is no doubt that the bulk of the Middle East is in the middle of a two-step dance. The region, as a whole, stands on the brink of reforms …
Truly a bizarre article in yesterday’s Asia Times. Again the usual headline catches my eye – “Bush ‘plans Iran air strike by August’. But this article provides startling details… rather …
With the DNC bent on taking over all branches of US government, fulling overdue promises of “tough love” by yanking the US troops out of Iraq, ignoring Lebanon, and Pakistan’s …