The Debate Link

That is the question posed by Ex Post's Publius on whether the Presidential actions concerning POWs, detainees, and other such war-on-t...

Obsidian Wings says Bush's second term honeymoon is over. The Moderate Voice hints that GOP moderates (read: anybody to the left of Ja...

In my previous post on the GOP's new abortion-restricting law, I wrote that one of the key problems with an otherwise reasonable propos...

So I was browsing around What's the Rumpus (recent recipient of the prestigious Debate Link Award for Excellence in Poetry ) and I stum...

...and other creations of the GOP (I'll explain momentarily). The House of Representatives passed a bill today which would make it a cr...

I tend to hate poetry. I don't really know why, but it's just not my cup of tea. But every once in awhile, there is one that really ...

How Appealing directs us to the news that the ACLU is appealing to the full 4th Circuit the decision in Simpson v. Chesterfield County Boa...

Jack Balkin reminds us that we have hit the one year anniversary of the Abu Gharib scandals. And what better way to commemorate it than by ...

Phocion kindly (and eruditely) responds to my defense of sympathy as a potential judicial standard. However, I don't think he really a...

My latest column for The Carleton Progressive is online. It's entitled "Show Some Spine," and it argues that the Senate needs...

CNN reports that an Iraqi Parliamentarian has been assassinated at her house, hours before the government announced Parliament would be vot...

My my, how the blogtopia wheel turns. A few days ago, A Crescat Sententia post directed me to the dissent in DeShaney v. Winnebago . Upon r...

The panel debate between Boalt Law Professor (and former Bush administration lawyer) John Yoo and Jeremy Waldron on the acceptability of to...

This must be that principle thing I keep hearing about: As mentioned, the filibuster stretches back not merely to Jimmy Stewart in "Mr...

SCOTUS Blog gives links to today's Supreme Court opinions, and, more importantly, alerts us to the opinions still to come. This was the...

Wonkette gives us the tale of the tape. Ab-so-lutely hilarious.

Powerline discusses the characteristics of the Snapping Turtle, concluding that: "They're detestable creatures, certainly, but it...

Matthew Yglesias links to and comments on an excellent post by Left2Right's David Velleman on the nature of moral relativism. However,...

The VC provides links to all parties in an excellent debate between Cathy Young and Professor Bainbridge . The party started with Young...

The conservative "Justice Sunday" event--a giant talkathon against the filibuster--has of course ended (and aren't they smug ...