Applying normal standards of due process to a detained terror victim received a surprising result - conviction. We have nothing to fear from using the normal justice system with terror suspects… so long as the evidence is there.
Military tribunals continue to lag behind civil trials for the review of detained terror suspects in terms [...]
Who’d Have Thought It? The Justice System Works
August 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments
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Real & Imagined Religious Persecution: How the Religious Right Trivializes the Suffering of Others
August 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Can it be really? As the world stands poised to watch China pretend to be a peaceful-freedom loving “citizen of the world” during the Olympics, Judge Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court jurist and conservative commentator who lost his seat for defying court orders to pull down his Ten Commandments [...]
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Classifying Contraceptives as Abortions & Tangled Bank 111
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments
PalMD of Denialism Blog and I have both written on the problem of the Department of Health and Human Services attempting to classify both The Pill, and RU-486, as “abortions” for the sake of certain federal laws. Now Slate has joined the fun, mocking the Bush White House’s continued slide into scientific incomprehensibility and second-class [...]
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Lies, Misdirection, and Dishonesty in McCain’s Attack on Obama’s Tire Inflation “Gaffe”
August 6th, 2008 · 22 Comments
The past week has poignantly illustrated the truth of this recent comment: “[John McCain] used to think it was more important to be right than President; he seems to have reversed that completely in 2008.” How true. To the new, over-spun, hyper-negative, Rove-powered McCain campaign, Obama can do no right - even [...]
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