January 2010
11 posts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Inhuman Rights. →
This Senator brought to you by Gazprom | The... →
Addendum: A good point made by The Economist— nothing in the Supreme Court’s decision lifts these limits for domestic corporations only. Foreign corporations are now free to sponsor American politicians as well.
Good one, Supreme Court!
“The Citizens United ruling is likely to be viewed as a shameful bookend to Bush...”
– Editorial - The Court’s Blow to Democracy - NYTimes.com
Some points I would like to make:
In the last half-century, it has been politically liberal members who have been consistently accused of judicial activism (creating Miranda rights from the 5th Amendment, reading a right to privacy into the...
BBC News - Fourth death sentence for 'Chemical... →
Ali Hassan Al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali”, will be hanged in the next few days, punishment for the way he conducted the Iran-Iraq War. International law: alive and well.
Captor and Captives Meet Post Guantánamo -... →
A former Guantanamo guard found a former detainee on facebook, and flew to London to meet him and another former detainee, to apologize.
I really hope I’ll be able to watch this tonight. (It will be on BBC World News America, I believe at 10 pm.)
